by Matt Freeman | Jul 6, 2015 | TV Reviews, Uncategorized
To die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. – William Shakespeare, Hamlet Dreams, depending upon whom you ask, are either...
by Matt Freeman | Jun 29, 2015 | TV Reviews, Uncategorized
This review contains spoilers for both released episodes of True Detective Season 2 Like the new sweatshop labor flooding Vinci, California, weekly reviewing of TV shows comes one piece at a time, one carefully sewn garment after another until they join a larger...
by Matt Freeman | Jun 24, 2015 | TV Reviews, Uncategorized
As one of Netflix’s first forays into original content Orange is the New Black came out around the same time I did. It was one of the first shows I ever watched that had more than one lesbian character in it and I fell in love with it for so many different reasons. It...
by Matt Freeman | Jun 22, 2015 | TV Reviews, Uncategorized
Rust Cohle, the slowly graying and mulleted character played by Matthew McConaughey in True Detective, speaks at length in between avant-garde beer can art sessions about the “flat nature of time.” Don Draper, Mad Men’s main protagonist also views life similarly—his...
by Matt Freeman | Jun 15, 2015 | Three Things, TV Reviews, Uncategorized
Spoilers for all released Game of Thrones Episodes and Books (Which are, for the first time, the same thing!) Welcome to one of our new features, Three Things, in which several members of the Daly Planet staff briefly discuss three things they either loved or hated...