Tag: HBO
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A Thanksgiving Feast of Reviews
Let’s dig in, shall we? Revew: Turkey (the Bird) It’s a mediocre bird in almost all senses. It’s a near-tasteless, dry, uninspired meat – that’s why the pilgrims felt the need to shove croutons up its ass. At least stuffing makes turkey interesting. These motherfuckers drown in rainstorms because they don’t know to stop looking…
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Review Catch-Up
I probably should have written reviews of all of these when they were a bit fresher, but shit happens. Let’s do this. Spoiler warning in effect. House of the Dragon (Season 2) (HBO) Great acting and good pyrotechnics can’t save a season that feels like it’s swimming (flying?) in circles. The “Blood and Cheese” scene…
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Review: The Last of Us, Eps. 6-9 (HBO)
I’ll try to keep this relatively spoiler-free, but, as usual, don’t be surprised if a few plot details show up. What do you expect me to do, edit this? Pros: -The cast was fantastic the whole way through: Pedro Pascal turned in a soulful, haunting performance as a much more hardcore adoptive dad than he…
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Review: The Last of Us, Eps. 1-5 (HBO)
A Quick Introduction I’ve played the first Last of Us twice – once when it came out, and then again when it was remastered (for the first time). I never played the second title in the series, because it looked like a relentless fucking downer. When I heard that The Last of Us was getting…
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Review Showdown: House of the Dragon vs. The Rings of Power (Part 2)
Before we start, let’s have some fun with math! That’s a sentence I never thought I’d say… The first season of The Rings of Power cost approximately $715 million to make.[1] That means that Amazon spent a little less than 10% of Somalia’s GDP to buy 8 episodes of mediocre television. (Honestly, I’m surprised by…
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Review Showdown: House of the Dragon (Eps. 1-4) vs. The Rings of Power (Eps. 1-3)
This contest is going to be organized a bit differently than the last[1] because I’ve made the executive decision to break the discussion into arbitrary categories – you may not know this, but Socrates used the same technique to pad out classroom time. I’ll assign a winner to each category and tally them up at…
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Review: Resident Evil (Netflix)
Remember when I opened up about my collection of Lance Reddick body pillows? I saw that as a fun way of connecting with my audience (and removing the stigma from gettin’ snuggly with Lance). What was the harm? Resident Evil was the harm. See, if I’m going to be able to show my face at…