MEAN and MASSIVE

SEB: girls s01e05 episode review Hard Being Easy comes halfway in the first season of Girls, and was a almost pure-fun episode. Besides maybe for Charlie, who was maybe not so happy to learn that he was, after all, right. The title seems to summerize well the plots of this episode – the old friend [...]

SEB: awake s01e11 episode review With two more episodes to finish the season, Awake gets in high gear. This means we are focused less on the investigations and more on the bigger story. If you read here my recaps for Awake you know what I think about it – the show should have focused on [...]

SEB: hbo girls s01e04 episode review Just by its name it was clear that this episode of Girls, Hannah’s Diary,  is going to start a snow ball that will go down until it will crash on the head of Hannah and her friends. Charlie didn’t mean to read Hannah’s journal, it was his friend who started [...]

SEB: mad men s05e08 episode review The power of Mad Men is the ability to go into dark places but stay amusing. Lady Lazarus, as dark and disturbing this episode was, was also one of the funniest this season yet. It says something about advertisement, I guess. Even when life looks like baked beans, it [...]

SEB: awake s01e10 episode review What I enjoy most about Awake is the idea behind it. The concept is so good, but it doesn’t play out as good. What’s left of the dual-realities concept is some dreamy atmosphere at times, and some use of subtext. And that’s when it’s good. Last week’s episode, Game Day, [...]

SEB: s01e03 episode review It just keep getting better. Girls, I mean, not the lives of its characters. Hannah is getting some “news about her vagina” from her gynecologist, which sends her on a (very short and funny) journey through her present and past boyfriends: Adam and Elijah. And the best part of Hannah’s plot [...]

SEB: mad men s04e06 episode review Last night on Mad Men, we had a chance to see things from a different perspective. Peggy saw things from a different perspective after the new writer told her he was born in a concentration camp. Even Beans didn’t affect her this way. And Roger went into an LCD [...]

SEB: girls s01e02 episode review In the second episode of Girls, or Sluts (can’t believe I just wrote that, but it is half a quote from Vagina Panic) – it’s all about sex. How bad it is, how overrated it is (quote again), and how strange it is. Again, lucky us Girls is an HBO [...]

SEB: awake s01e08 episode review Thursday night are a busy ones, with Awake, Community and Parks blocking my entire evening. Last night on Awake was the first time they used a circular narrative – we started with the police finding Brikken doing Nightswimming (apperantly by himself), then after the credits we get the full story. [...]

SEB: awake s01e07 episode review I did my own marathon of the first 7 episodes of Awake, episode 7 being the last. I was afraid in the beginning the new NBC detective drama will not be as good as I thought it should – based on the pilot (back when it was still titled REM). [...]

SEB: game of thrones s02e03 episode review One of the main principals the creators of Game Of Thrones are basing their drama on, is the struggling of women to gain power, or at least to be in control on their lives. Many of the subplots are mainly about that – Sansa, who is forced to [...]

SEB: mad men s05e05 episode review After the horror story we got last week from Don’s inner devil, this week’s episode was even darker. No, Don didn’t kill anyone yet (although his rope drawing during the meeting was maybe a hint for the future) – but the darkest places are usually not bleeding, they’re just [...]

SEB: girls s01e01 The new HBO comedy Girls premiered last night. How was it? Good, most of the time. Real, most of the time, and pretty girly. The best moments of the premiere episode were, well, anything with Hannah (played by Lena Dunham) in it. And the guys – somehow whenever there’s a guy in [...]

I have titled this post “Good Bye, James Darmody”, but there are so many other titles that come to mind. “The Marriage Of Margaret Thomson”, for example. But the last two episodes of the second season of Boardwalk Empire  gave us so much of James, that two things were certain: 1. it was, indeed, the season of Jimmy, and his story became [...]

SEB: breaking bad s04e12 I was having a party the other day, and was quite excited to find out my neighbor was following Breaking Bad too. She was however pretty surprised to discover season 4 was not the last season (she actually thought that last week’s episode, Space Crawl, was the series finale). I guess [...]

SEB: breaking bad s04e11 Things are totally edgy now on Breaking Bad, with Walter making every possible mistake and Jesse keep acting like a real hero. Gus finally said the words (“I will kill your infant daughter”, said in that unique accent of Gus, is pretty creepy.) In many ways this episode of Breaking Bad [...]

SEB: breaking bad s04e10 review A lot was happening in Salud, and again I must say it was perhaps the best episode of the season. But I say this too often, so maybe I should wait three more episodes to decide which was the strongest episode of this excellent fourth season. Watch next week’s episode [...]

SEB: parenthhod s03e01 I’m still struggling to find time to update Mean and Massive. I’ve decided to try and cut my episode reviews short (not that I wrote 2000-words articles before) – so this might help me to cover as many TV shows as I want. The fall season is here, and there are too [...]

SEB: breaking bad s04e08 Hermanos, the eighth episode in the current season of Breaking Bad, tought us a few things. The main character was the Chicken Man (and that little tick he had in the elevator made me think of his nickname in a different way) – but we also got a few interesting bits [...]

SEB: breaking bad s04e07 It’s been way too long, I know. But two weeks ago my life changed drastically and the time I have for Mean and Massive is very little. But, as my obsession with TV is still alive and kicking, I’m doing my best to keep this site updated. This means I’ll keep [...]