MEAN and MASSIVE

This week’s opening monologue on Louie was great, continuing directly where the end monologue last week stopped (“..countries where children die all the time and it’s boring”). Late Show(part I) was all so gloom and doom, giving Louie a little perspective on his career, his life etc. It felt like a sad party, but the [...]

One episode only from the season half-finale, the seventh episode of Breaking Bad is still dealing with the details of the drama and less with the action. That’s fine with me, especially in the episode where we see Mike for the last time. Say My Name leaves no cards hidden, and almost all the characters [...]

With one episode only left for the current season of HBO’s True Blood, things are getting sweaty. So sweaty, in fact, that even characters that haven’t met for quite some time on the series finally got an opportunity to catch up. The fairies are in danger, the vampires are getting signals from their god of [...]

What an episode. Breaking Bad did it again and Buyouthad everything, action, drama, twists and whatnot, including a bit of Walter’s back mind. It was also the episode that brought Walter White down – just to let him rise again at the end of it. My episode review follows… What just happened (episode summary): With [...]

The fourth episode in the current season of Breaking Bad, Fifty-One, focused on Skyler. In a similar way to the episode we saw last week on the show, we’ve made a small step forward (and half step backwards) as far as it concerns the new meth operation of Walt,Mike and Jesse, and more of the [...]

Hazard Pay, the third episode of Breaking Bad‘s fifth and final season, was no less than excellent. Dramatic twists and curves took us, together with Walt and Jesse, on a fast ride with a familiar thrill. The duo is cooking again, Marie is back, Badger and Skinny Pete are back, the new character Todd is [...]

A lot has happened in the second episode of Breaking Bad‘s fifth season, including the introduction of the new character Lydia and the new money situation for Mike and his gang which helped Walter White proceed with his megalomaniac plan. My review for Madrigal follows… What just happened (episode summary): Walter helps Jesse find a [...]

Finally, bitches. The fifth season of Breaking Bad premiered tonight, with the first episode Live Free Or Die. It was great to see that we’re back in the pre-title sequence game, with a puzzling scene that hides more than it shows. Besides that the premiere episode did a great job in using the materials from [...]

Louietook us with him to Miami last night, in a funnily uncomfortable episode. My review follows… What just happened (episode summary): Louie goes on a working trip to Miami, where he meets a guy he likes. How it happened (the chatty TV critic): Miami was another episode in the third season of Louie that made [...]

Breaking Bad‘s fifth season premiers in a week, and AMC has released a new promo to make the wait easier on us. The new trailer is much better than the first couple of teasers and the first trailer: we see more new footage, and we get even the ‘feel’ of the new season – no [...]

A very different episode of Louie, dark and slow, which started with a lengthy – and funny – pre-title stand-up Louie gave about his daughter telling a joke, and continued into a set-up dinner that ended in a date rape, with Louie on the bottom. What just happened (episode summary): Louie is having a funny [...]

This week’s Wilfred was the charmer, trying to please Ryan’s co-workers as ‘the office dog’. It didn’t quite worked out, but it helped teaching Ryan a lesson in self respect. Dignitywas a good episode, that served well the show’s structure, and also moved the plot forward in a small, important way. Also, it seems like [...]

Aaron Sorkin’s new series on HBO, The Newsroom, has premiered lastnight. I was pretty curious to see how this turns out, especially after reading some mixed early reviews about the show.  Although there were moments in which I thought that the tone is not clear, and other moments where I thought the whole thing was [...]

Many great things happened on the season finale of Girls last night. The characters, you could tell, have learned a few things about themselves and about the world during the first season, and in the finale they brought this knowledge into practice. And if this doesn’t sound like much fun – just watch how Lena [...]

Mad Men‘s fifth season came to an end last night. And after a dark season, that dealt with depression, passions, prostitution and loss – we got a quiet episode that gave a closure for every important plot this season. The title for the episode that ends such a season couldn’t be more right – The [...]

This week on HBO’s Girls we had enough drama that there was almost no need for funny sidekicks or subplots. Here’s my review of the penultimate episode of the first season, Leave Me Alone. Watch Leave Me Alnoe episode promo What just happened (episode summary): Hannah meets her old professor who invites her to do [...]

SEB: Episodes s02e04 episode review What I love about Episodes, and I discover it slowly which is a good sign, is that it works on multiple layers like any good TV drama. Only this is a comedy, and as a comedy it is a pretty good one. But I enjoy the dramatic moments/complications entirely, and [...]

SEB: Episodes s01e03 episode review We’re already in Episode 3 in the mini Episodes marathon I’ve decided to give myself this morning, and the fun must stop when Merc’s father dies. The episode wasn’t as funny as the second in this season of Episodes, but it gave us a moment to understand better what Shawn [...]

SEB: Episodes s02e02 episode review In a very similar way to the first season of the show, where I didn’t like the pilot episode but enjoyed the rest of the season – here too I’m happy to say the second episode of Episodes is so much better, a funnier, than the first. I even laughed [...]

SEB: Episodes s02e01 episode review The new season of Episodes, the British-American comedy starring Matt LeBlanc, has not premiered yet in the US (Showtime), but in the UK (BBC) already three episodes (out of 9) have been aired. I’ve decided to give my early reviews for the show, mainly for schedule reasons. The first episode [...]