The first commercial break in this week’s episode of Mad Men did not come until 18 minutes in. For television, that is an impressive amount of time. For a series that does not rely on action and really had nothing…
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 2×9, “Martial Eagle”
At the end of the very first episode of the TV series Justified, another FX drama produced by Graham Yost, a character tells Timothy Olyphant’s Raylan Givens character that she think he’s the angriest person alive. In this week’s episode…
TV Review: AMC’s Mad Men 7×2, “A Day’s Work”
Things (and people) were really moving around this week. Last week’s episode may have been a nice setup for this season, providing us some perspective on who is where and how Don and SC&P are working, while being separated from…
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 2×8, “New Car”
Early in tonight’s episode Philip asks Elizabeth, “Don’t you enjoy any of this?” which is met with a hazy acknowledgement that things are easier for her in America, but it ultimately does not matter, as the mission is what is…
TV Review: AMC’s Mad Men 7×1, “Time Zones”
With only one season left, I may not have jumped onto the “writing about Mad Men” scene in the timeliest of fashions, but I have only recently started writing so much more about TV all together. That being said, Mad…
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 2×7, “Arpanet”
Keri Russell has been getting a lot to do on The Americans in recent weeks and she has been pretty terrific. This week Elizabeth only gets so much to do though, as it is more the Nina hour, with a…
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 2×6, “Behind The Red Door”
Given a lot of the dark elements that made up this episode of The Americans, it is a little strange to say that so much of it revolved around the notion of Love. That said, sometimes love comes with darkness. …
