Dark Places is about Libby Day (Charlize Theron), whose family was brutally murdered on their Kansas farm. Her brother was charged for the crime at the age sixteen. Libby’s confused confession and rumors of devil worship landed him in jail…
TV Review: Another Period (1×01) “Pilot”
Comedy Central has been on a roll when it comes to female written and led shows. The monumental success of Inside Amy Schumer and Broad City are just a couple examples of the quality shows the network is releasing. With so much…
TV Review: Mad Men Series Finale – “Person to Person”
Note: I lost the time to review last week’s penultimate episode although many of my points of thought tie into this finale too, so consider this a double review of sorts Digging into any given episode of Mad Men can…
TV Review: Mad Men (7×12) – “Lost Horizon”
Mad Men opened its sixth season long ago with Don Draper reading Dante’s Inferno and that season served as slow boiling retribution for Don’s many failings and brought his story to its lowest point. Don has since bounced back, though…
TV Review: Mad Men (7×11) – “Time & Life”
If “The Forecast” was about looking towards the future for the characters that populate Mad Men, then “Time & Life” acts as a follow-up that shows the future smacking them in the face, and not the way they wanted it…
TV Review: Mad Men (7×10) – “The Forecast”
Last week on Mad Men, Don Draper came home to an empty apartment, and that evocative final image of him standing amidst the desolate white floor stands as both a metaphor for Don’s whole existence and a lead-in to the…
TV Review: AMC’s Mad Men 7×7, “Waterloo”
“She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She was an astronaut.” – Bertram Cooper (d. 1969) There is something to be said for a man that came from an older…