Posts Tagged ‘amc’
Mad Men
Posted by: meekthegeek on: March 10, 2012
The job of this pilot is to set the tone, to paint a picture of the business world as it functioned in 1960. It’s a man’s world of course. “Most of the time they’re looking for something between a mother and a waitress,” sings Joan.
Will It Fly?
Posted by: meekthegeek on: September 24, 2011
When I first heard that the movie Source Code, which I haven’t seen but which looks pretty cool, is being developed for TV, my instinctive first question was, “What network?” (The answer is CBS.) Because, with sci-fi and genre TV, the network is everything. It will largely determine how the material will be handled and [...]
Breaking Bad
Posted by: meekthegeek on: July 13, 2011
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Breaking Bad is gearing up for Season 4 this Sunday, which is sort of a spoiler in and of itself if you’ve never seen the show, but perhaps, like me, you are behind the curve. If so, here’s a look at where it started. This pilot opens in media res–an intense scene where the hero [...]
The Walking Dead (in retrospect)
Posted by: meekthegeek on: December 12, 2010
- In: 2010s | Dramas
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I always say that pilot can only be truly appreciated in retrospect. You can’t know how good it is until you see how the whole season—sometimes the whole series—plays out. So I’ve waited until now to blog about The Walking Dead. This show, which had a 6-episode first season on AMC, has been reviewed and [...]
Rubicon
Posted by: meekthegeek on: August 8, 2010
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Things start off simply. A quote appears: “An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.” We’re asked to guess who said it, Ted Kacyzinski or Woodrow Wilson. Naturally the answer is the less obvious, and by extension, the more eerie, Wilson.
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