As with most of the series that I’ve chosen to flashback to, writing about The Sopranos frightens me. How in the world is it possible to reflect on the magnitude of this work in just a (relatively) short post?
There’s only one place to start: this 86-episode opus, which spanned eight and-a-half years, and six (or [...]
I’ve been covering The Wire in my Jane After Dark column at TV Squad, and I can’t help but think about the similarities to another favorite HBO show: The Sopranos. They’re both edgy and well-written and filled with knock-out characters, but they’re also very different. Here’s my rundown on these two top-notch shows:
Reality vs. Storytelling. [...]
Preposterous! I know; I too have been there. Even though the comparison occurred to me first, my initial reaction was to laugh at it. What’s the connection? You can’t even draw one between the two actors (or can you?).
But the more I tossed the idea around in my head, the more interesting the similarities became. [...]
(Season 21, Episode 4 – “Daddy Dearest and the Dueling Divas”)
One of those deep, dark secrets I wrote about last week finally reared its ugly head during last night’s episode of Real World: Brooklyn. More on that later. We also got to see Devyn pursue her theatrical ambitions. Up until this point, all she did [...]
