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Mad Men: Season 5, Episode 1 – ‘A Little Kiss’ Review and Synopsis.
The much awaited return of AMC’s masterful tale of Madison Avenue advertising executives in 1960’s Manhattan, Mad Men, premiered yesterday evening after an 18 month hiatus. Will Don Draper find happiness with his new, young wife Megan? Will Joan fool her husband into believing Roger’s baby is his own? Will Peggy ever get the recognition […]
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The Walking Dead – Season 2, Episode 10 – ’18 Miles Out’ – Review and Synopsis
An oft used trick in The Walking Dead is to show the height of an episode’s action then cut back to the sequence of events leading up to that point. This episode is one of those. Opening with mobs of zombies chasing Shane and one attacking Rick, this installment hints at a focus on the […]
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The Walking Dead: Season 2, Episode 9 – ‘Trigger Finger’ Review and Synopsis
After her country drive went awry, Lori is passed out, upside down in a wrecked Mercury with a flesh hungry walker attempting to bust through the glass to eat her. Back at the bar, the aftermath of Rick’s badass maneuvering settles on the group and sobers Hershel’s navel-gazing stupor. Were Tony and Dave alone? A […]
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The Walking Dead: Season 2, Episode 8 – ‘Nebraska’
Please note: Spoilers ahead. This episode opens post-barn massacre. As we discovered in the conclusion of the previous episode, Sophia was a zombie and had been corralled into Herschel’s barn at some point. The emotional scene surrounding the killing of the zombies in the barn is a little much. While discovering that Sophia is a […]
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The Walking Dead: Season 2, Episode 6 – ‘Secrets’ Review and Synopsis.
[Previously, The Walking Dead: Season 2, Episode 5 – ‘Chupacabra’ Review and Synopsis] Spoilers ahead. This episode opens up on the Herschel Farm as if nothing has changed, so apparently Glen has kept his secret to himself. Still, it is overwhelmingly insane that these people are keeping zombies corraled in a barn. We see […]
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Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 3 – ‘Lord Snow’ Review and Synopsis.
[Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 2 – ‘The Kingsroad’] Spoilers ahead. This episode opens with the former denizens of Winterfell arriving in their new home, the appropriately named King’s Landing. The sets on this show are as impressive or more so than those HBO showed off in its series Rome. […]
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Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 2 – ‘The Kingsroad’
Spoilers ahead. [Season 1, Episode 1 – ‘Winter is Coming’ Review and Synopsis] This episode was written by D.B. Weiss and David Van Patten. We join Daenerys on the road with her new husband Khal Drogo and his tribe, the peripatetic Dothraki. Ser Jorah Mormont accompanies Daenerys as her bodyguard/ link to […]
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Downton Abbey: Series 2, Episode 8.
This week’s final episode of Downton Abbey’s series 2 was jam packed with plot resolution, angst, longing gazes and ashen faces. Downton is abuzz with preparations for Matthew and what’s her name’s wedding. Matthew is still expressing frustration with his injury and Lady Mary can barely tolerate what’s her name’s presence, echoing this reviewer’s feelings. […]
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The Walking Dead: Season 2, Episode 4 – ‘Cherokee Rose’ Review and Synopsis.
This episode opens on the Hershel farm, with livestock intact and something making a ruckus in the barn though as to what the audience does not know. Daryl rides in all billy bad ass on his motorcycle, really the only calm and collected character outside of Glen. He’s really an awesome character and I’m glad […]
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Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 4 – ‘ Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things’ Review and Synopsis
[Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 3 – ‘Lord Snow’ Review and Synopsis] Spoilers ahead. This episode opens with a dream sequence starring Bran. We know it is a dream sequence because he is walking. He cruelly awakes to the world, still in bed crippled from his fall. He is summoned by Robb who sends […]
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