Dive into the archives.

• Big Love Season 4 Premiere Critics Roundup

  *WARNING: SPOILERS*
  Well I’m still waiting for Comcast to get someone over here to fix my cable so I can watch the Big Love season premiere. So I may as well provide links to the reviews I’ve been reading in the meantime.
  Salon.com (Heather Havrilesky): “And this is where ‘Big Love’ really succeeds: By demonstrating the [...]

  Popularity: 100% [?]

  Posted on Jan 13.10 to Big Love, Mormon, Pop Culture, Television   

• Big Love Blueballs

  Here’s an interview with Big Love co-creator Will Scheffer with lots of juicy info.
  Here are the latest HBO previews:

  Clip 1 (watch full-size in popup window)
  Popularity: 81% [?]

  Popularity: 81% [?]

  Posted on Jan 09.10 to Big Love, Mormon, Pop Culture, Television   

• De-Sexed GenX Male Novelists?

  Great essay by Katie Roiphe in this week’s Sunday Times Book Review arguing that, although the Updike-Roth-Mailer generation was (rightly) criticized on feminist grounds for the portrayal of sex in its novels, the current batch of male novelists–Wallace-Franzen-Chabon–has gone so far in purging problematic sexual scenes that we’ve lost something powerful and mysterious and vital.
  From [...]

  Popularity: 36% [?]

  Posted on Jan 05.10 to Books, Media, Pop Culture   

• The Economist Out, Vanity Fair In

  Does anybody subscribe to the dead tree editions of magazines anymore? Well, yes. I do. And this month it was time for me to reevaluate and renew my subscriptions.
  Although I do enjoy being able to read magazines on the couch or on the subway, what I really like is imagining that my magazine choices say [...]

  Popularity: 62% [?]

  Posted on Nov 13.09 to Music, Pop Culture   

• Mad Men Finale Critics Roundup

  *WARNING: SPOILERS*
  Could Sunday’s Mad Men finale have been the TV event of the fall? If you look at the media attention, probably so. I don’t think there’s anything else I’m looking forward to that could top it–especially considering the satisfying payoff. Watching Mad Men I had the same thrill I did watching Ocean’s Eleven [...]

  Popularity: 61% [?]

  Posted on Nov 10.09 to Pop Culture, Television   

• Hitchens Takes a Shot at Stewart, Colbert, and Franken

  Even when I don’t agree with him, Christopher Hitchens is one of my favorite people to watch or read. And, like many in my demographic, I watch the Daily Show every night. (Less so the Colbert Report–it was a great idea at first, but the shtick seems to have mostly run its course.)
  It turns out [...]

  Popularity: 67% [?]

  Posted on Nov 09.09 to Media, Pop Culture, Television