[This Week In TV] Penny Dreadful; Big Bang Theory; New Girl
This Week in TV is a weekly feature reviewing the best, worst and most interesting episodes of television from the past seven days. The plan is to cover a wide variety of shows, but not always the same ones each week, so let us know in the comments which ones you’d particularly like to read about. This week sees Penny Dreadful return for a second season of Eva Green-starring gothic lunacy, Sheldon and Leonard's mothers paying the boys a visit in Big Bang Theory, and two departures in New Girl.
[This Week In TV] The Americans; Other Space; Inside Amy Schumer
This Week in TV is a weekly feature reviewing the best, worst and most interesting episodes of television from the past seven days. The plan is to cover a wide variety of shows, but not always the same ones each week, so let us know in the comments which ones you’d particularly like to read about. This week sees Cold War drama The Americans reach the end of its third season, Other Space mark the debut of a new sci-fi comedy from Yahoo, and the third season premiere of feminist sketch show Inside Amy Schumer.
[This Week In TV] Orphan Black; Louie; Gotham
This Week in TV is a weekly feature reviewing the best, worst and most interesting episodes of television from the past seven days. The plan is to cover a wide variety of shows, but not always the same ones each week, so let us know in the comments which ones you’d particularly like to read about. This week sees the return of the Clone Club with Orphan Black's third season premiere, Louie C.K. discovering the unexpected benefits of bad choices in Louie, and Gotham return after a six-week hiatus.
[This Week In TV] Game Of Thrones; Marvel's Daredevil; Mad Men; Better Call Saul
This Week in TV is a weekly feature reviewing the best, worst and most interesting episodes of television from the past seven days. The plan is to cover a wide variety of shows, but not always the same ones each week, so let us know in the comments which ones you’d particularly like to read about. This week tackles the fifth season premiere of Game Of Thrones, Marvel adding a third series to their TV bow with Daredevil on Netflix (review covers first three episodes only), Mad Men's return for the concluding part of its final season, and the finale of Better Call Saul's first season.
[This Week In TV] Archer; Community; New Girl
This Week in TV is a weekly feature reviewing the best, worst and most interesting episodes of television from the past seven days. The plan is to cover a wide variety of shows, but not always the same ones each week, so let us know in the comments which ones you’d particularly like to read about. This week sees Archer conclude its season with a drastic voyage, while Chang becomes an actor on Community and New Girl returns from its hiatus with Schmidt's mother in tow.
[This Week In TV] The Flash; Arrow; Agents Of SHIELD
This Week in TV is a weekly feature reviewing the best, worst and most interesting episodes of television from the past seven days. The plan is to cover a wide variety of shows, but not always the same ones each week, so let us know in the comments which ones you’d particularly like to read about. This week takes on a comic book theme, with The Flash heading back in time, Oliver Queen suffering an identity crisis in Arrow, and, um, SHIELD suffering an identity crisis in Agents Of SHIELD.
Ten Years Of Modern Doctor Who: Revisiting 'Rose'
Doctor Who celebrated its fiftieth anniversary two years ago, and celebrates its tenth anniversary today. What else would you expect from a series which has never placed much stock in keeping its timelines in order? Just ask UNIT in the late '70s. Or should that be mid-70s? Fantastic. Anyhow, where the 50th anniversary marked the birthday of 'The Unearthly Child', the series' very first episode back in 1963, today's tenth anniversary marks a decade since Russell T. Davies revived the show following sixteen years off-air, barring one ill-fated television movie, and set the stage for what would grow from a cultish British sci-fi curiosity into a genuine transatlantic phenomenon.
Re-watching 'Rose', the first episode of the revived series (or New Who, as it's colloquially known), is fascinating not only in light of how drastically the series has evolved over time, but also how fully-formed the most important aspects of the show were right out of the gate. The most immediately striking difference is between the creative focus of the man in charge then, Russell T. Davies, and the man in charge now, Steven Moffat. The very first shot, swooping from an orbital shot of earth down to Rose Tyler's buzzing alarm clock, establishes perhaps the single definining theme of Davies' tenure: contrasting the grand majesty of space and time with the humble, messy lives of your workaday human. Where Moffat's characters function as cogs in their creator's cosmic clock, Davies rejoices in the silly essentialness of mundane existence. Rose may not find much fulfilment in her shopgirl routine, but in Davies' eyes, there's something magical in being that one amongst millions, rummaging around for a place in humanity's buzzing, living hive.
Girls Season 4 Recap
“I’ve seen a lot of things, I’m 25 years old.”
If you’re like me, you can be cynical, but hopeful all at the same time. As a 20-something woman, it’s hard to comprehend the vagueness of growing up. There isn’t a handbook on it and there isn’t a self-help seminar you can go to that’ll make even the smallest decision easier. It’s the boring lifestyle of being a grown-up that scares me to insanity; and it’s that connection to the women of Girls that has pulled at every heart string of mine during season 4.
In this season of Girls, an HBO show centered around a group of New York women struggling to kickstart their lives, viewers were taken on a personal journey of discovery through each character unlike the previous seasons. A small breakdown of where the characters start off this season:
- Hannah leaves New York to pursue her dreams of becoming the literary voice of her generation in Iowa, maintaining a long-distance relationship with Adam
- Jessa has thrown her filter to the wind, speaking her mind and telling those around her exactly what she’s thinking; like a cold-hearted Judge Judy of free therapy
- Shoshanna has graduated and realized the real world is absolutely terrible
- Marnie is realizing being the other woman to her bandmate, Desi, isn’t working out so well
As the season progresses we also see the men in the ladies of Girls lives take a 180 turn. Desi ends up leaving Clementine for Marnie (and proposing to her later on), Ray gets fed up with his neighborhood government officials and runs for office and Adam starts a new relationship with a woman named Mimi-Rose Howard.