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Masters of the Air

In 2001 HBO put out a show called Band of Brothers following a real-life paratrooper company through most of the major events of WWII's...

Best single season TV

After watching True Detective: Night Country, aka s4, it brought back an idea long in the hopper. This'll be a short list of single...

Stranger Things

In 2016, when Stranger Things debuted, it immediately became a favorite show of mine . Arguably #1. Mix a bit of Stephen King, a bit of...

Lisa it's your birthday

Our daughter and youngest just turned two recently. It made me think of something. The Simpsons has always been big, essential really, in...

House of the Dragon

When I first saw ads for House of the Dragon, I was profoundly confused. Who wants this?!? My reaction shouldn't be surprising, the...

Day of Days (Band of Brothers)

Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Operation Overlord , the Allied invasion of France during World War II. It was the largest...

Shogun

Maybe you've heard about the new show from FX (and Hulu) called Shōgun . It's a mini-series, meaning one season only, and is an...

Clarkson's Farm s1

We haven't watched a ton of TV the last year or so, and what was likely our favorite show may be a bit of a surprise. Jeremy Clarkson is...

HBO's Rome

Recently I (re)watched s1 of HBO's Rome and mostly decided against writing about it. Then, for a few days at least, the online discourse...

They were Little Women

In a classic Simpsons episode, Homer Loves Flanders (s5 e16), Homer actually befriends, for one time only, his long-hated,...

Lagavulin 11 Offerman Edition ('21)

Between slowing down on writing in general and slowing down on how rapidly I do whiskey-related posts, I'm surprised how spread out the...

And Maggie Makes Three

I've stated before there's nothing, in pop culture or elsewhere, that's had a bigger impact on my sense of humor than the Simpsons. I...

The RoP and the compression of time

I didn't like Amazon's The Rings of Power. Week to week, from a higher level, it felt like a chore to watch. The details of the plot...

Watchmen and the giant squid

Over the last few weeks I've been watching HBO's Watchmen (2019), one of the shows I was most curious about when signing up for Max. I...

Emotional investment (BCS finale)

Monday night was the series finale of Better Call Saul, something I covered two years ago (link here). I want to talk about how it all...

Cowboy Bebop

I've consumed almost no Anime, meaning specifically Japanese animation. Anime has long included shows targeted at adults instead of just...

Peaky Blinders

There are a lot of gangster movies and TV shows out there. Most are set here in the USA, where both real-life mobsters (like Al Capone)...

A Streetcar Named Marge

The Simpsons have, through my life, defined much of my sense of humor. So many of the things I quote or otherwise relate to come from...

Peter Cullen

Maybe you don't know the name off-hand, but (to me at least) Peter Cullen has an immediately recognizable voice. And it's largely because...

The Winter Soldier

Probably my favorite plot arc of the entire MCU is the development of Bucky Barnes. Captain America has been my favorite Avenger since...

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