by Erik Kain on November 29, 2011
Tony Soprano, Walter White, and a plethora of other men comprise the ranks of popular anti-hero dramas on today’s television sets. But where are the female anti-heroes? Alyssa Rosenberg picks up the too-much-ambition-in-TV thread that David Haglund started a while back (read my take here.) She thinks that it’s not so much a failure of [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 22, 2011
That’s what David Haglund contends, in this piece at Slate. Shows like Hell on Wheels (AMC) and the new Kelsey Grammer show, Boss, keep trying to raise the stakes. Others, such as Boardwalk , rely heavily on big names and expensive sets but don’t quite live up to the promise. David writes: It’s not that TV shows [...]
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