by Erik Kain on January 3, 2012
is launching its own exclusive series, Lilyhammer, on February 6th. has made some pretty glaring blunders over the past year or so, but launching their own television shows will hopefully not be one of them. Lilyhammer is the story of a mobster (played by Sopranos star Steven Van Zandt) who enters the witness protection program and [...]
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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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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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by Erik Kain on November 21, 2011
AMC’s Breaking Bad takes television to an entirely different level. Here are six reasons why you should be watching. Full disclosure: I’m still catching up on Breaking Bad. I’ve currently seen up through Season Two, Episode Nine “4 Days Out.” I have a few more to go before I even finish the second season. Even though I’m [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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