Game of Thrones Returns!
I love the cable model of short seasons presented all in one burst, as opposed to the network model of 24-or-so episodes strung out over a whole year. But boy, sometimes it is really hard to wait for the many months between seasons of those cable shows!! After an excruciating wait
Josh Bids Farewell to 30 Rock
I know I’m a little late on this one, but things have been busy, so I’ve finally caught up with the final episodes of 30 Rock. It’s hard to believe we’ve arrived at the end of the seventh season of this funny little show that I never expected to run more than o
The Top 10 Episodes of TV in 2012 — Part One!
I hope you’ve been enjoying my Best-of-2012 lists so far! Follow these links to read my Top 15 Movies of 2012: part one, part two, and part three, and my Top 15 Comic Book Series of 2012: part one and part two. When writing my Top 10 Episodes of TV list last year, I wrote [&he
Josh Reviews Treme Season 3
I find Treme to be so much better than pretty much everything else on television these days, so it was with great sadness that I watched the final episode of Treme’s ten-episode third season. (The show will apparently be coming back some-time next year with a five-episode four
Josh Reviews the BBC’s Sherlock Season Two!
A few weeks ago I wrote about the BBC’s excellent modern-day reinvention of Sherlock Holmes in Season One of their show Sherlock. When the credits rolled on the last episode, I quickly ordered season two from Amazon. Season Two is of even higher quality than Season One! With the
Josh Reviews the BBC’s Sherlock Season One
Back in 2010, I started hearing about the BBC’s new Sherlock series. The word was overwhelmingly positive — people seemed to love this new reinvention of the Sherlock Holmes character and mythos, set in modern-day London. I was interested, but frankly having just recen
Josh Reviews Season Five of Mad Men
Mad Men took a little while to grow on me. Right from the beginning I recognized it as an extremely intelligent, well-made show. But while I respected the audacity of crafting a show around a group of pretty much entirely unlikable, despicable characters, I found that kept me at a
“The Worst Ones Always Live” — Josh Reviews Game of Thrones Season Two
I have never read any of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels. But I was hooked relatively quickly into HBO’s first season of Game of Thrones, and the masterfully crafted second-season, which just concluded, was equally enthralling. (I am a bit torn, now
From the DVD Shelf: Bored to Death Season 2
After tearing through the first season of HBO’s Bored to Death on DVD (click here for my review), my wife and I couldn’t wait to jump into season 2. I’m pleased to say the second season was just as much fun as the first! Picking up just a few months after the end o
“Winter is Coming” — Josh Reviews Game of Thrones: Season One
I’ve made various comments, here and there over the past several months, about how much I dug the first season of Game of Thrones, but I realized I’d never really written about it in-depth here on the site. After recently tearing through the blu-ray release of the first