There comes a certain point while watching a reality TV show that you start to wonder just how real the show is. Then comes the frightening opposite of it, when watching a dramatically licensed TV show based on daily life…
TV Review: House of Cards Season 5, Episodes 1-6
But is it really deja vu? Is it really that far off to believe somehow, the House of Cards universe suddenly finds itself feasible? Rather, are we so induced into whatever universe we find ourselves in that we find HOC plausible? There’s no other…
House of Cards Teaser Released
An hour and a half before Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, Netflix decided to play some politics and release a teaser of their hit original series, House of Cards. Watch it below. Well then. First…
Emmys 2016: Nomination Round-Up
And we’re here! After weeks of predictions and wishful thinking (including our own) the 2016 Emmy nominations have been announced and they’re…okay. The big thing worth noting (and most definitely celebrating) is the late inclusion of The Americans, a show many…
2016 Tribeca Film Festival: Elvis & Nixon
Until February 1971, President Richard Nixon had meetings in the Oval Office unrecorded, unable to be called upon by him and his staff as well as those that came after him. One of those such meetings included the December 21,…
House of Cards: Season 4, Episodes 49-52
The end is nigh—or so we think. In the final episodes of season four, we come to terms with what’s going on from the start: Claire and Frank never truly loved each other but rather are a political union made…
House of Cards: Season 4, Episodes 46-48
Dramatic irony: when the audience finally understands what’s going on in that another character might not know. Now this gets used all the time in plays and dramatic works, and often to deepen the sense of suspense the audience now…