ORIGINAL at Ronebreak. UPDATE: Check out my comparison of Mad Men with True Blood. The theme: guilty pleasure of watching naughty conservatives. Yes, critics love Mad Men; anyone who doesn’t watch the show must be confused and annoyed at all the hoopla over this great show. I hear you. Hype is dull. Still, critics love [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Why We Love Mad Men: Ambiguity in Character and Plot
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 18th, 2009
“Community” Needs to Do Better in Class
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 17th, 2009
Original at Splice Today, also see my thoughts on what Community‘s premiere on Facebook means for YouTube. A good test of whether a show is great is if, at the end of the episode, you cannot help but replay every scene in your mind. I get this feeling after Mad Men, True Blood and a [...]
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No Comments »The End of YouTube?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 10th, 2009
No website stays on top forever. So in the tradition of reckless speculation, in an article over at Ronebreak, I lay the case for YouTube’s demise, just for sport.
Posted in uncategorized Tags: social networking, TV, web series, Web Series/Online Video, youtube No Comments »The Most Popular (Random) Block on Screen?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 6th, 2009
155 Riverside Drive from Google Maps Why does Riverside Drive between 87th and 89th always show up in movies and TV? When you think of famous city streets in film and TV, only a few come to mind: Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue, Sunset Boulevard, Broadway, Hollywood. I might be missing a few, but certainly absent [...]
Does Judd Apatow Really Hate Women?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 3rd, 2009
Over at Ronebreak, I unpack whether Judd Apatow, whose Funny People opened this past weekend at number one at the box office (but below his previous movies), is really the sexist misogynist Katherine Heigl suggests or whether something else is at play in her critique. It doesn’t seem to matter either way, since Apatow has [...]
