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“Even the bravest man fears death.” Jorah Mormont During their obligatory press tour to promote the third season, Game of Thrones showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff revealed to Grantland that when they first pitched the show to writer George R.R. Martin, they were afraid…

It’s official, everybody. Literally the last person on the planet who hadn’t written a thinkpiece about HBO’s Girls has finally shared their thoughts. I give you 19-time NBA All-Star (holy shit! Seriously?) and official United States cultural ambassador Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s take on Girls. “This season…

Season 1 of Lena Dunham’s HBO comedy GIRLS left us wondering about all the stuff contemporary twenty-somethings are getting themselves into nowadays, in the midst of living in a world where boyfriends propose the idea of peeing on them in the shower—in a world when…

“Everythings better with some [beer] in the belly.” —Tyrion Lannister Remember the Game of Thrones drinking game where you drink every time someone says, “Winter is coming,” or Daenerys says, “Khaleesi”—even better, when Tyrion says something sexual? Well, that was all very enjoyable whilst sipping on…

Sometimes it can be tempting to create a narrative where there really isn’t one. 2012 wasn’t the best year for TV of all time, nor was it the worst. Some shows had their best seasons ever (Archer, The Walking Dead), some shows had their worst…

“I do a job that’s hated by everybody and anybody on both sides of the fence, and it ain’t even doin’ that well” Sigh. Brad Pitt is getting his own TV series (right? I though the was busy designing home furnishings) because he really took…

Full disclosure: I didn’t watch the Emmys. Well, that’s not entirely true. I watched the first third before I had to head into work. As a serious journalist, I feel compelled to share that. It’s ok though because the only thing more fruitless than analyzing…

NOTE: This is a semi-regular series in which I pitch an idea for a sure-fire hit television show that I, myself, am too lazy to write. If you by chance happen to be an executive at HBO or FX then it’s all yours. Just be…

No matter how weird our friends might be and no matter how dumb the decisions they make are, through it all we have to love them for it. And that’s exactly the case in a very unexpected season 1 finale of Girls. All of the…

Everyone—artists especially—keeps tabs on their classmates’ movements. Who works at what publication, who got a promotion, who lives at home. It’s always been a sick obsession of anyone with any hope for a career, but for the current crop of twenty-somethings, of which I am…