True Detective 1.01 Review: “The Long Bright Walk”
The plot of HBO’s new crime drama True Detective isn’t an unfamiliar one, a story of ritualistic murders of white working girls in rural Louisiana
Author: Randy Dankievitch
Since 2011, Randy Dankievitch has written about television, film, video games, and pop culture all over the internet, including Sound on Sight, Geeks Unleashed, and SLUG Magazine. He currently writes for TVOvermind and TVRoundtable, where he also co-hosts the TVRoundtable podcast.
Banshee 2.01 Review: “Little Fish”
Banshee‘s first season was a bit of a surprise last year: it’s not a show that tries to be very smart or philosophical, trading in big monologues
Treme Series Finale Review: “… To Miss New Orleans”
For four seasons, Treme‘s shown us a world fighting against itself to grow, to pick itself up by its bootstraps and rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, FEM
Treme 4.04 Review: “Sunset on Louisianne”
Although there’s a lot of narrative sprinting going on in “Sunset on Louisianne”, there’s still a lot of beautiful little touches that help
Treme 4.03 Review: “Dippermouth Blues”
Never a show to rush into anything, I was hoping the truncated final season of Treme didn’t sacrifice its wonderfully meandering pace to adopt a more pl
Treme 4.02 Review: “This City”
From the opening scene, death looms over “This City” in every scene, be it the death of a person, a career, or an ideology once subscribed to. Always a sc
Treme 4.01 Review: “Yes We Can Can”
It’s the fall of 2008, and hope is in the air in New Orleans. Not the same kind of “well, things can’t get any worse, so it’s gotta get be
The Walking Dead 4.08 Review: “Too Far Gone”
For seasons, The Walking Dead has struggled with longer narrative arcs: the show’s been at its best telling smaller, contained stories, like the introd
The Walking Dead 4.07 Review: “Dead Weight”
Last week, I pondered how long The Governor’s redemptive arc would last — turns out it was contained to the events of “Live Bait” and no further.
The Walking Dead 4.06 Review: “Live Bait”
By adopting a storytelling style more akin to season three episodes like “Clear,” the fourth season of The Walking Dead has a little more breathing room f
