Good grief this band is hard to look up on the internet. Apparently a lot of things out there like to be number one. Obvious Highlander quote aside, I stumbled across this band and their self-titled debut LP through the typical Bandcamp digging and am happily content. The Number Ones is a Dublin band made…
Check out our reactions from this night's Emmy awards below. Be sure to take a look at our predictions here and all of our Emmy Spotlights. [liveblog]
When I was first writing the nomination predictions for this category, I said that this is one of the most competitive categories of the year. However, with all the episode submissions in it has turned into one of the weakest. Early frontrunner Robin Wright (House of Cards) seemed like a no brainer, until she submitted…
[maxbutton id="3"] Lead Actor in a Comedy Series is pretty much an open race and it has been that way even before the nominees were announced. In the past, the default winner has been Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory), and he returns strong to the race with yet another Sheldon is drunk episode. However, for me…
[maxbutton id="3"] Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep) is going for the three peat, and I think she's going to do it. For some odd reason, she's been unable to submit her best for Veep. The first season she submitted the episode tears when there were clear alternatives like the Pilot and "Baseball." The second season, she submitted the episode…
Did you know that it’s the first season of Orange is the New Black that is in contention at this year’s Emmy ceremony? I sure didn’t. So go ahead and check out my absurdly belated review of season two that I totally didn’t write by accident after you finish up here. And now, let’s all…
[maxbutton id="3"] The Drama Supporting Actor is a category that comes down to the episode submissions, and I wouldn't have it any other way. The race comes down to the three contenders: Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones ("The Laws of Gods and Men"): Peter Dinklage won this category for the show's first season, with an episode that really…
Debut albums are tricky things to assess. An artist’s first full-length is not a reliable litmus test for how their career will pan out, or in some cases, their artistic validity. But it’s the unique blend of hype and mystery that always makes debuts exciting to listen to. That lack of history combined with the…
If at any point this essay devolves into just a running list of one-liners, I apologize. But with a show as consistently, uproariously funny as Veep, it’s nigh impossible to resist the urge to simply revel in the wonderful blue humor of Armando Ianucci’s vulgarity-ridden zingers. In the hands of the talented ensemble that fills…
Can you believe that we’re far enough past True Detective’s finale to have already arrived at the True Detective backlash? Neither can I, but here we are nonetheless. In the words of the ever-quotable Gawker Media, Nic Pizzolatto is a schmuck, and he probably also hates women? Pizzolatto mostly disregards that criticism, and mostly he…
