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Posts Tagged ‘tv’

8.26.15 “It’s nice to look down and see a new piece of jewelry on my finger”

By Randee Dawn | 8/26/15
Magic and light on the Great Allegheny Passage.

Current wanderings in my brain, links, and photos. Come on in.

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Here’s how the story doesn’t end: TV adaptations that make it up as they go along

By Randee Dawn | 8/24/15

TV’s rapacious interest in book adaptations has been expanding lately. Today, novels are seen as springboards and not holy writ, and TV shows are happily going way off the reservation.

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Let’s get retro: My 2007 ‘Mad Men’ review for The Hollywood Reporter

By Randee Dawn | 5/17/15

Back in July of 2007, I was about a year and four months from getting laid off from The Hollywood Reporter after a pretty good run at the troubled trade publication (which has very much bounced back in the years since after going through a visionary rethink). But they were at loose ends in a…

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Contain yourself! Four shows whose “bottle” episodes are short bursts of perfection

By Randee Dawn | 5/17/15

Into the life of every TV series, a breather must fall. Here you have a successful plot engine chugging along, peopled by a beloved ensemble cast, all of whom who up every week to continue an ongoing story. But that can get tiring. Everyone needs a palate-cleanser. Which is what happens when a showrunner and…

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Writing Dead: Why Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse still ask the big questions in ‘The Leftovers,’ ‘The Returned’

By Randee Dawn | 3/25/15

Years after “Lost” went off the air, two of its co-creators, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, are still asking the big questions in “The Leftovers” and “The Returned.”

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Arisia 2015: My schedule, and how I’ll defy both time and space while there

By Randee Dawn | 1/15/15

Coming to Arisia 2015? Here’s where you’ll find me, hoping to be in two places at once….

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It’s a Terrifying, Asphyxiating, Not-So-Wonderful Life After All

By Randee Dawn | 1/04/15

“It’s a Wonderful Life” aired again on TV recently, as it does pretty much every year around Christmastime. And whether you’ve actually watched it or not (and I do recommend you give it a chance), you probably know the story of George Bailey, whose life is upended one Christmas Eve when a big deposit from…

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Ho-ho-hold the treacle: Most holiday movies stink. Demand better!

By Randee Dawn | 12/08/14

After much delay, at last I saw “Maleficent” the other night. And yes, while it is full of exactly what one expects from a Disney film – for (spoiler alert), example, a villain given grace by his vanquisher tries one last time for the win and ends up falling to his death – it took…

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When fantasy writers turn on TV, what turns fantasy writers on? (Hint: Breaking Bad)

By Randee Dawn | 11/21/14

On my way to the World Fantasy Convention in Crystal City, Virginia last weekend, I had a chat with an editor, who sighed with dismay that she’d initially packed only four or five books to bring with her for the long weekend. She wondered if that was enough. I began to wonder if I just…

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Take me now: The seductive nature of TV’s serial killers

By Randee Dawn | 11/05/14

TV can be a scary place, and some of its worst offenders are also the best-written and most seductive.

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