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• Rectify 1.5: Balloon Man
  on May 14, 2013 in Rectify television
  The penultimate episode of the debut season of Rectify on Sundance - yep, the season is a total of just six episodes - was more moody, introspective, philosophic, even spiritual than usual, but with a wallop of a punch at the end that just might...
• Revolution 1.17: Even Better Nanites
  on May 14, 2013 in Revolution television
  As I indicated in my review of the excellent Revolution 1.15 a few weeks back, the introduction of the nanite technology as the motivation for Rachel was a top-notch science fictional move.  I was therefore glad to see the nanites put to further...
• Why the US Dept of Justice's Grabbing of Associated Press Phone Records is so Egregrious
  on May 14, 2013 in Barack Obama Occupy Wall Street Associate Press (AP) First Amendment
  The proper relationship of the government and the press in a country such as ours that is governed by the First Amendment should be just this: the government should answer or not answer any questions put to it by the press.   Period.Answering qu...
• Mad Men 6.7: Merger and Margarine
  on May 13, 2013 in Mr. Selfridge Robert F. Kennedy Mad Men television
  It occurred to me, watching the superb Mad Men 6.7 tonight - right after Mr. Selfridge on Masterpiece Theater - that for people who weren't cognizant in the 1960s, watching Mad Men must be not much different than watching Mr. Selfridge, which takes p...
• Game of Thrones 3.7: Heroic Jaime
  on May 13, 2013 in Oona Chaplin Game of Thrones television
  You don't often see the better qualities in human beings on Game of Thrones.  Last year, we saw some of this in Tyrion.  Last night in episode 3.7 we saw it in his brother Jaime.Jaime's devotion to Brienne has been building steadily this se...
• The Borgias 3.5: Normal Love and Lampreys
  on May 13, 2013 in television The Borgias
  Well, nothing is uncomplicated when it comes to sex and love on The Borgias, but in last night's episode 3.5 we finally see Cesare, whose amorous relationship with his sister Lucrezia has been the most complicated of all, in bed in a relatively uncom...
• Rectify: Sheer and Shattering Poetry
  on May 11, 2013 in Tell Me You Love Me Abigail Spencer Rectify philosophy of science Mad Men television Aden Young St. Thomas Aquinas Luke Farrell Kirby
  My wife and I saw the first four episodes of Rectify on the Sundance Channel last night, and found it one of the most extraordinary reels of television to come down the pike in years.The basic story is about the release of Daniel Holden from death ro...
• Mad Men 6.6: Good News Comes in a Chevy
  on May 6, 2013 in Chevrolet Mad Men television
  Hey, the first car I drove was a Chevy Nova, so I would have been glad in any case to see how prominently Chevy figures in tonight's game-changing Mad Men 6.6.The Jaguar account is falling apart.  Don cuts loose the pig who slept with Joan last...
• Revolution 1.16: Feeling a Little Like the Hatch in Lost
  on May 6, 2013 in Lost Revolution television
  A tight, taught, altogether excellent episode 1.16 of Revolution tonight, which has been getting better by the episode since it returned from its hiatus.  Even the Rachel and Aaron thread was riveting - which I'll get to in a minute - and the sh...
• Game of Thrones 3.6: Extraordinary Cinematography
  on May 6, 2013 in Game of Thrones television
  The best parts of Game of Thrones continue to be at the peripheries, at the edges of the board, in the way north with the snow and the way south with the dragons.  Episode of 3.6 had one of the best expositions of the north we've seen in this or...
• The Borgias 3.4: Incest and Debauchery
  on May 6, 2013 in Rome television The Borgias
  Well, The Borgias continue to go full-throttle provocative in episode 3.4, following Lucrezia and Cesare in bed last week with Cesare and King Ferdinand of Naples watching Lucrezia and her hapless husband Alfonso at last making love this week.This ha...
• Unburning Alexandria - the novel - published!
  on May 3, 2013 in my books The Plot to Save Socrates Unburning Alexandria time travel Joel Iskowitz Sierra Waters Analog Magazine
  I'm pleased to announce that my novel, Unburning Alexandria, was published yesterday by JoSara MeDia.  The long-awaited sequel to The Plot to Save Socrates is now available on Kindle and iTunes and will soon be up on Barnes & Noble...
• The Americans Season 1 Finale: Excellent with One Exception
  on May 3, 2013 in Matthew Rhys Margo Martindale television The Americans Keri Russell
  The Americans' season one finale this past Wednesday night captured the essential excellence of the series, along with the one sore thumb which still doesn't add up.What's excellent, even superb, about the show is the way we care about the two murder...
• Revolution 1.15: Major Tom and More 24
  on Apr 30, 2013 in Revolution The Following Leslie Hope television Dallas 24 Annie Wersching
  Revolution 1.15 continues firing on all cylinders - and continues drawing on the fine female acting talent on 24.Last week we met the President of the Georgia Republic - played by Leslie Hope aka Jack Bauer's late wife Teri on 24.  Tonight we me...
• Da Vinci's Demons: History, Science, and Science Fiction
  on Apr 30, 2013 in David Goyer sex Vikings Da Vinci's Demons Da Vinci Code Alias Leonard Da Vinci Game of Thrones television Charles Babbage Heron of Alexandria The Borgias
  I caught up on the first three episodes of Da Vinci's Demons on Starz last night - the latest offering from David Goyer (of Flashforward television fame) - and I found the series superb, a full-bodied, top-of-the-line player in the surge of outstandi...
• The Good Wife Season 4 Finale: Good Twist!
  on Apr 29, 2013 in The Good Wife television
  Well, The Good Wife has been promising a good twist at the end of its season 4 finale in ads all week.  And it delivered!After showing us Alicia kissing Will in a car, and Alicia looking uncomfortable when Peter comes to her  to share the t...
• The Following Season 1 Finale: Doing and Dead
  on Apr 29, 2013 in The Following Edgar Allan Poe television
  The Following concluded its first season with a suitably harrowing and ambiguous ending, and Ryan's denouncement not only of Joe - "those who can do, those who can't teach" (ouch!) - but of Poe, which shows that Ryan was mainly baiting Joe, i.e., not...
• Bones Season 8 Finale: Can't Buy the Last Few Minutes
  on Apr 29, 2013 in Bones television
  Well, you my readers all know how much I enjoy Bones.   I always try to find what's right about it, which usually is pretty easy, because so much of the story is so good.  But I gotta say even I can't bring myself to say I much liked the en...
• Vikings Season 1 Finale: Below the Ash
  on Apr 29, 2013 in Vikings television Michael Hirst
  The dogwoods, cherry trees, and redbuds are shimmering like gossamer cotton candy in my neighborhood today, in stark contrast to the rugged, icy terrain and the huge tree that pieced the clouds in the finale of the too-short nine-episode first season...
• Mad Men 6.5: MLK
  on Apr 28, 2013 in John F. Kennedy Abe Beame Martin Luther King Planet of the Apes Mad Men Ron Rosenbaum
  One of the best things about Mad Men is how it shows our characters reacting to publicly catastrophic events, such as the assassination of JFK.   Tonight  in Mad Men 6.5 we get the same for the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 19...

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