Best Fiends Forever
Money.
Dick.
Power. Continue reading
The Americans
End of the Year Blogstravaganza – Part 1
2015 is coming to a close. We thought we’d get together with some of our favourite guest stars to answer some burning questions about TV this year. Continue reading
Awful Americans and Great Americans
Before I go into the very nub of my gist; I believe I have found a new program that vies for the title of worst show on TV. I do love me some awful TV. I wrap myself in the world of the show, pitying those who are involved and celebrating their effort to purposefully make a terrible product. These shows basically just take the best/worst parts of Melrose Place and make a reality show from them. Melrose Place was soapy fun. Pretty, wealthy people scheming and backstabbing each other. The reality shows that follow this model just take out the pulpy enjoyable dialogue and semi-likeability of the characters and go for decadence and backstabbing. Continue reading
The Year in Favourites: 2014
Happy New Year, all! We thought we’d take this opportunity to look back at some of our favourite things (and not-so favourites) of 2014.
What was your favourite new show of 2014?
A Good Person: Musings on faith, lies and belief in Season 2 of The Americans
The actors gone, there’s only you and me
And if we break before the dawn, they’ll
Use up what we used to be.
– Peter Gabriel, “Here Comes The Flood” (as heard in episode 3, season 2 of The Americans)
Email Roundtable #38 – Best (and Worst) of 2013 – Part 2
It is the end of the year and that means we are looking back at what we watched and loved in 2013 (in two parts).
Email Roundtable #30 – Happy Anniversary Edition
This week marks the 1st Anniversary of The Golden Age of Television blog. We thought we would take a look back at the past year of blogging and look into the future as well.
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In the Beginning: A look at The Americans brilliant opening sequence, with asides
When I was a kid, most TV show opening credit sequences looked like this:
Or, this:
So much so, in fact, that I would often practice my “turn, look to the camera and smile” move in preparation for the day that I had an opening credit sequence of my own. Continue reading
The Golden Age of Television 