Posts Tagged ‘hbo’
HBO had some interesting offerings on Christmas Eve
As I started to wrap gifts on Christmas Eve, I switched on HBO, thinking, “Maybe I’ll watch that Elf movie for the first time. Or A Christmas Story. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Love Actually. Hey. Maybe Die Hard will be on.” You know. One of those classic Christmas staples. HBO had apparently failed to notice that…
Read MoreInterstellar should be a TV show
For the record, someone should adapt Interstellar for television. There was about 49 hours of content squeezed into a little less than three hours. It would be an amazing TV show. Perfect for HBO. A&E. Netflix. Also, I’m more than willing to be the one to adapt it, in the event that you’re a show…
Read MoreLet’s put an end to the Miss America pageant by making anyone who watches it feel small and stupid and uninformed.
John Oliver’s takedown of the Miss America pageant on HBO’s Last Week Tonight was brilliant. The Miss America pageant is admittedly an easy target, but Oliver’s segment is both surgical and hilarious. I could not stop laughing. The Miss America pageant and all its bastard step children are like moldering, vestigial organs that should have…
Read MoreA genius author and I have something in common. I’m not quite the hack that I thought I was.
Tom Perrota, author most recently of The Leftovers (which is about to become an HBO series), is a far better writer than me, but it would seem that he and I have something in common. When it comes to choosing the settings of his novels, Perrota tends to choose the locales that he is most…
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