by Sean Axmaker | Aug 3, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Confirmation (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD) – It’s been 25 years since the congress held hearings over the confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court when accusations of sexual harassment were raised after congressional aides contacted Professor Anita Hill, a law...
by Sean Axmaker | Jul 8, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
There is indeed a spy in London Spy (BBC, DVD) but this BBC mini-series is not a traditional espionage drama. Danny (Ben Whishaw) is a club-culture young gay man with a dreary day job who meets the closeted, emotionally suppressed Alex (Edward Holcroft), a genius with...
by Sean Axmaker | Jun 26, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Angie Tribeca: The Complete First Season (Warner, DVD) – I loved Police Squad, the short-lived TV comedy from the creators of Airplane! that spoofed TV cop shows with an anything goes approach. Only six episodes were made before the networks gave up on it. This was...
by Sean Axmaker | Jun 20, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Fargo: Year Two (Fox, Blu-ray, DVD) – Made for the FX channel, the TV series Fargo is not an adaptation of the Oscar-winning film by Joel and Ethan Coen but it feels like it came from the same world. Each season is an original crime story that plays out in the winter...
by Sean Axmaker | Jun 19, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Game of Thrones: The Complete Fifth Season (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD) of HBO’s sprawling fantasy epic, adapted from the novel cycle by George R.R. Martin (who is a writer and producer on the show), features an ever-more complex web of alliances, betrayals,...
by Sean Axmaker | Jun 2, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Manhattan: Season Two (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD) covers more ground than the first season of the WGN original drama set at the Los Alamos military base where the atomic bomb was developed during World War II, both historically and thematically. William Petersen joins...