by Sean Axmaker | Feb 27, 2014 | Home Viewing
Game of Thrones: The Complete Third Season (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD) – The first two seasons of HBO’s lavish series, faithfully and intelligently adapted from George R.R. Martin’s epic cycle of fantasy novels with a medieval flavor, broke company sales records,...
by Sean Axmaker | Feb 13, 2014 | Home Viewing
The Americans: The Complete First Season (Fox, Blu-ray, DVD) may sound gimmicky—Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys play deep-cover Soviet agents living as typical American suburban parents in Reagan’s America of the early 1980s—but like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad...
by Sean Axmaker | Feb 4, 2014 | Trailers
The final Sherlock of the season (and perhaps for the next couple of years) ran on PBS Sunday night. If you’re already feeling the withdrawals, maybe this clip can help tide you over. Benedict Cumberbatch makes an appearance on Sesame Street, meeting his Muppet...
by Sean Axmaker | Jan 30, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Treme: The Complete Fourth Season (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital) Treme: The Complete Series (HBO, Blu-ray) HBO’s ensemble drama, created by David Simon (who previously gave HBO The Wire) and set in post-Katrina New Orleans, received accolades but was overlooked in...
by Sean Axmaker | Jan 17, 2014 | Home Viewing
Top of the Lake (BBC, DVD) is another exhibit in the case that TV is the new cinema. It’s created and written by Oscar nominated filmmaker Jane Campion with Gerard Lee and Campion directs or co-directs almost every episode, including the opening episodes. A...