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On March 8, 2012, The Beach Chronicles hit the big screen for its debut at the Miami International Film Festival. I was lucky enough to attend the debut screening and catch up with it's stars.
Boardwalk's second season ended this past December 11 with a closing shot that electrified the fans, but Winter and his creative team had already been in their writers' room since September, devising plot lines for season three.
Incest in the arts and literature is not new -- going back as far as Greek mythology -- but it was almost always disguised or implied. Now these twisted romances are depicted in graphic detail for all to see.
There has been a recent plot twist that two of my favourite television shows have in common, and I'm not okay with it. I'm talking about straight-up, make-you-wince-at-the-mere-insinuation-of-it incest!
Atlantic City's tangled web of betrayal, political scheming and murder came full circle in "Boardwalk Empire"s' shocking Season Two finale. After a season of trying to take down Nucky Thompson, Jimmy Darmody finally realized how foolish he'd been to move against his former mentor, but it was too late. Even after Darmody helped make his election fraud charges disappear, Nucky repaid him with two shots to the head, an abrupt end of the line for one of the show's most compelling characters.
Moody and portentous, Jeff Nichols' Take Shelter stars the actor who may be our most readily accessible force of darkness at this point in cinematic history: Michael Shannon.
With Boardwalk Empire's sobering tales of corruption, brutal violence and betrayals with a 1920s backdrop, the Boardwalk series is my kind of show. It even includes (unlike Mad Men) the African-American experience. Or some version of it.
Few will dispute that voting members of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences largely got it right this year.
Another day, another press release announcing a new series heading to Sky Atlantic. Last month the channel announced they were taking cult favourite Nurse Jackie off BBC Four's hands. It's the latest in a longish list of acquisitions from other channels, Sky's wallet proving too big for the rest of the UK terrestrial broadcasters to compete with. And I say let Sky have them.
For the first time in a long time the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences made smart choices all around for the Emmy nominations. With one exception.
Elizabeth Taylor's passing really got me thinking about looks that defined that time. I've taken each statement from the 1920s to 1980s and put a new spin on it.
Is April the new September? The official season may have been an only sporadically satisfying slog so far, but a host of uncommonly ambitious programs are about to make spring the new fall.
Now that Snooki's ball has dropped and The Twilight Zone marathon on SyFy is coming to a close, let's look back on the year in television that was 201...
The difficulty of compiling a Top 10 Best TV Shows of the Year list points to the fact that people who complain there is nothing worth watching on television don't know what they are talking about.
NYC-based songwriter Jack Dishel discusses his new music video for "It's a Boy," premiering on the Huffington Post today: "I've always been interested in the way that technology and human beings relate to one another."
The repeal of Prohibition celebrates its 77th anniversary on Dec. 5. That's also when the first season of HBO's highly acclaimed 1920s era series Boardwalk Empire will end on a cliffhanger.
