Amazon vs. Netflix is getting more and more interesting

Just learned this today: Amazon has an entire landing page for “not on Netflix.” A shot across the bow? Perhaps. It’s kind of interesting broadly, though: five-six years ago, you would maybe kinda view Amazon and Netflix as business rivals — Netflix primarily… Continue Reading

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Do y’all think Julie Bowen was drunk on her episode of Hollywood Game Night? Quite possibly.

Go to around 2:40 on the above clip and judge for yourself; later in this same show, which I just discovered on Hulu yesterday, Jason Alexander refers to her as “high.” I honestly have no idea what the purpose of… Continue Reading

Is it just me, or did Ted Chaough and Joan Holloway’s storylines feel kind of tacked on to Mad Men Season 7 (Part 1)?

When Mad Men comes back for the final episodes, will Joan be a bigger part of the picture? Continue Reading

This Casey Wilson-Ken Marino “Marry Me” show looks like it’s going to be terrible

I had high hopes for this because it’s from part of the crew that did Happy Endings, which was probably the show aside from HIMYM that had the greatest chance of becoming “the new Friends,” but never truly panned out. Side note: did you… Continue Reading

The future of politics (are you listening, Rand Paul?) could be addressable advertising

It seems like people have been discussing this idea of “what Big Data can really do” for years without tremendously tangible day-to-day results (possibly because of this and this). Still, it seems logical that as SmartPhones become the primary gadget… Continue Reading

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Katherine Heigl + return to television + Scandal-type premise show + NBC = good, or abject train wreck?

Let’s be honest here about two things: 1. Circa 2005 or so, Katherine Heigl had an astounding career. Grey’s Anatomy was going well, and Knocked Up came out in 2007. While you can argue that the success of the latter was more based on Seth… Continue Reading

Modern Family gets all the ink, but ABC’s other comedies — Trophy Wife (cancelled, le sigh), The Goldbergs, and Suburgatory, for example — are pretty solid

It’s upfronts time in TV, so networks are announcing shows that got the ax (no more seasons) and some of their new shows for the fall. Over at ABC, Modern Family gets all the ink (its last couple of episodes have been… Continue Reading

Mad Men may be going a little too hard on the symbolism in Season 7 so far, what with the Don Draper coffin shots, the IBM-type preacher, the hippie commune…

Not sure what to make of that Mad Men. I know the show likes its symbolism but tonight felt a bit too on the nose. — Nick Horowitz (@ztiworoh) May 5, 2014 This week's "Mad Men" was so over-the-top symbolic,… Continue Reading