Game of Thrones Purple Wedding review

HBO As King Joffrey of House Baratheon, House Lannister and House of Fraser spluttered his last poisoned breath, his waspish face turning a dark lavender, blood streaming from every orifice, making the kind of faces a man who has just got his johnson fatally caught in his zipper while simultaneously receiving the news that Beth... Read More

American drama, Miscellaneous, Period

a Lannisturd always pays his debts, despair, dwarf, Game of Thrones, HBO, incest, murder, purple wedding, war

January 20, 2014

True Detective season 1 episode 1 review | Rust never sleeps

HBO You know him – damaged, difficult, brilliant. He’s been on the telly, they wrote a book and there’s even a movie. He’s a detective, invariably. Even if he’s a doctor or consultant detection is what he does, what he is. True Detective‘s broken genius is Rustin “Rust” Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) – a handlebar moustache... Read More

American drama

despair, detective, Gothic, HBO, murder, noir, police, serial killer, True Detective

September 28, 2013

Serangoon Road episode one review | “Singapore?” “I’ve heard better”

HBO Asia Given that HBO Asia‘s first ever original scripted drama Serangoon Road is set in the sixties publicity phlegm have shown considerable restraint in not saying that it doesn’t want to think of itself as the Asian Mad Men. It doesn’t, isn’t and never could be of course, but it’s refreshing not to see… Read More

American drama, Foreign TV, Period

detective, HBO, murder, noir, period, politics