Homeland: Season Review
I’ve repeated several times on this blog my contention that Homeland was far and away the best new show of this television season. Now that the season is over, it’s time to take stock of where we...
View ArticleQuick Golden Globes Report
I don’t put a whole lot of stock in the Golden Globes as arbiters of quality. If I had had any respect for the Globes before (which I probably didn’t), I didn’t after the Golden Globes were guilty,...
View ArticleThe Trouble With Politics on Homeland
Homeland’s great; the new season has just started, but based just on the first season alone, it’s one of my top four hour long programs on TV (along with Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones), a...
View ArticleHomeland: End of Season Report, Part 1
Season 2 of Homeland has been an interesting and somewhat unsatisfying journey that has had plenty of both up and down moments and was hurt overall by comparison to the absolutely genius first season...
View ArticleRanking the Shows That I Watch – 2012 edition: 18-16
Three more on my list of the best shows I watched in 2012 – the rules to be included are here, and 18, 17, and 16 are below. 18. Homeland I never thought I’d see the day when The Walking Dead would...
View ArticleTV’s Golden Age Not Necessarily Over Just Yet
Andy Greenwald wrote an article on Grantland which probably wasn’t intended to be trolling, but it came off that way to me, and I felt the need to refute it, particularly because people constantly...
View ArticleEnd of Season Report: Homeland, Season 3 – Part 1
There’s plenty to talk about, and my various complaints about Homeland have changed over the course of the season. There’s really one that’s been slowly building and peaked in the last couple of...
View ArticleEnd of Season Report: Homeland, Season 3 – Part 2
Phew. I just disposed of my central infuriating point from season three. Let’s now get down to some odds and ends. Homeland’s showrunners clearly think Carrie and Brody’s romance is the center of the...
View ArticleRanking the Shows That I Watch – 2013 Edition: 44-41
Next four up – we inch towards shows that I actually like! A note that I may have forgotten to make early – differences between one show and the next are often slight; sometimes it’s the difference of...
View ArticleRanking the Shows I Watch – 2014 Edition: The Outcasts
It’s time for an annual beginning-of-the-year tradition over here at Drug of the Nation, the ranking of the shows I’ve watched during the previous year. This is my fourth annual ranking, and I’ll...
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