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Nicholas Ottone | Tuesday, February 13, 2018
After the Super Bowl, 27 million viewers tuned into “This Is Us” to watch Jack Pearson, the show’s beloved patriarch, die. Fans of the show realized the culmination of a season’s worth of emotional groundwork, an episode rooted in grief and guilt, while everyone else probably stared in confusion. “This Is Us” premiered in the
Owen Lane | Friday, February 2, 2018
“Hot Streets,” the brand new animated comedy from Adult Swim, appears true to the Adult Swim ethos of being jarringly weird and uncomfortably graphic with a fundamentalist fervor. However, unlike the network mainstays “Rick & Morty” and “The Eric Andre Show,” there does not appear to be much happening underneath the show’s bizarre exterior that
Ryan Israel | Thursday, February 1, 2018
“High Maintenance” has undergone an evolution that few other television shows experience. Creators and partners Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair teamed up in 2012 and made a series of low-budget shorts on the streaming service Vimeo. As the videos accrued more and more buzz, Vimeo decided to fund the production and make it the
Adam Ramos, Nicholas Ottone, Matthew Munhall and Mike Donovan | Monday, December 4, 2017
The era of “Peak TV” continued in 2017, with hundreds of programs airing on network TV and streaming services alike. Netflix alone spent $6 billion on original programming this year, ensuring not only a high volume of content to binge watch into the early hours of the morning, but a diverse range of serieses from
Nicholas Ottone | Thursday, November 30, 2017
Expansive, empty mansions sprawl across the Southern California landscape, housing moody teenagers squabbling with their parents. An unspoken tragic backstory clouds the sight of our six main characters. We see them shuffle through meaningless high school days, far from each other and the happiness they once shared. Can they mend bonds broken, or will they
Lucy Lynch | Friday, November 17, 2017
The Gender Relations Center presented a panel discussion about “Violence in Media” in LaFortune Student Center on Thursday night. The panel explored the portrayal of violence in scenes from both television and film, and included Mary Kearney, an associate professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre, as well as director of the gender studies
Adrian Mark Lore, Adam Ramos, Charlie Kenney, Brian Boylen and Mike Donovan | Wednesday, October 25, 2017
This time around, the editorial team switched gears from the usual conversation on music to focus on the latest in entertainment television. Check out these hot takes, from Adult Swim being the last bastion of network creativity to David Lynch’s impressive revival of the “Twin Peaks” series. Volume I: FALL 2017 by The NDSMC Observer’s
Matthew Munhall | Monday, October 9, 2017
One of the recurring motifs in the fourth season of “Transparent,” the Amazon series chronicling the trials and tribulations of the dysfunctional Pfefferman family, is the music of “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Humor is mined from this Jewish family’s infatuation with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical/rock opera about Jesus — a highlight, for me,
Alvaro del Campo | Thursday, September 28, 2017
Season 3 of “Narcos” picks up where the last one left off, with DEA agent Javier Pena (played by Pedro Pascal) having been given the mission of taking down the Cali cartel, one of the biggest drug cartels in history. At its peak, the Cali cartel moved almost three times as much cocaine through America and Europe as Pablo Escobar’s
Ryan Israel | Monday, September 11, 2017
“Rick & Morty best cartoon out by far” proclaimed rapper Waka Flocka Flame in the midst of the incredibly popular television show’s year-and-half long break between the season two finale and the season three premiere. Flame’s tweet embodied the show’s growing following — a legion of diverse fans who patiently awaited the highly anticipated third season. Fortunately, fans