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(09/12/16 2:48pm)
Summer is at an end, school has just begun and Madison students are finally beginning to wake from what I call the “Summer Netflix Coma.” This common, transmissible condition begins when students are finished with finals and face the sudden urge to drop everything, slip into a Snuggie and binge watch their favorite show that has been absent from their lives since the first round of exams hit. This summer’s contagion seems to be the breakout Netflix Original Series “Stranger Things.”
(03/28/16 11:00am)
I’ll admit, I was a little selfish in my music consumption at SXSW. I wasn’t about to wait in line for an hour and a half to see 15 minutes of Drake, or even tough out an unbearable Crystal Castles set to catch Charli XCX and Sophie. Not only do I hate lines, but I was not about to spend my first South By following the scent of hype that drives many of the rumors and reporting of the fest online. Instead, I took a particular effort to witness as many artists as possible that I knew would very rarely, if ever, make an appearance in Madison. So the following shows I will describe are by and large international, up-and-coming and, oh baby, they’re electronic.
(03/07/16 2:27pm)
MTV’s “Real World” is coming to UW-Madison Wednesday for an open casting call Wednesday to potentially find strangers to be featured on the 32nd season of the hit reality TV show.
(02/26/16 12:51am)
Netflix recently released the first season of the original series “Love” on Feb. 19, following Valentine’s Day. Already in a committed relationship with “Love,” Netflix has given the series the go-ahead for a second season. The series is co-created by Judd Apatow, the mind behind “Trainwreck,” “Bridesmaids” and “Knocked Up.” The series shares many similar themes to Apatow’s previous work, but this story is in an episodic format, altering the familiar formula.
(01/26/16 12:00pm)
I would like to address a serious peculiarity of mine that has entangled itself into my core for many years. It has affected my hopes, dreams, mannerisms and particularly, my viewing habits. I have tried to suppress this indulgence, but it still holds a firm grip on my life. No matter how hard I try, I cannot subdue it: I am an anglophile. There, I said it. I plan out my imaginary future vacation to England, I gravitate towards the many delights of the BBC, I often brew too much tea. I even changed the setting on my iPhone to a Siri with a British accent. Why is this relevant, you might ask? Well, as any fellow anglophile knows, the series “Downton Abbey” is not only a television show, but a ritual. Every Sunday, I look forward to Laura Linney introducing Masterpiece Classic, the montage of sifting book pages and even the ever-present Viking River Cruises ad because I know what joy awaits me. This joy, I regret to say, must come to an end. "Downton Abbey" is running its last season (or series, for all you anglophiles out there).
(12/02/15 7:50am)
"Gotham" has aired for over a year, having premiered on Fox September 2014. The Batman origin series, featuring the adventures of detective James Gordon before his comic book fame as commissioner, has recently entered its second season, and continues to entertain superhero fans on streaming websites like Hulu and Netflix. I’ve heard so much good news about the series from friends, co-workers and random strangers on the bus that I decided to check out the show for myself over Thanksgiving weekend.
(09/15/15 5:14am)
Carly Aquilino’s first time on stage was short-lived: at her first ballet recital, when the curtains rose, Aquilino promptly jumped off stage. When her mother asked why, she said that she didn’t want people to look at her.
(09/07/15 11:17pm)
“Vanity project” isn’t exactly an insult. Contrary to certain websites’ critiques, “vanity project” can actually be a compliment. It represents an artist creating for themselves, building a work specifically for and around their ego. It means that, whatever the product is, it’s an expression of that artist at that single moment in time: the “honesty” that so many music fans feel is missing in modern music.
(08/31/15 11:17pm)
The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards stormed onto prime time Sunday, with Taylor Swift taking home two major awards and Kanye West receiving the Michael Jackson Vanguard Video Award. Miley Cyrus came back after her 2013 performance as host, but her tasteless jokes and awkward cutaways left much to be desired.
(04/30/15 3:27am)
The school year is almost over, and spring TV is just heating up. In the limited amount of time we have left together, I figured I would write a totally arbitrary awards column, partly because there’s not really any new TV happening this week. What follows is a number of awards I’ve given to shows throughout the year: Awards named after my favorite examples from other shows. Look, the point of this exercise is not to reinvent the wheel—or the awards column—just to bestow awards to those I deem deserving.
(04/28/15 3:05am)
With eyes set on next semester’s legislative session, three members of the Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee announced their candidacy for committee chair Monday.
(04/16/15 1:09am)
We’re back, baby. Last Sunday night, the great television experiment known to us mere mortals as “Game of Thrones” continued its meteoric ascent into our hearts and minds. Viewers have all been waiting for it, and when the first four episodes leaked online yesterday, thousands of our weaker brethren downloaded it. It’s easily the biggest thing to happen on television this year. As such, it is only fitting that I use the space provided to sing its praises (as well as make some make some minor complaints). Warning—spoilers from Sunday’s episode, and some mild book-reader nit-picking follows.
(04/09/15 1:56am)
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the moment we’ve—or at least I’ve—been waiting for all semester has finally almost arrived. The world is three days from the premiere of the fifth season of “Game of Thrones.” Because I am very excited, I thought it might be useful to go through what we may expect from this season and what I, an accursed book reader, want from what has the potential the best season yet.
(03/25/15 1:54am)
Seemingly every year that it’s been on the air, “Community” has been moved, cancelled or resurrected. In fact, it’s happened so often that we “Community” fans have even created a hashtag (#sixseasonsandamoive) to express our exasperation with the show’s fluctuating status, the latest example its resurrection at the hands of Yahoo Screen, which prompted thousands to young Americans to ask whether or not Yahoo was still a thing.
(03/23/15 3:00am)
The lineup for the 2015 Revelry Music and Arts Festival was released Sunday, with Chance the Rapper and the Social Experiment and the Chainsmokers among the headliners. The third annual festival will be held May 2, with stages on Library Mall and the Memorial Union Terrace.
(02/19/15 3:56am)
“The Walking Dead” is back, baby! Finally, after months of waiting, one of my favorite television shows is back in its familiar Sunday night slot(s). The first half of the fifth season represented one of the biggest television 180s that I’ve ever seen; last year, the show had the pacing and stumbling of Rick Grimes walking down railroad tracks, and now it's as exciting and suspenseful as it’s ever been. Naturally, between this most welcome surprise and the tension that was the midseason finale, I’ve been ready to get back on the road with our heroes for a while now.
(01/29/15 4:24am)
Over the past year, one of the newest and best rivalries in TV history began and is now officially heating up. As Netflix continues to produce original content, Amazon has thrown its hat into the ring and now has come up with its first bona fide hit, “Transparent,” which stars Jeffrey Tambor as a father struggling to tell his children about his desire to be a woman, is garnering ridiculous amounts of praise. Amazon versus Netflix is a rivalry that would have been inconceivable even three years ago. Then, most of the world didn’t even know “House of Cards” was going to be a thing, and Amazon was just somewhere you went to compare prices with whatever you wanted at Target. If you had told me then that both of these companies would be serious players in the TV market, I would probably have laughed at you and made a joke about whatever was funny three years ago (Snuggies? Sarah Palin? I have to be close).
(11/19/14 5:22am)
This month, both Marvel and DC revealed their predicted movie schedules through 2020. The second “Avengers” movie comes out in May, and superheroes and their ilk continue to invade our television screens. We’ve seen everything from prequels (“Gotham”), to companion shows (“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) and everything in between (literally everything else). We know now that the superhero model is a popular, insanely high-grossing construct with universes and story lines expansive enough to continue going on forever. The real question is whether or not we’ll continue to watch week in, week out after the thrill is gone.
(11/18/14 4:57am)
Shortly after the release of Nine Types of Light in 2011, TV on the Radio’s bassist Gerard Smith passed away after a brief battle with lung cancer. Now several years later, TV on the Radio have delivered Seeds, which is in many ways a eulogy to Smith, expressing the band’s collective overcoming and acceptance of his loss.
(11/12/14 5:52am)
Sustainability is one of the key elements of any television show. For comedies, it may be the most important element. Once a show stops being funny, it’s (normally) cancelled. Of course, the longer a show runs, the less likely it is to be cancelled regardless of quality (looking at you, “Family Guy”). And, obviously, the longer a comedy runs, the harder it is to come up with new, unique situations and the easier it is to fall back on what worked before. Rarely do you find a show that does not stagnate—even “Seinfeld” was not as good at the end. Yet, “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia”—which borrows a lot from “Seinfeld”—is atop the short list of shows you still have to watch.