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(10/17/16 4:58pm)
“Luke Cage” is the newest addition to Netflix’s and Marvel’s superhero TV series collection, released September 30. With “Daredevil,” “Jessica Jones” and the upcoming “Iron Fist” already populating the streaming site’s queues, the Marvel takeover is beginning to feel a bit excessive. However, I am pleasantly sur- prised by what “Luke Cage” brings into the mix, adding fresh charac- ter and charm to the dense lineup.
(10/10/16 1:44pm)
HBO’s “Westworld” brings together the old and the new to create something spectacular. This new series, based on the 1973 Michael Crichton film, has been cloaked in secrecy since its conception. It promised inventive material, dazzling special effects, deeply mythological roots and a cult appeal to the likes of “Game of Thrones.” That’s definitely a tall order to fill, yet miraculously these promises were not empty words. After watching the first two episodes, it is fair to say that “Westworld” reaches far and beyond what was thought to be capable on television, raising the bar even further than Hodor could ever reach.
(10/06/16 9:00am)
If you are craving a binge resonant to the film “Crazy, Stupid, Love” but without the originality, wit or charm, Netflix’s new series “Easy” is the show for you. “Easy” succeeds in depicting real relationships, yet fails at offering a reason for us to care. The anthology-style series was quietly released September 22 and it seems to have already faded away. After watching the eight half-hour episodes in the style of separately packaged short films, I did not feel satisfied in the least. I was excited to explore a show that had the potential of offering a commentary on the complexity of modern dating, yet it floundered its chance with tangential misdirection and shallow material.
(10/03/16 5:02pm)
Last Saturday, teenagers waited anxiously as the doors of the Majestic Theatre were soon to open and feature the across-the-pond band, The Wombats. The long line ran down the entire block and impatience was wafting in the air. A girl sporting a Wombats t-shirt at the beginning of the line eagerly said to a friend, “I’ve been waiting here since 10:30 a.m.!” as the clock struck eight and the crowd filtered into the glowing doors.
(09/26/16 3:24pm)
‘Tis the season for Shondaland’s hit shows to return. “Grey’s Anatomy” and “How to Get Away with Murder” began new seasons Sept.22, and it’s finally beginning to feel like fall. Shonda Rhimes, the primetime network queen, has created one successful show after another without jeopardizing quality. Her characters are always complex and real, her narration is always personal and clever and her series as a whole are always worthy to binge. Setting aside other shows by Rhimes, I would like to focus on her edgiest and wittiest show to date, “How to Get Away with Murder.”
(09/20/16 11:00am)
“The Night Of” is an HBO true-crime miniseries about a man convicted for murder. The show aired this past summer and is a conventional setup executed in a nonconventional manner. The series manages to be a non-dramatized drama. It is a procedural that unravels slowly but surely to accurately indicate the slow wheels of justice. Organized into eight chapters, “The Night Of” presents an underdog story where the underdog’s innocence is increasingly being questioned by everyone, including the underdog himself. Its narration, clouded by bias and circumstance, gives us a legal saga that accounts for how humanity’s flaws do not always fit with the calculative judicial system. Societal issues such as race, drug use and sexuality heightens the show’s underlying conversation about the sticky web of law.
(09/14/16 2:30pm)
UW-Madison’s Summer Term saw a significant increase in enrollment this year, according to a Tuesday university press release.
(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.”
(05/02/16 11:00am)
Students can look forward to a much-needed break this summer and there is no better way to spend that time than to kick back in a cinema to enjoy the blockbusting lineup of summer movies. Just as final exams kick off, so too does “Captain America: Civil War.” The third installment in the Captain America saga is already garnering critical acclaim, giving a jolt of adrenaline to summer moviegoers. Fans of the superhero genre also have DC’s “Suicide Squad” coming on August 6. The action genre can also bolster films like “Jason Bourne,” the highly anticipated continuation of the popular Bourne Trilogy. For those of us looking for something a little more light-hearted this summer, Steven Spielberg may have an answer to that in “The BFG,” a film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel. Other adaptations set for release include “Me Before You,” a love story starring Sam Claflin and Emilia Clarke, and “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” a sequel to the 2010 film “Alice in Wonderland.” No matter the genre preference, there is always something new coming around the corner for moviegoers this summer.
(04/28/16 9:08pm)
Television often thrives on the taboo. With fewer restrictions to content, television series concen- trate their efforts in providing an exploration of content that view- ers are curious to see. People are naturally eager to consume what the standards of society restrict. The premium television network Starz recently merged with their sister company Encore. In order for Starz to rebrand their image and step up their game, they stra- tegically invested in their newest original series “The Girlfriend Experience,” a series entirely about the high-end prostitution industry. At a glance, it is easy to understand why Starz would add this edgy content to their lineup – sex sells. Premium channels such as HBO are known for sexually explicit content that ironically
(04/19/16 11:24am)
The new Netflix original documentary series “Chelsea Does,” released Jan. 23, follows comedian Chelsea Handler as she analyzes the bizarreness of society. Its unique format consists of four episodes, each with a different social topic into which Chelsea fearlessly: marriage, Silicon Valley, race and drugs. It is impossible to fully capture the depth surrounding each of these issues—that would take hours and hours. However, Chelsea does succeed in stimulating discussion and providing thought-provoking overviews.
(04/12/16 12:00am)
On Thursday night, The Sett at Union South was unrecognizable. Masses of students with knit beanies, ripped jeans, worn converse and flannel shirts claimed the familiar college eatery for the night. Excitement increased in anticipation for the music that would soon overtake the room. Green wristbands were passed around, the tech assistants finished their wiring and girls in high-waisted pants and pigtails flocked to the stage as the lights dimmed. It was clear that the night was about to officially start.
(04/08/16 5:32pm)
“And Then There Were None,” the popular 1939 novel by the British “queen of mystery” Agatha Christie, is being revived by BBC. The thriller was adapted as a two-part miniseries that premiered March 13 in the U.S. The limited-series platform is the perfect fit for Christie’s intricate mystery, giving the story the right amount of breathing room to engage and unravel as an extended cinematic experience.
(04/04/16 11:00am)
This article contains spoilers for the current season.
(03/29/16 1:00pm)
The Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee hosted a debate Monday between Angelito Tenorio and Hayley Young, candidates for the Dane County Board of Supervisors District 5 position.
(03/10/16 10:57pm)
Recently, two similar yet undeniably different series returned for new seasons: HBO’s “Girls” and Comedy Central’s “Broad City.” Both are half-hour comedies centering around women in their 20s exploring what adulthood should look like in New York City. The shows have gained popularity over the years and have contributed to the established new breed of television I like to call “Manhattan Jewish girl coming-of-age comedies.” The pioneering series to set this trend was “Sex and the City,” HBO’s successful show starring Sarah Jessica Parker as the iconic Carrie Bradshaw surrounded by her posse of single women with their shared love of NYC. There have been other recreations of this narrow subgenre, yet “Broad City” and “Girls” seem to contribute their own spin to the formula.
(03/09/16 12:00pm)
Recently, two similar, yet undeniably different series returned for new seasons: HBO’s “Girls” and Comedy Central’s “Broad City.” Both are half-hour comedies centering around women in their twenties exploring what adulthood should look like in New York City. The shows have gained popularity over the years and have contributed to the established new breed of television I like to call “Manhattan Jewish girl coming-of-age comedies.” The pioneering series that set this trend was “Sex and the City,” HBO’s successful show starring Sarah Jessica Parker as the iconic Carrie Bradshaw surrounded by her posse of single women with a shared love of NYC. There have been other recreations of this narrow subgenre, yet “Broad City” and “Girls” seem to contribute their own spin to the formula.
(02/27/16 4:00pm)
Wisconsin’s poverty rate is the highest it has been in three decades, according to a recent study from UW-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory.
(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.
(02/12/16 3:35pm)
Is a 147-year-old, 1,300-page Russian novel capable of being successfully translated into a four-part TV miniseries? This sounds like a daunting task, however BBC decided to take the chance and interpret the epic work of Leo Tolstoy’s “War & Peace” through the TV medium. The end result proves that their gamble was our gain.