Game of Thrones Season 1 Review

I waited to watch Season One of HBO’s Game of Thrones, which debuted this time last year but to which I did not have easy access. It wasn’t that I made a conscious decision to wait — it was mostly about a lack of time combined with that lack of convenience. But I think I was dimly terrified that I would get obsessed with the series. I haven’t read the book series upon which the show is based — that would be A Song of Fire and Ice by George R.R. Martin [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon Canada] [Amazon U.K.] — but I am familiar with his work, so I sort of knew what I was in for. And, you know: I just know myself. Epic

fantasy given serious treatment over 10 hours (and hence not limited by the time constraints of film). Awesome cast including Sean Bean, Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Iain Glen, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The potential for Game of Thrones to occupy my imagination was high.

And that’s exactly what ended up happening.

Of course now I’m glad I waited, because it means I can jump right into Season Two (which began last week), which I’ll do the moment after I get this posted. Now I’ll be stuck plodding along at the infuriating pace of one episode per week, but I have no other choice. I can’t put it off. I’m hooked.
It’s not just that Thones is high fantasy, set in a literally fantastical world physically unlike our own, though it never hurts to be geeky when trying to appeal to me. It’s that Thrones may well be the most solidly confident storytelling I’ve seen on television, perhaps ever. There’s been a lot of talk in recent years of long-form dramatic television as analogous to novels, a notion I find both completely apt and totally thrilling — I can’t believe it took so long for anyone to figure out television could get us to invest deeply in characters that can change and grow over dozens or even hundreds of hours of storytelling. What makes Thrones different from the novelistic TV we’ve been seeing over the past 20 years or so is that it is

actually based on not just one novel but a long series (the sixth is about to be published). The grand arc of the story to be told already exists, and has been demonstrated to work. This is unlike most long-form TV drama, which cannot take many narrative risks because the creators cannot be sure how many episodes or seasons they’ll have to tell their story or — as we saw with Lost — the creators simply have no end in mind and are just making it all up as they go.
 But here… events that feel bold and shocking based on what we’ve been trained to expect from television pop up regularly. Creators David Benioff (Brothers, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and D.B. Weiss can deploy bold, shocking turns of events secure in the knowledge that such events are not cheap stunts but serve the larger story. And it means that we cannot trust what our instincts tell us about what television cannot or will not do. (Unless you’ve read the books, of course: then you know what’s coming. This is one instance in which I am absolutely, 100-percent glad I had not read the books beforehand. I can’t remember ever being so dazed or upset — more that once! — by TV drama as I was watching Season One of Thrones.) It lendsThrones a sense that anything can happen… much more so than the fantasy setting, which hints at magic and all of its unanticipated possibilities, could ever do.
That unique capacity for suspense and surprise made me love this show… and hate this show, too, for making me care so instantly for its many characters, even the less than honorable ones. In a civilization of many kingdoms and many ambitious people vying for the local thrones and the great Iron Throne that unites them all, there are many, and rarely has there been even a novelistic television show with such a sprawling

cast of diverse players, and created so vividly by a uniformly glorious cast. (Even the child actors, particularly Jack Gleeson as the brat prince Joffrey and Maisie Williams as tomboy princess Arya, turn in mature — and thoroughly riveting — performances.) It is a game they are all playing, of politics and personalities, of cultural and familial expectations, of wresting a workable future from the misfortunes and disasters of the past.

The smartness of Thrones is — and this is what puts it in a class with Mad Men, though the two shows might seem hardly alike at all — that it is about pointing out the puppet strings of culture, how they constrain some people and prop up others, how they shape everything that happens. This world is strongly patriarchal, yet women who are clever and ambitious wrest what agency for themselves they can in whatever ways they can. The workability of differentcultures is acknowledged. (The way the “barbarian” Dothraki treat the “civilized” Viserys Targaryen is perfect: they do not appreciate his intrusion, and they certainly don’t see him as a savior; they see him an idiot and a fool, which of course he is, from their perspective. This was the sort of thing I complained about as missing from John Carter.) Perhaps most exhilarating of all, Thrones is, down at its most basic level, about the blinders the powerful can have that prevent them from seeing threats to their power. Certain players cannot be ignored, and certain players cannot be thwarted…

All that comes with a delicious icing of weird sex, creatively gruesome violence, and general sense that no holds have been barred. At all. If you missed Season One, I cannot recommend strongly enough that you drop everything you’re doing and catch up. This is among the best stuff ever produced for television.

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‘Arrow’ Season 2

Premiere Date Revealed

Given how much the popularity of comic books and their associated characters has started to move into the mainstream, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the CW’s Arrow took off with the success that it did.

The network renewed the show for season 2 long before season 1 was finished, which means that the writers have had plenty of time to set up potential second season plots – they certainly wrapped up season 1 with a bang.

Fans of the show won’t have to wait too much longer to find out what happens next, however, as the CW has announced the date on which their top-rated show will return: keep a mark in your calendar for Wednesday October 9th, 8:00-9:00 PM E.T. Here is everything we know (and quite a lot of pure guesswork) about what Arrow season 2 will bring. 

The big shock of the finale – perhaps even more so than the destruction of the Glades – was the death of Oliver’s best friend and rival for Laurel’s affections, Tommy Merlyn. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume that this will put a wrench in the works (or a metal rod through the chest … sorry, too soon?) for the two young lovebirds, since not only did Tommy spend his last few minutes saving Laurel’s life and revealing that he was in love with her, Stephen Amell has also dropped a major hint that Oliver will not be in Starling City when season 2 begins.

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        It seems that the prophecies did not lie and Merlin faces his destiny as the great battle rages on Camlann's mighty plain.

Will he find the strength to save all that he holds dear: the man he made a King, the Camelot they fought to build and the brotherhood they shared?

 
                                       

24

Jack Bauer, Director of Field Ops for the Counter-Terrorist Unit of Los Angeles, races against the clock to subvert terrorist plots and save his nation from ultimate disaster.

JACK IS BACK!!!

NEW ACTION-PACKED EVENT SERIES “24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY”

TO RESTART ICONIC CLOCK IN SUMMER 2014 ON FOX

Kiefer Sutherland to Return as JACK BAUER in New Event Series

Produced by 20th Century Fox Television, Imagine Television and Howard Gordon’s Teakwood Lane Productions

FOX has ordered 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY, a thrilling new tent-pole event series set to restart the clock on the groundbreaking and Emmy Award-winning drama franchise starring Kiefer Sutherland. Produced by 20th Century Fox Television, Imagine Television and Howard Gordon’s Teakwood Lane Productions, 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY will make its historic debut in the summer of 2014 on FOX.

The announcement was made this morning by Kevin Reilly, Chairman, Fox Broadcasting Company; Dana Walden and Gary Newman, Chairmen, Twentieth Century Fox Television; and Brian Grazer, Chairman, Imagine Entertainment.

The high-octane saga will reunite showrunner Howard Gordon with Sutherland and retain the real-time, pulse-pounding, fast-paced format with split screens and complex interweaving storylines, with 12 episodes representing 24 hours. The suspenseful event series once again follows the exploits of heroic agent JACK BAUER (Sutherland), who will resume his story several years following the events of the final season.
“It’s great to have Jack back. ‘24’ redefined the drama genre, and as we reimagine the television miniseries, this iconic show will again break new ground for the network,” said Reilly. “The series remains a global sensation, and everyone at FOX is thrilled to be back at work with Kiefer, Howard and the incredibly creative ‘24’ team.”

“When Howard came to us saying he had an idea for a new chapter of ‘24,’ he quite simply had us at ‘hello,’” remarked 20th Century Fox Television Chairmen Gary Newman and Dana Walden. “’24’ is a signature series for this studio, beloved by critics and audiences worldwide. Howard’s idea to revive the franchise as an event series couldn’t be timelier, and with the brilliant Kiefer Sutherland on board to reprise his iconic role, we can’t wait to get started.”

Added Imagine Television Chairman Brian Grazer, “I'm both excited and proud that Howard, Kiefer, and I, along with ours partners at 20th and Fox, have this new opportunity to give ‘24’ fans what they've been asking for – more Jack Bauer. It's been my experience that people love Jack Bauer because he's a guy who cuts through the red tape and gets the hardest things done. I am certain 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY will again have a huge impact on our culture.”

“The response to ‘24’ is unlike anything I have ever experienced as an actor before,” noted Sutherland. “To have the chance to reunite with the character, Jack Bauer, is like finding a lost friend. The story ideas from Howard Gordon are exciting and fresh, and will not disappoint. Great thanks to 20th Century Fox Television, Imagine Television and the FOX network for this opportunity. Make no mistake, my goal is to knock your socks off. See you soon.”

“Jack Bauer has always been an exciting, thrilling character, and I confess that I’ve missed him. I think the audience has too,” said executive producer Howard Gordon who served as showrunner for most of the series’ run and won multiple Emmy Awards for his work. “The character has evolved through the years, and this new and exciting event series format is perfect to tell the next chapter of his story and continue to reflect how the world is changing. Fans can rest assured that the Jack they know and love will be back.”

Originally premiering November 6, 2001, ‘24’ was nominated for a total of 73 Emmy Awards, winning for Outstanding Drama Series in 2006. Over eight seasons, Kiefer Sutherland garnered seven Emmy Award nominations and one win for Outstanding Lead Actor – Drama Series. While the series gained global recognition, Sutherland’s portrayal of the legendary character penetrated the American psyche like no other dramatic television character to become part of the cultural lexicon.

24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY is a production of 20th Century Fox Television and Imagine Television in association with Teakwood Lane Productions. Howard Gordon, Brian Grazer and Kiefer Sutherland will executive produce, along with an additional team to be announced. The original series, which had its last American broadcast on May 24, 2010, was created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran.

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