Watchmen is the only comic book to be on Time’s list of a hundred great novels, making it the number one comic book in the world right now. For all its popularity, a lot of people are still unfamiliar with the series storyline and its source material. One reason might be because there’s too much…
HBO’s Westworld is Coming Back in 2020 HBO offered a treat to all the Westworld fans earlier this week when they released a semi-cryptic and eerie clip, implying the release of the third season. The teaser trailer hints at a tremendously evolved season in store for fans of Westworld. They referenced real-world events down to…
Ballers Season 4, Episode 9: “There’s No Place Like Home, Baby” As the old saying goes, all’s well that ends well. But did this end well? I guess it depends on how you look at it. From an in-universe perspective, things seem to work out reasonably well for most everyone. After spending most of this…
Ballers Season 4, Episode 9: “The Devil You Know” The last few episodes of Ballers have been about corrupt organizations and how best to deal with them. The show has primarily explored this topic through Spencer’s dealings with the NCAA. Last week, a new organization was introduced, although it’s really not new since it’s been…
Ballers Season 4, Episode 7: “The Kids Are Aight” While this season of Ballers hasn’t been its best up to this point, the writers haven’t shied away from controversial material, and I applaud them for that. This season’s main storyline has been about exposing NCAA corruption (which we’ll get to in a few minutes), and…
Ballers Season 4, Episode 6: “No Small Talk” Last week, Spencer started putting a plan in motion that would make Sports X relevant again and avoid an eight-figure loss on the entire deal. Sure, it involved what looked like some pretty shady shit, but surely Spencer would ultimately do the right thing—right? This week, the…
Ballers Season 4, Episode 5: “Doink” Through all of the ups and downs of the last three seasons, Spencer Strasmore has taken a lot of risks, and he’s played fast and loose at times with basic ethics and morality. He usually does the right thing in the end though. Depending on your particular worldview, that…
Ballers Season 4, Episode 4: “Forgiving is Living” It’s tough being the go-to guy all the time. There’s a lot of pressure on you when you’re always expected to take the last shot or carry the ball over the goal line as time runs out, and it can be too much for even the great…
Ballers Season 4, Episode 3: ” This Is Not Our World” We don’t get a full sense of the fallout after the controversial ending to last week’s surfing tournament, but it’s obvious that, despite his words to the contrary, Lance Klians isn’t happy about the way things went down. We don’t know if Cola-Cola backed…
Ballers Season 4, Episode 2: “Don’t You Want to be Obama?” Most of us will never know what it’s like to be a professional athlete. Only a tiny fraction of the population are gifted with just the right combination of talent, opportunity, and drive that allow them to reach the top-level of their chosen sport….
Ballers Season Four, Episode One–“Rough Ride” Season Four of Ballers kicks off (pardon the pun) with a game-changer (and that one) that’s going to rock (I promise—that’s the last one) Spencer Strasmore’s world. After winning his battle with the NFL last season but ultimately losing the war, Spencer seemed ready to settle back into the…
The second season of Westworld is set to air on April 22nd with more ways to confuse us. Where we left off in the last season, we were left contemplating if machines could basically be sentient and if it is ok to transfer consciousness from a human to basically a robot. And we’re left with…
HBO’s hit Insecure is still getting slept on, even after two brilliant seasons. The show (written and directed by lead Issa Rae) focuses on the love lives, work lives, and friendships of two African American women. But this show is more real than Hollywood usually allows for women of color. The main characters (Issa and…
John Oliver, late night talk show host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, is being sued by coal baron and owner of Murray Energy Corporation, Robert Murray for “defamatory” comments Oliver made on his show. The lawsuit which was filed in West Virginia earlier this week, claims Oliver had malicious intent and that many of his…
The hit 2010 novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks aired in an HBO condensed movie on April 19th, and according to recent reviews it is not living up to the novel’s name. The important life story of Henrietta Lacks was taken on by science writer Rebecca Skloot. NYT book review explains “Skloot introduces us…