What Wood is Watching

Well it's here, season 6 of Game of Thrones is only days away and right in time for dead week/finals week (thanks HBO). I have papers galore, a test to study for and a room to pack up but I am going to make time to watch the premiere of my favorite show on television. This will be a very basic, very spoiler free post so you guys can experience it unlike what my friends had to endure when i tried to get them to watch Breaking Bad.  So why is Game of Thrones my favorite show I watch? Characters Too many names to so who everyone is, and this isn't even half of the cast. Normally, a show has maybe at most 10 really strong characters that are considered main or supporting characters that you either love to root for or love to root for their demise. GoT really goes against this generic plot as there are twenty characters pictured above and there are even more characters that have recurring roles with them like Davos, Shyreen or even Hodor! Each character brings something di...

When you are watching a show and a character makes a sexual, racist, anti-religious, too-soon, or other normally frowned upon kind of joke in society, is that bothersome to you or funny? This is a big debate with shows in households and on the internet in general where both sides clash about what should be done and what's pushing it too far. For example, do audiences want to see blurred nudity throughout the episode often or is that too much? Is it okay for a cartoon baby to be killing people and creating gadgets that he wants to use to kill his mother with? Family Guy was heavily criticized and even cancelled by FOX a while back and Seth MacFarlane even did an episode after Family Guy came back on the air that was live action of him just interviewing various ordinary viewers of Family Guy  and the results were mixed. People either hated or loved it because  of how crass and irreverent it was. "It reminds me of South Park " one viewer said and that's a whole other bea...

THIS IS FILLED WITH SPOILERS ON HOUSE OF CARDS SEASON 4. DO NOT LISTEN/READ UNLESS YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS BEFORE YOU WATCH THIS GREAT SHOW. Well season 4 has come and gone for me and many people asked me throughout the day do you regret watching it all in a period of a day? My answer to that is hell no. It's a treat to be able to watch it all at once via Netflix like a big movie with a brief intermission for dinner and drinks with some friends downtown. Now was it the best season yet? Not entirely but it was much better than season 3. I want to use this small entry under the video to highlight Meechum and Freddie because of events in  season 4 that stuck out to me. Meechum's character development was a strange path overall since season 1. He is tossed around from worthless to valuable to sexual conquest (still weird), to irrelevant to mvp and it's all very abrupt. Meechum however was vastly underutilized with potential filler pieces to the story line that went to ...

THIS IS FILLED WITH SPOILERS ON HOUSE OF CARDS SEASON 2. DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS BEFORE YOU WATCH THIS GREAT SHOW. Season 2 picks up right where we left off, Claire and Frank are running at night as Zoe and company are getting ready to go public with their findings of Peter... Note: all videos owned by Netflix and found on YouTube. Episode 1: Francis Underwood is preparing to be the Vice President and he needs to take care of the loose ends before he is sworn in. He needs to find someone to replace him as Majority Whip and finds that person to be war hero Jackie Sharp. A third term congresswoman, Jackie eagerly accepts Frank's offer to back her running to be the new Whip. Jackie dives right in to work, and eventually says she wants to be Whip.  Claire is still battling Gillian who is still trying to get her to go to court and sue her for wrongful termination. Gillian is pregnant and needs certain medications to survive so Claire termina...

THIS IS FILLED WITH SPOILERS ON HOUSE OF CARDS SEASON 1. DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS BEFORE YOU WATCH THIS GREAT SHOW. Welcome to House of Cards week and man am I excited for this week. House of Cards returns Friday March 4, on Netflix and then I can wait all over again. For those that don't know, House of Cards is an adaptation of a British mini-series that goes by the same name. It is a drama with a political backdrop in current day Washington D.C in which Kevin Spacey plays Frank Underwood, a Democrat from South Carolina's 5th District who is the House Majority Whip. After throwing his support for a presidential candidate that wins the presidency and campaigning for him, Underwood expects/was promised to get Secretary of State in President Walker's new cabinet. When he is told he has to stay as Majority Whip, Frank begins to plot his revenge on the Walker administration that betrayed him.  Now before I spoil everything about ...

So I vastly overestimated what I could talk about the Oscars compared to what I can actually and frankly want to talk about so tomorrow there will be a Food Network comparison Podcast about how the Food Network is a channel you should be watching in general. I still think it's important to mention that the Oscars disappointed overall due to lack of humor, the amount of soap boxing as compared to previous years and general lack of creativity. It's truly a shame to say that Louis C.K. was the best part of the Oscars when there was so much potential. From Sarah Silverman's bad "improv'd" speech to the little Asian "accountants" it was just, for lack of a better word, crap. It's important to remember regardless of movies, shows or shorts, that live tv has to be entertaining and not just "edgy" or crass. The 88th Oscars was exactly that and should fade away as soon as possible.