“Gorilla? Gorilla?? Gorilla???”
March 29th, 2009
I wasn’t going to blog about tonight’s episode of The Amazing Race. I’m taking a week off from blogging, so I was going to put up a post about how I’d LOVE to talk about what happened on tonight’s journey from India To Phuket, Thailand but I just am too busy [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 29, 2009
The Amazing Race Season 14 – “Episode Seven (Thailand)”
March 27, 2009
Dollhouse – “Echoes”
“Echoes”
March 27th, 2009
We make choices, and then we live with them. And then we die with them.
After undoubtedly its finest hour last week, “Echoes” has a lot to live up to, and for the part it succeeds – no, the episode doesn’t reach those heights precisely, but what it accomplishes is something different in a [...]
March 27, 2009
The McNuttCast: Episode Two – The Juno Awards
In this week’s first “normal” edition of The McNuttCast, we can’t entirely get away from talking Battlestar Galactica – while I had the privilege of collaborating with Devindra Hardawar and Meredith Woerner on the epic /Filmcast Series Finale discussion [LINK], the Elder McNutt didn’t get the same chance, so there’s a few minutes of BSG [...]
March 27, 2009
The Office – “Two Weeks”
“Two Weeks”
March 26th, 2009
I always thought Michael got a bad rap: he’s a good guy, and he’s super funny…yeah, maybe I should tell him before he goes. Oh…he’s all the way over there.
There’s a moment in “Two Weeks” where Kevin says the above, and I found it kind of hard to relate: it is not [...]
March 27, 2009
30 Rock – “Apollo, Apollo”
“Apollo, Apollo”
March 26th, 2009
When Robert Carlock confronted “Apollo, Apollo,” it was if he were taking all of the elements which have made his past episodes (“Jack-Tor,” “Subway Hero,” “Sandwich Day,”) so fantastic and pulling them all together into one rather stunning half-hour. Moving from joke to joke at a breakneck pace, with barely any time [...]
March 27, 2009
BSG: The Long Goodbye – Romancing the Cylon, Revisited
Romancing the Cylon, Revisited
March 27th, 2009
Those of you who have stopped by Cultural Learnings’ “About” page have likely noticed a rather auspicious little nugget that a few people have asked me to expand upon:
He recently completed his undergraduate honours thesis on the genesis of medieval romance within the 2004 re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica.
Some respond with [...]
March 26, 2009
BSG: The Long Goodbye – The Real Higher Power of Battlestar Galactica
The Real Higher Power of Battlestar Galactica
March 26th, 2009
There has been a lot of discussion following “Daybreak” regarding the role of religion in the series, a lot of it claiming that the finale’s use of religious terminology and the concept of a “higher power” was too reductive and problematic to serve as an endpoint, too [...]
March 25, 2009
Lost – “He’s Our You”
“He’s Our You”
March 25th, 2009
When “316″ first aired, it became immediately clear the way in which the rest of the season would unfold, the stories of how the Oceanic Six made their way onto that airplane serving as a new mystery, small but structurally valuable. In a couple of instances, there’s some really important character-driven [...]
March 25, 2009
BSG: The Long Goodbye – Battlestar Galactica and the Trouble with Twenty
Battlestar Galactica and the Trouble with Twenty
March 25th, 2009
[After reading Media Studies scholar Jason Mittell's thoughts on the finale over at Just TV, I got thinking about the narrative structure of the finale, and how different it was from the season that came beforehand. As a result, we have our third part of The Long [...]
March 25, 2009
Project Runway Canada Season 2 – “Episode Nine”
“Gimme Shelter”
March 24th, 2009
When three people left in the first episode of the season, this was an inevitability: it was almost required that there would be some kind of twist where people could gain the chance to come back into the season. It was even something they did last season: finalist Marie-Genvieve was eliminated after [...]
