If you spent any time on Twitter this weekend, you probably saw actor Hugh Laurie deliver a clapback to someone burning his former TV show, _House_.
It was epic.
What happened was that a viewer tuning into _House_ for the first time posted a critique of the show’s formula. They pointed out that every single episode follows the same pattern: a mysterious illness, two incorrect diagnoses that…
I’ll admit pretty readily that I had fairly low expectations going into A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. I remember how _Game of Thrones_ didn’t exactly stick the landing, and prestige TV tends to be hit-or-miss these days. I haven’t read the novella and didn’t know what the show was even about.
But as the opening episodes unfolded, and I realized we were going to stay with mostly one…
There are so many great movies made about Ireland and the Irish people that I watch on St. Patrick's Day. But this year, I wanted to do something a little different.
I decided to go through some of the best TV episodes about the holiday and list them here for you to check out
Let's dive in.
In a magical…
The role of a showrunner is a hybrid of CEO and storyteller. You're the "Keeper of the Vision," but you are also the person responsible for the "Honeywagons," the "Table Reads," and the "Picture Lock."
And if you want to eventually become a showrunner, you have to speak the distinct languages of three different worlds: the Writers' Room, Production, and Network Executives.
The following…
_Lost_ was not a perfect show, but it represents something that we've slowly... um... lost in TV over the last decade.
The sci-fi mystery show was definitely flying by the seat of its pants at points. It has filler episodes that some people hate. It was derailed briefly by a writers' strike. But, by gum, it was fun TV the likes of which we haven't seen in the streaming era.
_Lost_…