They can’t all be winners, can they?
Let’s bitch it out… [Read more…]
TIFF17 Notes – Day 3: Molly’s Game, The Lodgers
The Newsroom review – 1×04: ‘I’ll Try to Fix You’
Courtesy of HBO
A bevy of talented actresses grace the screen this week, from regulars Emily Mortimer and Alison Pill, to guest stars Katherine Hahn and Hope Davis. It’s just too bad their characters are all written like jealous harpies driven to excess by their possession of lady parts. But don’t worry, because Will McAvoy comes to the rescue to “civilize” these women and their brutish ways.
Let’s bitch it out have a reasonable yet critical discussion of this week’s episode…
Flashback review – The West Wing 2×06-2×07: ‘The Lame Duck Congress’ and ‘The Portland Trip’
Courtesy of NBC
As I’ve been spending so much time with Sorkin’s productions these days, I’ve realized that oftentimes what’s most memorable about the episodes he writes aren’t the ideological monologues or grand gestures, but the more subtle character beats. In these two stand alone episodes, the plots may be forgettable (for the most part), but the moments with the staff stay with you.
“What’s next?” Find out after the jump… [Read more…]
Flashback recap – The West Wing 2×03: ‘The Midterms’
Courtesy of leavemethewhile.com
As the President predicted in the premiere, the weeks and months following the attack at Roslin leaves more victims in its wake than just those with the bullet holes. Our flashback recap of the second season of The West Wing continues this week with “The Midterms,” and not everyone is holding it together as well as they seem.
“What’s next?” Let’s bitch it out after the jump…
Flashback recap – The West Wing 2×01-2×02: ‘In the Shadow of Two Gunmen’ Parts I and II
Courtesy of NBC VIA AV Club
So this summer is quickly becoming the Summer of Sorkin here at Bitch Stole My Remote. In addition to covering his new HBO series The Newsroom (starting Sunday June 24th at 10 EST), I will be diving back into the second season Aaron Sorkin’s little man-behind-the-White-House-curtain drama The West Wing. Every Wednesday (the same night it aired back in 2000-2001 on NBC!), I’ll be posting a flashback recap of the next episode of Season 2. So if you’d like to join me, watch one episode each week and visit here on Wednesdays so we can bitch it out. How well does the season, which is arguably the meatiest and best written of the series, hold up twelve years later? Is Sorkin’s optimism regarding the federal government still relevant? Is CJ’s hair still somewhere between atrocious and sad? Let’s find out!
So as our fictional POTUS loves to ask, “What’s next?” Find out after the jump… [Read more…]