You know the feeling: you’ve just re-watched your favorite television show, in its entirety, for the third time in three years. You stare at the screen and wonder: is that all there is? How is it possible that there will never be another episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Battlestar Galactica/True Blood? (Sorry Hannibal fans, but hopefully we can […]
Four years on, I’m still shocked by the massive success of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Sure, I expected it to look pretty (it’s HBO after all), and as a fan of George R.R. Martin’s books, I knew the story and characters could more than sustain a weekly narrative. But the fantasy trappings—court politics, warring kings, magical priestesses, heroes […]