What I’m Watching This Month
What I’ve Been Watching (Summer and Fall 2020)
Like so many of you, the current health care crisis upended aspects of my personal and professional life back in March, with lingering effects continuing to the present weeks. Gratefully, however, I managed to spend more time reading, reviewing books, and working on my research on television and television music. In addition to my concentrated […]
Read MoreWhat I’ve Been Watching (January 2020)
I really want to like the new season of Dr. Who (launched on January 1, 2020). The two-part season opener (“Spyfall,” parts 1 and 2) was pretty strong, but the most recent episode (“Orphan 55”): awful. I cannot think of a worse episode since the revived series launched. (Fellow fans: Feel free to offer alternative […]
Read MoreNjal’s Saga: Literature and Leadership
By Stan Pelkey In mid-January, during the last few days my two children were home for winter break, my son and I began to watch the first season of Vikings (Michael Hirst, 2013–2018) on Amazon Prime’s streaming video service. We’d watched The Last Kingdom on BBC America in 2015, and we’re huge fans of Game […]
Read MoreWhat I’ve Been Watching This Month (November 2017): Gilligan’s Island (seasons 2 and 3)
Gilligan’s Island (seasons 2 and 3) As the second season of Gilligan’s Island commenced (1965–1966), the adventures of the castaways began to be presented in color. Furthermore, composer Gerald Fried more consistently prepared the episodes’ underscores in both seasons two and three, and in the early part of season three, there are longer cues with […]
Read MoreWhat I’ve Been Watching This Month (September 2017)
What I’ve been Watching September was a good television month: I watched some new programs and revisited some old ones. I also managed to complete quite a bit of new research and writing, sometimes while allowing those familiar, old programs to serve as sonic (rather than visual) companions, but that’s a story for another time. […]
Read MoreWhat I’ve Been Watching This Month (February 2017)
It’s a busy time right now, personally and professionally, and I’ve been putting as much of my available “extra” energy and time into the ongoing development of new podcasts for “My Radio.” One result is that I’ve not been preparing as many blogs about my current listening, reading, and watching. Let me just give a […]
Read More
What I’ve Been Watching (November)
The recent Thanksgiving Break provided some time for much need rest and relaxation, but it also allowed me to catch up on some film viewing. Here are some brief reflections on current and recent films. The family and I went to see Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, J. K. Rowling’s latest film set […]
Read MoreWhat I’ve Been Watching (And the Emmy Goes To…)
It’s September, and the Emmy Awards were given out this past weekend. I am very pleased that three of my favorite current show — Mr. Robot (currently in season two), Game of Thrones, and VEEP did so well. (I am also pleased that The Good Wife received a few awards; it’s another of my favorite […]
Read MoreWhat I’ve Been [Re]watching (May): “Band of Brothers”
I cannot remember when I first became interested in the history of World War II, but I distinctly remember watching Richard Attenborough’s A Bridge Too Far (1977) on television as a child, and it had a lasting effect on me. So when Band of Brothers was first broadcast on HBO in the fall of 2001, […]
Read More