In the final installment of our Make Your Case series, we have Brian with his plea for Best Drama.
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Make Your Case: Best Comedy Series
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Make Your Case: The Acting Categories
Just under the wire, people.
With this first Emmys post, I want to welcome a handsome, dashing gentleman who is now an official part of the (Pop) Culturally Informed team, Brian Pope! Brian is a pop culture weirdo who’s bringing a ton of new and exciting ideas to this blog, and Ben and I could not possibly be more thrilled to have him with us.
And with that said, here are our picks for the Emmy’s big acting categories!
Game of Thrones Recap: Okay Ladies, Now Let’s Get In Formation
Welcome back, nerds.
After a long 10 months of endless speculation, book readers losing their smug upper hand, and keeping up with poor, beleaguered Kit Harington’s haircuts and flight itineraries, Game of Thrones is back and has already killed off several characters in its first hour of Season 6, the entirety of which is is the adaptation equivalent of “going north of the Wall.” The action of this episode could best be summed up as “bleeding and scheming” (which would incidentally make an excellent tagline for the entire show), but we still got some big reveals and at least one solid bitch-slapping fight scene that made it all worth it.
Well, let’s get down to it. God, I missed this show.
What’s Next for (Pop) Culturally Informed
Oh… hey there, guys.
So, yes. It’s been a while, thanks to new jobs, shows, and a myriad of other excuses, but whatever. (Pop) Culturally Informed is getting back on its feet and launching more content to clog your newsfeeds!
Nina will, of course, resume her Game of Thrones recaps after its premiere on April 24, and is planning on writing separate pieces about how that show is working with its truly weird adaptation struggles. She’ll also be talking about the state of comedy on TV (spoiler alert: it’s good).
Ben is planning on writing some thinkpieces about summer blockbusters and segments about how pop culture is interfering with the current presidential election circus.
We’ll also resume coverage of big pop culture news with tidbits here and there, and, if time allows, will give ICYMI another shot (but don’t hold out much hope for that one, kids). We’ll also be publishing opinion pieces so we can keep shoving our feelings in your face.
Okay, then! Gird your loins or whatever! New content coming soon.
Best Picture Profile: Bridge of Spies
As we come closer to the Academy Awards, we’ll be posting short profiles of each Best Picture nominee, attempting, in our own ways, to not only sum up what the movie is about, but why we believe it scored one of the eight coveted nominations, and why it could possibly take home the big prize come Oscar night. Enjoy!
In 1975, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws was released, and it’s pretty magnificent that more than forty years later, Spielberg is still delivering high quality films, or at the very least, films that can hold an audience’s attention. Bridge of Spies aims to achieve something higher than what it actually attains. It ain’t Lincoln, but it sure ain’t Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It’s a respectably made, well-acted historical thriller, with a few key elements that make it Oscar worthy.
Best Picture Profile: Room
As we come closer to the Academy Awards, we’ll be posting short profiles of each Best Picture nominee, attempting, in our own ways, to not only sum up what the movie is about, but why we believe it scored one of the eight coveted nominations, and why it could possibly take home the big prize come Oscar night. Enjoy!
As Ben discussed in his first Best Picture Profile of the year, we usually try to find some kind of theme to unify the Best Picture nominees, and this year, we settled on “Journey to the Unknown,” since we feel that, in one way or another, each of these films features characters struggling to come to grips with a new reality, new information, or anything that lies beyond what they already know.
It should go without saying, then, why Room falls squarely into that category, perhaps more so than any other film this year, in that this movie focuses on two people trapped in the tiniest of spaces, one of whom only finds out that the unknown exists at all just before he’s thrown into it headfirst.
American Horror Story Finale Recap: Ghost Protocol
Golden Globes Predictions: Who Might Win, How We Feel About It & Nina Cries About Jon Hamm
B: Drunk people. Ricky Gervais. Spotlight. These are a few of the things that will likely be featured heavily tonight, at the Always-Pointless Golden Globes tonight. Nina, what are you most looking forward to, other than a few shots of whiskey?
N: Well, definitely that last part, but it would also be nice to see Jon Hamm win again, and beyond that, just see what totally weird choices the HFPA goes with this year. Remember The Affair, guys? (No. No, you do not.)
American Horror Story Recap: Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dead
Welcome back, guys. I’m still here. I know I skipped a week, but I have an amazing excuse – I didn’t feel like writing the recap because literally nothing happened in that episode that I cared about! Okay. Let’s get started.
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