Showing posts with label TV themes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV themes. Show all posts
Monday, December 5, 2016

AFOS Blog Rewind: Not everyone's a critic, which was why Fox's enormously funny The Critic didn't last

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Last week, Uproxx posted a lengthy and enjoyable interview with longtime writing partners Al Jean and Mike Reiss about their short-lived...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Star Trek 101 and beyond

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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock I have a couple of confessions to make. I run a Tumblr about accidental Star Trek cosplay, but as ...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Laura Benanti's Melania Trump impression on Colbert is the funniest satirical encapsulation of the surreal, so-white-it-makes-Lawrence-Welk-look-like-106-&-Park shitshow that is the 2016 RNC

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Like I've said before, whenever there's a news story that involves race, I've lately found myself saying, "I can't ...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Wow, the already-dead Vertigo comic iZombie is hardly like the hit CW show it unleashed

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iZombie --the first CBS procedural outside of Elementary that fortunately doesn't feel too much like "a Dad show" (it airs...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Anatomy of a melody: Hrishikesh Hirway's Song Exploder podcast entertainingly breaks down the components of a TV score cue or pop song

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Hrishikesh Hirway The one-and-a-half-year-old podcast Song Exploder has a tantalizing premise for a show about the craft of music. Eac...
Monday, May 4, 2015

Penny not from heaven: The welcome return of Penny Dreadful

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Penny dreadfuls, a.k.a. penny bloods, were lurid supernatural or crime stories that were published in weekly installments in 19th-century ...
Monday, April 27, 2015

"Far East style with the spirit of Wild West": Familiarize yourself with the music of Samurai Champloo co-composer Nujabes

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Like I've said before, I love it when the worlds of film or TV score music and hip-hop collide. One of my favorite of those collision...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Fresh is the word: Checking in on Fresh Off the Boat

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I was all set to dislike ABC's Fresh Off the Boat before its premiere. It wasn't because it was going to take celebrity chef Eddi...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)

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The last remaining show on NBC that was from the great underwatched Thursday night sitcom lineup that lasted on that network from 2009 to...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Tango uniform November echo India November: "AFOS Incognito" begins transmitting Monday, January 12 at midnight on AFOS

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A spy genre music block made up of score cues from both completely fantastical genre pieces ( Mission: Impossible--Ghost Protocol , A View...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Why I don't miss opening themes on broadcast network TV

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Eh, I don't miss them. Sure, the themes from The Addams Family , the Beverly Hillbillies / Petticoat Junction / Green Acres shared...