When it was announced on The Tonight Show that Lip Sync Battle—one of Jimmy Fallon’s most popular segments on Tonight—was getting its own show, there was palpable excitement, but also concern that a beloved game was going to wear out its welcome. After the phenomenal ratings success Read More …
Pro wrestling is a weird bastard art, and if you’re unfamiliar with its intricacies, the hordes of people in your social media circles obsessively pontificating about it every Monday night must be a truly confounding experience. Let our very own Dominic Griffin, lifelong wrestling enthusiast, Read More …
Deadshirt Is Watching… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt staff, contributors, and guests sound off on the television shows we’re tuned into, from intense dramas to clever sitcoms to the most insane reality shows. This week: Aquarius, WWE Elimination Chamber, and Inside Amy Schumer! Haley Winters is watching… Read More …
The 2014-2015 television season saw the launch of a variety of different DC Comics adaptations for the small screen across a handful of networks: Fox’s creepy cop drama Gotham, the addition of CW’s The Flash alongside the third season of Arrow, NBC’s supernatural procedural Constantine (not to mention Read More …
Deadshirt Is Watching… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt staff, contributors, and guests sound off on the television shows we’re tuned into, from intense dramas to clever sitcoms to the most insane reality shows. This week: Wayward Pines and Veep! Haley Winters is watching… Wayward Pines Season 1, Episode Read More …
Last night, May 21th, 2015, David Letterman is retired from The Late Show. A 33-year legacy has come to a close. Almost everybody is publishing stories and retrospectives and tributes about what Letterman meant to them and the medium. Of all the ones I’ve read, perhaps the best – and certainly the Read More …
The life of a television enthusiast isn’t all sunshine and couch-lounging. Every year around this time, we are forced to confront an awful truth: not all our shows will make it to a new season. In this postmortem, our staff reflects on the cancelled TV Read More …
Deadshirt Is Watching…is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt staff, contributors, and guests sound off on the television shows we’re tuned into, from intense dramas to clever sitcoms to the most insane reality shows. This week: Mad Men, Adventure Time, and Veep! Max Robinson is watching… Mad Men Read More …
Star Trek is an enormous and complex cultural entity whose impact on politics, technology, and storytelling are undeniable. It’s also as flawed and problematic as any other massive media franchise. Lifelong Trekkie and Deadshirt Editor-in-Chief Dylan Roth attempts to make sense of it all for die-hards and outsiders Read More …
Deadshirt Is Watching…is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt staff, contributors, and guests sound off on the television shows we’re tuned into, from intense dramas to clever sitcoms to the most insane reality shows. This week: Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley, and Community! Madie Coe is watching… Read More …