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Below Deck Season 3 Episode 5: A Distressing Amount Of Body Hair

October 5, 2016 by Ali Davis Leave a Comment

Last week: Drunk Trevor was bundled off with disappointing speed, the internet “entrepreneurs” got a wee bit creepy, Lauren was single and flirty with Nico, Kelly and Nico were both after Emily, and Sierra got flustered during meal service and pumped up the cray. Morning! Sierra juices. Nico tells the other deckhands that Sierra was…

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Halt And Catch Fire Season 3, Episode 7: Everything Is Moving Much Too Fast

October 4, 2016 by Chelsea Spear Leave a Comment

According to Newton’s Third Law of Motion, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Season 3 of Halt and Catch Fire has shown that this law applies to prestige TV as much as to physics. Two women build a computer network in the decade before the internet; its popularity leads to an IPO, but…

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Below Deck Season 3 Episode 4: Trevor Is Dead. Long Live Sierra

September 28, 2016 by Ali Davis Leave a Comment

Last Week: Kelley was horny! We were reminded that Kate is with a woman! Trevor was the worst in so many ways! And also super drunk! We come back in to the verbal scuffle between calm medium-drunk Ben and amped-up outrageously drunk Trevor. Trevor calls Kate a bitch and Ben a dick. Ben says Trevor…

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Halt And Catch Fire Season 3, Episode 6: Sonoma And Super Mario

September 27, 2016 by Chelsea Spear Leave a Comment

So far this season, Halt and Catch Fire has hit the proverbial ground running with a series of eventful character arcs. Mutiny finally went online with its own servers; lost out on a series of investors; built a strong alliance with a powerful investor; bought a rival company; and created and implemented the code to…

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Below Deck Season 3 Episode 3: How Do You Solve A Problem Like Trevor?

September 21, 2016 by Ali Davis Leave a Comment

Previously: No one could stand Trevor, because Trevor. Everywhere else, there was sexual tension! Kate and Ben had kitchen spats! Everyone was drunk and stupid and confrontational in the hot tub! But the drunkest and stupidest and most confrontational was Trevor. Oh, Trevor. It’s 6 a.m. and everyone is getting up the morning after. Yeowch…

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Halt And Catch Fire, Season 3, Episode 5: Who Is the Real Antihero Here?

September 20, 2016 by Chelsea Spear 1 Comment

Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. – Tom Thaves, 1982 Every prestige nighttime drama needs an antihero at its center. The Sopranos had Tony; Breaking Bad had Walter White; Mad Men, Don Draper. When Halt and Catch Fire premiered in 2014, many people assumed that smooth-talking idea man…

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Below Deck, Season 3, Episode 2: Trevor Is Trying To Get Himself Murdered Maybe

September 14, 2016 by Ali Davis Leave a Comment

Previously: Trevor was a turbodouche! Kate’s dating a woman! Ben is a tad conflicted about that! We got one great second stew and one third stew who’s maybe good and maybe a rumbling geyser of potential problems! Trevor was douche again to such a degree that Nico and Lauren formed a spontaneous comedy team! Sea!…

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Halt And Catch Fire Season 3, Episode 4: How Did Jake Paltrow Do?

September 13, 2016 by Chelsea Spear Leave a Comment

“This is so bad it’s gone past good and back to bad again.” –Ghost World (2001) In the waning year of the Bush II administration, back when I fancied myself a film critic, I attended an advance screening of a movie called The Good Night. The plot description sounded decent, but the film was bad…

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Below Deck Season 3 Episode 1: Trevor Is An Amazing Level of Douche

September 7, 2016 by Ali Davis Leave a Comment

Hello! We’re diving in (Ha, ha!) late on this ridiculous yacht reality show, Below Deck, but we will persevere. This is Season 3 or 4 depending on how you’re counting the Mediterranean season. Below Deck proper is in the Caribbean. Apparently. Full disclosure: I have worked on ships, but they were cruise ships, and yachties…

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Halt And Catch Fire, Season 3, Episode 3: Lean Startup Versus the Dionysian Dark Side

September 6, 2016 by Chelsea Spear Leave a Comment

After the comprehensive two-hour season premiere of Halt and Catch Fire, viewers might safely assume that Chris Campbell, Chris Rogers, and the showrunners and the writers’ room would want to give viewers a chance to catch their breath with a transitional episode. They could lean on the exposition, fill out the 42 minutes with extended…

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