We asked resident Entourage apologists Rafael Gaitan and Mark Stack to team up and discuss each week of the spiritual Entourage sequel Ballers. This week sees strife break out between Raf and Mark as they come into disagreement over the show’s handling of Charles Greene after some peaceful discussion of the show’s failings with Spencer and success with […]
Ballin’ on Ballers: Breakfast Spreads and Other Delights
We asked resident Entourage apologists Rafael Gaitan and Mark Stack to team up and discuss each week of the spiritual Entourage sequel Ballers. This week they debate Ricky’s culpability in perpetuating a cycle of abandonment, the show’s baffling Oedipal predilections, and fantasize about hopeful casting coups. Mark: Man, things got real serious real quick this episode as the […]
Ballin’ on Ballers: Beach Buddies
We asked resident Entourage apologists Rafael Gaitan and Mark Stack to team up and discuss each week of the spiritual Entourage sequel Ballers. This time out, the Dolphin-obsessed duo play some beach bingo while tearing up over Ricky Jerret’s father issues and Charles Greene’s secret love of Her. Raf: Another Sunday has gone by, which means that Spencer […]
Ballin’ on Ballers: Ricky Don’t Lose That Number
We asked resident Entourage apologists Rafael Gaitan and Mark Stack to team up and discuss each week of the spiritual Entourage sequel Ballers. The delinquent duo actually disagree this week over the quality of Sunday’s episode, in which football bros try to patch up a rivalry while casually enjoying a strip club and every other dude is […]
Ballin’ on Ballers: S1E03 and S1E04 Reviews
We asked resident Entourage apologists Rafael Gaitan and Mark Stack to team up and discuss each week of the spiritual Entourage sequel Ballers. This time out they’re examining a finance party gone horribly wrong/right and its aftereffects. Mark: Apologies to all our fellow sports fans for missing a week but, with Raf getting lost at the […]
Play by Play: Ballers S1E01 and S1E02
We asked resident Entourage apologists Rafael Gaitan and Mark Stack to team up and discuss each week of the spiritual Entourage sequel Ballers. This week they weigh in on both the pilot and the follow up episode and try to decide whether the show is first line material or washed out on arrival. Mark Stack: There came […]
Leaving Limbo: A Discussion About The Leftovers
The Leftovers is the newest hypeworthy HBO drama, helmed by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, the author of the eponymous book it adapts. Set three years after 2% of Earth’s population vanished into thin air with no explanation, the show hones in on the town of Mapleton, New York and the lives of the people […]
Complicated Games: Tech Gets Humanized in Silicon Valley and Halt and Catch Fire
I grew up around computers. Not in the same “born with a smart phone in my hands” way the current generation has, I’m just old enough that when my dad forced us to get familiar with them as kids it was still a novelty. Mario taught me how to type, Oregon Trail taught me all […]
TV Review: Silicon Valley 1.01 “Minimum Viable Product” (HBO)
1.01 “Minimum Viable Product” When I caught the premier of Mike Judge’s new HBO series Silicon Valley at SXSW last month, I said it was one of “the most promising plot driven comedies to hit HBO in ages” and after watching the pilot debut on tv last night, I’d like to correct that statement: Silicon Valley is one of the most […]