Category Archives: TV

Stranger Things – The X-Files meets the Goonies

Posted on September 24, 2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Everyone’s experienced that specific frustration – an embittered envy that occurs when someone else has thought of something that should’ve been obvious to you before the fact. Take any ubiquitous modern technology; say Smartphones, they’re so practical and indispensable to … Continue reading →

Posted in TV | Tagged Beetlejuice, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Edward Scissorhands, Escapism, Fandoms, Fox Mulder, Heathers, Homages, I want to believe, Joy Division, Matthew Modine, Monotonprodukt 07, Netflix, Nostalgia, Stranger Things, The Bunker brothers are bastards for thinking of this first, The Clash, The Evil Dead, The Goonies, The Smiths, TV, Winona Ryder's terrible wig, X-Files | Leave a comment

Gomorra – this is ‘real greaseball shit’

Posted on July 25, 2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

One of the best sequences and lines in movie history comes from Goodfellas. Henry Hill, played by Ray Liotta, narrates over the death sequence of his friend Tommy DeVito, who, thinking he’s going to get made, is murdered in revenge … Continue reading →

Posted in TV | Tagged Al Capone, Camorra, Ciro, Don Pietro, Genny, Gomorra, Gomorra La Serie, Goodfellas, John Gotti, Lady Imma, Mafioso, Martin Scorsese movies, Mike Tyson circa 1987 swinging a salmon, Naples, Savastano dynasty, The Dickensian aspect, The Sopranos, The Wire, TV | Leave a comment

Fargo – uniquely reimagined.

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

First, a confession – I only finished watching both seasons of Fargo the television series this week. Had I read the reviews, which I don’t, yet in partial hypocrisy I’m writing one here (partial, as nobody will read this), I … Continue reading →

Posted in TV | Tagged Billy Bob Thornton, Ed & Peggy Blumquist, Fargo, Furries, Hank Larsson, Hanzee Dent, Jabberwocky, Jerry Springer, Kansas City mob, Lester Nygaard, Lorne Malvo, Lou Salverson, Mike Milligan, Minnesota winters, North Dakota accents, Rubicon, The Gerhardt family, True Detective, TV | Leave a comment

Narcos – a lesson in the necessity of myopia and hypocrisy

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

If, like me, you’re over the age of thirty, you may remember seeing the news of Pablo Escobar’s death on the telly. Perhaps, if like me, you were young at the time, it and his significance may not have had … Continue reading →

Posted in TV | Tagged Basil Exposition, Boyd Holbrook, Cocaine, Colombia, Hypocrisy, Javier Pena, Medellin cartel, Myopia, Narcos, Pablo Escobar, Pedro Pascal, Reaganism, Steve Murphy, The War on Drugs, TV, Wagner Moura | Leave a comment

Homeland has become a mess, but I can’t stop watching it.

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Look, I’m a complete sucker for literature of the spy and espionage genre, particularly John le Carré’s works in relation to the Cold War. This applies to on screen efforts too, be it films such as ‘Spy Game’, ‘Day of … Continue reading →

Posted in TV | Tagged 9/11, Carrie Mathison, CIA, Claire Danes, Damien Lewis, Dar Adal, Homeland, I'm a sucker, Interventionism, Islamophobia, Isolationism, John le Carre, Mandy Patinkin, Peter Quinn, Saul Berenson, Scepticism, Sgt. Brody, Showtime, Smiley's People, Spooks, Spy Drama, Spy Game, Terrorism, The Day of The Jackal, The Lives Of Others, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, The War On Terror!, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, TV | Leave a comment