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Captain America Made Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Better, But Still Not Great | Underwire | WIRED

Captain America Made Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Better, But Still Not Great | Underwire | WIRED

The crossover of the plot from <em>Captain America: The Winter Soldier</em> to <em>Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.</em> was a shot in the arm for the TV series, but maybe not enough of one.

How to tell that I didn’t write the headline for this Wired piece about the effect Captain America: The Winter Soldier had on Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD #1: I never use periods in “SHIELD” anymore.

How to tell that I didn’t write the headline for this Wired piece about the effect Captain America: The Winter Soldier had on Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD #2: I would have said “But Still Not Good,” never mind “Great.” Because that show, man.

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Beyond Fargo: 10 Movies That Would Make Great TV Shows | Underwire | WIRED

Beyond Fargo: 10 Movies That Would Make Great TV Shows | Underwire | WIRED

Now that FX has turned a Coen Brothers cult hit into a TV series with Fargo, here are a few other flicks that deserve their time on the small screen.

Last thing to shill for awhile – I have to go write new things for today! – but this relatively tongue-in-cheek guide for 10 other indie crime movies that could be made into TV shows includes two ideas that I ended up thinking could actually work on television. Who knew?

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‘Over Easy’: Mimi Pond Talks About Her Memoir of 1970s Cafe Life

‘Over Easy’: Mimi Pond Talks About Her Memoir of 1970s Cafe Life

Over Easy, the fantastic new memoir by Mimi Pond, marks another new achievement for the LA Times and National Lampoon cartoonist and occasional television writer (Amongst her accomplishments, the first full-length episode of The Simpsons): her first graphic novel.

Also from/for the Hollywood Reporter, I talked to Mimi Pond about her enjoyable Over Easy, a fictionalized memoir of her time as a waitress in 1970s Oakland. Again, there’s stuff that didn’t make it in. Maybe I should start a “cutting room floor” thing for Tumblr…

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‘Doctor Who’ Comic Writers Discuss Plans for ‘The Eleventh Doctor’

‘Doctor Who’ Comic Writers Discuss Plans for ‘The Eleventh Doctor’

Beginning this July, Doctor Who is back — in comics, at least (The television series won’t return until the fall), with two new series following the Tenth and Eleventh incarnations of the long-running science fiction character being launched by U.K.-based publisher Titan Comics.

I had the honor/pleasure of talking to alewing and robwilliams71 about their upcoming Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor series from Titan Comics. There’s a bunch of stuff that didn’t make it into the finished piece, and I’ve been wondering whether to share it on Tumblr or not…

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Could ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ Be Too Enamored With the Original Movies?

Could ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ Be Too Enamored With the Original Movies?

One thing that can’t be said about J.J. Abrams’s Star Wars at this early stage: it’s not reverential enough to the source material. With each new piece of information released about the project, it’s clear that Abrams and his collaborators have the earlier movies – and, most obviously, the original trilogy from the 1970s and ‘80s – in mind as both inspiration and target of aspiration.

In between getting more and more angry with Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD today, I also wrote this for THR about the dangers of nostalgia in making the new Star Wars.

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It’s possible that you might have thought that series like Millionaire Matchmaker and The Real Housewives of [Insert City Here] marked some kind of nadir for shameless reality television, but Bravo—ever the innovator in this area—has proven otherwise with the announcement of its new programming slate. After all, rich trashy women in America is one thing, but when you bring them over to London, that’s a whole other ballgame.

I wrote about Bravo’s new programming slate for Wired. It was therapeutic.
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Creators Talk ‘Amelia Cole’ Surprise, Success and New Collection

Creators Talk ‘Amelia Cole’ Surprise, Success and New Collection

Last week’s 14th issue of Amelia Cole was a game-changer for the mythology of the magical young adult series to date, ending one long-standing threat while revealing a larger one waiting in the wings (Imagine Harry Potter gleefully offing Voldemort in the third book, and you have some idea of what this means).

In which the wonderful Adam P. Knave and DJ Kirkbride talk about the equally wonderful Amelia Cole comic.