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This is the Job:
“Homicide” - Season Three

Posted by michael.re.nj | February 25, 2010 .

“I gotta do this, this is my job. This is the deal, this is the law, this is my day. I have no doubts or suspicions about it. Heart has nothing to do with it anymore - it’s all in the caffeine.” -Detective Frank Pembleton
Homicide: Life on the Streets [...]

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Welcome To The Killing Streets:
“Homicide” - Seasons 1 & 2

Posted by michael.re.nj | January 26, 2010 .

“Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been. When Cain threw a cap into Abel, you don’t think the Big Guy told a couple of fresh uniforms to go down and work up the prosecution report. Hell no, he sent for a fucking detective.”
-David Simon

Tracing all [...]

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Pushing Daises

Posted by michael.re.nj | December 1, 2009 .

The short lived and utterly peculiar series Pushing Daisies may not leap to the lips of anyone cataloging the high points of genre TV over the last few years (in case you missed the memo, the internet would like you to know that the ought’s are ending, and the appropriate way to mark [...]

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BSG

Posted by michael.re.nj | November 3, 2009 .

“There’s a dark cloud rising from the desert floor, I packed my bags and I’m heading straight into the storm. Gonna be a twister to blow everything down that ain’t got the faith to stand its ground. Blow away the dreams that tear you apart. Blow away the dreams that break your [...]

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V

Posted by michael.re.nj | September 8, 2009 .

It’s only natural that every era produces works which fail to fully withstand the rigors of time. To make a piece of film or television truly timeless requires an almost impossibly delicate balance of strong vision and thoughtful collaboration between all parties involved, from writers and directors to set and costume designers. Perhaps [...]

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Cowboy Bebop

Posted by michael.re.nj | August 11, 2009 .

Cowboy Bebop
27 Episodes
Bandai Visual Company / Sunrise
1998
“And there, ahead, all he could see, as wide as the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun, was the square top of Kilimanjaro. And then he knew that there was where he was going.”
-Ernest “Papa” Hemmingway
When I started thinking about writing a column on television, [...]

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