Category Archives: TV Series Analysis

A Look Inside: The Sopranos The HBO’s groundbreaking series, The Sopranos, redefined television from the moment it premiered on this day back in 1999. Its depiction of the mafia through the eyes of conflicted mob boss Tony Soprano, played with iconic brilliance by the late James Gandolfini, transcended genre limitations to become a profound explorationContinue reading “A Descent into Moral Grayness”

A Look Inside: Scenes From a Marriage This weekend concluded the new HBO miniseries Scenes From a Marriage (Hagai Levi) based on the 1973 Swedish TV miniseries written and directed by Ingmar Bergman with the same name. I was immediately drawn to the series because the leads were played by Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain both whom IContinue reading “Marriage, Divorce & An Endless Trauma”

A Look Inside: WandaVision & The Stages of Grief While the hype and excitement for the first Marvel & Disney+ series has died down, I wanted to take some time to talk through the overarching themes of grief and trauma and how they are portrayed in the series. Since the beginning the character of WandaContinue reading “Learning to Live with Grief”

A Look Inside: The Sinner – Season 1 I continually find myself analyzing TV series or films that focus on the aspects of memory and how humans interact or handle their own memories. I guess you can say I am genuinely interested in the topics of cognitive and neuro science at least how they playContinue reading “The Complexity of Human Memory”

A Look Inside: A Teacher (FX on Hulu Series) WARNING: Contains Spoilers! A 17-year-old high school student who is looking to up his SAT scores to get into the University of Texas runs into his new English teacher at a local diner and she offers to tutor him. Their after-school sessions soon turn intimate butContinue reading “Beneath the Surface”

A Look Inside: The Queen’s Gambit WARNING: Contains Spoilers! In October of last year Netflix released The Queen’s Gambit and just after four weeks it had become Netflix’s most-watched scripted miniseries. The series dramatizes the unprecedented rise of (fictional) chess prodigy Elizabeth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) through the grandmaster ranks of chess champions in the 1950sContinue reading “The Fine Line Between Addiction & Obsession”

A Look Inside: HBO’s Sharp Objects With the incredibly wonderful and talented Amy Adam’s turning 46 years-old tomorrow (August 20th) I thought it would be fun to take a deep dive into the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018). Sharp Objects is a psychological thriller series based on Gillian Flynn’s 2006 debut novel of the same name that premiered on JulyContinue reading “Music as an Escape”

WARNING: May Contain Spoilers! Johan Renck and Craig Mazin’s 2019 historical drama tragedy miniseries Chernobyl followed the events of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 1986 and the clean-up efforts that follow, both physically and politically. The series is celebrated for its thought-provoking depiction of the dangers of nuclear technology and its detailed account ofContinue reading “Chernobyl: A Balance of Denial and Truth”