Basket of Kisses

Boy, they weren’t kidding with that episode title, were they? This episode was the episode of secrets getting revealed or at least discussed. I wonder if I can even list all of them. Let’s list all of them.

A chupacabra is a beast of folklore. Like the yeti or Loch Ness monster, it’s rumored to exist but no proof of its existence can be found. It’s mostly rumored to exist in the Americas, especially Spanish-speaking countries. As far as the scientific evidence goes, signs point to it being the result of coyotes badly [...]

Dude, that episode was just bad. Just… bad. Look, I know I can’t expect weekly top-notch quality from this show, but this? The most memorable scenes from this show were thoroughly gratuitous. And the big walker scene was one big idiot plot. If you don’t know that term, it means a plot that relies on [...]

James Bond 23 – now officially titled Skyfall – will face its greatest challenge in his spy career—be a worthy Oscar contender next year. Casting Albert Finney can’t hurt. Entertainment Weekly extracts from Matthew Weiner’s take on his renegotiations with AMC (and the alleged impact on other shows) from the interview with his sister,  freelance [...]

Firing the entire writing staff seems to have been a good move for this show. The show is a lot better this season. Oh, sure, it isn’t cliché-free like Mad Men strives to be. This episode has both an incredibly predictable “Just in the nick of time” moment and a shirtless scene for the cast [...]

Sorry for the late post. Different sort of technical difficulties this time. The details aren’t worth going into. Bloodletting, as a whole, was very light on the zombie action. The first walker who shows up is past the halfway mark of the episode. Instead, this week the episode is actually about its plot. Namely, the [...]

Well. I certainly had some technical difficulties tonight. For reasons I won’t go into, I had to watch it live (twice, of course) instead of on the screener ahead of time. Which is fine, or would be if our DVR was working. Instead I had to watch like in the primitive stone age of the [...]

Welcome back, brain trustees. This is the open thread for the season premiere, What Lies Ahead. A good name for a season premiere, I think. The Basket isn’t planning on running open threads all season unless you guys really insist, but for the season premiere? We gotta. Speculate, deviate, and elucidate in the comments below.

… but you managed to. You see, this post was all set to be an open thread following along with the mini-marathons you’ve been showing FOR MONTHS NOW. It was beautiful. It was pristine. A treat for the fans–starting with the very first of Season One, three episodes every Sunday morning. We’re almost at the [...]

Matthew Weiner talked to Vulture about The Playboy Club, Pan Am, and his relationship with AMC.  Pandagon’s Amanda Marcotte uses the interview as a springboard to arguing there may really not be an audience for true period shows. Matt, Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Aaron Staton and Vincent Kartheiser will host a fundraiser for [...]

Aoltv.com has an interview up with the creators of Walking Dead, answering a lot of questions about Season 2. It promises to be a jam-packed season. To quote Mazzara from the interview, “You won’t get a breather until episode 4″ Hurd: “We love our fans. We actually pay attention … I mean, I literally read [...]

At Vulture: “After All Its Behind-the-Scenes Drama, What’s Really Going On at AMC?” AMC is actively mulling a Watch What Happens-like talk show designed to air after signature dramas such as The Walking Dead and Mad Men, and it’s hired the same production company behind Bravo’s hit to produce it. io9 has suggestions for the [...]

AMC has released a set of new teasers for the upcoming season 2 of Walking Dead. They’re teaser videos, so nothing is really given away, but they do their job of getting you excited about the show. And, of course, providing snippets of reviews as well. The Beginning of the End Don’t Make a Sound [...]