Author: Travlis Hallingquest

1996 was a particularly memorable year of my life. 1996 marked my freshman year in high school, and one of the events that happened over the previous summer

At the time of writing this article, HBO announced that Perry Mason was renewed for a second season.  This is no surprise, for mainstream critics and the writers

You’ve heard it already but it is true – this isn’t your grandparents’ Perry Mason. Gone are the courtroom scenes were a seemingly guilty Mason client is acquitted

The highlights of the six episodes of I Know This Much Is True, were the tour-de-force performances by Mark Ruffalo and a strong supporting cast. Ruffalo’s portrayal of

Let us continue our look at the Mark Ruffalo tour-de-force.  Episode 3: A distressing yet informative flashback, starts the third entry of I Know This Much is True. 

With serious television, comes serious subjects. Chernobyl explored one of the worst man-made disasters in human history. Big Little Lies explored how domestic violence led a group of

The season finale of My Brilliant Friend opens with Lenu’s academic advisor reviewing her senior thesis, the last assignment before graduation. The advisor is laudatory and genuinely proud

The unfortunate pandemic alleviated time for me to rekindle my gaming outings, and the editors of HBOWatch.com proposed writing a piece on a video game adaptation worthy of

The penultimate episode of this HBO & Rai collaboration continues to give us awe-inspiring storytelling.  Acting and razor-sharp teleplays have been hallmarks of My Brilliant Friend; now, directing

This week’s entry of My Brilliant Friend carries over the dark tone of the previous episode.  “Rage,” an unequivocally appropriate episode name, opens with the death of Giuseppina

Do you remember those instances during your childhood, or possibly during adulthood, when you got to exclaim the words “I told you so”?   Although never said, this is

Being a voracious reader, I take pride in finding the time to read the source material of adaptations before or during their original airings.  Unfortunately, this was not

When first published in 2004, Phillip Roth’s novel, The Plot Against America was interpreted by many readers to be a critique of the 43rd President’s tenure.  Roth, although

In 1883, poet Emma Lazarus penned the sonnet The New Colossus in an effort to raise money to construct a  pedestal that would anchor the Statue of Liberty,

Beautiful shots of 1940 New York City fill the frame of the opening scene of The Plot Against America’s second episode.  As the camera pulls back, we are