Author Archives: Grayson Clary

We can’t help but feel that the season three premiere was “Game of Thrones” on training wheels.

As if the heavens heard us and felt compelled to answer, Netflix released “House of Cards.” With a $100 million budget, a cast of bona fide movie stars and David Fincher directing, Netflix’s first original program immediately established itself as “serious” television — that is, when it wasn’t being called a very long feature film by its writer-showrunner, Beau Willimon.

The human condition, they say, is terminal; so are most television series.

Since this will be our last installment before winter break, we thought we’d take the time to talk about a special subspecies of television: the holiday episode.

SN: This week, we look at the first installments of “Last Resort,” which seems to aspire to be the next “LOST”: a massively popular hourlong network drama the likes of which we haven’t seen in a long time. “Last Resort” is about the crew of a Navy submarine armed with nuclear missiles and stealth technology: »

GC: We wanted to kick things off with the high-concept drama that’s brought J.J. Abrams back to a small screen near you: “Revolution.” (NB: he’s only the executive producer, but his fingerprints are all over it.) The premise ought to be compelling — the lights have gone out, and they’ll never come back on. The »