http://assets.espn.go.com/i/tvlistings/tv_espn_original.gif en-us 10 ESPN Inc. http://espn.go.com/ Copyright 2010 ESPN Inc. "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" wasn't a particularly good episode of Game of Thrones. I found it draggy and digressive, which was a surprise consideri...]]> May 13, 2013 07:30:42 PDT Superhero stories have racked up the biggest box office numbers in history — so why haven't they worked on TV?]]> May 08, 2013 03:23:44 PDT Lord Petyr Baelish may be small of finger, but he is large where it matters most: Few men in Westeros are his equal when it comes to cruelty, and none...]]> May 06, 2013 07:29:02 PDT The traditional place to start a story — particularly a story featuring beautiful maidens, brave knights, and extravagant, fairy-tale weddings &...]]> April 29, 2013 07:15:22 PDT Plenty of people like to say "TV is the new movies." It's meant as a compliment: Look at all this great writing and non planet-exploding storytelling!...]]> April 26, 2013 10:30:19 PDT Warren Buffett, one of American capitalism's own Masters of Coin, is often credited with introducing the phrase "skin in the game." It turns out the L...]]> April 22, 2013 07:25:44 PDT How nerd fetishes and relentless fan service are stratifying television into creative limbo.]]> April 16, 2013 16:07:11 PDT If a comedy falls on a Friday, does it make a sound? That's the puzzle presented by Happy Endings, television's most consistently funny sitcom. A few ...]]> April 12, 2013 14:00:40 PDT The last decade of great television dramas has primarily been about pushing willing audiences past hoary storytelling signifiers like "good" and "bad....]]> April 11, 2013 08:40:57 PDT Plus the Breaking Bad spin-off, terrible HBO theme songs, and answers to the rest of your questions in this month's TV mailbag.]]> April 09, 2013 16:51:47 PDT A toast to the the lucky ladies of Westeros! Yours is a continent teeming with options for the modern woman. Will you choose to be "intelligent" as yo...]]> April 08, 2013 07:17:27 PDT I hate the sight of blood. Not in real life, where I tend to order my steaks the way Lil B prefers his swag, but on television, where arterial splatte...]]> April 04, 2013 12:30:31 PDT The best show on TV faces the big wind-down.]]> April 02, 2013 17:33:12 PDT Looking back, it was easy to spot the signs. It started with the wild binging on the first-run rights to Hollywood movies, an exercise in quality-irre...]]> March 28, 2013 11:51:24 PDT How Game of Thrones became the most important show on television.]]> March 26, 2013 16:38:36 PDT