Swords and Sex Game of Thrones HBO, Sundays, 9 PM “Winter is Coming” Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Directed by Tim Van Patten In April of 2011, two lavishly produced television series set in the past debuted, one on Showtime and one on HBO. One of them is about a struggle for power among petty kings, accompanied by poisonings, bribery, treachery, assassination, bastards, incest, and rape. The other one is about the Borgias. I found one thing hilarious and one thing disturbing about the premiere of HBO’s much-hyped series, Game of Thrones. The hilarious thing was the producers’ straight-faced…
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Fringe: “Earthling”
Ashes to Ashes Fringe Fox, Thursdays, 9/10 E/C “Earthling” Written by J. H. Wyman & Jeff Vlaming Directed by Jon Cassar It has been ten years since the feature film The Astronaut’s Wife was released. Tonight, we get a re-run of that movie, crossed with a handful of old X-Files episodes. And I loved every minute of it. A man is alone in his penthouse apartment when lights start going on and off, and a shadow seems to follow him around the room. When his wife gets home, she sees him sitting in a chair, apparently frozen. But when she touches him, he dissolves…