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Tag Archives: television
Pulp Consumption: Sneaky Pete
If you’re a con man who has been recently paroled but people you conned are out to get you, what do you do? Maybe you assume a new identity and ply your conjob skills on other people. That’s exactly what … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-hero, crime fiction, Giovanni Ribisi, Justified, television
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Pulp Appeal: Firefly (and Serenity)
There aren’t many self-respecting fans of science fiction who haven’t at least heard about the masterpiece Fox television show Firefly, sadly cut down in its prime by network executives without a clue. At the time of its release, I … Continue reading
Pulp Consumption: Psych
HAPPY NEW YEAR! One aspect of pulp both Matt and I haven’t really touched upon is humor. Pulp is often thought of as being a serious genre, and since so much of it is focused on grit, violence, and noir … Continue reading
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Tagged detective, humor, John Wick, private investigator, psychic, television
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Pulp Consumption: Justified
Long Hard Times to Come JUSTIFIED was a law-and-crime show that ran for six seasons on FX, and starred Timothy Olyphant as US Marshall Raylan Givens and Walton Goggins as the criminal Boyd Crowder. The show was based off characters … Continue reading
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Tagged action, detective, Elmore Leonard, hard-boiled, hillbilly, Kentucky, Pulp, television
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Pulp Appeal: Tales from the Crypt
A couple years ago there was a rumor (which turned out to be correct) M. Night Shyamalan was resurrecting one of my favorite television series of all time: Tales from the Crypt. I was simultaneously ecstatic and revolted, as anyone … Continue reading
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Tagged EC Comics, horror, suspense, tales from the crypt, television
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Pulp Consumption: Into the Badlands
Calling Into the Badlands pulp may be pushing the boundaries of pulp too far for some people. I’ll even admit that it’s at the edge for me, but comic books are in many ways the inheritors of pulp, and Into … Continue reading
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Tagged action, adventure, martial arts, post-apocalyptic, television, wuxia
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Pulp Consumption: True Detective (Season 1)
True Detective was[1] a short-lived HBO anthology series, with each season covering a different plot, sort of like American Horror Story on FX. That’s where the comparisons with the longer-lived show end. True Detective combines multiple sub-genres within pulp, including … Continue reading
