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Josh Lasser is a freelance entertainment reporter/critic. His work has appeared in print, online, and perhaps one day in book form.

• The Life? Well, it’s Blood for Bram Stoker’s Dracula

  By Josh Lasser on October 10, 2007 • ( 2 )

  Originally released in 1992, Bram Stoker's Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, had an incredible look and feel. The sets, costumes, and all the visual aspects of the film were incredibly rich and complex. Happily, the same is true of… Read More ›

• Journeyman, Heroes, Chuck and Some Delicious Swiss Cheese

  By Josh Lasser on October 9, 2007 • ( 2 )

  I spent a good deal of last night pulling my hair out trying to figure out Journeyman. None of what I watch on the show makes any sense whatsoever. Dan Vassar actually remarked to his wife, Katie, last night that… Read More ›

• Silly Nova, Samurai Swords are for Hiros

  By Josh Lasser on October 8, 2007 • ( 6 )

  For their season premiere, Nova is taking a page from Hiro Nakamura.  On Tuesday October 9 at 8pm ET/PT, Nova will be delving into the “Secrets of the Samurai Sword.”  The episode spends the entire hour going through the entire… Read More ›

• And There I was, All Ready to Say Bad Things About Desperate Housewives

  By Josh Lasser on October 8, 2007 • ( 0 )

  I sat there last night watching Desperate Housewives and thinking to myself how I had to write today about just how disappointed I was with the episode.  The only plotline I remotely liked was Bree's going all insane over the… Read More ›

• The Bionic Woman has a Kitchen Nightmare while Pushing Daisies

  By Josh Lasser on October 4, 2007 • ( 0 )

  Did we watch Bionic Woman last night? After what I thought to be a middling first episode, I think the second episode kind of picked things up. In fact, I wish that the two had been aired back-to-back, because last… Read More ›

• Reaper is a Ripping Good Time, but Boston Legal Has Me Scared

  By Josh Lasser on October 3, 2007 • ( 0 )

  Sigh.  Eureka only aired its finale yesterday and I miss it already.  Sure, this Akashic field thing (the odd, probably alien technology that is making Kevin normal and smart and then paranormal) is weird, but the show was still a… Read More ›

• Head, Shoulders, Heroes Losing Toes, Losing Toes

  By Josh Lasser on October 2, 2007 • ( 0 )

  Let's take last night's Heroes first as we work our way around the television landscape. Last week I was disappointed with the episode, little happened, little seemed to even be set up.  It was not bad, it just seemed like… Read More ›

• The Housewives are Desperate, are They Worthwhile Too?

  By Josh Lasser on October 1, 2007 • ( 4 )

  I'll tell you honestly, I just don't know how I feel about last night's Desperate Housewives premiere. Despite my skewering the show repeatedly last season I was excited for it to return last night. I do tend to enjoy the… Read More ›

• Hey Fantastic Four – You Want Power Cosmic? I’ll Give You Power Cosmic.

  By Josh Lasser on October 1, 2007 • ( 0 )

  Watching Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is an interesting experience. Here is a comic book movie with little action and few fight sequences. It is certainly not a “thinking man's” movie as the plot is minuscule and there… Read More ›

• Jim and Pam and The Office

  By Josh Lasser on September 29, 2007 • ( 2 )

  Jim and Pam! Jim and Pam! Jim and Pam! Say it with me one time, people – Jim and Pam! Of course, we always knew those crazy kids would get together, and we knew from the first two minutes of… Read More ›

• If Back To You Fries a Fish is That a Kitchen Nightmare?

  By Josh Lasser on September 27, 2007 • ( 2 )

  Heaven help me, I think Back To You is funny.  Not fall down on the floor hyena-laugh funny, not Britney Spears comeback train wreck funny, not NY Mets preparing to bow out of the playoffs during the last week of… Read More ›

• Shining The Harsh Light Of Day On Moonlight

  By Josh Lasser on September 27, 2007 • ( 2 )

  Watching the new CBS vampire show, Moonlight, one gets the sense that the resurgence of science fiction/fantasy shows on broadcast networks may prove short-lived. It is a truism for television that when something works on one show, many shows and… Read More ›

• Don’t Fear The Reaper, Do Lose Your Cool With Denny Crane

  By Josh Lasser on September 26, 2007 • ( 4 )

  I have already discussed elsewhere much of my feelings about last night's Boston Legal, but to recap: frankly, I felt cheated. Actually, the TV I watched last night was entirely about being cheated, wasn't it? On Boston Legal the new… Read More ›

• The Slap Countdown Is In Effect, Will Heroes’s Hiro’s Hero, Takezo Kensei, Get Some?

  By Josh Lasser on September 25, 2007 • ( 2 )

  To say that I am thrilled with the return last night of Heroes and How I Met Your Mother is to totally and completely misunderstand who I am. I am not thrilled. I am not happy. I am not overjoyed…. Read More ›

• Arnold Goes Commando

  By Josh Lasser on September 25, 2007 • ( 5 )

  By 1985 Arnold Schwarzenegger had already starred in two Conan movies and the original Terminator. He was delivering solid action performances and had not yet reached a self-aware, post-modern stance that would require himself to wink at the camera before… Read More ›

• Looking For A Killer Time?

  By Josh Lasser on September 24, 2007 • ( 4 )

  From the opening note's of Dexter's theme music, the viewer is made aware that they are in for a dark, yet somehow funny tale.  Starring Michael C. Hall (Six Feet Under) as the titular Dexter Morgan, the show focuses on… Read More ›

• The Kids All Lived, But Will Frasier?

  By Josh Lasser on September 20, 2007 • ( 2 )

  What an odd, odd night of television for me yesterday, but it was network television, and there is just something wonderful in that feeling. It all started out simply, and mundanely enough, with the premiere episode of the new Kelsey… Read More ›

• Negotiating A New Take On Damages

  By Josh Lasser on September 19, 2007 • ( 4 )

  Something became abundantly clear to me last night while watching Damages — Ray Fiske (Zeljko Ivanek), the lawyer for Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson), has never, not once ever in his entire life, conducted any sort of negotiation. We know this… Read More ›

• This Journeyman Time Travels To See Moon Bloodgood

  By Josh Lasser on September 19, 2007 • ( 2 )

  NBC's new time travel epic, Journeyman, is a show so overloaded with backstory that much of the time one spends watching the pilot is used deciphering the interactions rather than focusing on the show itself. This might be a more… Read More ›

• With an Office Like This, Who Needs Enemies?

  By Josh Lasser on September 17, 2007 • ( 2 )

  So much is being said about the death of the sitcom. It seems as though the death knell of the sitcom has been sounded repeatedly for the past three or four years as some older show airs its last episode… Read More ›