Everyone has their price. So argues Wayne Malloy (Eddie Izzard) at the outset of the second season of the FX show, The Riches. As the audience quickly finds out, that “everyone” includes Wayne himself. The Riches follows the Malloy family… Read More ›
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A Question About Oceanic 815 and Jin
Today we start off with the big question from last night's Lost episode. Does Jin die on the island or does he just remain behind? I'm sure that the vast majority of folks out there believe Jin to have died,… Read More ›
I am Hereby Enchanted
Spoofing one's self is always a dangerous proposition. If you don't poke quite enough fun at yourself you will be seen as soft; poke too much at yourself and you risk destroying all your previous work. Magically, wonderfully, Disney managed… Read More ›
Bugatti! I Like Top Gear
I know very little about cars, I can admit that. In fact, I happily admit it. I think there's no shame in not knowing about cars. I can drive a stick and have been known to go 88 MPH on… Read More ›
…And Justice For All? I’d Watch it, but I Wouldn’t Believe in it
Perhaps at the time best known as the director of In The Heat of the Night or Fiddler on the Roof, in 1979 Norman Jewison directed Al Pacino in the legal drama …And Justice For All. The film, though at… Read More ›
Which Old Witch? The Wicked Witch of The Celebrity Apprentice
I feel as though a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. I woke up this morning and the air seemed fresher, the sky brighter, and all the birds were chirping. I felt as though I'd entered a new, better… Read More ›
How I Met Your Mother is one of the Funniest Shows on TV… and You’re Killing it
To clear up a misconception, not only do I watch an inordinate amount of television, I read an inordinate amount about television. After all, how can one fully stay up on the television news if one does not read about… Read More ›
Balki is Back as Perfect Strangers Comes to DVD
Everyone has their favorite television shows from years past. Some shows from our childhood will always hold a special place in our hearts. Watching some of these programs on DVD years later can be a depressing experience. Well, the television… Read More ›
Oh That Top Gear, I am Smitten
Okay, I've only seen two episodes so far, but Top Gear is quickly becoming my favorite show on television. I'm contemplating TiVoing the old episodes that BBC America is airing along with the new ones so that I can see… Read More ›
I Hope Fox and The Simpsons Never Get Unhitched
I was sitting there last night watching The Simpsons, when a thought struck me (the same thought that usually strikes me when I watch The Simpsons) — how have these guys been doing the show for so many years and… Read More ›
I Think The Celebrity Apprentice may be Lost
Ah Lost, how do I love thee, let me count the ways… First, the intricacy of the plot amazes me. In a world in which so many shows seem to operate on an episode-by-episode basis, where things seem to be… Read More ›
Digging Up Some Dirt with Courteney Cox
The fallout from the writer's strike is going to continue to last for some time. Premiering this Sunday, March 2, is the second season of FX's Dirt, which, due to the strike, ended up only producing seven episodes instead of… Read More ›
Top Gear Runs Hot, but quarterlife Leaves Me Cold
I know I'm a day late with this one, but hopefully I'm not a dollar short… Top Gear. The new season started on Monday night on BBC America, and though I'm not a gear head, I'm an instant fan. I'd… Read More ›
Justice League is Back… Again.
It seems as though the number of “origin stories” in the comic book world vastly exceeds the number of superheroes. It feels as though every few years the origins of our favorite heroes and groups are reexamined, rethought, and retold…. Read More ›
Well Feather my Velociraptor and Call me Shirley (Nova Sure Does)
While in no way belittling those who study dinosaurs, it feels as though anytime a science documentary series is not quite sure what to do their next episode about dinosaurs are trotted out. Dinosaurs are the “go to” animals. People… Read More ›
The Cashmere Jungle’s Lipstick Mafia
This was the week it finally happened. I confused Cashmere Mafia and Lipstick Jungle. I was watching both last night, one after the other, which probably had something to do with it. It's a mistake that I would not make… Read More ›
Hacking and Slashing Through Zemeckis’s Beowulf
In the motion picture industry it seems that technological improvements never cease. Sometimes they lead to amazing and wonderful things (the original Star Wars) and sometimes they don't (Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace). A few years ago… Read More ›
What the Television Networks will do to Spite Me
Fine, I get it, I see where I stand. Week after I sit here and tell people how great the cast is on Law & Order, how it's really gelled once more, how it's fun to watch again, how I'm… Read More ›
Highlander – The Source Makes Me Wish the Franchise Wasn’t Immortal
Some franchises never seem to go away. They may ebb and flow, but they do not disappear. Some franchises appear to be immortal. Such has been the case with Highlander, a franchise that started with a film in 1986, has… Read More ›
The Spring of my Televisual Discontent
It's a weird feeling. The writers' strike is over and I feel like television is now starting to wind down, when instead I ought to think it is spooling back up. American Gladiators is done. Las Vegas is done. Terminator: … Read More ›
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