I won’t waste your time or mine. I only watched fifteen minutes, and I haven’t seen all the new shows yet, but I’m ready to declare Knight Rider the worst new show of the season. KITT is now evidentally a Transformer. He literally transforms from a car into a truck at one point (though not [...]
Sitcoms come in two general flavors: the workplace sitcom, and the family sitcom. Cheers and Cosby. 30 Rock and Leave It to Beaver. A recent trend among family sitcoms is the acknowledgment that family structure can be complex in our modern day, too. Gary Unmarried is an example, featuring Jay Mohr as a newly divorcing [...]
A cynical, smirky rogue solves crime using his nearly inhuman observational skill, which is mistaken for psychic ability. Why yes, that is the premise behind USA’s Psych. But it’s also the pitch for The Mentalist, Tuesdays this fall on CBS. I haven’t been this unimpressed since Medium showed up as Ghost Whisperer. The pilot episode [...]
Good enough. Not good, but good enough. Are you the kind of viewer who expects a sitcom to deliver a little mindlessness at the end of a long day? Are you the kind of viewer who thinks Arrested Development or 30 Rock asks too much from you? If your TV is on CBS on Mondays [...]
One doesn’t expect much from an awards show. Give me some small feeling of being friends with these people who make movies and TV. Let at least some of the jokes not be lame, maybe have a few entertaining moments, tell me whether my favorites are the favorites of others. I’ll trade you a few [...]
Privileged is the story of Megan Smith, a journalist struggling because she wants to do REAL journalism instead of fluff. (Yes, we’ve seen that before. It won’t be the last overused story element.) Her boss essentially fires her, but offers to set her up with another employment opportunity, presumably interviewing or writing for an uber-wealthy [...]
In case you missed it, SNL opened their season with a pretty excellent sketch pointing out how ridiculous it is to compare Sarah Palin and Hilary Clinton as female politicians, and how worthy Palin’s rise to prominence is of ridicule. Is it me, or did Tina Fey knock it out of the park? Her performance [...]
The only thing worse than the one-dimensional lady’s man played by Jerry O’Connell is the unbelievable way he suddenly reverses his habits when his staff confronts him. His main antagonist making herself a hypocrite helps slightly, but not enough to make this show worth sitting through. No, the three-camera sitcom is not dead. But, no, [...]
Alan McCoy tagged me, and I didn’t even realize it. But when I updated wordpress, there it was, the request for me to list six things people (generally) don’t know about me. I won’t tag anyone else, because I’m pretty sure I’m the last blogger alive to do this one, but here are my six [...]
I never did get around, some while back, to completing a top-ten list of best television pilots of all time. However, I’ve no doubt Lost would have made the list, and Alias would have been in strong contention. So the level of expectation I bring to a J.J. Abrams pilot likely isn’t fair. Then there’s [...]
It was supposed to be a nice, relaxing summer. My number of tutoring hours each week down to a trickle, I made no attempt to seek more work. I could survive financially through the summer, and get some writing done. Life was slow and relaxing for a little while, but then August slammed me in [...]
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