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From the title and promo artwork, I thought we were looking at some kind of sketch/variety show.  Doesn’t it look a lot like the latest Tracy Ullman effort or something?  But United States of Tara is actually a dramedy about a woman suffering from multiple personalities disorder, created by Steven Spielberg and written by Diablo [...]

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Time Magazine has published their Top 10 Everything lists for 2008. Their television list is gorgeous.  Rare is the top-ten list that neither panders to pop nor eschews favorites just to feel more artsy.  I thought my favorites this year were pretty esoteric, so I was greatly pleased to see how much they agreed with [...]

Tuesday night saw the series finale of The Shield.  It’s place among my top five television shows is secure for a very long time. The pilot episode of The Shield was magnificent.  Following that mighty start, the conclusion of just about ever season (number six being the exception, due to interruption from the writers’ strike) [...]

Samantha Who? becomes appointment television. Until recently, my opinion has been that Samantha Who? functions primarily off of the charm of Christina Applegate.  I’m only up to the third episode in the second season, but that third episode, “The Pill” was fantastic television.   Finally the show included some real chemistry between Samantha and her supposed [...]

Cartoon Network aired two episodes of this series back-to-back. The second one was much better than the first. Listening to Yoda talk backwards for a half-hour, annoying it will get. (The third episode was better still.) Clone Wars takes place sometime between the first and third new movies.  Personally, I find it difficult to go [...]

All right, fine. So I’m about a bajillion years behind in reviewing all the new fall shows.  I’m still doing them, if only to force myself to power through the DVR and catch up.   Several things turned me off in the first few acts of Sanctuary.  Biggest was the first main character we meet, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]