2012 Emmy Nominations
This year’s Emmy Award nominations were announced yesterday. Surprisingly, some of my favorite shows actually made the short list. Unfortunately, it’s all for naught, given that the same series that won last year and t...
This year’s Emmy Award nominations were announced yesterday. Surprisingly, some of my favorite shows actually made the short list. Unfortunately, it’s all for naught, given that the same series that won last year and t...
12 people are dead and up to 50 were injured during a mass shooting at a midnight screening of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ in Aurora, Colorado. I have no words to express my disgust and outrage at this horrific event. (Doe...
I happened to notice in the credits that series creator Alan Ball wrote this week’s episode of ‘True Blood’, his first of the current season. One would presume that means that something important must happen in t...
As I’ve certainly made clear by now, I’ve been incredibly disappointed with ‘The Newsroom’. Some critics who were in a fortunate enough position to receive advance DVD screeners from HBO (I’m not, and...
The so-called “Limited Series Event” (how that’s different than a miniseries, I’m not certain) ‘Political Animals’ is quite ambitious by the USA Network’s standards. The show features a fe...
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Is it really possible that the USA Network’s dopey spy drama ‘Covert Affairs’ is now in its third season? I guess I’m not the only one out there still watching. I’m not sure what keeps me attached to ...
As I noted earlier in the week, the big Criterion Collection sale at Barnes & Noble started on Tuesday and will run through July 30th. Since we already did a Roundtable about our favorite Criterion discs during the last one o...
As some of you may have gathered by now, I didn’t particularly care much for Ridley Scott’s misguided ‘Alien’ prequel, ‘Prometheus’. I thought it was terrible. We’ve already had this argum...
It occurs to me that one of the reasons I’ve been underwhelmed by the current season of ‘True Blood’ is that the show has largely been missing the humorous elements that used to make it so much fun. I think the w...
The TNT network debuted another new summer series this week. It’s about a super-smart consultant who helps law enforcement solve murders. Sounds amazingly original, right? But wait, this guy’s totally a character, who ...
I really want to like ‘The Newsroom’. Honestly, I’m not rooting for it to fail. I want it to be the show that it has the potential to be. Unfortunately, from the episodes that have aired so far, it has become gla...