Category: Featured
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Mad Men, “The Good News”
As 1965 approaches, Don has realized that his life is a complete mess and decides to take a break. Until some bad news spurs him on to create another mess of a life.
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Friday Night Lights, “Thanksgiving”
At the end of season three, if most Friday Night Lights fans were asked for guesses about the end of season four, I’d imagine many, if not most of them would have said something like this: After a season of adversity, the rag-tag group of East Dillon Lions pull it together just in time to…
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Keepin’ it local — Musings on the last few weeks of Warehouse 13
I haven’t updated with my thoughts on the last few weeks of Warehouse 13, so this is going to be a more general post about the last three, I believe — all of which were very, very good.
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AMC breaks bad with its schedule — No Breaking Bad until July 2011
Breaking Bad ended its otherworldly third season in early June, leaving its fans breathless and wanting more just like the meth addicts the series’ Walter White cooks for. Unfortunately, it looks like we will all be waiting just a little bit longer than expected.
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Does anyone actually believe Ryan Murphy?
Note: I’ve been missing my old IDS gigs where I bashed out weekly 500-600 word columns and I feel like the blog needs more time sensitive material that’s not just post-air analysis. Thus, I’ll be trying to write something of a weekly column that will touch on one specific item in the industry. I hope…
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The Good Guys, “Don’t Tase Me, Bro!”
I have to admit, this episode was after my own heart based on its title alone. Please tell me you all catch the reference. If you don’t, watch this video.
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Mad Men, “Christmas Comes But Once a Year”
Last week, we were given the great honor of joining Don Draper right as his life feels like it’s falling apart and he’s hitting the bottom. This week? It seemed to only get worse.
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Friday Night Lights, “Laboring”
I’ve always thought if the end of a season sneaks up you, chances are that the series has been doing something right all year. Such is the case for the fourth season of Friday Night Lights.
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Burn Notice, “Where There’s Smoke”
For the most part, despite their quality on an individual level, the last few episodes of Burn Notice have totally ran together for me. I watch them, I’m entertained and then it just completely seeps away from my brain. For most USA series, that’s fine, but I expect a little more from this one.
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That’s a wrap: Extended thoughts on Comic-Con 2010 and what series are buzzing
As you hopefully know, I’ve been away for the last week or so, and for the last part of that trip, I was in San Diego for my first Comic-Con experience.
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Mad Men, “Public Relations”
I’ve been clamoring to get to the Mad Men season four premiere since it aired for the first time on Sunday night, but my traveling home and subsequent sleep deprivation kept me from doing so until early this afternoon. I was also kept from reading others’ thoughts on the premiere effort, “Public Relations,” which perhaps made me…
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Psych, “Romeo and Juliet and Juliet”
I’ll put this out there: I think Psych is one of the most underrated series on television. It’s oftentimes broad and James Roday is an acquired taste, but rarely do I LOL more than watching an episode of the series. So of course I was excited to have the series back for its fifth season…
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White Collar, “Withdrawal”
I really enjoy White Collar. I watched every episode last season, most of them live. I think Matthew Bomer and Tim DeKay are fantastic together. But the series clumsily handled both its mid-season and season finales last year, making me wonder if it should just drop any major mythology and simply focus on fun cases, the leads’…
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Welcome characters, knowing drama and more — Discussing branding approaches by cable and broadcast networks
A few weeks ago, a number of critics and TV-related folk were blowing up my Twitter feed with their discussion on the greatness of USA Network. In short, these folks were watching screeners of White Collar‘s second season and the first few episodes of the network’s new series, Covert Affairs. They loved them. If I…
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True Blood, “9 Crimes”
Back after the holiday break, True Blood turned in what was probably its finest episode of a still-weak third season. Less scatterbrained and more emotionally resonant (especially early on), “9 Crimes” suggests things might just calm down despite the 1,306 storylines happening right now.
CB, PhD 