April 29, 2009 – 10:16 pm
For a fleeting moment tonight, I thought that my beloved Lost was about to abandon the conceit that you cannot change the future, that what is going to happen is going to happen and there’s damn little you can do about it. Did I mention how fleeting that moment was? Remember, if you will, that [...]
I was chatting with a friend on Twitter yesterday about the crime that is the all-but-certain cancellation of Kings. I first met Dan during the (partly successful) fan uprising to keep Jericho on the air. For those of you unfamiliar with the late, lamented CBS show, here’s the basics in a nutshell: A tale of [...]
April 24, 2009 – 10:16 pm
I haven’t written about this entry into the Terminator canon on this blog yet, primarily because I could only promise to follow so many shows and didn’t want to fall behind. As it was, I fell very behind on TSCC and only finally watched the season finale last weekend. In the interim, there’s been much [...]
I never really thought Breaking Bad was light fare. In fact, I thought it was one of the more intense shows on television, the story of a high school chem teacher whose insurance won’t cover the only treatment that might save him from dying of cancer. So he does what anyone in his situation would [...]
Didn’t watch? Don’t read. That’s all I’m gonna say. They could not have made Tony look any more suspicious last night if they’d said to him, “Hey, Carlos, make Tony look really suspicious tonight.” Actually, that’s probably what they did. Thing is, Tony knows that if anyone could sniff out his duplicity, it’s Jack. And [...]
I was predisposed to liking Harper’s Island for a variety of reasons. First, it was a good murder mystery in the vein of the finest Agatha Christie. Second, it was being exec produced by Jon Turteltaub, who was part of the team that brought us Jericho. Dan Shotz and Karim Zreik are co-exec producers – [...]
April 19, 2009 – 11:21 pm
When I first heard the premise for Kings – a modern-day interpretation of the David v. Goliath tale from that old chestnut, The Bible – I was intrigued. I love it, frankly, when there’s a modern-day take on a classic tale – biblical or not. One could argue, of course, that almost everything is a [...]
When I volunteered to do this week’s Carnival of Bauer!!! I didn’t realize I’d not only be the lucky one to host a carnival about the (brief) return of Kim Bauer, but also the (possible) turn to the dark side of Darth Zombie Tony Almeida. But I’m the luckiest girl in the world, as we [...]
How totally awesome was it that the title came from a complete sub-sub-plot, wherein Hurley is writing a new and better script for Empire Strikes Back, one that negates the need for the Ewoks in Jedi. We all know by now that there’s no way to change the future, so he is doomed to never [...]
April 13, 2009 – 10:31 pm
I almost don’t know what to say. OK, I know one thing to say: If you haven’t watched tonight’s episode of 24 yet, stop reading NOW. NOWWWWWWW. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. In fact, tonight’s episode was so frakkin’ unbelievable that I’m not going to write ANOTHER WORD before the jump in case someone [...]
