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Monthly Archives: May 2009

24: What happened to the last guys who tried to be like Jack

Yep, it’s official: Freddie Prinze Jr. will be a Jack wanna-be on Day 8.
He’ll play “Davis Cole, a U.S. Marine who wants to follow in the footsteps” of our man Jack.
Guess what happened to the last guys who tried to be the next Jack:
• Day 3: Chase Edmunds: Dated Kim Bauer. Secretly had a child [...]

Damages – It sucked me right back in …

We never got around to watching Damages this year when it was actually on the air, but we dutifully recorded it to catch up with some time.
There, an entire season sat, taunting us.

I remembered that last year, with Season 1, we knew, somehow, that we were going to like the show, but just couldn’t get [...]

Better Off Ted: Pretty funny, actually

Over two or three days last week, we watched the entire first season of one of the few sitcoms left on television, Better Off Ted.

Part of why it works, I think, is because it doesn’t try to ground itself in reality. It is a satire of the corporate world and does not pretend to be [...]

The state of science fiction on TV

As it is with every year, a whole bunch of science fiction-y shows were canceled at the end of the season, but I have to give it to the networks for trying a bunch of new ones next year.
It was so hard to keep track of the comings and goings during the upfronts, but SciFi [...]

Ratings: Worst. Season. Ever.

OK, I guess the TV seasons before most people had televisions were worse, but this season was for the birds, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The four major networks (that’d be CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox – sorry CW) lost an average of 16 percent of viewership in the coveted “demo” – adults 18-49. That includes [...]

24: Season finale

I know there are many people out there who don’t agree with me, but I thought last night’s finale was rather good.
Look, it’s 24, and it’s been written so deep into a corner over the past several years that it’s amazing they’ve been able to write their way back out.

But the rebound from last season [...]

24: Tony Almeida – good or evil?

With tonight being the TWO HOUR season finale of 24, I had to set up a poll:

Is Tony Almeida truly evil or will he turn out to be good?(ning polls)

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Dollhouse: Renewed?

The official announcement won’t come until tomorrow, but The Hollywood Reporter says Fox has ordered another 13 episodes of the low-rated sci-fi drama, Dollhouse.

At the start of the season, I was a bit take-it-or-leave it about the show. But as the season progressed, it got far more complex and, frankly, sinister. I still haven’t seen [...]

Lost: The Incident

I’m glad I took a day to think about the season finale, because my thoughts and theories about last night’s Lost have evolved over the past 24 hours.

So let me just get right into it and tell you the absolutely bat-guano crazy idea I have.

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Lost: Mindfrak

I keep starting and erasing this blog post because I hardly know what to say. I need to let all this sink in.
Wow.

(BTW, I cried when you-know-who fell you-know-where and the other you-know-who cried.)

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