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Monthly Archives: May 2009

Fringe: A big freakin’ cup of awesome

Every Tuesday night, I sit with my laptop, futzing around on the Internet while watching Fringe. I knew I’d like it – it is J.J. Abrams, after all – but the first couple of episodes promised to be as infuriatingly mysterious as Lost, but not nearly as interesting and character-driven. Whoa – was I wrong. [...]

Dollhouse: How can a pretty decent show that features hot women with little clothing do poorly in the ratings?

Liking Dollhouse was predetermined for me. From the brain of Joss Whedon (Firefly, Buffy), a sci-fi look at a shadowy organization that keeps a cadre of men and women in a “tabula rasa” state until they’re needed for any one of various missions for “clients” and then programmed with the necessary personality and skills. It [...]

The Carnival of Bauer!!! … filler episode edition

Honestly, it’s hard to get too excited about an episode that was so obviously filler and in which so little happened. I mean, what does it say when Kiefer Sutherland headbutting a fashion designer on the streets of Manhattan in defense (kinda sorta) of Brooke Shields is almost more interesting than the Monday episode (for [...]

Lost: Follow the Leader

Our favorite Lost characters tonight showed, once again, that you can’t change the past, no matter how hard you try. Miles caused his father to kick his mother off the island. Jack is going to cause the incident. Locke kept the circle of the compass being passed around for all eternity going by having Richard [...]

Kiefer Sutherland goes Jack Bauer on a fashion designer

That’s actually a true story. People magazine had the tale, about how Kiefer was talking with Brooke Shields and this designer said hello, and, long story short, he ended up head-butting the designer. But why read the real story when you can read the first-person accounts on Blogs4Bauer (one of which was written by me)? [...]

NBC brings us a new post-apocalyptic drama: Day One

Just got the news that NBC Universal is going to have a show that should be very cool in the fall (still no word on Chuck, though Heroes got renewed): Day One. Here’s the official description: From executive producer/writer Jesse Alexander (“Heroes,” “Lost,” “Alias”) and director Alex Graves (“Fringe,” “Journeyman”), “Day One” tells the story [...]

Supernatural: Just plain super

The last three episodes of Supernatural have been utterly, well, super. “The Monster at the End of This Book,” “Jump the Shark” and “The Rapture” took the show to truly new levels and also took some potentially shark-jumping moments and made them new. First, with “Monster,” the thought that someone out there was writing the [...]

24: Jack has a moozure

I don’t know why I’ve had a hard time this week writing about 24. I think it’s a combination of factors: Tony is so utterly bad (unless he’s not) – boo! Chloe’s back – yay! Jack’s dying – boo! Jack went off on Janis Gold (otherwise known as Grimace, in some circles) – yay! Larry’s [...]