From the category archives:

Television

When Good Writing Goes Bad: Sanctuary

March 10, 2010

[If you haven’t seen seasons 1 & 2 of SANCTUARY, then this post will spoil like a mofo’.  Reader beware.]
Sanctuary was one of my favorite guilty pleasures on television.  Part X-Files, part monster hunters, the show follows a team that specializes in capturing and studying the monsters (known as Abnormals) hiding amongst humanity.   The [...]

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Swimming Through My Head

March 5, 2010

Earlier this week I had a very six degrees of separation kind of night, flowing from one train of thought to another like a slow moving ADD victim.  It all started with me searching through Hulu for a video clip (damned if I remember which one) when I stumbled across an episode of the Late [...]

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Guilty Pleasures, Television

January 12, 2010

I’m not much for television in general (at least according to network schedules) and haven’t had cable in years.  Most of the time word of mouth or an interesting premise steer me toward new shows.  I try to keep up with the big ones, but it’s the little gems that I really love discovering.  Something [...]

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The freedom and repression of Mad Men

September 23, 2009

I’m very late to the game when it comes to Mad Men. The show is now in its third season and I’m only just finishing the first season episodes. For those unfamiliar with the program, it revolves around the lives of New York City advertising execs (known as "mad men" because their agencies were on [...]

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What happened to taking chances?

May 16, 2009

During a lazy weekend conversation, my girl asked “Why don’t TV shows take chances anymore?”  Looking at the current status of the small screen, you find a plethora of safe, “tried and true” stories.  They may be entertaining, but they’re far from ground breaking and definitely not sparking any cerebral conversations.  There are a few [...]

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