Television

The Best Anti-Heroes on Television

May 24, 2010 Television

What is it about anti-heroes that draws us to them? Is it that they play by their own rules, or that they fly in the face of social norms? Maybe it’s simply that living in darker times, we identify more readily, even if only on a subconscious level, with those who are flawed, much as [...]

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Fox Television: Serial Show Killer

May 21, 2010 Popular Articles

Fox television is a strange little network.  For some reason they keep landing cutting edge shows with incredibly tight writing.  Comedies, Dramas, Animation, all sorts of shows that pushed the barriers of modern entertainment. After acquiring these jewels, they proceeded to play three card Monty with the time slot thus preventing any sort of fan [...]

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Relationships and Torchwood: Children of Earth

April 23, 2010 Television

[Here there be spoilers! Reader beware!] I got a lot of good feedback after my post about Torchwood’s sexuality.  Impassioned comments and emails came my way declaring much love for the show.  Some folks agreed with me while also admitting the wanton sex was a draw for them.  Others heralded Ianto Jones (we’ll get into [...]

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The Bisexuality of Torchwood

April 12, 2010 Popular Articles

[Here there be spoilers! Reader beware!] Before I begin there’s a confession I must make.  I am very late to the game on Torchwood and Doctor Who (don’t even ask about Battlestar).  The reason I finally bit the bullet with Doctor Who was the constant "this show is awesome!" from some friends of mine.  When [...]

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When Good Writing Goes Bad: Sanctuary

March 10, 2010 Popular Articles

[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 Movies

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 Television

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 Television

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 Popular Articles

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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