Since becoming a parent, I’ve noticed that I tend to process my television differently than I once did. Events that pre-baby I found merely sad, I now unintentionally relate to, and the result is generally harrowing. In honor of its 100th episode, Criminal Minds gave me one of those experiences last night, with the return […]
(Season 4, Episodes 11-14) While Lindsay races to the bottom of my “enjoy” list, both Ellenor and Jimmy are slowly surfacing to a tolerable level. I was actually impressed a number of times by the competency that Jimmy showed, and Ellenor is becoming somewhat of an interesting study. I do think the show could use […]
Thanksgiving never is the peaceful holiday that we all intend it to be, is it? It always involves a lot of running around, stressful visits with family, headaches, and scheduling mishaps. But never in my life have I experienced a Thanksgiving quite like the Hecks’. Of course, Frankie’s obsession with Black Friday, and the pre-sale […]
We like gossip, don’t we? We love a good piece of juicy gossip that we can chew and chew, rehashing it over and over again until we’ve milked the last one-liner from it. Who cares who it hurts? What does it matter if the person on the other end is watching, has children, is trying […]
After more than six seasons, last night saw a rather interesting progression in the camaraderie of the NCIS team. I’m sure there are those among you in the position to correct my mistake, but as far as I can recall this was the first time that the entire team celebrated a holiday together, a show […]
This is one of those nights that I’ve been anxiously awaiting evaluating, as I continue clacking the television week dream. Ignoring the recent success CBS has enjoyed on Mondays, I’d have thought that it was an historically dead night for them. And boy would I have been wrong. It’s tough in a lot of these […]
The success (or failure) of tonight’s episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm — the show’s seventh season finale — really depends on what you were expecting from it. If you were tuning in to see an addendum to Seinfeld the series, you were definitely disappointed. But if you wanted Larry David’s traditional wit, with a sprinkling […]