There’s good news in Television Land this Halloween … the holiday falls on a Saturday this year. What does this mean for you, the bloated, bleary-eyed viewer? Well, none of that weekday crap that clogs up the airways during normal times. Instead, the networks are free to air pretty much what they damn well please. […]

The teaser of this week’s Lie to Me ended with the main character, Cal Lightman, seemingly shot dead. There’s been a buzz since the airing that, because there was never any doubt that by the time the end credits rolled the human lie detector would be back on his feet, the drama was all manufactured […]

… a catalyzer! “Wait, a what?” For anyone who’s up on their Firefly lore, a catalyzer is that critical piece of equipment that a Firefly-class ship needs in order to function … pretty much at all. You probably would remember this piece best from the awesome Firefly episode “Out of Gas”, being the piece that […]

After watching this past Sunday’s episode of Dexter, for me, a couple of things about two of the show’s characters came back to the surface. I’m talking about Agent Lundy and Detective Quinn, two of the lesser-known and relatively newer characters on the show. There’s something about each of these guys that I’ve had a […]

Just so you know, I’m not saying that it isn’t. But the hype that the show’s getting, both at CliqueClack and everywhere else I’ve seen … doesn’t hype usually end in disaster, with a lot of tears and a high rate of teen pregnancy (huh?)? For starters, there’s the premise itself: the talking heads definitely add […]

Somewhere, in the Showrunners For Dummies book, there is a cross-referenced note from the Medical Drama and Holiday sections. It’s a rule that Halloween is a more important theme episode than any other holiday of the year. People just seem to be all kinds of crazy come the end of October, and, reliably, the workload […]

With most of the big sets out of the way, our DVD attention now turns toward the older shows. This week does offer a couple of current things from Battlestar Galactica, Adult Swim, and The Secret Saturdays. The real gems, however, come from years gone by. My pick for the week would be the new […]