Some time back, I wrote a piece where I spoke of my dread of the new ABC Family Christmas special, A Miser Brothers’ Christmas, based on the beloved characters from The Year Without a Santa Claus. Based on what I had seen of it, I predicted it would be dreadful. I also promised that if […]

(Season 3, Episode 13 – “Chapter 13: Dual”) The thing about tense situations in Heroes is that they kind of don’t matter. For instance, in tonight’s episode, nearly everyone’s life was in danger at some point in the episode. Since it’s Heroes though, even if they do die, it doesn’t necessarily matter, since no one […]

(Season 2, Episode 11 – “The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis”) Hey, I didn’t know Leonard’s parents were in New Jersey. Has he mentioned this before? I wonder where in New Jersey. Oh, wait. He’s a fictional character. Never mind. He just doesn’t seem to scream New Jersey to me.Ah, but that’s not important. What’s important […]

(Season 4, Episode 11 – “Little Minnesota”) OK, I have to admit, when I first saw the title of this episode, I thought maybe they were writing Alyson Hannigan’s pregnancy into the show and we were going to find out Lily was pregnant. You know, Marshall’s from Minnesota, “Little Minnesota;” it was a clever connection […]

(Season 2, Episode 13 – “Earthlings Welcome Here”) In general, I’m a pretty snarky bastard, so during the opening scenes of the episode, when we were introduced to the Eileen character, I thought she totally sounded like a dude. I chided myself for being mean, and was going to let it go. Then, of course, […]

HBO’s middle-east mafia mini-series, House of Saddam, came to a rousing conclusion Sunday night. Personally, I would have liked another two hours to properly tell the tale of Iraq’s vile dictator and his wacky family, but beggars can’t be choosers. There’s more than enough blood and betrayal in the final two chapters to satisfy. Part […]

(Season 17, Episode 14 – “Say Goodbye to Gabon” – Season Finale) I’ll tell you here that things progressed about as you would have expected from last week’s elimination of Crystal … for awhile. But then, as almost always seems to happen with well orchestrated plans, someone comes along and wins an Immunity Challenge and […]