I don’t know about you, but for me, when it’s time for summer TV, I need a bit of a break from the heavy fare of regular network programming. Emotional intrigue and deliciously complex plots are all well and good when it’s really cold and your brain needs to keep working in order to not […]
As many of you know, we have our own take on “Jumping the Shark,” with a twist: We all know when shows start to suck, but when do good shows become truly great? When that occurs, we call it “Blowing the Hatch.” Interestingly enough, our name for this phenomena comes from a moment when a […]
(Season 1, Episode 3) Ah, here we go! After seeing this episode, I think I kind of, sort of understand what Firefly is trying to do. The first two were interesting but left me a little confused about what I was watching. As reader MarcDom7 pointed out in my last post, the pilot was an […]
If you missed the season four premiere of Weeds or the pilot of Nurse Jackie earlier this week, they’re on Showtime tonight beginning at 9 PM. I had a few things to say about Nurse Jackie in my See Jane Clack column this week. It had to do with … House, a marathon of which […]
Mr, and Mrs. Television, time’s up! If you didn’t know it already from the dozens of on-air notices that bore a little hole in your brain to make sure you remembered, today is the day that the United States goes digital. Sometime between now and the end of the day your favorite television networks will […]
I’ve been watching Mental since it premiered a couple of weeks ago, and caught the premiere episode of Nurse Jackie this week, too. It’s hard not to draw comparisons to House with both of these shows, although I don’t know that either show is truly like House, which is in a class by itself (even […]
(Season 1, Episodes 13-16) Yes, last week I (facetiously) said that I was looking for more issues that I could relate to directly, such as a student sleeping with a teacher (which happened at my high school in my senior year). Little did I know that one of the next episodes was going to feature […]
