Welcome to part two of my four-part retrospective of Sesame Street on the occasion of it hitting the big 4-0. If you missed it, be sure to also check out part one. I think, and you may disagree with me on this, that the absolute best part of Sesame Street are the songs. Yeah, the […]
This week’s column is all about new shows. Well, kind of. The Tonight Show certainly isn’t new, but Conan O’Brien hosting it sure is. I take a look at that, examine jungle morality with Frangela, and decide if The Listener is worth watching. Conan’s first day on the job I’ve been super-excited about the prospect […]
The cool thing to do, these days, is dump on Heroes. I’m not saying that the show doesn’t deserve it (because I’m not stupid), but it’s almost funny the kind of hatred that has developed for this show since, well, the first season finale. Despite the meteoric fall, I seem to have been one of […]
At least we’ll have the comic book continuation. It’s worked tremendously well so far for Farscape, Buffy and Angel. That said, Pushing Daisies charm is so much in the narration, the bright pastels and the whole tone of it visually and aurally that I fear it will be lost in the translation to a words-and-static-images […]
All I have to say is whew! I’m really, really glad I have my Supernatural DVDs and the screeners for the new fall shows to watch, because there’s nothing new on TV and all the repeats are FOX’s animated comedies. I’m all for a good laugh, and some cartoons are entertaining, but I honestly loathe […]
Weeds is back. And I don’t mean, like, returning to Showtime’s lineup (although season 5 premieres this Monday night, at 10PM), I mean, it’s BACK. As in, while season 4 was kinda Mexico crazy, season 5 gets right back into season 3’s saddle and gets us set for an awesome ride! Not ready for season […]
