What a weird little world Larry David lives in. Yes, it’s largely designed to seem as small as it does, but to have something as asinine as a guy sitting in shorts on an airplane come full-circle for Larry as he’s running from an angry boyfriend…? I only hope Curb is heavier on fiction than fact, […]

It was a strange week for ratings. Brett Favre playing against Green Bay made for a huge Monday Night Football (21.84m/9) audience on ESPN. And then the baseball playoffs ran through the rest of the week, calling a lot of the seemingly odd drops in viewers into question. Despite that increased competition, there was some […]

While Don will surely keep Sal’s secret, his help certainly ends at the point where Sal’s homosexuality starts affecting the work. That’s what I wrote about the season premiere, in which Don and Sal had their awkward adventure in Baltimore. Don knows all about wanting to keep certain aspects of your life private from those […]

I would be remiss to talk about my favorite moments of Lost and not discuss Ben and Locke’s trip to Jacob’s cabin in “The Man Behind the Curtain.” For so long, we had wondered about Jacob, details trickling in slowly (very slowly) over time. Heck, we didn’t even know his name for a few seasons. […]

I’d say Hank’s about what I’d expect him to be as a teacher. Aside from the loving care he shows his students — one was so passionate about Hank’s feedback that he attempted to commit suicide last week — he draws naked doodles during staff meetings, makes crude jokes to the head of his department, and attempts […]

From what I’ve heard and read, a lot of writers for movies and television feel that the voicever is a cheap tactic. To have to rely on putting a character’s thoughts out there verbally, rather than via visual cues or good old fashioned acting and writing, is sometimes seen as a cop out. Dexter‘s a […]

The week that NBC proved to everyone that they don’t care about hour long dramas anymore, they at least gave Jim/Pam ‘shippers the moment they’d been waiting for, a very special Wedding on The Office. Matt Damon showed up on the Entourage finale, and got a good one in on Drama. And Glee proves that […]