I’m a big fan of the English monarchy. The lifecycle of Britain is absolutely fascinating, and the Tudor dynasty was one of its most colorful. Deep breathe everybody: King begat Duke, whose illegitimate son, John Beaufort, had a granddaughter, Lady Margaret. By Margaret’s marriage to Edmund Tudor, illegitimate half-brother of King Henry VI, she became […]

After watching this past Sunday’s episode of Breaking Bad (for the second time — I have the first seven episodes as screeners), I was about to write up my usual weekly post about the episode. Then I took a look at the traffic we get for posts about the show and my heart sank. This […]

It was a bad week to be in a relationship in the Heroes world. Loving, committed, couples were splitting all over the place. Noah and Sandra, Danko and Elena, Matt and Mohinder… all hitting rough patches. That was, of course, just the framework. The real story was a mix of the excellent (cat and mouse […]

Oh my goodness! I knew from a variety of sources that something shocking was going to happen on House. I knew that a cast member would be leaving. However, I didn’t know that it would happen tonight. For some reason, I thought last week’s preview was more for the rest of the season in general […]

Let me begin this post by saying there will be no spoilers before the jump … but wow! I don’t mean wow just for the reveal of who died on House tonight, but because of the way it was handled. Every character’s reaction was so true to who they have shown themselves to be thus […]

(Heroes 3×22 – “Turn and Face the Strange) Apparently Danko has people whom he loves, or loves him, or something. The whole concept is confusing to me, so I’m not exactly sure what’s going on. In any case, he takes control of the government’s “Kill all the Heroes” project, and it puts said loved ones […]

This one threw me for a loop. I have plenty to say, and I certainly never shy away from editorializing, but to avoid getting bogged down in some of the insanity from last night, let’s just start from the beginning. First of all, last week I noted that I felt Tionne Watkins was an angry […]