The painting pictured above was shown a couple of times in this episode of Breaking Bad, as Walter stared at it in his hospital room. I chose to put it here because it really spells out the theme for this show, at least from Walter’s point of view. Like a seaman of centuries past, he […]
This week in Jane’s World, I saw the light regarding that punk-rocker vampire Spike, and it was bright and shiny. But 24 is making me blue, and those mannequins are freaking me out. Read on for my clacky thoughts, and feel free to add your own in the comments. Buffy Update: I’m feelin’ the Spike […]
March Madness is wreaking havoc on CBS shows, in general, reality genre or not. I suppose the whole thing could be construed to be one huge reality show, brackets and all. But I won’t be covering it. Nothing against basketball, but I never understand why the college games are virtually ignored by major networks all […]
After last week’s episode, several commenters wondered about how Sayid and young Ben Linus were going to be interacting. I suppose I never really considered that Ben might be in danger from Sayid. I mean, we know where he will be and what he will be doing 30 years in the future, so I don’t […]
(Season 5, Episodes 7-9) Well, just one episode of The Wire left. I was a little nervous at first, figuring that there was too much to wrap up, but then I saw that episode ten is an hour and a half long. Thank goodness. I was a little upset that this season was only ten […]
Before I get to my big revelation about Damages this week, I first have to say what a fabulous actress Marcia Gay Harden is. A friend of mine sat four feet away from her two days ago, watching her on stage with James Gandolfini and Jeff Daniels in God of Carnage on Broadway. That Harden […]
It was an odd week of television. The current sweeps period continues to cough up odd nights of repeats. This time, NBC took Monday off, to disastrous results. In not quite as disastrous news, the mid-season debuts continued, as ABC premiered Better Off Ted and NBC finally gave us all a look at Kings. On […]
