After the dramatic entrance of V last week, there were no similar big splash stories to lead things off this week. Then, as I was perusing the year-ago numbers, something occurred to me. It’s quite possible that FOX could improve both Monday and Thursday at 9:00 if they swapped Fringe and Lie To Me. If […]

Sometimes Community gets so meta it makes my head spin. Ever since the pilot, Community has seemed very aware of the fact that it is a television comedy, complete with familiar sitcom characters. In this episode, Abed (who is the character who breaks down the fourth wall on a regular basis) basically says, “You guys, […]

Parks and Recreation has never been (and probably will never be) the best, or most talked about, show on NBC. That being said, I’ve watched every episode, and for the most part have enjoyed them. One thing is for certain: it’s a heck of a lot better than Kath and Kim was, regardless of what […]

I don’t know about you, but I was very excited for this week’s episode of Curb, and I was not disappointed. From the Monk’s Cafe and Jerry’s apartment stage sets, to Newman (Wayne Knight) walking through Jerry’s door, it felt like old friends getting together again. Which it was. All that was sorely missed, by […]

While I’m not giving refunds to dissatisfied customers, I am asserting my claim that this was quite possibly the best episode of television that Showtime has ever aired. I mean, just the perfectly executed confluence of events that didn’t play as over-the-top. Each knock at the door could have popped the balloon, but it just […]

One of the reasons I decided to watch the original short-lived series, The Prisoner, was the news that AMC was producing this remake. It also didn’t hurt that the new series was planned from the start to last only six hours and had two stellar stars attached to it: James Caviezel and Ian McKellen. By […]

Now we know why the tear in the veil between the Underworld and the land of the living is really, really bad. Besides undead monsters, like the screeling from last week, the Keeper of the Underworld can send back dead people, who kill more victims for the Keeper in order to stay alive. When Richard fights, he now has to worry about his enemies coming back as banelings.