Is it ever okay to kill a patient? As House says, “I don’t think we’ll be dealing with any more genocidal dictators,” when Chase asks if he will be fired. But maybe they will deal with someone else loathsome? At some point, does it become easier to take a life? How far does the line […]
How I Met Your Mother, oh how you made me laugh tonight. Yes, Marshall and Lily were annoyingly cute (but Barney and Robin were back to their snarky selves) and I got really sick of gouda jokes, but you made up for it in infinite ways. For instance, I didn’t know just how funny tweed […]
I’ve been a bit hard on Heroes this season, and I don’t think I’m alone, but tonight I saw a little bit of hope. I was genuinely caught by surprise at the end of this episode. That’s not to say that I enjoyed every bit of this episode, but I have to give the writers […]
If conventional wisdom is to be believed, every little girl dreams of her wedding day with the same raptness devoted to wanting to be a princess or ballerina, only unlike these dreams, this one never dies. These little girls clearly never watched television. There are tons and tons of shows dedicated to every aspect of […]
Just a few weeks ago, I absently wondered how the writers planned to dovetail a lot of aimless wandering into season-ending cliffhangers on Army Wives. Well, not only did they do so, but they managed to give each and every player a question for us to ponder over the hiatus. Well, almost. Roxy and Trevor […]
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 […]