The writing was always an incredibly important part to the success of the show. Aaron Sorkin, all things being equal, is probably the best dialogue writer on television. Ever (Yes, I said ever). When he left after season four, it took some time for the show to find its voice again, but I contend that […]

Everybody’s talking about the return of Thursday night destination television — I don’t know what’s being broadcast where the rest of you live, but in my house, things are so dead that I was able to screen the premiere of Cold Case last week while waiting to watch The Office tape-delayed. DEAD. I’ve gotten the chance to screen […]

Let me just start out by saying that I don’t feel so bad for talking about video games to my newborn son five years ago, when Dexter’s telling little Harrison about how he kills people. However, my five-year-old is now sorta crazy about video games so … what’s that tell you about Dexter’s son’s chances? […]

Writing my preview piece last week, I got so excited about the coming season of Californication that I dropped everything else that I had to do and popped in the screener DVD right then and there. And it was so good that I insisted that my wife — who hates the show — watch the entire dinner […]

My impatience with waiting for the Seinfeld reunion on Curb Your Enthusiasm led me to take advantage of my screener last week. Alas, no luck on episode two (and a scratch on episode three, entitled “The Reunion,” cut my viewing short at minute two!). However, you’ll be happy to know that I took what some of you […]

Road trip! For what I believe is the first time in Sunny history, the gang actually packs up for vacation and heads off for the Grand Canyon, bringing their special brand of crazy along for the ride. A long vacation was something new for the gang so I was really interested to see what would […]

We’re in the midst of it all now. This week the Emmy’s (un)officially kicked off the new fall season with an outstanding performance by host Neil Patrick Harris, Glee turned in a killer episode, and we saw the first cancellation of the season. One more week and most of the new fall shows will have […]