Fellow Clacker Jason made mention a few weeks ago of a show I’d never heard of before called Durham County. The reason I’d never heard of it before was because it’s a Canadian-produced show that, until this month, hadn’t been on U.S. television before (it started airing season one on September 7, on ION). In […]
It’s no secret that I’m a huge Twin Peaks fan. When we started tossing around the Blow the Hatch idea, I knew exactly what that moment was for me on Twin Peaks. In the second episode of the show (not including the TV movie pilot), agent Dale Cooper has a dream. A super trippy, David […]
As I wind down my summer series of looking at how different shows deal with their MacGuffins, I want to talk about Desperate Housewives. I have to start by disclosing an important bit of information: I only watched the first two seasons of Desperate Housewives, so I can’t really comment on the latest few seasons. […]
Alfred Hitchcock was a brilliant man who made innumerable contributions to the world of entertainment, both in cinema and television. One of these contributions was his popularization, if not creation, of the term MacGuffin. If you are unfamiliar with the word, it essentially means the object, whether tangible or intangible, that drives the plot of […]
(Season 1, Episodes 4-7) I’m seven episodes in now and some of the questions that I had after watching the first three episodes of Six Feet Under have been answered. I got to see that boring death in the opening scene, and I’ve learned a whole lot more about Brenda and who that strange guy […]
I must not be, because the show has been enough of a hit to run for four seasons. So why has NBC been treating this fan favorite like dirt? I’ll give you a clue: they’re either douchebags, or idiots, or both. First, they push Medium back to a midseason premiere in favor of Christian Slater’s […]
