I am such a big fan of Holly Hunter as Grace Hanadarko on TNT’s Saving Grace. She brings an intensity to that role that reminds me of Glenn Close’s Patty Hewes on Damages, although the characters are very different. Patty is a lesson in control, whereas Grace is the exact opposite. But both get the […]
I’m really excited about tonight’s repeats. Did I just write that? Wow. You’ve got to hand it to the networks, because they know what they’re doing on Thursday nights — light on the unscripted and heavy on the quality repeats (and don’t forget a new Burn Notice … oh yeah). The first time Bones‘s “The […]
Welcome to part three of my four-part retrospective of Sesame Street on the occasion of it hitting the big 4-0. If you missed it, be sure to also check out part one and part two. As I’ve mentioned before, Sesame Street is everywhere on television and in pop culture (Scrubs, The West Wing, Angel… need […]
This week in webisode clack: lesbians and softball. And I don’t mean to imply anything by mixing those two together. It just happens that the lion’s share of my web video week was taken up by those two subjects. First, we have the hilarious new show, Seeking Simone, which charts one woman’s path into the […]
They say that procedurals repeat really well, and after looking at the lineup for this evening, I wonder if that’s because they are the only shows that networks show in repeats. It’s Wednesday night and there’s no Lost, I just can’t get on board with that. I can’t be the only one that would watch […]
(Season 2, Episode 1) This show is less about the sexual escapades — sexcapades? — of a bunch of upper-class, leggy girls and more like a series of life lessons by Chuck Bass. What did we learn in this episode? First of all, piped blazers are extra-fantastic. Secondly, if you find three chicks wandering around […]
