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Modern Family is hands down my favorite new show of the season: its pitch-perfect cast and remarkably assured tone have delivered what could easily be one of the strongest first seasons ever for a sitcom. And though it uses the now oft-imitated mockumentary style of The Office, execution is everything; it easily bypasses the [...]
Tonight I felt the uncontrollable urge to make a bar chart illustrating my current progress in particular seasons of some shows I’m watching. I blame this behavior on Demetri Martin, Nicholas Felton, XKCD and the ridiculous amount of data I get to sift through at work every day.
The only thing more ridiculous [...]
“All I ask is one thing, particularly of young people that watch: please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism — for the record it’s my least favorite quality, it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re [...]
So SNL’s ratings have been absolutely killer this election season and while the explosion of Tina Fey has been nothing but all-around goodness, I realized that for me the most indelible moment of all of the election skits was actually this one. I think it was while watching this that it finally hit me [...]
I gotta confess, Hulu is probably the best thing that ever happened to me. Case in point: they’ve already got the third season premiere of 30 Rock a week before broadcast. Can’t say it’s the strongest episode — some cast members seem visibly, well, different back from hiatus — but hopefully they’ll be back to [...]
God, I love promo posters. There’s nothing better to get you excited about new seasons — and I don’t just mean in the television sense.
I saw plenty of promos for season 2 of Mad Men on my recent trip to New York. I don’t know if there’s anything particularly symbolic about this imagery, but man [...]
30 Rock episodes are broken into one teaser and three acts.
Lost episodes are broken into one teaser and five acts.
Battlestar episodes are broken into one teaser and four acts.
Heroes episodes are broken into one teaser and five acts.
HBO has no commercial breaks.
There are twelve cylon models.
I was listening to an old “This American Life” the other night. The topic was the influence of television, and while I was listening to Ira Glass describe his unabashed love for The O.C. (which he shamefully calls “trashy”, shortly before admitting that he cried when it went off the air) it occurred to [...]
I’ve gotta admit, I’m really curious how The Sopranos ended. And not having watched any of the series beyond its first three episodes, the dilemma is truly epic: should I just go ahead and find out what happened in the finale, or do I start from the beginning and pray that nobody spoils it [...]
