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TV v. Film: The Kick-Ass Women of TV
On Tuesday, I wrote about some of the ways television creates strong female characters. Now, film has its share of powerful women — Ripley, Sarah Connor, Thelma & Louise, and Clarice Starling, to name a few – but television has the luxury of creating equally powerful characters and then building upon them for multiple seasons. [...]
Continue reading...Finale Thoughts: Bones and House
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Finale season is over. The networks have all fired their big guns, looking for ways to hook their audience into returning in the fall. Since seasons that neatly wrap things up in a pretty plot package topped with a bow of satisfying character resolution don’t really get people talking around the water cooler, most shows [...]
Continue reading...TV Haiku: Season Finale Edition
Monday, May 19, 2008
Of course, the one week I need to take off is the same week the season finales start to air and the networks hold their upfronts. More on the latter later this week, but I can at least write a bit about the former. What to do when I’m so far behind that I have [...]
Continue reading...Dem Bones, Dem Bones
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
There are rumors swirling that a tentative agreement has been reached and the strike is almost over, to which I say, “La la la I can’t hear you!” It’s not that I don’t want the strike to end, of course, but there have been so many rumors over the last few months that, until I [...]
Continue reading...- Fall Cleaning
- Why I Hate British Soaps
- On the Fringe of Quality TV
- Revisiting Pushing Daisies
- They Can Be Heroes
- Why I Can't Commit to Mad Men
- Big Ideas and Humiliating Holes
- Project Runway Takes a Break
- 5 Predictions for the 2008 Emmy Awards
- Meet The Bee
- Scooter McGavin: I did mst of my "Fall Cleaning" a couple years ago...
- Kate: I, too, have a mad crush on James May. I do hope h...
- Carrie: Er...I didn't know Hole in the Wall was on. I will...
- Carrie: I've only seen the opener, and it didn't do much f...
- helenf: No hate or love for Hollyoaks? It's great as a lig...
- Big Ideas and Humiliating Holes
- House Trained
- They Can Be Heroes
- Revisiting Pushing Daisies
- Fall Cleaning
- Why I Hate British Soaps
Latest Videos
Supernatural returns this Thursday, and about damn time, too.
The BBC has released the first trailer for Merlin, the 13-episode retelling of the famous fantasy saga. The series will also air on NBC this winter.
Kristen Chenoweth uses the power of song to explain exactly why crystal meth is a bad thing. Some NSFW language.
Heroes returns September 22, and it looks awfully shiny and pretty. I’m looking forward to giving it another chance, even with Sylar still in play. Stupid Sylar.
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Wednesday’s top picks:
Pushing Daisies visits the circus on tonight’s episode, all but guaranteeing a visual feast. ABC, 9:00
On tonight’s Bones, Brennan and Booth solve a murder. Never saw that coming, did ya? FOX, 8:00
At long last, Project Runway heads to the finale. I’m watching this, then I’m done with this show. DONE, I tell you. Bravo, 9:00
I should be done with America’s Next Top Model. I would like to respect myself again. And yet, I can’t seem to look away. CW, 8:00
Thursday, August 7, 2008
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