“We know more about what Huey Long represented and the emptiness at the core of American political culture from reading Robert Penn Warren than from contemporary journalistic accounts of Long’s reign. We know more about human pride, purpose, and obsession from Moby-Dick than from any contemporaneous account of the Nantucket whaler that was actually struck …
Maybe you’ve seen the promos for Undercover Boss calling it the #1 New Show. Maybe you’ve seen the ratings. I’ve been mocking those promos mercilessly. I couldn’t believe CBS chose to give this show the post-Superbowl slot. Then last night I got sucked into an episode at the gym. I found myself feeling the same way about …
(Image from ABC.com) I actually really enjoyed that episode of Lost on Tuesday night. It felt for the first time that we were actually getting somewhere. Questions answered rather than just more questions. But the whole Richard episode, at every moment when he declared over and over again how much he wanted to live – …
Also blame the complicated relationship we few, proud FNL fans have with our favorite show: the reason we love it is because of its unflinching honesty and respect for the truth of its characters. And yet because we love it so much we hide our eyes when terrible things happen and we wish desperately for …
The Watcher: Not That Good or just Not For Me? Thoughts on ‘Big Love’ and ‘Breaking Bad’. Fascinating. Especially because I often struggle with this same dilemma. One of my good friends loves Big Love. So at her insistence, I tried to watch it, I really did. But the whole thing just sort of bored …
Happy New Year! I have chosen to spend the first day of the New Year, avoiding confronting a task I don’t want to do and watching TV. Sounds about right. I realized that I never finished the second season of the new Dr. Who series, and I was inspired by a BBC America marathon to …
But the series’ sneakiest achievement may have been the way it elevated, shattered, and remade the format of the police procedural, spider-webbing that old scaffolding with numberless subplots, bits of crackling dialogue, sickening and subtle imagery. Over the seasons, The Wire generated a sheer narrative density that demanded and assumed an intelligent audience was out …
“Of all the characters who’ve departed since last season began, he’s my Scarecrow: I’ll miss him most of all. Gilford’s quietly soulful performance has long been the heart of the show, and his character has captured everything great and frustrating about carrying all the virtues of growing up in a small town in your heart …
“This is a comedy first and foremost,” Murphy said. “But we see the obligation to go deeper. This isn’t just a genre show to me. It’s about the desperate need for a place in the world and how we all fit in and how hard it is for some people to get by.” via Exclusive: …
