Category: Television
Defective
My shameful break from the Cult of Mac, and a detailed account of the trouble I went to in order to keep from getting up off the couch.
Sookie the Vampire Layer
I didn’t expect to like “True Blood” at all. I definitely didn’t expect to get completely wrapped up in it.
An Immodest Proposal
The “Children of Earth” mini-series perfectly encapsulates everything I like and hate about Torchwood
yf.
The Sci-Fi Channel has officially changed its name to the wacky and nonsensical “Syfy.” Nerds everywhere are in an outrage. Also: cable networks are doomed.
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Hulu.com is going to great lengths to block boxee from accessing its “service,” and its self-serving justifications aren’t helping.
SPOILER: Caesar dies
This weekend I finished watching the last episodes of the HBO series “Rome.” It’s been a hard road to the end of the series: it was recommended by a friend on here, but it took me a long time to get into it. And they nearly lost me a few times in season 2, because…
On the Air
About two months ago, I did the unthinkable and cancelled my satellite TV service. It was both an attempt to save money as well as a social re-engineering project on myself: I’d gotten so dependent on having live TV that it never even occurred to me I could go without it. It was an essential…
And Santa Can Be Our Regular Saturday Night Thing
I know it’s been done before, but what can I say, I’m a sucker for tradition. Here’s wishing everybody (including Mr. Swayze himself) the haziest, laziest, Swayziest Christmas of them all. Pain don’t hurt, everyone! Pain don’t hurt us one and all.