Category: Television
How I Spent My Decade
Internet, did I ever tell you about the time I spent the better part of a decade watching a contrived, sentimental, raunchy, silly, and formulaic sitcom, and bawling my eyes out over it?
A Country Boy Can Survive
on a multi-million dollar multimedia and merchandising agreement. A bit of faux-populism is more valuable than any number of duck calls.
My Problem with The Big Bang Theory
An analysis of inequities of power, income, social status, and issues of representation in the popular media. “Holy shit, get a life”
Everything Crashed Into the Cuckoo’s Nest
American Horror Story: Asylum is either awful with a few moments of brilliance, or brilliant in its awfulness. Or both. Or neither.
The City That Never Blinks
Being a nerd, I have opinions about the Doctor Who mid-season finale, “The Angels Take Manhattan.”
What I Learned From The Movies On TV
Live TV is sending me serious signals that it wants to spend more time apart.
Winter is Coming! Direct to your home! For a new low, low price!
Even making generous guesses at the amount of revenue available from switching from a subscription model to an a la carte one, the numbers still don’t add up.
NOW how much would you pay?
How to stick it to The Man. Step 1: Display a complete ignorance of how media companies work.
Snow White and the 4 8 15 16 23 42 Dwarves
The series Once Upon a Time is part Fables and part Lost, which makes me wonder why I ever believed I wouldn’t get hooked on it.
Welcome to the schlock
Fox’s new series Alcatraz somehow manages to be less than the sum of its parts.