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• Clerihews (poems About Your Favorite Characters)

  For a brief while I had a Twitter account (before things, er, devolved with Twitter) using the name @Cleracters. There, I posted clerihews (a specific type of... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2023 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Favorite Pilots of 2016

  

  In the spirit of year-end lists, which I love, I offer my own mini-list. I’m calling this “favorite” rather than “best,” considering there are probably lots of... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Going Off Your Meds

  

  Two shows I’ve been binging lately — and enjoying tremendously — open with the trope of the protagonist quitting mental health medication. Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Supernatural and Victim POV

  

  I’ve never watched Supernatural. By pure coincidence, I chose today to start watching it. I only found out afterward that today is the anniversary of the day th... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• The Walking Dead Has Lost Its Soul

  

  I know I’m far from the only person to be disappointed by the season 7 finale of The Walking Dead. But I’ve felt the need to pinpoint exactly where the show wen... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Wayward Pines and Red Herrings

  

  Wayward Pines is the kind of show that defies you to answer the question “What is it about?” without giving away what it’s about. As soon as you hear the name M. Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Younger and Suspension of Disbelief

  

  I really wanted to like Younger. I can’t resist the if-I-knew-then-what-I-know-now fantasy (see Being Erica). Also Sutton Foster. Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• “Younger” and Suspension of Disbelief

  

  I really wanted to like Younger. I can’t resist the if-I-knew-then-what-I-know-now fantasy (see Being Erica). Also Sutton Foster. Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Jessica Jones

  

  Fragility and toughness form the juxtaposed themes of the pilot of Jessica Jones, which debuted yesterday on Netflix. I know nothing of Jessica Jones from the... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Punky Brewster: The Child Welfare System in Three Acts

  

  Kids living with substitute parents were big on 80s TV. Television would have had us believe you could will your kids to your employer (Diff’rent Strokes),... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Other Space

  

  It takes a lot to think of something new to do within science fiction, but that doesn’t mean the old tropes have been exhausted. Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Selfie Drones and Other Con TV Memories

  In July, the fall TV season seems a million years off. The networks are mainly reruns and there’s nary a pumpkin spice latte in sight. Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Scandal, and Things of the Week

  

  The sum total of my knowledge about Scandal was this: The Limited has a clothing line named for it. So I’m reacting to this pilot unbiased. (Spoilers ahead. Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Blindspot

  

  I had every intention of blogging about this right after watching it during preview night at San Diego Comic-Con. But then there was this whole con, you see, an... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• iZombie

  

  I was fully prepared to dislike this show, and I don’t even know why. It could simply be a bias against the CW, which typically caters to a demographic that is... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Pilot-Finale Symmetry

  

  This post contains SPOILERS for the series finales of Glee, How I Met Your Mother, Eureka, Friends, Chuck, Gilmore Girls, Smallville and Parks and Recreation.A... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Spock: the “most Human” All Along?

  

  I’ve been waiting a long time to blog about the pilot of Star Trek, in part because I couldn’t decide which “pilot” to choose. The unaired one, “The Cage,” woul... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Everybody Hates Chris

  In honor of Noah, the latest addition to the Ricktatorship, played by Tyler James Williams, I decided to evaluate his fighting skills in the pilot of the show... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• The Secrets of Isis

  

  Mallory Archer and her ad hoc family on Archer will no longer work for ISIS, thanks to a certain bunch of a-holes who are using the same name to rain death and... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Mork and Mindy

  

  Mork form Ork wasn’t Robin Williams’ first role, but it was certainly the one that made him a household name. So, as we mourn the passing of a man whose life’s... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO