Saturday night, Elton John and Bernie Taupin once told us, is all right for fighting. Unless you’re a TV show; moving to Saturday means it’s time to give up the fight. This is the fate of Kidnapped. Shortly after NBC announced that the much-touted, little-watched new serial would end after a run of 13 episodes, [...]

SPOILER ALERT: The following post contains what could well be spoilers, if I were able to make any sense of the plot points. In the first seconds of season 3 of Lost, we learned the most important fact yet about the Others: They have CDs. In a flashback scene reminiscent of the season 2 opener, [...]

As a professional snobby, elitist critic, I am not in the habit of saying that the masses are right. But I make an exception when they agree with me, and they seem to have come around to my side on the massively overrated Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, the new self-aggrandizement vehicle from The [...]

Tonight on NBC, Friday Night Lights, one of the best dramas of the fall, with the potential to be the best, period. See my review in the Sept. 25 print version of Time, or without risk of paper cuts here. I won’t elaborate much on my review except to emphasize that, although the show is [...]