…courtesy of his mouthpieces at Best Week Ever. Now if I can only get Seven of Nine pissed off at me, I can die happy.

HBO photo: Claudette Barius It’s a big HBO weekend: besides Tell Me You Love Me and James Gandolfini’s understatedly moving Iraq documentary Alive Day Memories, Curb Your Enthusiasm returns for its sixth season. What I’ve seen so far looks far better than the underwhelming fifth season–if it keeps this up, I may regret sacrificing Curb, [...]

We’re watching you, Poniewozik. NBC In this week’s TIME, of course, an excerpt from my All-TIME 100 TV shows list. Nothing you can’t already see online, but a little something for the print readers who don’t yet have the Intertube hose connected to their computing machines. To keep the discussion of the list alive, I’m [...]

SPOILER ALERT: No reading this post until you’ve done an honest day’s work for it, you bum. AMC So who knew that Mad Men would also turn out to be Carnivale? I’m impressed that, within this already detailed period piece, there turns out to be another period piece (Don/Dick’s childhood in the Depression) that’s just [...]