Despite the NBC minisodes’ best efforts to warn me away, I’ll be seeing a screening of Bee Movie with the rest of the Tuned In family. I’m just sayin’. Actual viewing of the television machine curtailed accordingly. For those of you at home and uninterested in another episode of Carpoolers, however, may I suggest The [...]

“It’s not about boys. It’s about me.” –Isabella Alan Fraser / HBO I started this post with Isabella’s quote, but I could add Katie’s from a few episodes ago, when she discussed her daughter’s early puberty with her doctor: “It’s like a horror movie.” Katie was talking about the various environmental influences–movies, Barbie dolls, hormones [...]

Michael Becker/FX Ah, Nip/Tuck. Let me tell you what I don’t like about yourself. For a few seasons, Ryan Murphy’s arch, audacious plastic-surgery drama was one of the most ludicrously provocative treats on TV–not a guilty pleasure, just a pleasure. There were murders, coupling of every possible combination of characters, self-circumcisions, feedings of bodies to [...]

NBC Photo: Dean Hendler So nice to see HRG back to being a badass again! Or at least an essentially-good-but-forced-to-be-bad-for-the-sake-of-his-family-though-it-may-come-at-the-cost-of-his-soul-ass. Killing someone for information is bad. Taking someone’s memories for information is bad. But taking someone’s memories to extract information, knowing all the while that you’re going to kill them anyway–that’s a reminder of the [...]