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Julianna Margulies returns to series TV tonight in Fox’s Canterbury’s Law (is it just me or does that title sound Canadian?), a legal series that you might call Damages times Rescue Me minus the good writing. From my review-blurb in this week’s Time:
The season of the Flawed Woman
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Showtime announced today that The L Word will end after its sixth season. I gave the show a few chances its first couple of seasons, but I never thought its writing and characters lived up to its ambitions (or maybe I just thought its ambitions were greater than they actually were). But I’ve known a few (gay and straight) fanatics of the …
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The media has apparently stopped picking on Hillary Clinton enough for Saturday Night Live’s liking, because this weekend’s cold-open skit opted instead for a parody of Hillary’s 3 A.M. ad, showing a new President Obama flummoxed by a nuclear crisis and the White House furnace:
Where the previous two debate skits were solidly …
Men of the Docks, George Bellows, 1912/MAIER MUSEUM
A few months ago, writing about the prolonged battled over whether Randolph College in Lynchburg, Va. could sell some of the work from its Maier Museum, I said that the whole thing had turned into one of those movie serial cliffhangers, with regular new chapters in which one side or …
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Expanding further on the Poniewozik public-radio empire, I was a guest this weekend on NPR’s On the Media, talking about the cultural importance of Dungeons & Dragons and holding forth on my own junior-high-era dorkosity:
A correction, by the way. During the interview, Bob Garfield asked me to recall a character I played from my D&D …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this, crack open a tub of cottage cheese for lunch and watch the last episode ever of The Wire.
What is closure, anyway? People complained that The Sopranos didn’t give it, but its abrupt ending gave closure better than it could have by telling …
