Tuned InTelevision
I may be on vacation, but that doesn’t mean that I’m not working. Depending on how you define “work.” As I write this, I’m already looking at a tall stack of screeners to watch for midseason 2010 (including Big Love, 24 and Chuck for January). And there’s quite a roster of high-profile new projects for 2010 already. After the jump, I …
Tuned InUncategorized
This is Robo-James. The Morning After is an open post in which humans are invited to discuss the previous evening’s television transmissions. Analyze, humans! Analyze your visual entertainments using your weak, wrinkled flesh-processors!
Tuned InUncategorized
Somewhere on this site (I’d link, but I’m writing this post in advance) are posted my selections for the 10 best TV series of the ’00s. I could write a whole vast explanation of my criteria and my philosophy, but it comes down to this: I loved dozens of shows in the decade. I had ten slots. There were far more shows that deserved to be …
Tuned InUncategorized
This is Robo-James. The Morning After is an open post in which humans are invited to discuss the previous evening’s television transmissions. Analyze, humans! Analyze your visual entertainments using your weak, wrinkled flesh-processors!
TIME’s Lev Grossman selects the decade’s finest literature, from a book about dueling magicians to one about dueling family members.
Tuned InTelevision
TIME’s James Poniewozik recaps the best TV of the decade, from a satirical news show to an urban crime drama.
TIME’s Richard Corliss names the best films of the decade, from an epic fantasy trilogy to a controversial documentary.
Tuned InUncategorized
As long as we’re remembering the decade in television, here’s a list of a dozen shows that could have been among the decade’s best, but lasted only a season or two (or less) before being snuffed out. (Note: I put Freaks and Geeks on my Best of the Decade list, and not here, because I thought it managed to fully realize its vision in …
Tuned InUncategorized
This is Robo-James. The Morning After is an open post in which humans are invited to discuss the previous evening’s television transmissions. Analyze, humans! Analyze your visual entertainments using your weak, wrinkled flesh-processors!
Tuned InUncategorized
On Dec. 31, 1999, the citizens of a world anxious that the Y2K bug would destroy civilization gathered anxiously to watch the clock strike midnight, huddled around their TV sets. Like barbarians! Today, they might catch it online, over their mobile phones, or better yet, TiVo the whole thing, catch some sleep and watch it first thing in …
Tuned InUncategorized
This is Robo-James. The Morning After is an open post in which humans are invited to discuss the previous evening’s television transmissions. Analyze, humans! Analyze your visual entertainments using your weak, wrinkled flesh-processors!
Tuned InUncategorized
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBPcoI4OE9Y]
I usually mark holidays by posting some kind of amusing clips or mashups from TV holiday specials. This one, though, you’ve already seen. What’s interesting to me is not so much the video as the comment of the YouTube user who posted it:
Pay special attention to the girl in the pink …
Tuned InUncategorized
This is Robo-James. The Morning After is an open post in which humans are invited to discuss the previous evening’s television transmissions. Analyze, humans! Analyze your visual entertainments using your weak, wrinkled flesh-processors!
