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Still working my way through my Thursday-night TV backlog, with a thing or two else on my plate, so I’ll open the floor to your thoughts on the second FlashForward and/or the second Fringe of the season. As I mentioned last week, FlashForward intrigued me, but I didn’t actually like its writing or characters enough to move it to the …
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Spoilers for last night’s Office (and, briefly, Parks and Recreation and Community) after the jump:
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A major celebrity sleeps with women who works for him, is caught, is hit up for extortion money, goes to the cops and ends up having to make a public confession on national TV—sounds like great material for Letterman! Unfortunately for David Letterman, it was, as the talk-show host turned the story of a bizarre legal episode into an …
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Sunday night, the Seinfeld-reunion arc starts on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and to greet it, I have an essay in the print TIME about the state of TV comedy 11 years later—which surprisingly, for once in a long while, is pretty good. For once in a long time, most of the best new series this year have been comedies. Part of the reason …
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With Jay Leno on five nights a week, somebody has to make dramas at 10 p.m., and increasingly that somebody is FX. Having already ordered the promising-looking Lawman for next year, the network adds to is stable of largely testosteron-ey dramas with two more drama orders for 2010. Terriers stars Donal Logue (pictured) as an unlicensed …
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Shortly after TLC announced that it was writing him out of the title of what is now Kate Plus 8, Jon Gosselin is striking back against the network. First he announced that he want to put the brakes on his divorce from wife Kate; though it may not be conducive to a reconciliation that, according to Radar Online, he never told her about …
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SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up after the jump:
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Yesterday we examined how Sesame Street, gearing up for its 40th anniversary, is preparing to conscript your children into Michelle Obama’s Khmer-Rouge-like farming collectives. Today, the show attempts to introduce children to Cheeveresque drama of white-collar angst, through its version of …
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After a series comes out with a very funny pilot, the test of the subsequent episodes is not only whether they can be as funny as the first, but whether the show has another gear: whether the characters are one-joke specials or if they have more dimensions to them. So far, with its second episode, Modern Family is meeting that test just fine.
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Fans of Mad Men are familiar with how meticulously it reproduces period details, but it’s still amazing, and a little weird at times, to see just how meticulous it is. Yesterday while Googling some information on the Ossining Reservoir, I came across the blog of J. Philip Faranda, an Ossining, N.Y., real estate agent, who was surprised …
