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The Morning After 2: Big Love DIY

I’m on the road for the next couple days and away from my beloved TiVo, so I missed last night’s Big Love and won’t be able to catch up on it. I’ve been detecting some dissatisfaction with the show in the Twitterverse, however, and figured the Big Lovers, or Big-Love-to-Haters, here might like to hash it out themselves today. I’ll try to …

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Jaypocalypse 2: The Jaysurrection–How Will He Do?

Tonight, The Grover Cleveland of television, Jay Leno, commences his second nonconsecutive term as the host of The Tonight Show. (As I write this I’m about to head off on assignment for a couple days, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to blog about his first night back or not.) His first week, as I’ve noted, has no blockbuster guest list, …

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The Morning After: Give Caprica a Chance

If you watched the first episodes of Caprica and decided it wasn’t for you because it didn’t live up to Battlestar Galactica, try this: watch another episode and try to forget that it has anything to do with BSG.

When the show debuted, I liked its potential but wasn’t entirely on board: it had a lot going on and was a little sluggish …

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The Marriage Ref: Grounds for Divorce

Last night, NBC gave a demonstration of the difference between so-awful-it’s-awesome and so-awful-it’s-amazing awful. First came the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics, which, after the usual nods to the next Olympic site, final benediction by Olympic officials and emotional performances, morphed into a bizarre comic parody of …