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Quick spoilers for last night’s The Good Wife below:
“Getting Off” was the first of a two-part season finale, so it seems to make sense to withhold judgment on the episode, by and large, until the season wraps up. The confrontation between Alicia and Kalinda was more satisfying than the legal case of the week; pairing the ongoing …
Woody Allen loves Paris. He loves the rain and the statues, kiosks, Metro entrances. Most of all, he loves the rich history of a city whose inhabitants invented so many of the things he holds dear: romance (and cheating), and …
Wrapped in slapstick and sweetened with romance, Bridesmaids is at its core a shrewd examination of female friendship and insecurity
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The major-network “upfront” schedule announcements are next week, but as usual the programming news for next season is coming out earlier. Yesterday saw a major news dump from Fox, which announced several shows it would add and cut from its roster next year. Out: The Chicago Code, Traffic Light, Lie to Me, Breaking In and Human Target. …
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Spoilers for last night’s Glee follow:
Prom night, typically, is about failure to live up to expectations, the disparity between an impossible fantasy and an unattainable reality. It’s long stretches of mundanity, redeemed, if you’re lucky, by a few memorable moments.
(So I’m told. That, or your date comes down with mono like two …
The art-film industry’s rite of spring is upon us. The 64th Cannes Film Festival begins tomorrow with the promise of new work representing the finest international directors and stars. After a drab Cannes 2010, the Côte d’Azur …
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Catchup from the few days I was out, prep work for the couple days I have ahead and general lack of enthusiasm for the episode itself keep me from writing at more length about last night’s How I Met Your Mother. Fortunately, Alan Sepinwall expresses many of my thoughts about both the episode and the larger Zoey story arc, which (spoiler …
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Spoilers ahead for the Fringe season finale:
Fringe committed more than ever to hardcore sci-fi, if that were possible, in its multipart finale, with mixed results. I thought the last installment, “The Day We Died,” was not Fringe’s finest moment as an individual finale. But it left me reasonably hopeful for the overarching storyline …
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I’m back from a long weekend in Dallas with Tuned In Jr. at the National Elementary Chess Championships. If you ever want to see something truly terrifying, sit in on a room full of hundreds of children at chessboards, staring in murderous silence at something that is not a handheld game system.
I’ve got a fair-sized viewing backlog …
The comedy superstar takes a serious turn in a melancholy new drama
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Spoiler alert: Before you read this post, set up your DVR to record the big joust later, and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
One complaint, or at least comment, that I’ve heard about Game of Thrones so far is that the episodes are not really episodes. That is, even more so than most HBO series (excepting maybe David Simon’s) …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s Parks and Recreation coming up:
Parks and Recreation is getting to the point that Breaking Bad did for me last year: it’s getting near-impossible to figure out how to whittle down which episode(s) I include on my year-end ten-best list while still leaving room for anything else.
“Eagleton” was another …
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I’m traveling through Monday night, so posting will be light here. I’ll have a Game of Thrones Watch ready to robo-post after Sunday’s episode airs, and a post on last night’s Parks and Recreation, which I’ve seen in advance. But it will be a while before I catch up on Thursday-night and weekend TV, so here’s a chance for you to weigh …
