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Quick spoilers for last night’s Top Chef coming up:
So before you all decide that I’m a heartless bastard, let me stipulate that last night’s “Give Me Your Huddled Masses” episode of Top Chef touched me in all the ways it intended to. I did indeed get verklempt at Michael’s memory of his grandmother’s gnocchi (a much-needed …
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It was American Idol‘s turn to show off its dozen female semifinalists last night, and the ladies were… shiny. Arrayed in a sea of glitter and riding waves of curls (among men and women alike, this seems to be the Season of Hair on Idol), the women tried to sing their way into America’s top five. My choices for the five of the …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s The Good Wife coming up:
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I am not one to complain about more Top Chef in any form. I love the original, I liked Top Chef Masters, I even—in theory if not in first-season practice—liked Top Chef Just Desserts. But while I eventually grew used to the format of Top Chef Masters, I wished from the beginning that it could have had the same format as the …
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Yesterday and very early this morning, Charlie Sheen continued not going away. The sitcom star / cautionary tale / performance artist started a Twitter account yesterday afternoon; as of this writing, he’s pushing 800,000 followers. And to listen to Sheen, you’ve just got to know that he take …
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I was eager for NBC’s Parenthood when it debuted last season, but I found that it settled into a temperate zone: good and well-performed enough to be unobjectionable, but not absorbing enough that I felt compelled to keep up with it. Critic-triage took hold and I lost the thread of the show going into the second season. On the …
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American Idol entered the semifinals last night, as the twelve remaining guys battled for five (non-wild-card) spots in the final and the new judging panel strutted its stuff for a primetime voting audience for the first time this season. After the jump, my top five picks (based only on last night’s performances) and one wild …
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Over at sister blog Healthland, TIME’s John Cloud has returned to the House Watch, where he finds the medical procedural turning to an old favorite theme: lies, and the patients who tell them:
The episode opens with a man named Bert scrubbing a floor drenched in blood. His wife calls, and he tells the show’s first lie. Bert says he’s in
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At this point, you could pretty much do the cast diagram of a typical Dancing With the Stars season yourself: some current/former athletes, a kids’ star, an old peoples’ star, some reality-show personalities, a where-are-they-now star, a minor pop/country singer or two—plus, in recent years, a wild card, like a controversial …
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After an absence from TV interviews of several hours, Charlie Sheen went on CNN last night to favor Piers Morgan with a last-minute, live hourlong interview. And if you were concerned that Morgan would do the same kind of softball interviews that his predecessor Larry King did, this one proved …
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Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations returned on Travel Channel last night with a moving, sometimes discomfiting visit to post-earthquake Haiti. I’ve always liked No Reservations, not just for Bourdain’s foulmouthed sense of humor but because it approaches food and travel as more than entertainments. It starts from the premise that what …
