Maybe the most telling thing about the news that conservative blog impresario Andrew Breitbart had died was that as word spread on Twitter this morning, many people passed it along with the caveat that it might not be true, …
TV Tonight: Awake
What’s more depressing than a primetime drama about a man mourning the death of his wife? Maybe a primetime drama about a man mourning the death of his child. And what’s more depressing than either of those two? A primetime drama …
The Morning After: A Wedding. And a Funeral?
I owe Parenthood an apology, not that it does anyone any good at this point.
RIP Davy Jones, The Monkees’ Daydreamboat
I wasn’t born when The Monkees went on the air, so I don’t recall Davy Jones as my first teen idol. But he was probably my first image of what a teen idol was, thanks to his appearance in the ’70s Brady Bunch episode, “Getting Davy Jones,” in which superfan Marcia Brady overpromises that she can get the pop star to perform at her school …
Election Watch: Hell Fails to Break Loose in Michigan
That sound you heard after 10 pm ET last night? It was the sound of all hell not breaking loose in the Republican primary. Mitt Romney was declared the winner of the Michigan primary, sparing us–or depriving us, depending on your tastes–a weeklong (at least) orgy of speculation on the political shows of whether Romney was in a …
Help Wanted: Now James Spader Leaving The Office
Lou Dobbs Vs. Kids’ Movies: Does Children’s Morality Have a Well-Known Liberal Bias?
It’s got to be challenging right now to be a conservative pundit looking for things to scare the audience about, in the current moment of culture-war one-upmanship. I mean, once Rick Santorum has gotten to the point of warning against college education as a scheme of liberal indoctrination, where do you go from there?
For Lou Dobbs, …
Oscar Watch: Expect the Expected
After Eddie Murphy pulled out of hosting the Oscars, the Academy called in veteran past host Billy Crystal to step in. The aim, presumably, was to have a reliable hand who could be counted on to get up to speed quickly, someone …
What Do We Want from the Oscars?
It’s not a rhetorical question. I actually want to know.
The Morning After: Happy Leap Day! Edition
When a network airs four comedies across one night of television, you’re going to end up with a certain amount of unintentional repetitions of jokes, whether it’s different versions of the same Lady Gaga “Poker Face” gag (as …
The Morning After: To Be Continued…?
The four remaining Republican Presidential candidates debated on CNN from Mesa, Ariz., last night, and God help us, it may actually have been the last debate of this GOP primary, ever again, for now. (There are no more debates presently scheduled,* after a planned face-off next week was scrapped, but as the New York Times reports this …
Top Chef Vs. Chopped: Who Rules the Food TV Kitchen?
Tonight, Top Chef: Texas ends continues its season finale, which began last week with what may well have been the dumbest challenge theme the show has ever done. After whisking the four finalists off to Vancouver—because as we all know, British Columbia is the Texas of the North—it ran them through a gauntlet of three Olympic-style …
Glee Watch: The Bully Becomes the Bullied
Spoilers for last night’s Glee below:
I will say this for the way Glee handled Karofsky’s suicide attempt in “On My Way”: the beginning of the episode was a very effective 15 minutes or so of television. The problem: it was …