Spoilers for the series finale of Big Love:
[Apologies in advance for any typos or errors in quotation; I’m typing this on an iPad in an airport lounge.]
In the beginning, there was man and woman. Before we met them on Big Love, they were husband and wife, alone. Later, as we learned, came the kids, two more wives, more kids, almost a
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Since we’re coming off the news of NBC’s pickup of four of its six Thursday comedies, this is a good time to note that 30 Rock is having a pretty fine fifth season so far. I still feel the show often makes better jokes than episodes; that is, I probably quote lines from it more than any other …
Quick spoilers for last night’s American Idol:
Spoilers for last night’s Parks and Recreation coming up:
Ladies and gentlemen, the best Parks and Recreation episode of all time. So far.
In my overview piece on Parks and Recreation’s third season, I wrote about the irony, at a time of fights over budgets and public unions, of there being a sweet network comedy about …
When I planned to write my print TIME column this week on NPR and the James O’Keefe tapes, I was concerned that public radio might no longer be in the news by the end of the week. Silly me!
Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to cut off federal funding to NPR. Here’s what the vote does not mean: that Congress will cut off …
Last night’s Top Chef All-Stars is still on a low simmer on my DVR, so I thought I’d throw open this morning’s Morning After Post for your comments on it, and the season in general. Was the beach competition worth it, or a stunt too far? (Ditto Padma Lakshmi’s appearance in a bikini.) And as the show finally closes in on its finale, …
This week, American Idol‘s dozen remaining finalists sang songs from the year they were born — some of those dates being in the mid-’90s, making your faithful reviewer feel like Grampa Simpson’s older brother. What’s with these whippersnappers and what they call “music” nowadays? Click the pix to find out:
The entertainment-biz press, led by a report in Deadline.com, has the news this morning that Netflix may be about to acquire a high-profile original drama—political thriller House of Cards from David Fincher and Kevin Spacey—by outbidding the likes of HBO. Does this mean, if the deal pans out, that Netflix wants to become a TV …
Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up:
Whether Glee is in the middle of a strong or shaky set of episodes, powerful or ridiculous storylines (or both at once), it usually manages to get things together for its regional/sectional competition episodes. It’s the opposite of what one might think, because the demands of those …
If you take a guy known for making outrageous jokes—like his notorious remarks at the Friars Club three weeks after 9/11—and hire him as the voice of your adorable duck mascot, you’re taking a risk. Particularly if you’re an insurance company, and you do business that may directly involve enormous tragedies. Aflac discovered that …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s The Bachelor coming up:
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Been watching Conan O’Brien’s new TBS show but long for those early rebel days when he was unemployed? When the beard was new and we were young and his career became an act of improvisation? When he was an outsider and only you and the five jillion people who followed him on Twitter …
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It has become a cliché by now to declare that any awful event is “the first YouTube disaster,” “the coming of age of Twitter,” “the desktop-video tragedy,” &c. But clichés are sometimes true, and the endless supply of videos coming from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan have had …
