Category: Entertainment Editorial

[Continuing with Breaking Bad week, today brings my thoughts on some of the core characters. Also, if you don’t watch the show the following will make almost no sense to you.]   For as long as Breaking Bad has been on the air, the two most prominent characters (Walter White and Jesse Pinkman) have been…

This coming Sunday will be the Super Bowl of Television (forgetting of course that the Super Bowl is on Television, anyway, you get the idea) because I’m pretty sure there will be something for absolutely anyone in the country to watch, and a very busy night for those of us who care about quality TV…

Tonight, (while some people will be watching the Emmys) Showtime will say goodbye to their highest rated series of all time: Dexter. While I’ll grade the series finale later tonight, it’s time to look back at the show’s legacy, and which seasons worked better than others…[Obvious spoilers for all but this season.]   Season 1…What…

Another Fall season is here, and the broadcast networks are unveiling their best and brightest, but I’m not really thrilled with most of the new shows coming out. The question will be whether or not audiences are, and which ones will make it a full season, and which ones will be renewed for a season…

Just as surely as the phases of the moon come the Hollywood seasons: grab-bag Spring, brain-dead Summer, and Oscar-bait Fall/early-Winter. [There’s also the dumping ground that is January/February, but that’s a patch I’d rather forget exists.] So now it’s time to look at the (hopefully) best of Fall, the least promising of Fall, and the…

At long last, some new book reviews! Welp, recently I was able to read three books about African immigrants trying to adjust to life in either America or (in the case of “A Marker to Measure Drift”) Greece. And although the books are on-the-surface similar, I learned that great books are made in the details……

R.I.P. Elmore Leonard, and now it’s time to look back at some of my favorite Elmore Leonard books (and adaptations). I haven’t read them all (I don’t think I’ve read a single one of his Westerns, preferring his crime fiction period instead), but I’ve read more than a dozen and these are my favorites. I…

[Note: I originally wrote this last year during Elmore Leonard’s book tour for Raylan, his final finished novel. I thought it was the only fitting way to say goodbye to a literary legend and one of the most enjoyable contemporary authors.] Evvvvvvery once and a while I get to “meet” a celebrity (usually meaning I…

I thought I might share an observation I’ve noticed about the five seasons. The main plot of the show: a mild-mannered, brilliant (and perpetually under appreciated) high school chemistry teacher gets cancer and begins cooking a purified form of crystal meth (to provide for his family once he’s gone, to pay for his medical bills,…

Why can’t I wait for this upcoming weekend (August 9th through the 11th)? Welp, it just so happens to be the best pop cultural weekend of the entire year. “That’s a pretty bold claim Alabama Liberal? How can you back that up?”—-Every loud mouth on the internet. All right, I’ll tell you… Friday, August 9th:…

I was one of the very first people to read Gillian Flynn’s masterful, genre-busting “mystery” novel last year (that’s just as much a literary portrait of a sour marriage and a very realistic exploration of the way a psychopath thinks) and I took a certain satisfaction in seeing it stay in the top 10 bestsellers…