Depending on who you are different nights of the week will be considered good for TV. For me Tuesday night—which has a week high of six shows I watch from so-so programmers like V and No Ordinary Family to quietly excellent shows like Parenthood, The Good Wife, Southland, and Lights Out—is the best night of…
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TV Review: The Cape, NBC Flushes the Toilet Again
I’m not going to spend this whole review talking about NBC’s troubles (they’ve been well documented from everything to Conan O’Brien to 30 Rock making fun of their own network nearly every week), or even call them the worst broadcast network out there (that would actually be CBS, who are the top rated network through…
TV Review of MTV’s Skins, as Forced and Awkward as Teen Sex
In the above review of The Mechanic, I speculate that maybe if teenagers were having more sex, they would be less violent. [Christian conservatives can come on here and jump down my throat if they want to but young males getting it on the regular typically don’t storm their schools looking for random people to…
TV Review of Big Love: Is HBO Still Worth It?
We all know HBO’s legendary roster of some of the greatest shows ever made (The Wire, The Sopranos, Rome, Deadwood, The Larry Sanders Show, and countless others) but taking a look at its schedule you can’t wonder if HBO’s best days are behind it. The Sopranos—its last unqualified hit with both audiences and Emmy voters—is…
TV Review of Lights Out: Does Hollywood Love Boxing More than the Rest of America?
TV Review of Lights Out: Does Hollywood Love Boxing More than the Rest of America? In the fourth episode of FX’s terrific new show Lights Out (about a retired heavy weight champion trying to survive economically despite deep debt and IRS scrutiny) the lead character, Patrick “Lights” Leary, and his father are at a bar…