It’s a week of sadness for TV fans as we lose yet another beloved symbol of TV greatness. Andy Hallett, who played the singing demon Lorne on Angel died on Sunday. Hallett, who has been suffering from a heart condition for 5 years now, was only 33. Though he was relatively unknown as an actor […]
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If there’s one thing One Tree Hill knows, it’s how to stay alive. A pure entertainment show with few claims to artistic legitimacy, One Tree Hill is the perfect place for that horrible product placement brand of advertising that television audiences loathe so much. So, while many shows of lesser ridiculousness have been killed off […]
We all complain all the time that good TV is dying. Every season another handful of enjoyable shows bites the dust because they can’t find an audience. Critical favourites are put in the intensive care unit after one episode and are lucky to make it through season 1. 3 years ago, one of the best shows […]
I’m probably too old for Greek, but then again I’m probably too old for Gossip Girl and to hang up pictures of Zac Effron on my wall. I’ll live. Plus, Greek speaks pretty directly to the heart of my current life: this season is all about seniors like Casey and Cappie not quite ready to […]
Don’t get me wrong, this week’s episode of Gossip Girl still hadn’t completely recovered from the whole Rachel/Secret Sex Club debacle, but it was the first episode in ages that I felt that old pre-break Gossip Girl flair. Oddly enough, though, I managed to like this episode a whole bunch despite being pretty mad at […]
Alexis Bledel’s upcoming guest appearance on this Thursday’s 2 hour ER series finale got me thinking about the Gilmore girlsagain. In the 2007 series finale, Rory was about to really leave home for the first time for an amazing job opportunity. Her assignment? Cover the presidential campaign of a particular long shot candidate for the […]
Dollhouse this week was a much goofier affair than the week before’s revelation-o-rama. It was back to story of the week mode, with Sierra and Victor being sent to a college to investigate an outbreak of craziness thanks to a drug developed by the enigmatically evil Rossum corporation. Said drug infected everyone in our cast, […]
… and people are better than no people. So proclaimed a dying patient on Grey’s Anatomy this Thursday. And it’s that general sentiment that I came away from the episode with. Grey’s Anatomy may not be perfect, it may not have great artistic merit or somehow inform the human experience, but I’ve lived with these […]