Notes I am absolutely floored by the response to the first post, which has been simultaneously energetic and incredibly weird. I don’t assume that this will continue but it is fun while it lasts....
At the very outset, I must acknowledge the following: many of the women in my life consider Gilmore Girls to be among the greatest television shows ever created. These women – including my wife and...
Dennis Sanders notes that for a short time, there was an animated series based on comic book characters that was as intense and real as any live action drama. It was acclaimed by critics and fans alike. So of course, DC Comics had to kill it.
Burt Likko’s been watching a little more television than usual. And he has a question.
If you like TV and have not heard about Sundance Channel’s “The Writers’ Room”, I heavily recommend it. Jim Rash (who played the Dean on “Community”) hosts a different group of writers from a...
Last night’s episode of Game of Thrones, “Dark Wings, Dark Words,” was the first one I watched all by my lonesome. Sipping some gin and finishing off the remnants of a week old chocolate...
Actually, Antonin Scalia is right. I do not write those words often, or lightly. And it is actually Kevin Drum who comes off as glib and dismissive in this recent post on the Supreme...
This gives a brief (if overly patronizing and insensitive) summary of what bothered me about HBO’s new show: Girls. I didn’t know much about it going in, other than I was pretty excited. Anyone...
What an episode! All those that have been complaining about a lack of walkers or action this season should be happy after last night. I thought the finale was handled beautifully and they did...
I’ve watched every presidential debate thus far in the Republican primary. And I’ve done more than my fair share of laughing, weeping, and sometimes just staring blankly at the television screen. In a way,...
As a brief follow up to my post on upper-middle-class families in modern television and film, I’d like to respond to this comment by Sam MacDonald: Yes. If we could only go back to...
Alyssa Rosenberg worries that the introduction of characters like Ashton Kutcher’s Walden Schmidt – the replacement for Charlie Sheen’s character on Two and a Half Men – could ‘normalize’ the very wealthy: The thing...
(Editor’s note: Erik’s praise for “Game of Thrones” drew me out of semi-retirement. Bear with me) One of the problems with easing constraints on a creative medium is that creators are inevitably tempted to...
I have television in my house once again – for a little while. This is because it was cheaper to hook up television service when we were hooking up cable internet than to pay...
I just finished the second book of Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy – Catching Fire. Both books have been really great reads – fast paced, suspenseful, extremely and surprisingly violent given their intended audience....
There’s a quote about Carl Jung that I’ve come across a couple of times and shamelessly stolen every chance I’ve had: “We live a double life whether we know it or not. We live...
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on The Greatest Strike in HistoryMy favorite involves the Lenny Randle bunt. Bob Johnson throws behind Lenny Randle, Lenny Randle tak…
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on A Working Man ReviewedThis was another good Statham-verse movie. He kicks butt and takes names. Bad guys are bad, good guy…
on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForBecause the administration has listened to all the other things courts have told them to undo?
on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForI understand that you want to talk about something else and it's your right to try to drum up a resp…
on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForMy expectation is this example, assuming that op-ed is the limit of her involvement, will be undone… on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForCJColucci: There are normal, well-understood ways of dealing with actual threats and forcible obstru… on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForThere are normal, well-understood ways of dealing with actual threats and forcible obstruction. None…
on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForI have little respect for “process” arguments because we wouldn’t apply them in other situations. It… on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForIs Columbia and Trump’s crackdown of the pro-Palestinians the ‘Canary in the coalmine’ (link at bott…
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