The TV Pilot Hoax of 1997
Consider, for a moment, what a scam about pickle jars and phony TV tells us about life before the Internet.
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Lives Intersect And We Just Move On
The story of Kevin Liotta, the brother Ray didn’t actually have, to recognize some people are meant to have a limited role in your life, for a limited time.
Tenshot: Revisiting Ally McBeal
Revisiting Ally McBeal, a cast of obnoxious people that it was fun to spend time around, and looking forward to the revival, which could be absolutely awful.
Fake People, Pure Product
Joyfully imagining something might be true in the privacy of one’s own mind seems a very different thing than “profiting from” and “getting off on” it. Exploitative. The word is exploitative.
Will Streaming Ever Replace Cable?
The advent of streaming gave people hope that we could at long last be freed from the tyranny of the cable bundle. Sadly, for most of us, the dream goes unfulfilled.
Disney + Lives Up to the Hype
I not only had to work, but kept running into extra obligations that have kept me from doing the only thing I truly wanted to: binge watching Disney + so that I could tell you how awesome it is.
Welcome to Disney+! Please Stand By
I woke up in the middle of the night and actually considered logging in to see if Disney+ was operational yet.
TV Reviews for Regular People: Nancy Drew
So, we can call “Nancy Drew” the mystery love child of “Veronica Mars” and “Supernatural!”
Disney Just Made Me Obsolete – AGAIN!
So, here’s my big question: just how much TV do we need anyway?
TV Reviews for Regular People: The Unicorn
It’s the end of the free meals that pushes Walt to a breaking point, and his friends use this as an opening to tell him it’s time to move on.
TV Reviews for Regular People: “All Rise”
“All Rise” debuted Monday on CBS. It’s certainly not a BAD show. It’s actually a halfway decent show. It just didn’t really grab me.
TV Reviews for Regular People
There are 2 kinds of programs: shows that win Emmy awards & shows that people actually watch. I’m starting this new series of TV reviews for “real people.”
Worst Use of “Will They or Won’t They” Ever: How I Met Your Mother
It takes a truly egregious series finale to to ruin the entire series for me. And the finale of “How I Met Your Mother” was one of them.
On Changing The Subject
A place where you can go to get news about sports, sports, sports and not Trump, Trump, Trump.
Watching Television Alone
The point is that I use literally anything else to delicately suppress the sentiments and sensations of life.
Up the Creek
The show could resort to the expected obvious jokes when these characters meet the salt of the earth townsfolk of Schitt’s creek. But the surprise here is how the show manages to only skirt the cheap gags and predictable slapstick and reveals some heart beneath the trite veneer.
