My silence may be eerie, but I’m sneakily still very much liking TV. In fact, I just got in from the Fox upfront party. It’s been an exhausting and kind of uneventful week, but what better excuse to touch base than the TV equivalent of prom?
So this year marked my first in-person upfront experience, and […]

As we’ve been hearing for months, this season of American Idol brings with it the most solid top 24 in years - if not ever. Their performances this week do not reflect that. If they were outstanding, it was only in their ability to not completely suck. Mediocrity is nothing to strive for, […]

American Idol has come to be one of the most necessary evils in my life. I loath it because it wastes countless hours of my time with the same manufactured content, and regardless of how much I swoon for one or two contestants each season, none of them ever go on to produce […]

I hate it when things I’m absolutely convinced are going to suck… don’t. I pride myself on my overwhelmingly justified pessimism. Examples of its failures are not welcome. So basically falling in love with Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is bittersweet for me. But the shame for swooning over yet another […]

The term “geek” used to refer to a discernible group of characters, and they clung to each other under that word like it was one giant Enterprise-shaped umbrella. But things changed, and time, the Internet and the growth of niche fandom drove them apart - the pop culture equivalent to Darwin’s finches. […]

If any of you were within a few miles of lower Manhattan at around 8:59 last night, you probably heard the unmistakable sound of a TV blogger screaming like a lady. Well, it was me. And if you caught the latest episode of Bones, you know exactly why.
I hate to be […]

After the premature demise of Nurses, the show that wasn’t, FOX’s guilt and/or lusty adoration for Eliza Dushku prompted them to sign a fancy development deal with the actress to ensure that she would indeed come back to television in a show tailor-made for her. Naturally, she turned to her former Buffy-boss, and all […]

The American Idol machine isn’t necessarily evil. Regardless of the winners’ careers, Idol is still compelling TV six years in. And as I’ve said before, spin-off So You Think You Can Dance is the greatest competition show out there. I should have little reason to be skeptical about the producers’ latest offering, […]

Leave it to forensic dramas to expose the more absurd fetishes in the world. When a body that’s been ritualistically killed like a racehorse turns up on Bones, their track record would make you think that some cult or criminal mastermind was behind the crime. The answer was much simpler: a jilted lover […]

“I will not feel guilty for loving a procedural drama. I will not feel guilty for loving a procedural drama…” Oh, hello, you caught me in the middle of a little self-flagellation. After two seasons of religiously watching Bones (FOX; 8PM), I still feel a little shame for adoring a show with such a conventional […]