Something I’ve learned over the last nine weeks: If you stare at Gabriel Byrne’s face for long enough, it begins to look grossly asymmetrical. Seriously, that right eye has got to be about a half an inch lower than the left one. (Maybe from all of that thoughtful nodding?) Then again, 43 episodes of In […]

As my roommate so eloquently puts it, I think therapy is “for pussies.” Well, if going to therapy is anything like watching others go through it, I have been sorely mistaken. HBO’s new nightly series, In Treatment, follows one therapist’s weekly sessions with four patients and one with his own doctor. It kicks off […]

I am something of an militant purist when it comes to starting a new series already several seasons into its run. I avoid spoilers completely, refuse to discuss the show with anyone farther along than myself and have been known to enter a hermit-like state until the last disc is on its way back to […]

You’ll still be scratching 2007 on your deposit slips for weeks, and there hasn’t been anything of consequence on television since Christmas, but that hasn’t stopped the new year from bringing us a blogosphere rife with intelligent TV-related analysis!
-Neil Sinhababu at Cogitamus is the new reigning king of absurd Buffy references with his detailed guide […]

The sophomore season of Big Love proved that its more than just a sophisticated, Mormon update of soapy family dramas like Dallas or Dynasty, it’s a showcase for some of the best acting on television. Bill Paxton continues to be the only one of the ensemble to garner formal attention for his efforts - […]

I’m not going to pretend to know exactly what David Chase intended to convey with the final scene of The Sopranos, and I’m certainly not interested in spending 10,000 words making biblical references. Onion rings and transubstantiation? Zzzzzzzzzz… For the people not too consumed with arbitrary rage over what they see as insufficient closure, […]

No other event of 2007 worked its way into my subconscious, my lexicon or my daily interactions like the first season of Flight of the Conchords. This might be because nothing else was funnier, more engaging or oddly relevant to my own life. After all, Conchords isn’t so much a musical sitcom as it […]

This weekend marks the premature, self-induced demise of HBO’s Extras. Despite Ricky Gervais’s comments from over a year ago, saying that the show was already dunzo, he reassembled the team for a typically British Christmas Special send-off. And since Americans have better things to do on Christmas than watch TV, we get […]

Did anyone else catch the first episode of HBO’s new miniseries, Five Days? The co-production with the BBC is about a British mother and her two children who disappear and leave a massive manhunt and media frenzy in their wake. The title would make you think that the mystery plays out over five […]

Three weeks into the football season and one week shy of the return of our network favorites, this weekend might be your last chance to check out some of cable’s recent offerings before both of your box’s tuners are otherwise ocupado. I’m referring to two shows in particular: BBC America’s run of Torchwood and […]