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 […]

Few would argue that the first season of Heroes didn’t suffer from a certain lack of consistency, but even with all of the loose ends, vague explanations and annoying filler, we sure did love it. Hopes were high for the follow-up. Expectations were realistically low.
Not low enough.
Last night’s conclusion to “Generations” was so anti-climactic, […]

Sophomore seasons are almost never what we expect them to be. For some slow-burners, they can bring a watershed of explosive creativity (à la Buffy), but for most buzzworthy shows, the second season almost always marks the sophomore slump (think Desperate Housewives), a source of criticism and disappointment among viewers. I’ve been hesitant […]

Only a handful of shows have actually premiered, and I’m already completely exhausted. NBC launches their new, sci-fi-tastic Monday night line up this evening with the return of Heroes and the premieres of Chuck and Journeyman. They can’t all be fantastic though, so let’s break it down real quick.
Chuck (8PM; NBC) – As […]

The Emmys are something of a necessary evil. If you have any taste at all, you’re disappointed year after year by the criminal snubs, but if you like TV half as much as I do, you’re forced to pay attention anyways. This year wasn’t as bad as it could have been; Battlestar Galactica, […]

Heroes capped off its whirlwind freshman season last night with the showdown they’d been hinting at since the very first episode. Given the high bar they’d set with handful of seriously edge-of-your-seat awesome episodes that rivaled most theatrical sci-fi fare, the finale wasn’t all that it could have been, but it was far superior to […]

At the risk of becoming Mikey Likes Heroes, here is the second consecutive post on the topic – I assure you, it is most deserved. In addition to reclaiming the title of “highlight of my week,” Heroes is also becoming a hotspot for ridiculously obscure cameos. And possessing a keen sense for noticing […]

A long dependable source of awesome photographs and quality coverage, Entertainment Weekly has really been screwing the pooch with its latest string of bizarrely airbrushed covers. Last month, their Grindhouse issue featured an extremely un-Rose-McGowan-looking Rose McGowan - about 15-pounds shy of her actual weight and with a face significantly more ethnic than her […]

After so many weeks without Heroes, I was growing concerned that excitement had deteriorated into estrangement. Every Monday without it seemed easier to handle, and the quivering anticipation for this last night’s return was barely a tremor by the time 9:00pm Eastern rolled around. But that was until a very special cameo.
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