By way of reminder, both Michael and Jonah will be writing about Season 1 of Deadwood: Friday’s entry in the Summer TV Club. Michael’s Take Wow, does Deadwood start out with a punch! Within the first 10 minutes of the show, there’s a brutal hanging and a slew of f-bombs (Wikipedia says there are 43 [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘TV Review’
June 3, 2010
Summer TV Club: Dead Like Me – “Pilot”
Dead Like Me is available to watch for free on Hulu or on Netflix Instant Streaming! There’s a good chance you may have missed Dead Like Me when it was on Showtime from 2003-2004. It’s brief run came at a time when Showtime was still running mostly second rate programs in comparison to the heavier [...]
June 2, 2010
Summer TV Club: Veronica Mars – “Pilot” and “Credit Where Credit’s Due”
Hello and welcome to TUIW’s Summer TV Club coverage of Season 1 of Veronica Mars. I’m Jonah and I’ll be your guide through the quirky and splintered world of Neptune, California but, before we get into that, a couple of notes: -Unlike other Summer TV Club entries, we’ll be covering two episodes a week here. [...]
June 1, 2010
Summer TV Club: Homicide – “Gone for Goode”
Welcome to the start of our Summer TV Club! What better way to kick it off at the close of a holiday weekend with a gritty crime show about murder! Before delving into the first episode of Homicide, I think it makes a little bit of sense to explain why I’m watching it in the [...]
May 27, 2010
Introducing the TUiW Summer TV Club
Join us for a summer of classic TV! Links to watch some of the shows free (and legally!) are included!
May 26, 2010
Parenthood – Season One Review
Back in early March, I reviewed the premier episode of Parenthood and gave it a generous B+. In my summation of the the pilot episode, I said that the biggest thing Parenthood had to do was avoid falling into the trappings of any other family drama on television. As I said in March, it had [...]
May 23, 2010
Lost – “The End”
There is no time loop. It wasn’t all just a dream. The sideways didn’t represent some kind of cavalry to stop the Man in Black. And the show didn’t end with Jack and Ben, sitting on the beach, talking about how badly they wanted to kill each other. I’ll get to the white light, the [...]
May 21, 2010
And You Will Ask Yourself, How Did I Get Here: Some Thoughts at the End of Lost
Warning: This essay is long and bizarre and kind of oddly personal at times. If you’d prefer some pre-finale reading that is a little more straightforward, I highly recommend this article on NPR’s Monkey See blog. There’s also io9′s list of 50 questions Lost needs to answer, if that’s more your thing. And, of course, [...]
May 21, 2010
Parks and Rec – “Freddy Spaghetti”
“With the government shut down, who’s going to stop al-Q’aeda?”
Michael
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