Is it just me, or is the Buffy/True Blood parallelism starting to freak you out? Not that True Blood equals Buffy: I love True Blood, watch every ep, but to me, for all its fancy HBO production value...
After the first few pans, I decided not to see Sex and the City 2. Id adored the show, Id liked the first movie okay, but I didnt want to spend two and a half hours at a flop that (according to criti...
I find a lot of online "extras" annoying, but this one cracked me up: Thousand and One Words, the blog of Ryan from The Office, the show's temp turned cokehead turned temp. Devoutly emo, it's a photo...
Two months ago, I went to New Orleans to research a profile of David Simon, which comes out in Monday's issue of New York. I was hanging around Mother-In-Law's, a local bar, watching a rehearsal for ...
There used to be a thread on the Television Without Pity Buffy boards, one I visited only out of curiosity. It was called the "Deep Bitterness Thread," and it was a place for those so disenchanted th...
Can we call a moratorium on musical numbers in sitcoms? Last night's How I Met Your Mother had a very funny riff on Rules-type advice books, with a self-help bestseller called Of Course You're Still ...
Jamie Poniewozik's take on last night's episode of The Office was so right on. Like me, he enjoyed it — especially the second half, which was amazingly accurate in its portrayal of what it's li...
I spoke too soon. Last night's Big Love was kind of terrible, wasn't it? So disappointing, especially after last week's extravaganza of arm-pruning and Gothic fertility treatments. In contrast, last ...
I began this season of Big Love in a state of jaded distrust — and last Sunday, many viewers seemed to join me. The majority of recaps I read (though not our sane and sanguine Nick Catucci) see...
I watched The Deep End again last night. I apologize to, and for, my own taste, but you know, Royal Pains isn't back for a while. And I seem to have an almost physical need to watch some terrible sho...
I loved Roseanne for so many things — the wit, the brassy feminism, the sweaters! — but I've always found this morbidly funny phone call particularly memorable. Among the tricky little si...
NYM: Is your heart racing in anticipation? Doc Jensen: Definitely getting excited! My wife can't wait for it to be over already, because of what it's doing to me. And her, I guess. NYM:I adore your r...
Read Lynn Harris's excellent piece in Salon about the environment for female comedy writers in late-night comedy. It's smart, nuanced, and filled with on- and off-the-record quotes from both men and ...
And while we're on the subject of Joss Whedon ... I'd never seen the DVD of Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog, so I'd never heard "Commentary!: The Musical," the show's musical commentary track. Basicall...
Last month I wrote a profile of one of my heroes, Gail Collins, the op-ed columnist for the New York Times, as part of the magazine's "Reasons to Love New York" package. The write-up was 600 words, s...
Random, I know, but this week's "Baby" Scrubs (which featured the same mix of awesome and irritating as last week's episode) featured a scene in which a few characters get stuck in an elevator. It go...
And to put the cherry on this Lost–obsessed day, here's NPR's Linda Holmes naming Lost the show of the decade, arguing that despite any flaws, the series acted as a positive role model for more...
Here's another great roundtable, this one of TV critics: the marvelous Maureen Ryan, Alan Sepinwall, and James Poniewozik. The first installment is filled with great Lost chatter. My personal favorit...
GQ did a nice roundup with the creators of Lost, Fringe, Star Trek, and Transformers, "Geekdom's Counsel of Elders." It's worth reading as a whole, especially for Lost fans, as well as for illuminati...
Glee, I apologize. I've been dunning the show all fall, the way some underminer might insult their innocent honey: You're attracted to the person, you just wish they were, you know, more perfect R...
Here's my big fat essay on the decade in television, full of starry-eyed raving and theories that are mine. In it, I get to slather praise on my favorite medium — and to analyze the role of man...
Tomorrow night at 8 pm Fox airs two more episodes of Dollhouse, the flawed-but-fascinating Joss Whedon misfit series finishing up its run in the next few months. I've watched the first of tomorrow's ...
I've always loved the idea of a TV show shaking things up after a few seasons. I was excited when Newsradio seemed like it might switch to a new workplace (a rumor I remember from when the show was a...
In the aftermath of Mad Men, I've been drowning my sorrows in Dexter, which is having a fantastic fourth season, in large part because of Lithgow's perky/fragile, alarmingly naked, and genuinely chil...
To quote Joss Whedon's favorite musical creator, I'm sorry/grateful that Dollhouse was canceled. (Basically, my feelings mirror those of our wonderful recapper Joy Press, who tweeted, "It had potenti...
My lord. Like Logan — who pinpoints beautifully in his recap how much this episode cements the show's appeal not only as a series, but as a brand — I was thrilled to the bone with the Mad...
It's the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street, the gorgeous children's series that gives "educational" a good name. With two kids, I still watch it; I've even been won over by nouveau Elmo, who is way w...
John Leonard died a year ago, after nearly a quarter century as New York Magazine's television critic. John's legacy is too wild to sum up in any simple way. As a critic, he was a brilliant clown, ch...
Here's my essay denouncing Cougar Town (and placing the sitcom in the historical context of television cougardom) in the current print issue of New York. Here's my earlier blog post defending (sort o...
Late-seventies television was, with a few exceptions, a wasteland for teen girls. In 1982, we got one intriguing season of Square Pegs, but the real breakthrough came in 1988, when Roseanne's Darlene...
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