“New York at Night”
July 30th, 2008
One of the best things about Project Runway is that each week gives each designer a clean slate, so that they can make up for past mistakes through sheer hard work and determination.
One of the worst things about Project Runway is that each week gives each designer a clean slate, [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 31, 2008
Project Runway Season Five – “Episode Three”
July 29, 2008
Generation Kill – “Screwby”
“Screwby”
July 27th, 2008
I’m a bit late in getting to Generation Kill, but as I stated last week it’s kind of hard to find things to talk about each week. This time around, with Screwby, Alan Sepinwall concurs:
I’m running out of things to discuss in these weekly reviews, not because I’m losing interest in “Generation Kill,” [...]
July 29, 2008
Weeds – “Yes I Can”
“Yes I Can”
July 28th, 2008
The title of “Yes I Can” refers to both Sammy Davis Jr. famous autobiography and the drive of Nancy Botwin to remain independent within the existing operation. This storyline drives most of the episode, and while it suffers from some stretches of logic (including the entire purpose of a “front,” but [...]
July 28, 2008
The Mole (2008) – “Episode Eight”
“Episode Eight”
July 28th, 2008
If you want Mole-like behaviour, there’s an easy solution: give people goggles that display the video feed from a camera being controlled by another contestant, and then let them loose in a variety of simple tasks that are both easy to finish and, of course, easy to sabotage. That seems to be [...]
July 28, 2008
Burn Notice – “Trust Me”
“Trust Me’
July 24th, 2008
We’re running Carla free this time around on Burn Notice, which means that the scent of normalcy is in the air. This is, really, the prototypical Burn Notice episode: it’s got your client of the week, it has Michael looking for answers in dangerous places to discover who burned him, and it [...]
July 28, 2008
Cultural Reflections on Comic Con 2008
While I’m genuinely addicted to Twitter most of the time, being away over the weekend and thus mostly away from my Twitter account was a good thing. Many of the people I follow, most of which I’ve met through some great times at the /Filmcast, were lucky enough to be out in San Diego, California [...]
July 28, 2008
My Boys – “Opportunity Knocks”
“Opportunity Knocks”
July 24th, 2008
Admittedly, I’ve been kind of hard on My Boys’ second season mainly because the show has been slow to really let characters transition into, well, storylines. I’m all for periods of transition for characters, something that often seems rare in television as things rush forward without a human period of self reflection; [...]
July 28, 2008
Season Premiere: Mad Men – “For Those Who Think Young”
“For Those Who Think Young”
July 27th, 2008
The breakout success of Mad Men has been a huge surprise – when I started watching the show last summer, it was a cable show from a network that didn’t do such shows. It had the pedigree of Matthew Weiner, and it had some positive kudos from [...]
July 23, 2008
A Cultural Vacation
Hey all,
I’m off to beautiful Kejimkujik National Park for the weekend, and as a result there’s going to be a lack of postings around these here parts. I promise to get to Project Runway, My Boys and Burn Notice when I return next week, but first and foremost I’ll be back on Monday with my [...]
July 23, 2008
The Mole (2008) – “Episode Seven”
“Episode Seven”
July 21st, 2008
This week’s episode of The Mole was all about what people couldn’t do: they couldn’t help themselves from sabotaging the first challenge, they couldn’t possibly sabotage the challenge where contestants could potentially see their loved ones, and one contestant in particular just couldn’t throw the quiz even when they wanted to.
It was [...]
