The Final 3 Pushing Daisies – “Window Dressed to Kill”

“Window Dressed to Kill”
Season 2, Episode 11
“The more you face your trauma the more power it has over you.”
I had meant to make a note of the return of Pushing Daisies to readers ahead of time, considering that ABC certainly isn’t promoting their 10pm Saturdays burn-off of the remaining three episodes of the show’s second [...]

Summering in Deadwood: “Reconnoitering the Rim” and “Here was a Man” (Season One, Episodes Three & Four)

“Reconnoitering the Rim” and “Here was a Man”
Season One, Episodes Three & Four
I didn’t really intend for this feature to be quite this dominant on the blog when I started it: I know that some readers don’t watch Deadwood, or have already seen Deadwood and don’t really care if I’m watching it, but with very [...]

Going Through the Motions (with Style): John Lithgow cast for Dexter Season 4

Going Through the Motions (With Style):
John Lithgow and Dexter Season Four
I am, without question, a Dexter contrarian. I like the show, don’t get me wrong, but when everyone was jumping up and down at the end of its second season I was frustrated with a lack of finish. When the third season was ramping up [...]

Season Finale: My Boys – “Spring Training”

“Spring Training”
May 26th, 2009
My Boys has, perhaps, the oddest season structure on television. Its sporadically placed nine episode seasons always feel as if they barely start before they’re done, and they often seem designed so as to make no sense by the time they actually air (with this finale taking place during Spring Training despite [...]

Summering in Deadwood: “Deep Water” (Season One, Episode Two)

“Deep Water”
Season One, Episode Two
There will be no deep thoughts here, as this episode was very much a transition episode as opposed to anything particularly revealing about characters or “plot,” but I’ve got some time to kill at the end of this shift and figure I’ll drop a few thoughts off – spoilers after the [...]

Greek – “Social Studies”

“Social Studies”
May 25th, 2009
It has been a really long time since I’ve taken the time to write a blog post about Greek, but it is amongst the list of shows that I have kept watching without, well, telling all of you fine folks about it. Part of this is because, in the list of in-season [...]

Summering in Deadwood: “Deadwood” (Season One, Episode One)

Summering in Deadwood: “Deadwood”
Season One, Episode One
For those of you who don’t know, I came into television fairly late in life: rather than a lifelong obsession, my love for television really only arrived in 2004, with Lost and Veronica Mars amongst other shows providing a sudden awareness of the breadth of television available. Sure, there [...]

Upfronts Analysis: The 5 Worst Showings of the 2009-2010 Upfronts

The 5 Worst Showings of the 2009-2010 Upfronts
May 25th, 2009
I am quite aware that there is something problematic about judging series based entirely on quick clips, but in many ways that personifies the upfronts process: it’s about making snap judgments, analyzing a show based on its potential when placed through the advertising machines of its [...]

Season Finale: Party Down – “Stennheiser-Pong Wedding Reception”

“Stennheiser-Pong Wedding Reception”
May 22nd, 2009
There’s an argument to be made that Party Down is the season’s strongest new comedy, and it’s one that has become progressively easier to make as the season continues. Not to disparage Better Off Ted (which is good but not particularly revolutionary), or The United States of Tara (which was a [...]

Upfronts Analysis: The 8 2009-2010 Shows I’m Looking Forward To

The 8 2009-2010 Shows I’m Looking Forward To
May 22nd, 2009
Every year when the madness of the Upfronts begins, there’s a deluge of video clips of the various new shows arriving. In some ways, I’m kind of an awful TV critic, since I hadn’t watched a single piece of video from any of the new shows [...]