It’s funny who you see when you visit a small town in Southern Ohio. Jules and I went down to Yellow Springs Ohio on Friday for a yoga workshop that she wanted to attend. Jules has been there four or five times before and never seen one of the most famous residents of this [...]
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After storming into TV viewers collective consciousness eight and a half years ago, The Sopranos stumbled out punch drunk and not knowing when to quit last night. The first two seasons were absolutely brilliant with top notch acting and writing. Ever since then David Chase and his team have taken longer and longer between [...] The other day Jules and I saw about ten minutes of the Half Hour Comedy Hour (I’m not going to bother with a link, because it’s not worth linking to), and boy did it suck! if you haven’t heard about the show, it’s supposed to be Fox News’ answer to the Daily Show.  There [...] Jules and I watched the original British version of the office when it was on BBC America, and although it was funny at first, it’s a good thing that it only ran for two six episode seasons. By the second episode I was finding it painful to watch. The majority of the characters, particularly [...] When I was a kid, the year after the release of the first Star Wars movie, a television series appeared called Battlestar Galactica. The show was not much of a success at the time. The effects were not particularly impressive, the dialog made George Lucas’ writing look good and beyond the basic premise of [...] Jules was just flipping through channels and stumbled across some show on the Home and Garden channel where the hosts were going around some kitchen gadget trade show. I was sitting here in the dining room and overheard one of the hosts say, “You can never have too many grille gadgets, can you?” Well [...] We just watched the first 10 minutes of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO. Why does Maher get paid for doing this show. In the first part of the show, he interviews first Spike Lee and then Elvis Costello. During the course of these interviews he very clearly demonstrates how ignorant he is. [...] So has anyone seen Who Wants to be a Super-Hero? This has got to be one of the lamest attempts at television programming ever. This piece of crud is on the SciFi Channel. The basic format is similar to other competitive reality shows like Top Chef or Project Runway. The difference is those shows [...] I don’t watch much TV and almost none on the traditional broadcast networks. I find the vast majority of what is put on to be tiresome, repetitive, predictable and worst of all manipulative. I find most so-called reality programming to be especially loathsome. There is nothing particularly real about reality programming. The producers pick [...] |
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