Category Archive for 'TV'

Thoughts on The Wire Season One

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

(From January 7)
Over the break Kathleen and I watched a bunch of movies, but season 1 of The Wire delivered beyond the hype it got from friends. It gives a crash course on the frustration and futility of local cops fighting drug gangs on the street level in West Baltimore. The police jump through major [...]

Futuramarama

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Update: oops, it’ll be 4 movies instead of the series. Billy might as well hold a press conference to announce we’re all jive suckers.
Straight from the man (via Dana):
…they’re doing 26 new episodes of “Futurama” for TV…

More reasons why this show had to come back.

Why me

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Kathleen told me a scarran e-mailed her on MySpace, but he didn’t cover Innocence Mission songs. I’m lucky because chicks love heat glands.

Didn’t see it coming

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

My favorite show is canned. Fox will never grow another Simpsons-sized success with this kind of impatience. Maybe there’s hope on HBO/Comedy Central?

Have no fear, we’ve got stories for years

Thursday, February 6th, 2003

Entertainment Weekly gives their top 25 Simpsons episodes in light of the up-coming 300th episode. The writers still seem to be well on top of things, meanwhile FOX is craparama all around. Those pissed about about Futurama’s cancelling might already know this, but it was picked up in syndication and is now on [...]