SPOILERS AHEAD … NEAR-DEATH, FALLING STADIUMS AND THE COSILY DELUSIONAL POWER OF SELF-BELIEF … Optimism is a powerful motivator. It propels people forward in a way that pays no heed to the facts on the ground and achieves great things when everything points to ignominious failure being the only Continue Reading
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I Feel Bad … the show, not my existential crisis (which is also a thing)
SNAPSHOT I Feel Bad follows “Emet, the perfect mom, boss, wife, friend and daughter. OK, she’s not perfect. In fact, she’s just figuring it out like the rest of us. Sure, she feels bad when she has a sexy dream about someone other than her husband, or when she Continue Reading
Colony: “End of the Road” (S3, E5 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SOME INVOLUNTARY CAMP REDECORATING … It’s tempting to think of people fighting back against tyranny and evil as universally idealistic and possessed of good and noble intentions. In a Disney Resistance – yes you may picture Sleeping Beauty and Snow White with guns, a cache Continue Reading
Coming over all episodic: The 5 TV episodes that have left a lasting impression on me
I watch a lot of television. I mean, a LOT of television. If you’ve glanced at this site for longer than five nano-seconds, that much will be obvious. The downside to watching so much television is negligible really, but it can make remembering much of what you’ve seen, in Continue Reading
Colony: “Hospitium” (S3, E4 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND DICTATORS ALIEN AND TERRESTRIAL … If the oft-blighted annals of human history have taught us anything, it’s that humanity is often its own worst enemy. Quite the cliche you might think but as Colony demonstrated with its usual incisive aplomb this week, it’s a cliche Continue Reading
Eight boys … one crazy family … new sitcom The Kids Are Alright
SNAPSHOT Set in the 1970s, the ensemble, single-camera comedy follows a traditional Irish-Catholic family, the Clearys, as they navigate big and small changes during one of America’s most turbulent decades. In a working-class neighborhood outside Los Angeles, Mike and Peggy raise eight boisterous boys who live out their days Continue Reading
Colony: “Sierra Maestra” (S3, E3 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND DISSENSION, A BIG ALIEN REVEAL AND THE DANGER OF SHOPPING IN THE ALIEN APOCALYPSE Depending on your level of Biblical literacy – as a pastor’s kid, mine is ridiculously high though rarely lived-out these days – you may or may not be aware of a Continue Reading
Little girl, big city! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt loses its berets over season 4
As a gay man, it’s not an everyday occurrence for me to fall in love with a woman. But I long ago fell head over heels in love, smittenness and eternal like with Kimmy Schmidt (apologies to Sandra Bullock, my other great love), she of Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Just in Case” (S4, E6 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND MORE TRUTH TO THE AXIOM THAT YOU CAN’T GO BACK … UNLESS YOU’RE IN A BACKSTORY IN WHICH CASE YOU CAN … Regrets – we all have them. In our case though, in our cosy non-zombie apocalypse existence, regrets are nothing more than irritating callouses Continue Reading
R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Murphy Brown makes her triumphantly sassy return
SNAPSHOT Multiple Emmy Award winners Candice Bergen and series creator Diane English reunite for Murphy Brown, the revival of the ground-breaking comedy about the eponymous broadcast news legend and her biting take on current events, now in a world of 24-hour cable, social media, “fake news,” and a vastly Continue Reading