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“Lights Out” Pulls Punches

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F/X’s big midseason drama “Lights Out” is tough and riddled with potential, but has yet to overcome uneven execution. The show winds around former heavyweight champion of the world, Patrick [...]

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Feb 15, 2011 | 2 Responses

Walk The Dead

Walk The Dead

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The Walking Dead, otherwise known as AMC’s latest story that matters, is a zombiepocalypse masterpiece. Based on a graphic novel of the same name, series developer Frank Darabont, has distilled [...]

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Nov 30, 2010 | Leave a response

Pinocchio Said He Was a Real Boy

Pinocchio Said He Was a Real Boy

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Reality television never really did it for me.  It being the scintillating vis-a-vis titillating effect reality is supposed to produce in viewers 18-49.  I suppose the “appeal” (a more accurate [...]

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Oct 10, 2010 | 1 Response

The Good, The Bad, The Remote

The Good, The Bad, The Remote

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There should be an opening day for television.  There should be some kind of hero’s parade/welcome/that scene in Gladiator when Commodus returns from Germania.  Then, when a hush has fallen [...]

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Sep 27, 2010 | 1 Response

Premiere Review: “Boardwalk Empire”

Premiere Review: “Boardwalk Empire”

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HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” is an expensive, height-aspiring prohibition drama that might just be dead in the water.  Yes, I am taking a negative stance on a Terence Winter (“The Sopranos”) [...]

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Sep 20, 2010 | 1 Response

Not Oprah’s Book Club

Not Oprah’s Book Club

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The woman is too powerful.  She controls a massive percentage of the uterine population, and their unborn children.  This is a (book club) revolution.  It will not be televised.  Can [...]

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Sep 12, 2010 | Leave a response

The Best Show You’re Not Watching: “Sons of Anarchy”

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F/X’s “Sons of Anarchy” is a grit-fueled, in your face wedge of backwater California underbelly.  Let me paint you a picture: stagnant San Joaquin Valley town called Charming, ruled by [...]

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Aug 4, 2010 | Leave a response

Beach Reads For People Who Don’t Beach Read

Beach Reads For People Who Don’t Beach Read

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Sun is good.  A cold Corona buzz is good.  Tanning up that pastiness is good.  Potential sunglass tan, not ideal but acceptable.  I like raccoons.  Bringing out some strategically colored, [...]

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Jul 3, 2010 | 1 Response