As a DirecTV subscriber, I’ve fallen in love with their exclusive 101 Network. The 101 basically kept Friday Night Lights alive for the last couple of years by premiering the episodes before the NBC season starts. They’ve aired the complete runs of Deadwood and Oz, as well as some great […]
Author: EJ Feddes
The Cape – A Look at TV’s Best (and Worst) Superheroes
On Sunday NBC premieres The Cape, a new superhero drama. Only time will tell if the series will be more Season One of Heroes than Season Four, but we’re suckers for superheroes. And of course, this got us to thinking about the highs and lows of TV’s original superheroes. We’ve […]
EJ’s Top 10 Series of 2010
With 2010 in its death-throes, I now feel confident in naming my Top Ten series of the year. I previously listed numbers 11 – 20 and mentioned some of my personal guidelines for selection, but now it’s time to get to the best of the best. Beware – here there […]
EJ’s Top 20 of 2010 – Part One
As 2010 comes to an end, it’s time to look back at the approximately one million hours of TV I watched this year. This year, a Top 10 wasn’t enough, so I’m doing a Top 20, broken into two installments. And let me tell you, even that required some tough […]
Venture Brothers – Season 4 Post-Mortem – venture bro
Now that the dust has settled, we can assess Season Four of Venture Bros. like reasonable adults, rather than occasionally screaming out “Awesome!” and high-fiving. There’s still going to be some of that, of course. That’s to be expected. This was a season that opened with some of the most […]
Media Studies 101: A “Community” Primer
Lately I’ve had a lot of conversation about exactly when Community got to be so good. It started out well, but since then, it somehow became the whole point of NBC’s Thursday comedy lineup. Looking back, I see that I gave it a good, but not gushing, review for the […]