Welcome to another Friday! We’re currently hip-deep in holiday shopping. Frankly, we may be going a little heavy on the pop-culture themed gifts this week. In fact, now that we think about it, our grandfather doesn’t even own a DVD player, and if he did, he wouldn’t necessarily enjoy Season […]
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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 […]
TV’s Moments of Joy – Smoke on That, Jerk!
Welcome! We’ve reached the end of another work week, which means we’re going to crawl out from underneath a blanket of snow to look at what made us happy on TV this week. Before we start, though, we’d like to give it up for Leslie Nielsen, who passed away this […]
Venture Brothers – Operation P.R.O.M. – Part 2 – Venture bro
We’re back with part 2 of “Operation P.R.O.M.”, and it is everything that we could have asked for. Big, irrevocable turning points for some of our favorite characters, the Brock Samson action scene we’ve waited for all year, young heartbreak, sacrifice, and filthy jokes. This Dossier is running long, but […]
Sarah Palin’s Alaska–“Salmon Run”
There are two stories this week on Alaska, and they both take place in and around Bristol Bay, which is just outside of Dillingham. Their homebase for this 4th of July week trip is Todd’s parents’ house. The bulk of the episode focuses on the fact that eldest son Track […]