HBO loves psychiatry. Tony Soprano’s therapy sessions put them on the map, and of the four series they’ve introduced in the post-Sopranos world, two have been psychiatry-based. But while last fall’s Tell Me You Love Me used couples counseling as a framing device for softcore porn, the new In Treatment […]
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Lost Revisited
You guys? That was really good. And not just in the way where we’re all excited about Lost being back. That was flat-out really good. Before we start on the premiere, a friend of mine put forth the theory that it’s actually a woman in the coffin in last season’s […]
Lost Revisited (Week 2)
Am I correct in thinking that the entire Lost viewing audiences makes the same noise at the end of every episode? It’s sort of a horrified impatience with the sheer length of a week. To me, it sounds like “Buh!” Plus, I flutter my arms slightly. Your mileage may vary. […]
View-Do List: Honey, could you pass the schedule?
With this week, we begin the “American Idol” era, otherwise known as the period of five months in which I suddenly don’t understand pop-culture references and Gordon Ramsay does not appear on FOX at all. And with the strike hobbling all the other shows, our whole society will be “Idol”-centric. […]
View-Do List: Schedule Schmedule
We’re still getting our faces striked off, but The Daily Show and The Colbert Report return without writers on Monday.This’ll be interesting – they’re both very funny comedians, but you can’t put together a half-hour of political satire by yourself.Also, as a Guild member, Stephen Colbert technically is prohibited from […]
View-Do List: Schedule Roasting on an Open Fire
*** New and improved …easier to read due to indentation ! ! ! *** This is another sickly schedule.If you were smart, you did like I did and squirreled away programming to watch during the lean winter months. Like the Bible story about the ant and the grasshopper.Only in this […]