television « The Hooded Utilitarian

February 24, 2012
By vommarlowe
Blog, Top Featured
11 comments

Who knew cottage gardens were such dangerous places? Midsomer Murders

Improbably numerous and cozy deaths.

February 23, 2012
By Richard Cook
Blog, Top Featured
15 comments

The Horrors of Broadcast Television

The River is a fascinating show. Not fascinating in the sense of being well-written, or suspenseful, or really any good at all.

October 12, 2011
By vommarlowe
Blog
16 comments

What the hell did I just watch: Birds of Pretty I mean Birds of Prey

Now, I’d heard this show was pretty bad. But lots of people hate comics TV on general principal and it garnered a lot of viewers before being inexplicably wiped off the air. So I thought maybe it was just the usual insular bitching and moaning about continuity or whatever.

June 27, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog
18 comments

The Truth Is Out There

Twin Peaks, the Wire, Tarkovsky’s Stalker, and the Truth.

June 16, 2011
By Joy DeLyria
Blog, Columns
16 comments

Bewitched: About That Premise

Bewitched and setting aside your powers for your man.

May 27, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog, Only One Can Wear the Venus Girdle
100 comments

Adrianne Palicki Will Not Wear the Venus Girdle

Wonder Woman the TV show is cancelled. Why should I care?

<em>Fringe</em>, Metadialogue, and the Multiverse

Fringe, Metadialogue, and the Multiverse

There’s a strange phenomenon that sometimes happens in later seasons of television shows, where the weight of all of those previous years occasionally produces moments of metadialogue.