Julia & Julia (and Taylor)
Recently HBO canceled the show Julia, which is a real bummer to me. I loved the show, which portrayed Julia Child in the early days of her public television...
Best Relationships to Have With the Host of the Talk Show You're Appearing On
Congratulations on getting famous enough that you can appear on a talk show! Do you have a story? How about a backup story? Another backup story? Since...
Just When You've Entirely Forgotten About It, Here's Some Thoughts On The Rehearsal
Hello everyone. I've been wanting to write about Nathan Fielder for quite some time, but a lot of things got in the way - I got shoulder surgery, then my...
Way Too Much About The Offer
Part I: Some Thoughts On Violence On Television On Violence On Television & Film There's something of a pattern on antihero TV shows (especially but not...
Waiting For I'm No Superman
I am going to start by addressing Reno 911!, but that's not the show I really want to talk about. I've been a longtime fan of Reno 911! and thought the new...
A Gory Brief on Dory Sief
Search Party is over. The final season went up on HBOMax this past Friday. What began as a show somewhat satirizing Brooklyn hipster milennials (like who...
In Search Of Lost Clones
A century ago, when I was in college, the TV show Lost was a very big deal. It was a big enough deal that I took a college class about the show, which...
Two Movies and Some Miscellany
Hi everyone! What have you been enjoying on TV lately? I recently watched two movies in my favorite genre, movies about TV history: Street Gang, a...
Responsibilitv
I've been watching a lot of PBS's children's programming lately, for obvious reasons, and it's got me thinking. Before I get into the idle thought I plan to...
tfw an angel touches you
Recently, I saw some news about Dennis Prager having covid and it reminded me, as that dirtbag always does, of his long collaboration and friendship with...
The room where it happened (I watched TV)
So much of our feelings about television come from our experience watching it, rather than the text itself. I remember The West Wing fondly as a show in...
MuggsVision
I've been trying lately - not too hard, I'm busy - to track down J. Fred Muggs. From 1953 to 1957, he was a regular contributor to NBC's then-new The Today...