Monday, January 12 2009
Back to Basics - The 30 Best TV Shows of 2008
The Year in TV was a lot like the US economy: struggling until summer and then tanking under the hope of a 2009 comeback. Still, our staff found 30 solid reasons to be cheerful come entertainment investment time.
Wednesday, October 29 2008
Life: Season 1
Without Lewis, Life is a solid if mostly unremarkable program, somewhere between willfully quirky and gruesome for gruesome’s sake.
Monday, September 29 2008
Life
Charlie (Damian Lewis) teeters incessantly on the line between cocky and ridiculous, quirky and respectable -- as if he understands the differences.
Wednesday, March 19 2008
The Situation
As The Situation makes a mucky melodrama out of the war in Iraq, it accommodates an American perspective of its own actions.
Wednesday, September 26 2007
Life
Life's details of color and composition do the work usually handled by too much expository dialogue, granting access to Dani and Charlie's thinking.
Friday, February 2 2007
The Situation (2006)
Even as The Situation makes a mucky melodrama out of the war in Iraq, this effect does not seem entirely inappropriate, as it accommodates a U.S. perspective of its own actions.
Thursday, March 20 2003
Dreamcatcher (2003)
One thing you can say about 'Dreamcatcher': you can't really say one thing about it.
