Tuesday, August 9 2011
TV Highpoints and Lowpoints of 2010-2011… Number 4
The 2010-2011 season meant saying farewell to cult favorites Friday Night Lights and Smallville, as well as the ongoing mania surrounding one of TV's most mediocre shows, Glee.
Thursday, April 30 2009
Summer of Same: August 2009
With names like Tarantino, Lee, and Zombie, the final month of the season pulls out all the film geek stops. Still, the only guarantee is familiarity, not freshness.
Wednesday, July 2 2008
Friday Night Lights: The Second Season
Even with such an obvious misstep as the murder storyline in the second season, this is still one of the most well-executed series on television.
Friday, January 18 2008
High Redefinition: The 30 Best TV Shows of 2007
In memoriam of a TV season cut down before its prime time, PopMatters staff celebrates the Top 30 TV Shows of 2007. Some are old favorites. Others have barely made their impression felt. But at a time when all broadcast fortunes are up in the air, they definitely deserve the recognition.
Monday, October 8 2007
Friday Night Lights
The series abjures the usual primetime penchant for suburban gloss or metropolitan grit. Instead, it claimed as its territory lower middle class life in the America of vanishing jobs and diminishing horizons.
Friday, October 5 2007
The Last Winter
The Last Winter suggests that the Arctic, the environment itself, has a point of view.
Thursday, April 19 2007
Friday Night Lights
In the mundane, in the small and sometimes sad realities of small-town life, the heroic can be found.
Tuesday, October 10 2006
Friday Night Lights
Once the football game started in last week's premiere episode of Friday Night Lights, the clichés came fast and hard, but still, compelling.
