Features
Wednesday, January 12 2011
The Best TV Shows of 2010
Running the gamut from the ever-present to the new and novel, PopMatters' TV picks prove that, as a medium, the small screen challenges the big at every entertainment (and aesthetic) level.
Reviews
Monday, July 11 2011
Damages: The Complete Third Season
Damages main dramatic elements still work grandly, but its too-many subplots -- some of them utterly pointless -- weigh this season down considerably.
Monday, February 8 2010
Damages: Season Three Start
Patty’s actions, rather like those of Jack Bauer in 24, dramatize the fundamental contradiction at the heart of any democratic society.
Monday, April 7 2008
Damages: The Complete First Season
A superbly acted, complex serial story, this show is well-suited to the DVD medium as it can followed at your own pace without fear of missing some of the story.
Tuesday, July 24 2007
Damages
The new FX legal thriller offers images that stand out for their precise pacing, deep-saturated colors, and gorgeous design as much as for their storytelling.
Blogs
Thursday, April 22 2010
Damages Season Three Finale: I Know the Pieces Fit… But, Really?
A review of the third season finale of Damages.
Friday, February 26 2010
'Damages': Yay Or Nay? (videos)
I love Damages. I do. But I can't help but feel that their trailers are... lacking. Tate Donovan's, "Another 15 minutes and you would have…
Monday, February 1 2010
'Damages', My Bad Memory, and John Grisham Novels
After a spectacular first season and disappointing second season, what will we see in the third season of FX’s Damages?
News
Friday, January 21 2011
Prime time's female lawyers challenge the old-boy network
Does a woman bring more than just female viewers to a TV legal drama? It's a question that networks and producers are thinking about as…
Friday, February 26 2010
When not on camera, stage beckons William Hurt
LOS ANGELES — William Hurt was virtually unrecognizable on the recent Golden Globes telecast when the cameras panned to the "Damages" nominee. The 59-year-old actor…
Tuesday, August 21 2007
Ted Danson relishes playing the bad guy for a change
Ted Danson knows that Glenn Close scares people. "C'mon, she's evil!" Danson said jokingly of the actress, who stars in FX's "Damages" (10 p.m. EDT…
Monday, August 6 2007
40something (and up) women are taking over cable TV
Holly Hunter told a story recently about secretly convening seven years ago with other top actresses, including Kyra Sedgwick and Mary-Louise Parker, who hatched a…
Monday, July 23 2007
Glenn Close calls the shots on her new series
"Subliminally, people still think women in power are considered aberrant," Close says. "It's been that way for centuries. I want Patty to be a good leader. I don't want her to lead by fear or screaming."
