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.
Thursday, January 6 2011
The Best DVDs of 2010
As the medium continues to struggle with significance in the steady "streaming" of the 21st Century, here are PopMatters' picks for the best the format(s) have to offer.
Friday, January 8 2010
The Best TV of 2009
Aside from one or two new shows, this look at the Best of TV 2009 seems awfully familiar. A look at early '60s admen? A practically incomprehensible drama about an island of airplane crash castaways? The Americanization of a UK workplace comedy? That definitely rings a bell.
Columns
Thursday, September 1 2011
Life, Murder and Companionship: Dexter's Quest for Friendship
Looking back over Dexter’s journey, the need for a trustworthy companion has never been greater. As the character has become more human, the desire for companionship and a normal life has overtaken the necessitation to kill. It has become—in fact always was—the driving force in his life.
Reviews
Sunday, October 2 2011
'Dexter' Is Still Trying to Balance a So-called Normal Life with Being a Serial Killer
Sometimes it's hard to tell whether Dexter is dumb, or simply thinks its audience is.
Sunday, September 26 2010
'Dexter' Season Five Premiere
Dexter ponders his lack of humanity and Rita's enormous capacity to love. All true, but nothing new.
Friday, September 24 2010
Monster, Meet the Monster: 'Dexter: Season Four'
The Fourth season of the Showtime series forces Dexter, and his audience, to question their basic assumptions.
Sunday, September 27 2009
Dexter: Season Four Premiere
While Dexter’s criminal “hobby” is a potent metaphor for those aspects of manhood suppressed by domestication, he is rarely emasculated or empowered. He’s simply absent.
Tuesday, August 25 2009
Dexter: The Complete Third Season
Dexter's façade of normalcy has gotten more credible and he begins to believe that he can truly live the life he has created for himself.
Blogs
Wednesday, December 16 2009
"Dexter" action figure
Dexter action figure - Entertainment Earth.com [$17]
News
Monday, January 18 2010
Cable's conquest: Basic and pay channels dominate the midseason arena
Network shmetwork — we got cable! That's where the action is now — as in now, this midseason, with a dozen new dramas and comedies…
Friday, January 15 2010
Globe predictions: Michael C. Hall, John Lithgow, Jane Lynch should have speeches ready
You may hate awards shows, but the participation of Ricky Gervais as host could make for a funny and unpredictable Golden Globes this Sunday. Gervais…
Wednesday, May 6 2009
Antiheroes like Jack Bauer are TV's new heroes
British talk-show host and satirist David Frost once observed that television is "an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by…
