Features
Wednesday, October 10 2007
Part 3 - The New Networks
It would never work... no one challenged the reigning broadcast junta and survived. No surprise then that the upstarts snuck in and changed the face of TV forever.
Columns
Monday, February 15 2010
The Simpsons, 'Radio Bart' Part 2: 'Ace in the Hole' and Jessica McCllure
'Radio Bart' may not offer any solutions, but it manages to compress an extraordinary amount of media history, compassion, manipulation and cynicism into a sharp, quick and funny 20-minutes or so.
Thursday, February 4 2010
The Simpsons, 'Radio Bart' Part 1: Floyd Collins and Kathy Fiscus
'Radio Bart' draws on 70 years of media history to position itself in that uneasy mix of altruism, morbid curiosity and callous self-interest.
Reviews
Friday, September 3 2010
'The Simpsons: The Complete Thirteenth Season': A Habit That's Hard to Shake
At the time, the early-season showrunning transition from Mike Scully to Al Jean seemed more important than it does in retrospect.
Friday, January 29 2010
The Simpsons: The Complete Twentieth Season
The hit-and-miss quality would be a lot more interesting with greater context coming from the commentaries or retrospectives sorely lacking from this commemorative yet empty set.
Friday, October 31 2008
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XIX
The way The Simpsons not only apes, but also twists familiar cultural touchstones shows reveals again that it's still smarter than all other parodists.
Friday, September 26 2008
The Simpsons: Season 20 Premiere
For its 20th season premiere, The Simpsons takes aim at all the big targets: bounty hunting, the IRA, and erotic baking.
Friday, September 21 2007
The Simpsons: Season 19 Premiere
Springfield, destroyed at the end of the movie, is still in ruins, and Bart careens off of pieces of the dome that had quarantined the city.
Blogs
Thursday, October 7 2010
'The Simpsons’ Gleeful Commentary on the Dark Side of the Arts
The Simpsons neatly bursts Glee’s bubbly premise that the arts are the lifeblood of society, and freedom to be oneself is a guaranteed human right.
Friday, December 18 2009
The Simpsons: The Complete Twelfth Season
The Simpsons: The Complete Twelfth Season - Twentieth Century Fox [$49.98]
Wednesday, August 26 2009
The Simpsons: The Complete Twelfth Season
The Simpsons was never a solo effort, no matter the recognition and raves creator Matt Groening has earned from the animated sitcom's phenomenal success. The…
News
Friday, November 5 2010
The Simpsons' not-so-little helper
It is a doorstop, a cornerstone, the foundation piece in a great wall of geekdom. It is the Internet in convenient book form, shamelessly bidding…
Monday, May 3 2010
Katrina documentary is no laughing matter for Harry Shearer
NEW ORLEANS — The Big Easy is on a roll. The Saints won the Super Bowl. Crowds packed the French Quarter during a local music…
