WEB ARCHIVES
Pilots Part Duex
Can we just start this column off by getting down on our knees, raising our fists to the skies and screaming in despair? The comedies this year make me want to slit people’s wrists (I don’t believe in self-harm, onl...
Pilots: What’s hot and what really isn’t
Awards Season As children of the 90s, it’s funny how uncomfortable we are with the idea of competition and people losing (that whole “everybody’s a winner” thing didn’t exist during my formative ye...
Please Wait, I Miss My TV (23rd – 29th July)
Awkward Nothing forces the feelings issue more than Valentine’s Day. Matty is finally moving on, or at least working at moving on. Jake’s at a more stable place with how he feels, but he is still trying to impress J...
Breaking Bad: Hurtling On
Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen “Dead Freight” yet, don’t read this review. There is the occasional fleeting moment where it seems that Breaking Bad has abandoned any pretense at realism and fully giv...
Of Aliens, Westerns and Aaron Sorkin
Before starting this post, I was torn at the title but at the end figured may as well leave the snark for the reviews. I don’t write here much and indeed haven’t intended on making more than a cursory appearance (us...
It ain’t working for Men at Work
During the past few years, we’ve seen comedy evolve and redefine itself over and over again. Mocumentaries, single-camera, dramedies have all successfully reinvented the genre. But just as comedy became more high-brow in ...
Summer Extravaganza: Introducing the dramas
In which the couch potato meets Wordpress...
by Shazia Ahmad
