With only minor exceptions (Greg moving from lab rat to investigator; Sofia popping in for a bit; Ronnie Lake's cameo), the core CSI team has remained intact for the past eight seasons. Eight years. Even with annual contract disputes and William Petersen's desire to broaden his horizons, the core team remained the same. Continue reading »

There's just something about the dedication of the folks at How I Met Your Mother that I really like. If they mention a website, it exists. Continue reading »

You know how we tell kids not to be afraid of the dark? Moonlight teaches us that's a really dumb thing to do. Sometimes, the vampires are the least of your worries. Continue reading »

Here's an exercise: Take a deep breath. Now let it out slowly, but with an air of defeat, like Charlie Brown after his kite's been treed.

There's a reason it's so difficult to recap shows like Two and a Half Men. While modern sitcoms have adopted a more realistic approach (including linear storylines, moments of drama and jokes that can take multiple seasons to pay off), Men and a few others are old-school vaudeville: setup, punchline, repeat. You see every payoff coming, and characters tend to be one-note stereotypes.

I'm not saying that the "have your babies before it's too late" undercurrent in tonight's Ghost Whisperer was heavy handed, but I do think my cheek still stings from getting backhanded by it several times. Continue reading »

Moonlight is back on form with this tale of Hollywood, paparazzi, financial shenanigans and stalkers. Continue reading »

Here me now, CBS gods: If, one year from tonight, there is no episode of How I Met Your Mother featuring the full story of the goat at Ted's birthday party, you and I are done forever. Continue reading »

And just like that, CSI is back on track. Looks like the last couple of disappointing episodes were leftover fallout from the writers' strike. This week? We get twisty murders, a pregnant multiple-murder suspect, Mini-Britney and the return of Drops.

Sometimes a television episode is oh-so-close to being excellent that I end up feeling more distressed at the small failing moments than I should. These moments end up overshadowing the rest of the wonderfulness that I witnessed. Such, I fear, is the case with tonight's How I Met Your Mother. Continue reading »

I suppose they can't all be winners. That was part of the message in The Big Bang Theory tonight. But really, who doesn't win with a discussion of pon farr?

With so few episodes to go this season, when How I Met Your Mother delivers a disappointing one it seems that much worse. I know they can't all be perfect, but I like to think that we can expect more than what we got this week. Continue reading »

Here's the problem with procedurals like CSI: They follow a procedure. Clever, no? Your day job is hardly glamourous all the time, and after eight years of cases, our favorite forensics experts can't be expected to always be hunting serial killers or solving cases ripped from the headlines.

Dust off the lab equipment and snap on a new set of gloves, because CSI is back from hiatus. Can't you smell Luminol on the air?

The first two post-strike episodes of How I Met Your Mother have both been Ted-heavy, they have looked towards the future of the show (or perhaps what happens after the series ends). Continue reading »

Jericho ended the series with a bang, capping off what may have been the most successful long-form civics lesson with a generous helping of whiz-bang action, kick-ass characters and intriguing "what if" situations. Continue reading »

Here we are, the second week of How I Met Your Mother's triumphant return! The yellow-umbrellaed girl (akin to Charlie Brown's little red-haired girl) is now without her yellow umbrella, the umbrella is with our hero, Ted (it is as though Charlie Brown's little red-haired girl allowed him to shave her bald and he kept the hair for himself). Continue reading »

It’s the first week of Survivor: Micronesia – Fans vs. Favorites without Chet darkening our doorstep, and I am hoping that there will be more ass kicking on my TV now that he isn’t there to drag the average down. Continue reading »

Things were going along pretty well on Jericho -- you had your insurgency, your interrogation, your Molotov cocktails, your second American Revolution, the usual stuff -- and then they threw us a curve ball that I'm still reeling from Where the hell did that come from? Continue reading »

Happy days are here again, How I Met Your Mother is back! Okay, maybe they're not terribly happy days if you're Ted and desperately looking for the mother of your future children, but as we get to watch the search, the happy days are back for us (and really, that's what's important). Continue reading »

It was another tense, adrenaline-driven hour of Jericho, and it looks like things are about to blow. There's no graceful way of getting out of this; there's no way to back down and save face. Continue reading »

Wow, another week, another 43 minutes of betrayal, complicated challenges, and reversals of fortune interspersed with some quality information regarding products that will enhance and improve your life! Continue reading »

Hey, have you heard? Corporations are eeeeeeevil! With that news out of the way, Jericho continues to run at a breakneck pace. Some of the developments made sense. Some? Not so much. Continue reading »