About the Authors
Brill Bundy
Brill Bundy watches a lot of TV. This stems from the fact that as a child her parents allowed her only three shows a week -- two of which were repeats of "Batman" and "The Banana Splits," with the third left open. Now, she binges daily. So, parents, if you don't want your children to grow up to be critics, let them watch what they want now.
Dan Fienberg
In the classic film "Videodrome," James Woods' character watches so much mind-altering television that his chest becomes a gaping VCR. The same thing happened to Daniel Fienberg last week and he didn't bat an eyelash. That's what happens when your every waking hour is dedicating covering either movies or television for the Internet's finest entertainment resource (that's Zap2it, if you were confused). Daniel has a Masters in Cinema Studies from USC, which is utterly useless when critiquing the collected film works of Rob Schneider and Keanu Reeves. He likes to tell people that he appreciates "The Wire," "House," "Veronica Mars" and other bastions of quality television, but he really prefers "American Idol" and any reality show in which desperate women compete to be professional football cheerleaders or Coyote Ugly bartenders.
Hanh Nguyen
After getting a bloody nose in her film debut in "Pray for Death" and her rather ignominious defeat during the Concession Olympics of '92, Hanh decided on a less performance-oriented approach to the entertainment world -- writing. With handy Creative Writing degree in hand, she moved from Texas to LA where she first worked as a faceless extra and then as an invisible publicist for a TV production company. She's been burning the candle at both ends for Zap2it since 2003.
Rick Porter
From his time as a youngster watching "Speed Buggy" and "Hong Kong Phooey," Rick Porter has been soaking up pop culture like a big, TV-addled sponge. He can describe in fairly good detail the theater where he first saw "Star Wars" at age 5 (the Dabel in Dayton, Ohio) and tell you where he was when O.J. led the cops on the Bronco chase (out to dinner with his family and girlfriend the night before he graduated from college). Heck, he's even co-written a book about all that stuff.
So it somehow seems right that he now gets to make his living watching television, even though he's about to age out of The CW's target demographic. Current favorites include most of what's on FX, "Deadwood," "Veronica Mars," "The Office" and YouTube.
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Latest Posts
- 'Lost': Calling all readers
- 'Lost': Letters from the Flame, Volume 6.2
- 'Lost': Letters from the Flame, Volume 6.1
- 'Lost': Walking in Locke step, Part 2
- 'Lost': Walking in Locke step, Part 1
- 'Lost': Six degrees of separation
- 'Lost': Making his own kind of music
- 'Lost': Leftovers from 'Home'
- 'Lost': You are so (butter)worth it
- 'Lost': Letters from the Flame, Volume 5
- 'Lost': Shifting perspective
- 'Lost': See me, hear me, email me
- 'Lost': Show me the way to go home
- 'Lost': Break on through to the other side
- 'Lost': Just the ten of us
- 'Lost': Gone but not forgotten, Part 4
- 'Lost': Gone but not forgotten, Part 3
- 'Lost': Gone but not forgotten, Part 2
- 'Lost': Gone but not forgotten, Part 1
- 'Lost': One or The Others, Part 4
- 'Lost': One or The Others, Part 3
- 'Lost': One or The Others, Part 2
- 'Lost': One or The Others, Part 1
- 'Lost': Island Living, Part 4
- 'Lost': Island Living, Part 3
Shows We Recap
- 30 Rock Recaps
- America's Next Top Model Recaps
- American Gladiators Recaps
- American Idol Recaps
- The Bachelor Recaps
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- The Big Bang Theory Recaps
- Big Brother Recaps
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- Bones Recaps
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- Brothers & Sisters Recaps
- Cashmere Mafia Recaps
- The Celebrity Apprentice Recaps
- Chuck Recaps
- The Closer Recaps
- CSI Recaps
- Curb Your Enthusiasm Recaps
- Damages Recaps
- Dance War Recaps
- Dancing with the Stars Recaps
- Desperate Housewives Recaps
- Dexter Recaps
- Dirty Sexy Money Recaps
- Eli Stone Recaps
- Eureka Recaps
- Flash Gordon Recaps
- Friday Night Lights Recaps
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- How I Met Your Mother Recaps
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- Kid Nation Recaps
- Kitchen Nightmares Recaps
- Kyle XY Recaps
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- Las Vegas Recaps
- Lipstick Jungle Recaps
- Lost
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- Make Me A Supermodel Recaps
- Moonlight Recaps
- My Fair Brady Recaps
- My Name Is Earl Recaps
- The Office Recaps
- One Tree Hill Recaps
- Paradise Hotel 2 Recaps
- Prison Break Recaps
- Private Practice Recaps
- Project Runway Recaps
- Pushing Daisies Recaps
- Reaper Recaps
- Rock of Love 2 Recaps
- Saving Grace Recaps
- Scott Baio Is 46... and Pregnant Recaps
- Scrubs Recaps
- Side Order of Life Recaps
- Smallville Recaps
- Supernatural Recaps
- Survivor: China Recaps
- Survivor: Micronesia - Fans vs. Favorites Recaps
- Tell Me You Love Me Recaps
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Recaps
- Ugly Betty Recaps
- Weeds Recaps
- The Wire Recaps
