Lately we’ve been watching really old movies, streamed through our really old Wii to our really big TV. Old movies — black-and-white ones that mostly seem to star Barbara Stanwyck — are about all we have left. We’ve gone through all the good shows on streaming Netflix and Hulu Plus, then through the OK ones, then the bad ones. Don’t tell anybody, but we’ve also viewed certain […]
Killing time with “The Killing”
The way we watch TV these days, it’s possible that quite a few people haven’t yet seen Season 1 of AMC’s The Killing, even though it aired last year. Me, I just finished it via Netflix, and I see iTunes and Amazon are both offering it along with the first half-dozen episodes of Season 2. So I’m keeping that in mind. Because it’s hard to say too […]
‘Mad Men’ gets off to a very slow start
Has Mad Men lost its mojo? Maybe too early to say after one episode, but that premiere really didn’t do anything for me. It played pretty much like what it was: an hour-long episode padded to two hours. Matthew Weiner said the extended premiere was intended to gin up enthusiasm — or maybe just awareness, at this point — for a show that’s been gone a year […]
‘The Bachelor’: That’s a line I won’t cross
You know, since I dropped eight bucks on a set of rabbit ears and started getting free HD television, I’ve done a lot of viewing I’m not proud of: CSI: Special Victims Unit. Judge Judy. Reruns of The Rifleman. American Idol. Until tonight, I thought there was really no limit to how far I was willing to go. Then came The Bachelor. I watched five minutes of […]
‘Dallas’ without the oil. Or the shoulderpads.
Turning to something completely different, has anybody else seen that stupid ABC show Revenge? The premise is one that resonates in these uncertain economic times: A nice-looking woman goes around ruining the billionaires who ruined her childhood. In some ways, Revenge is the bizarro version of another TV show I remember watching slack-jawed as a kid: The Millionaire. In that show, an odd-looking man goes around making […]
A night at the races
A man who finds himself living in the South should probably cultivate an interest in NASCAR. But that’s harder than it looks. Last night I caught about 25 laps of the Daytona 500. As you may have heard, rain delays had pushed it into prime time. So it was either that or “Two and a Half Men.” Having been in Daytona over the weekend, I was marginally […]
The promises they make
I started off watching the Republican debate last night, but quickly tired of it. So I switched over to the American Experience documentary on the Clintons. That wasn’t exactly riveting either, but the comparison between the two shows was instructive: What people are willing to say while grasping for the presidency, and what they’re willing to abandon after they get it. All the tough, high-flown promises to […]
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