Category Archives: Television

Choose-Your-Own Adventure Community Halloween Style

THE PEOPLE AT THE A.V. CLUB ARE RIGHT: it just isn’t Halloween without a new episode of Community.  So it’s nice that the folks at NBC have put together a choose-your-own adventure style video connecting sections from all of the … Continue reading

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Being Mosby: Friends and Married (With Children)

third in an unfortunately erratic series STRANGE AS IT MAY SEEM, How I Met Your Mother has an interesting tendency to bring up often-important issues in a timely manner.  The show, seen mostly through the eyes of hopelessly romantic Ted … Continue reading

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Postponing Community: Make Every Day October 19

A WISE MAN ONCE SAID that hope deferred makes the heart bitter.  That’s often the case, unless you know that maybe hope deferred will get you a better time slot or premiere date. That’s the way it’s gone with NBC’s … Continue reading

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Glee Takes on the Rapture

I WAS A BIT SURPRISED when Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind series founds its way onto the most recent episode of Glee.  The last time the show tackled religion, in season two’s “Grilled Cheesus” episode, the storyline was meaty and challenging.  … Continue reading

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Life from LOST to The Walking Dead (100th Post!)

GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY,  I’d choose a time-traveling island over the zombie apocalypse any day. Comparing life to fictional television shows is a questionable practice at best, but it’s kind of the way that I think.  And while many have compared … Continue reading

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Doctor Who Now?

IT’S DOCTOR WHO DAY in Great Britain.  Twitter is abuzz with comments from those eagerly awaiting the beginning of Doctor Who series seven tonight (which is almost now in Hawaii time).  It’s been a good while since the end of … Continue reading

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Listening to LOST

I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT LOST A LOT LATELY.  The reasons are various and sundry, from the release of LOST music for piano to always thinking about watching the series over from the beginning to reflecting on that part of life … Continue reading

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Joss Whedon Says the Darndest Things

I’VE BEEN A JOSS WHEDON FAN for a while now.  Firefly then Buffy then Dollhouse.  The Avengers?  I was one of those that saw it not so much as “hopefully the best Marvel movie ever” but as “Joss Whedon’s best … Continue reading

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Feedback and The Newsroom (or “I am tired of stupid”)

YESTERDAY my Communication Skills class started their second round of impromptu activities: news-casting.  The initial response was not positive.  It never has been, really.  Yet I persist in keeping it as an assignment.  There’s something challenging about it.  Really, there … Continue reading

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Last Gasp Thursdays (or. . . That’s a Wrap Thursday)

THE TRADITIONAL TELEVISION VIEWING SEASON is all but over.  A handful of finales remain, but most are done.  It’s a long wait until Big Brother, my summer friend, shows up on CBS.  Until then, dissecting this past season of network … Continue reading

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