I happened to catch the tail end of the House series finale tonight. I haven't really watched House since Dr. Kumar killed himself for no apparent reason, and also, I really really hated Olivia Wilde's character. I hadn't even been reading the recaplets over on TWOP because -- actually, now that I think about it, I think TWOP stopped caring about ( Read more... )

So I've been watching Mad Men. It has been on my list for a couple of years now, and thanks to Netflix*, I am now two and a half discs away from being completely caught up. That's three and a half seasons in a little over two months -- that's crazy talk. (Though nowhere near as much crazy talk as when I rewatched Lost*Look, I've seen the froo- ( Read more... )

Dear Emmy Nominations:

Every year, I think about you just about the time when the Tubeys show up on Television Without Pity. I see the banner for them and think, "Oh hey, the Emmy noms'll come out soon."

And then I promptly forget about them, until I wake up one day, start up my laptop, and on my Yahoo! home page, I see that Mad Men has earned ( Read more... )

In about 24 hours from now, I will have seen the last installment in the Harry Potter series. I've already told my sister: I'm bringing candy, a book for the two-hour wait before getting our seats, a bottle of water, and a box of tissues. And I will not be ashamed to bawl -- I will notI attempted to finish the series before the movie was released ( Read more... )