(With apologies to Rick Springfield.)

Just finished watching the second season of 24 on DVD; owing to, oh, many different factors, I never watched the show when it was on, but I sure heard and read about much of the kerfuffle over it, chiefly over the frequent use -- and efficacy -- of torture, but also over the fact that Los Angeles gets nuked ( Read more... )

Finally finished watching Season One of Dexter, the still-running Showtime TV series about a "righteous" serial killer (played by Michael C. Hall) who works as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami police department by day and targets other serial killers by night ( Read more... )

When one of my co-workers deigns to chit-chat with me, he can sometimes say something that will really make me scratch my head in bafflement ( Read more... )

I've just recently been getting into Babylon 5, a five-season long (with several made-for-television movies, including the pilot movie, Babylon 5: The Gathering) TV show that was originally broadcast on the WB network that I managed to entirely miss during both its original run and its syndication on TNT ( Read more... )

I recently got through the third season of Californication; that's the Showtime series starring David Duchovny as the congenital horn-dog, drunkard and druggie (and occasional published author) Hank Moody. Hank apparently really loves his pubescent daughter, the Wednesday Addams-lite Becca (Madeleine Martin), and her mom, Hank's on-again/off-again ( Read more... )

I never watched enough Seinfeld when it was a current show to twig to this, but since my wife has started watching the show in earnest again in syndication, I discovered something that surprised me ( Read more... )

Our satellite receiver/DVR went on the fritz last week, which means that all of the episodes of Dollhouse that I'd been recording have vanished, PFFT!, like that.

I've only seen the pilot of Dollhouse; while I didn't hate it, the fact that I'd yet to watch any of the subsequent episodes, and that I don't feel the teensiest sense of loss, ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, my wife was watching either Grey's Anatomy or its spin-off, Private Practice; it was during the cross-over that the shows did with each other.

As I don't watch either show, I was naturally confused about the identities of two of the most notable characters.

ME: So who's 'McSteamy' and who's 'McDreamy'?

HER: {points} He's ' ( Read more... )

After watching the first disc of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation (yes, yes, I'm finally getting around to checking out TNG after having seen fewer than five full episodes when it was still pumping out new eps or in syndication; I have seen all of TOS, several times over in most cases, and all of the TNG movies), I'm wondering ( Read more... )

I've plowed through Seasons 4 and 5 of The Shield, an award-winning TV show on basic cable (the FX Network, or Fox eXtended Network, to be precise), over the last couple of weeks on DVD, in an attempt to be all caught up when the seventh and final season (which concluded Tuesday, 25 November) finally comes out on DVD ( Read more... )