(Season 1, Episodes 7-13) If I weren’t sold before, after finishing the first season of The Wire, I can now consider myself an avowed fan. The first half of the season was a lot of build up , and it turned out that the second half was a lot of pay off. I can’t wait […]
(Season 1, Episodes 1-6) About a month ago, I asked all my fellow TV fans to help me figure out which show I should be catching up on via DVD. Now, Dexter did win by a comfortable margin, and I plan on watching it, but I ended up choosing The Wire. In my defense, I […]
This may seem like piling-on after yesterday’s brilliant Grinch/Zucker ditty by CliqueClack’s own Richard Keller, but what the hell happened to NBC? The once imposing network — home to such television icons as the Cartwrights and Johnny Carson — has plummeted into a chasm of mediocrity. A perennial ratings powerhouse during the ’80s and ’90s, […]
I’m fairly picky about the television that I watch. I love TV (obviously), but I demand quality. Also, I hate procedurals. As a rule, I tend to avoid any show where someone turns up dead in the first five minutes. I am in the vast minority here, I suppose, if those pesky ratings are to […]
Don’t get me wrong. In their heyday, I was all about the characters of Bobby Goren (Vincent D’Onofrio) on Law and Order: Criminal Intent and Gil Grissom (William Petersen) on the original C.S.I. While Goren was always odd, he’s gotten stranger (and a lot chubbier and unkempt) over the years. Now we all know that […]
Sure, I like my TV. It’s often my best friend other than my cat. But I’m not here to clack about my personal psychological quirks. Nuh-uh. I’m here to play a game of “what if” with y’all. Hey, don’t go onto the next article! Stay and play for a spell. As I said, I like […]
