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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Fear Itself: The Complete First Season

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The question must be posed: why do the networks even bother to green-light and produce anthology series these days? It seems that every time...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Second Season

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It’s theoretically improbable that The Big Bang Theory should be a good TV show at all. The premise of two nerdy physicists living across t...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Worst Week: The Complete Series

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Probably the craziest thing to come of the TV-on-DVD “revolution” (which is placed into quotation marks so as not to belittle events that ar...

Desperate Housewives: The Complete Fifth Season

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It may have been a bad idea to kick off the fifth season of Desperate Housewives with a nasty car accident, because in a lot of ways that’s...
Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin

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Before moving on to more substantial matters, let’s address the elephant in the room: “The Deadly Assassin” may be the goofiest title ever g...

Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl

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Before moving on to work for the other seminal British sci-fi series of the seventies, Blake’s 7 , Chris Boucher wrote three stories for Doc...

Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen

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The 24th season of Doctor Who is pretty much agreed upon by most fans as the worst in the show’s history. Even those who defend the remaind...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

thirtysomething: The Complete First Season

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In September of 1987, I was a couple months away from my 16th birthday, and you can be damned sure that there was no series on television th...

Californication: The Second Season

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If you pay any attention at all to celebrity gossip, then you know that David Duchovny checked himself into a facility to be treated for sex...
Sunday, August 16, 2009

The Last House on the Left

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It used to be said that there were only two things you could count on in this life: death and taxes. We should probably go ahead and add rem...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

I Co-Starred in a Short Film with David Tennant

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The title of this post is meant to grab your attention - and it also happens to have a grain of truth to it. The video above was taken at th...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Torchwood: Children of Earth

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Back when I wrote the review for Season Two of Torchwood , I threw out bold proclamations like “If this material doesn’t make you a fan, ...

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

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There will probably be a time when “Planet of the Dead” doesn’t feel like such a colossal disappointment. When it can be grouped together an...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series

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Humans create Cylons. Cylons destroy most of humanity in a nuclear holocaust. The survivors run from the Cylons in a creaky old spaceship, l...

Life on Mars: Series One

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There are police dramas that deliver far more engaging procedurals than Life on Mars . There are also time travel shows that offer up far mo...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Grey Gardens

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When Grey Gardens premiered on HBO earlier this year, I was telling a friend how good it was and how he really needed to watch it. He refus...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Doctor Who: The Rescue / The Romans

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As a Doctor Who fanatic, it always seems treacherous to admit that the William Hartnell era of the series is something I can take or leave....

Kath & Kim: Season One

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If there was a network series more lambasted, loathed and condemned at the start of the Fall 2008 TV Season than Kath & Kim , I sure as ...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Secret Diary of a Call Girl: Season Two

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At the close of the first season of Secret Diary , the show looked as if it was set to deliver a far superior second season. While Season T...

Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen

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I imagine the same can be said of many genre shows, but when you’re a fan of Doctor Who , there are always a few stories that you enjoy but ...
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