Television Archives

We ended last week with Sayid rising from the mostly-dead and asking, “What happened?” The first scene this week picks up where that one left off. Guess what? No one hazards a guess at the answer to Sayid’s question. Big surprise. Kate asks Sawyer how Sayid’s resurrection was possible. And Sawyer drops a classic: “He’s Read More

My history with the show Lost is complicated and long, but I still couldn’t resist watching the final season’s premiere on a website that streams live TV. Not only did I watch the entire two-hour premiere, but I’d been tuned in for the hour-long recap that aired before, leaving me harumphing for most of last Read More

At the risk of looking like that page in the back of Jet that tells you when Black people are gonna be on TV, here’s a shortlist of pick-ups and renewals of programs starring people of color: TNT has renewed Men of a Certain Age for a second season, after airing just five episodes. I’m Read More

Am I the only person who didn’t know that Carlton from Fresh Prince was hosting a lame-looking show  on a network I’ve never heard of? I caught a brief glimpse of a commercial for it when I went to my water cooler and, frankly, wish I didn’t even know. Though for a minute I thought Read More

I cut off my cable more than a year ago. It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, for a few reasons. One, the times that most people watch television — in the morning before work and in the evening after work — I spent listening to music, reading, and writing. Two, because Read More

Awwwww, Sal. We knew Sal was probably a goner as soon as we saw Don peak in on Sal and the bellhop, but it still seems more than cruel for Sal to get an unexpected hit on from a handsome direction and then have it turn on him. Still, that’s probably the way it would Read More

David Post wonders how much our news culture distorts the information we consume. I call it the ESPN Effect – mistaking filtered reality for reality.  We do it a lot.  All I hear from my left-leaning friends these days is how crazy people on the right are becoming, and all all I hear from my Read More
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