“Well, I gotta be moving on. I’m needed up in Chesterton. A couple of girls up there think they’re vampires. This Twilight thing has gotten out of hand…” I laughed before Rev. Tim Tom finished telling Sue why he had to run off . I had just started watching The Middle this season, and...

A couple of years ago my wife introduced me to Chuck, a spy comedy with nerdy pop culture references she promised we both would find appealing. I was amused by the references, but to be honest, I found the rest of it silly. However, there are few things my wife and I can watch together, so we sat and...

Last May, The National released their new highly anticipated album, High Violet, once again impressing critics almost across the board, including The New York Times and Pitchfork. The Ohio based-currently-from-Brooklyn-band has orchestrated some of their darkest music yet, as singer Matt Berninger throats...

Since the first season of Lie to Me ended in May 2009, my wife and I have been in a drought of sorts. We’ve longed for some television content that would engage our psyches. We loved Cal Lightman‘s ability to illumine the spectrum of deceptiveness. We all lie, and it is detectable in facial...

“Is it weird that the end of Eastbound and Down‘s second season made me tear up a bit?” I posted this on Facebook the other night.  It wasn’t exactly true, but I was amazed that the show had grown on me to any extent, seeing as I thought the first season was mediocre and overly...

Friday Night Lights is, in my opinion, one of the best shows in television history. Its last season begins soon, the final drive. I can’t recall exactly how and when I was landed, but I am – hook, line, and sinker. Some have called it “the little show that could” because it survived...

The first time I realized that I liked meta humor happened during my teen years while watching a syndicated rerun of Growing Pains. Mike Seaver was usually the troublemaker and subject of disciplinary-inclined plots, but in this particular episode he was off the hook until near the end when he blurted...

I want to like Outsourced. The premise appeals to me, and fortunately for the show (while not for those affected) is actually timely for some who accept the fact that chances of getting jobs overseas may be better. And while the worst moments of Outsourced are pretty bad, at its best it tells any...

Despite the obvious appeal of fall — the colors, the crisp cool air and football — I’m guessing most of you are sad summer is over.  There’s a melancholy to fall, the knowing there are months and months of rain ahead before the sun shines again and everyone’s out in shorts. ...

My husband and I have made an intentional choice to live without live television.  It was a way of life I had taken up ever since I started living on my own.  We have a small “TVD” (a TV with a built-in DVD player) and an old VCR from Goodwill.  Every now and again we watch movies or past episodes...