The Reality of Grace

I don’t know how it happened, but this thing has, on multiple occasions, become quite a ridiculous addiction. I didn’t see it coming. As a matter of fact, I think I was in denial for quite a while, but now I’m starting to see that I need to step forward and confess. I never thought...

September 20th, 2012 | Essays, Television | Read More

Metaphor & Morality In “The Walking Dead”

“Dead man walking!” This is the phrase which echoed through the halls of death row, and later became the title of a movie. It made perfect sense when I heard that “The Walking Dead” creator named his comic book (turned television series) after the live, not zombie, characters. I never...

April 26th, 2012 | Essays, Featured, Television | Read More

Faith and the Small Screen: Too many heroes

I stand by my statement that depiction of Christians is getting better on TV, even though there’s currently a show on ABC called GCB, standing for Good Christians Bitches. I also agree that Christians would better served getting riled up about the last word than the one in the middle. This is...

March 9th, 2012 | Blog, Essays, Television, The Idiot Box | Read More

Faith and the Small Screen

“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...

January 24th, 2012 | Blog, Essays, Television, The Idiot Box | Read More

Chuck, Community, and the Sliding Scale of Forgiveness

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...

June 10th, 2011 | Featured, Television | Read More

On the Reality of Adulthood

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...

March 23rd, 2011 | Music, Television | Read More

TV for Armchair Psychologists

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...

March 1st, 2011 | Featured, Television | Read More

You Need to Watch More TV

“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...

November 10th, 2010 | Featured, Television, The Idiot Box | Read More

Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose…

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...

October 29th, 2010 | Arts, Featured, Television | Read More

In Defense of Meta Humor

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...

October 25th, 2010 | Featured, Television | Read More

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