Posts Tagged ‘Television’

Faith and the Small Screen: Too many heroes

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

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

Christian New Year’s Resolutions

Christian New Year’s Resolutions
I’m tempted to write a satire called Christian New Year’s Resolutions.  It would go something like this: Pray without ceasing.  Ever. Don’t watch secular television. Become a physically fit Proverbs 31 woman. Read the bible every day and nothing besides it. Go to church every Sunday. Is there...
January 19th, 2011 | Essays, Featured | Read More

Portland as a Laughingstock

Portland as a Laughingstock
The first episode of IFC’s Portlandia airs this Friday at 10:30.  Fortunately, because networks are getting better and better at airing their programs on the internet (and following what IFC did last year with The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret), Portlandia is available to watch,...
January 18th, 2011 | Featured, The Idiot Box | Read More

Outsourced

Outsourced
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...
October 12th, 2010 | Featured, Television | Read More

Dear Summer: Get Bent.

Dear Summer: Get Bent.
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. ...
September 21st, 2010 | Featured, Television, The Idiot Box | Read More

Escape from Reality (TV)

Escape from Reality (TV)
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...
September 17th, 2010 | Featured, Television | Read More

Checks, Balances and the Ticking Clock: What “24″ Taught Us

Checks, Balances and the Ticking Clock: What “24″ Taught Us
I would have killed to have been a fly on the wall at the pitch for 24, which recently ended its eight-season run. I would have liked to be there when the writers sat down with the producers to sell them the show. Beyond the accidentals—the ticking clock, the graphic violence, the pained expression...
July 27th, 2010 | Becoming the Great Us, Featured | Read More

The Golden Age, Part IV

The Golden Age, Part IV
I’ve mentioned many times that I believe we’re in the Golden Age of Television.  I’m not alone in that, and I’ve heard it a number of other places. But many of us were saying so even before shows like Mad Men, Treme, Community and Parks and Recreation.  Even as The Sopranos,...
June 15th, 2010 | Featured, Television, The Idiot Box | Read More

Beloved, “The Bachelor” Is Below You

Yes, last night I watched the television show The Bachelor. A friend of my brother-in-law is one of the girls on the show, so we tuned in to see the mess. Last week I watched the first three episodes from season one of Mad Men, the hit show on A&E about the advertising world in the 1950s. The show’s...
January 19th, 2010 | Arts, Television | Read More
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