If I had a dream job (OK, if I had one dream job among many I wanted to talk about here today), it would be to get paid to visit remote places and write about the people who live there. This is probably because I grew up in a remote
My review of Vinyl will appear Friday, and I'll likely talk a bit about this there. It's a show I like a fair amount, but it's also a show that shares something with creator Terrence Winter's previous series, Boardwalk Empire: mistaken protagonist
When I moved to Vox, I was excited to get back into something I hadn't done for quite a while but wanted to do again: forthright reporting. I had been so bogged down in weekly episode reviews and other critical stuff at AV Club that I hadn'
Look, I get it. The Oscar for Best Picture has gone to some lousy movies (though fewer than you'd think), and it's gone to some really mediocre ones (roughly about the number that you'd think). The number of all-time classics that have been awarded
I almost missed an important anniversary. Okay, I DID miss an important anniversary earlier this year. The only reason I'm thinking to mark it now is because my friend Jace Lacob mentioned on Facebook that his own site, Televisionary, turned 10 recently. And in an instant I remembered
In the buildup to Fox's Grease Live spectacular, I mentioned to a few people that I had never seen the movie Grease, but I had been a teenager at exactly the right time to have had to sing every song from it in various show choir and music
1) South Dakota I lived here for the first 23.5 years of my life and have been back for lengthy visits many times since. It is a beautiful, windswept, lonely place. I love it like no other on Earth, and yet I don't think I could ever
The Grinder is probably my FAVORITE show right now. By that I don't mean I think it's the best show on TV, though I think it's pretty darn good. No, I mean that every week, without fail, it's one I put on
(Every so often, I write about random shows I liked at various stages of my life that most people probably don't think about that often. This will eventually give me a chance to finally write about Dave's World. Be forewarned.) When Trust Me debuted in 2009,
A couple of weeks ago, I suggested in this space that religion is really tough to make good series about. My explanation for this, in a nutshell, is that any good story about religion requires us to believe, just a little bit, in religion ourselves, if only in the fictional
Recently, I was having a conversation with a friend, who was expressing irritation with how a professional colleague/competitor seemed to be making my friend's life much more difficult. And, to be sure, some of this was just pure competitive spirit, which is usually fine. (I doubt my
Of all of the things about me that seem to most amuse my fellow critics, my general affection for awards shows (especially the Oscars and Emmys) probably takes the cake. As we all know, awards shows almost never pick the best possible option. They always end up picking some dumb