The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
Up has been driving me nuts.
The further Alan Ball steps away from the vamps, the closer he gets to the beating heart of the human.
Writing about the fourth Doctor Who Christmas Special is, admittedly, about as much fun as sitting down to eat a bowl of shredded wheat.
Obsessed tries to be all sorts of things at once, and ends up being an over-produced and manipulative mess.
NBC has found the diamond in the rough that it’s been searching for.
It’s rare when a documentary comes along that truly shines a light on a virtually unexplored issue.
Understanding Screenwriting #26: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Angels & Demons, In Plain Sight, & More
Sometimes it’s the writers.
I wonder what the housing prices in Agrestic are like these days.
Showtime hopes its new series, Nurse Jackie, will be the next big thing since Dexter, and it might just be.
Radical conformity is always lampoon-worthy, no matter the setting.
Chain reactions are the miniature explosions that drive most of the hard sciences, particularly chemistry.
What does it mean anymore to be a father? We still roughly know what it means to be a mother. Indeed, we rather know it in our bones.
Last night’s American Idol finale was an exercise in excess.
Glee proves that a few good song-and-dance numbers can make up for a few unsightly bits of maudlin fluff.
Every character has had multiple moments in the run of the show to pull back, to change course, to reverse the path they have headed down.
Lost is a show fairly obsessed by notions of duality.
So, yeah, this is me imploring Fox to not get rid of this show.
Heroic qualities are infrequently associated with the name Walter, which is old-fashioned and lacks charisma and dynamism.
If there’s one thing I find a touch annoying about Breaking Bad, it’s that the show will occasionally lean on a too-easy symbol or two.
Three screenwriters, four counting the original TV writer, but you can’t tell.