The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
If I have one concern about the finale next week, it’s that the show will not be able to find an ultimate meaning for the character of Baltar.
As the episode’s title suggests, the Panthers’ first playoff game of this season has been selected by the national media as the high school football Game of the Week.
One of the things that draws me to the medium of television is the way a series can show the process of doing something.
“Rough Edges” just plunges forward, pell-mell, not terribly concerned with if it makes a lot of sense.
Whenever a character makes the trek from a small country town to the Big Apple, you know something important’s going to happen.
To a real degree, I’m willing to give the show a lot of slack because it’s a story still in search of an ending.
Boy and girl meet cute, argue, have problems, get together in the end.
Let us now sing the praises of Josh Holloway and Elizabeth Mitchell.
I’m sure some really enjoy the seriocomic tone that the Juniper Creek storylines can strike.
I don’t think it’s coincidence that this was the episode to reintroduce the concept of Cylon projection.
I realize how snarky I’m being, but it’s to emphasize just how trite so much of this episode ends up being.
The structure of “Life and Death” is pretty predictable once you get into the swing of it.
Dollhouse certainly takes its cues from its eponymous toy.
He’s arguably the most important character in Big Love, even if we never directly see Him, even if we never are sure how He feels about the Henricksons.
I’ve speculated before that the show’s writers are interested in their mythology, but probably not as interested as their fans are.
As I suspected, the demotion to backup quarterback has given Matt the opportunity to focus on different things.
Understanding Screenwriting #19: Teaching the Young, Minsky’s, Captain Blood, In Old Chicago, & More
Captain Blood is the film that made Errol Flynn a star after his appearing in smaller parts in a few Warners pictures.
For the first time this season, we feel completely stymied by Lost.
Few shows on TV have as many scenes that feel like they should be dream sequences but actually turn out to be reality as Big Love does.
Taking Chance wants nothing to do with the controversial politics of the Iraq War.