I don’t know whether many of you have noticed lately, but aside from a few posts early on in the fall season I have been silent.  This would be due to technical issues that were completely out of my control.  Okay, so yes it was stupid of me to drink a cup of hot tea laden with sugar and cream around my laptop, but hindsight people.  Hindsight.  What I didn’t know then that I do know now is that the universe wanted to protect me from having to sit through the television dreck that was about to come down the pipeline. Somehow...

Wow.  That’s the only thing that could come to mind at the end of this week’s mid-season finale, Pretty Much Dead Already Dead (PMDA).  Wow.  What began as a slow second season quickly led up to an epic stopping point for the show, giving us 2+ months to wait anxiously for its return. Episodes 2-6 were slow.  Excruciatingly so.  We were given rehashed conversations week after week and some fairly slow character developments and plot movements to boot.  The worst part (or best part) was that we were given a false...

Secrets don’t make friends, but the truth is rarely pure and never simple.  This week on The Walking Dead old secrets are brought forward, new secrets are burrowed away, confessions run rampant, and we get plenty of food for thought.  Oh, and then there’s Shane and Andrea (shudder).  Secrets was the first episode in a while that felt pretty genuine and ‘back to it’s roots’.  There was some great zombie action, but that was an extremely small portion of what brought back that warm, fuzzy feeling...

Chupacabras.  Are they those mythical creatures that terrorize you and live in your peripheral vision, or are they just mangy, parasite-ridden coyotes scampering off to find a place to lie down and die?  This week’s episode of The Walking Dead is aptly named for more reasons than one, giving us a mixed bag of excitement, terror, boredom, and intrigue. Again, The Walking Dead writers have staved off the big moments and revelations the fans have been crying for since Bloodletting.  Let me say again, I understand that...

Instead of splurging on action this week, Cherokee Rose took more of a character-development approach, giving us another week to contemplate the different complexities of the relationships within our group of survivors.  While some may see this as another slow episode for Season 2, I see it as a shining indication of what we can look forward to in the next nine episodes. This week on The Walking Dead we are given development and movement in our characters.  This is something we have all been craving as our favorite survivors...

The second season of The Walking Dead seemed to be off to a great start.  Last week’s episode, Bloodletting, left all of us hungry for some serious action and movement in the plot.  We sat on pins and needles all week waiting for the airing of Save the Last One until finally, finally it was here.  I’m sure I am not the only one left with a sour taste in my mouth when it was all said and done. Save the Last One zeroes in on Shane and Otis’ frantic escape from a school and Carl’s life hanging in the balance. ...

Season 2 of The Walking Dead has been off to a great start.  It seems that this season has adopted the “Keep it Simple, Stupid” principle; this idea is especially prevalent in episode 2, Bloodletting. Essentially, the entire episode is dedicated to saving Carl from the errant bullet he took at the end of the season premiere.  Rick rushes him to the farm of a new character, Herschel, who is a kind old veterinarian.  Herschel’s daughter fetches Lori from the group, and Glen is sent to find the farm by road...

It’s finally here, the show we’ve all been waiting for — The Walking Dead.  In the fantastic 90 minute premiere episode, “What Lies Ahead,” the tone is set right from the start.  How anyone can say that they don’t care for this series is completely beyond me, because now more than ever we are shown that there is something for everyone in this slice of TV viewer’s zombie-heaven. Our opening scene shows Rick (Andrew Lincoln) on the walkie-talkie giving Morgan (Lennie James) an update...

 After being absent from the small screen for the better part of eight years, save for a couple of guest starring roles here and there, Sarah Michelle Gellar returns to television playing the dual role of Bridget Kelly/Siobhan Martin on The CW’s new drama Ringer. Within the first ten minutes of the pilot episode the show establishes who each twin is, their differences, and how Bridget came to pretend to be Siobhan.  Unfortunately we already knew this information from the many promos that played throughout the summer so it...

Whoever said drama was easy it’s comedy that’s hard had no idea how right they were.  Especially considering they never had to deal with today’s instant pleasure world.  The problem with comedy is that a million different circumstances can make one person laugh and fall deafly on someone else’s ears.    Like for instance…me.   When it comes to comedy I admit I’m fickle.  I tend to shy away from comedies that are served up by a laugh track and those that fail to straddle the line between...

It has been said that you either love Zooey Deschanel or you don’t.  I disagree because I am firmly stuck in the middle.   I neither love her nor hate her.  I can however see how her brand of quirky can wear thin and become gimmicky or worse yet annoying.  Luckily for those of us in the middle New Girl is saved from veering too far to the annoying side by her supporting cast played by Jake  Johnson, Max Greenfield, and Damon Wayans (soon to be replaced by Lamorne Morris playing Winston Bishop). Zooey Deschanel plays...

Hey it’s a new cop drama.  Wait, no, never mind it’s a show about Grimm’s Fairy Tales.  Um nope wrong again it’s both.  Yeah that’s right I said both.   I don’t know if David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf are brilliant or crazy.  We all know that cop dramas are television gold these days.  However genre television, while often fanyboytastic and convention friendly, are often where ratings go to die.    So maybe by bringing the two together NBC has found a loophole, maybe. Grimm stars...

  CBS is not the channel that is known for taking chances.  Frankly I consider it a freaking miracle that shows like How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory ever made it on the air, let alone were given the chance to become legen-wait for it-dary.   Let’s face it Rules of Engagement is more CBS’s style when it comes to comedy.  Heck even Mike & Molly isn’t one of those shows I would expect to air on CBS.  So imagine my complete and utter non-surprise (had you fooled there didn’t I?) when...

Comedy is hard.  Good comedy is even harder.  As Will Arnett can attest considering he spent a few weeks last television season trying to convince America that Running Wilde was not only a good show, but a funny one as well.  Which as we all know was not the case.  This fall he is back and this time he brought along proven funny women Christina Applegate (Samantha Who/Married with Children) and Maya Rudolph (Bridesmaids/Saturday Night Live) in the new NBC comedy Up All Night.   Applegate and Arnett play new parents Reagan...

What if Jennifer Love Hewitt was a guy? Now imagine this guy looks exactly like the guy who played Josh in 2011′s Insidious.  Ok now that you have that picture in your head put him in a doctor’s lab coat.  Got it?  Good.  Oh wait did I mention he can also see dead people?  I didn’t? Well he can.  I bet you are thinking to yourself this sounds eerily like the cancelled CBS show Ghost Whisperer.  Well you would be wrong, kind of.   This time the Haley Joel Osment wanna be is played by Patrick Wilson...