It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the TV Is Good podcast, where Kathryn VanArendonk and I look at notable television shows from the present and the past. In this week's episode, it's a double dose of writer Elizabeth…
Vincent Pastore was so good on The Sopranos that he extended his employment past its original expiration date — even if that goodness ultimately meant that his alter ego wound up sleeping with the fishes. The news that Pastore, best known f…
Last week, I went roaming around my house to take pictures of some of the many, many, many swag items I found. Many of you told me you enjoyed the trip down memory lane — even if the comments mostly turned into a referendum on Joe Pantolian…
As IP plays go, Hulu's new crime thriller Furious is going for a real deep cut. The series, which began streaming yesterday, is a loose adaptation of Black Widow, a 1987 film starring Theresa Russell as a serial killer who keeps marrying we…
It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the TV Is Good podcast, where Kathryn VanArendonk and I look at notable television shows from the present and the past. In this week's episode, Kathryn and I get into the notion of w…
Today's Friday Check-In coming up just as soon as I go smear mud on my ass... Here's what I've published since last Friday's newsletter: Coming up over the next week or so: A couple of Rod Serling bio-related things: One of the most memorab…
The Season One finale of Maximum Pleasure guaranteed drops tonight on Apple TV. The series has been another tremendous showcase for Tatiana Maslany, who plays Paula, a single mom and magazine fact checker who gets embroiled in a criminal co…
A review of this week's The Vampire Lestat, "Montreal" — with spoilers — coming up just as soon as I'm in a book club with some witches... The Vampire Lestat recap, Episode 5: ‘New York’Lestat hits the recording studio for a ‘posthumous’ al…
We're only a few minutes into Netflix's new Little House on the Prairie series when we get a genuine action set piece. The Ingalls family, journeying from the big woods of 19th century Wisconsin to a potential new home in a Kansas town call…
It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the TV Is Good podcast, where Kathryn VanArendonk and I look at notable television shows from the present and the past. In this week's episode, Kathryn and I tackle the subject of TV…
A review of this week's The Vampire Lestat, "New York" — with spoilers — coming up just as soon as I wallpaper a basement sex dungeon with billable hour invoices... As much as I've come to love this series under both its titles, there are t…
Happy holiday weekend, to those who celebrate getting an extra day off. Today's Friday Check-In coming up just as soon as my resume just says "stress"... Here's what I've published since last Friday's newsletter: X-Men '97, which returned t…