Six Feet Under – Episode 8: Crossroads

January 12, 2010 in Drama, Drama Series, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

Chloe Anne Bryant Yorkin, 1959-2001. Celebrating her divorce with her girlfriends, lots of champagne and a chauffeured stretch limousine – and, as she pokes her head out the limo’s roof [...]

Six Feet Under – Episode 3: The Foot

October 6, 2009 in Drama, Drama Series, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

Thomas Alfredo Romano, 1944-2001. Dough mixers and dough mixer cleaners don’t, well, mix. Or they mix all too well. Rest in pieces. Cut to Nate and Brenda, who have also [...]

Bored to Death Pilot Review

September 29, 2009 in Comedy, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

A few weeks late, but I’ve finally got around to covering HBO’s latest comedy, the slacker-noir Bored to Death. Filling the Sunday night comedy package from September to November alongside [...]

Six Feet Under – Episode 2: The Will

September 20, 2009 in Drama, Features (BSWatch & Users), Shows You're Not Watching

Chandler James Swanson, 1967-2001. Cracked his head open at the bottom of his swimming pool. He will be missed, primarily by debt collectors and repo men. Talk about cognitive dissonance. [...]

Some Thoughts on Mad Men and The Sopranos

September 14, 2009 in Drama, Drama Series, Mad Men, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

I’ve recently reviewed the second season of Mad Men, and having spent a lot of time re-watching The Sopranos in recent weeks, I was struck again by the multiple connections between the [...]

Hung And Its Arguable Staying Power

September 8, 2009 in Comedy, Slide Show

If there’s anyone that can take the quirky high concept that is HUNG – down on his luck ex high school basketball star turned high school coach with impressively large [...]