Mad Men returns… along with Ayn Rand

July 26, 2010 in Drama, Drama Series, Features (BSWatch & Users), Mad Men, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

I couldn’t believe it when the Season 4 premiere of Mad Men opened with the line “Who is Don Draper?”  Too perfect—considering that this time last year I wrote an article [...]

Flashback to FlashForward (finale recap)

May 31, 2010 in Drama, Drama Series, Features (BSWatch & Users), Science Fiction, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

Despite all the hype as a potential successor to ABC’s cult science fiction drama LOST, the infant FlashForward ended up airing its series finale just days after LOST’s own. Irony’s a bitch. Like LOST, FlashForward presented viewers [...]

V is for Vengeance (season one wrap-up)

May 19, 2010 in Drama, Drama Series, Features (BSWatch & Users), Science Fiction, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

ABC’s alien invasion drama finished off season one Tuesday night with a surprisingly satisfying finale.  The last scene left us with a major question for next season, to be sure [...]

Six Feet Under – Episode 11: The Trip

May 18, 2010 in Drama, Drama Series, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

Dillon Michael Cooper. 2001-2001. Sometimes babies just die. No explanation. No reason. Nothing that can console. No meaning whatsoever. Just the pain that remains. How much can even a good [...]

“We’re terrorists now” (V 1.10)

May 6, 2010 in Drama, Drama Series, Features (BSWatch & Users), Science Fiction, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

There’s nothing like a priest blowing up spacecraft with a Surface-to-air missile.  All right, so it was Kyle Hobbes (big surprise), but Father Jack was standing right there with the [...]

Pregnant on Primetime

January 24, 2010 in Documentary, Drama, Features (BSWatch & Users), Reality, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

After Lifetime’s debut of the original movie The Pregnanacy Pact, the verdict is in: America has a cultural fascination with sensational pregnancies—and the more controversial, the better (remember Octomom?). The [...]