Recent television

• Buffy Is Driving Women from the Church

  Allison Waldman of TV Squad (see link below) reports that a new study out of Great Britain blames “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and other shows like it, for tens of thousands of women quitting the church.
  The study, also reported on by the New York Post (Buffy Made Women Stop Going to Church Study) was [...]

  August 26th, 2008

• Fox’s ‘The Moment of Truth’ - A New Low for Reality TV

  I don’t know which is more reprehensible:  The Fox Network, which is airing this program or the people who participate in it.  It’s probably a toss-up, but I have to wonder about the increased Springerization of American culture.  What won’t people do for a few bucks?  Not much it seems.  One website writes:
  Fox has [...]

  January 20th, 2008

• Favorite TV Series Final Scenes

  The Sopranos - Contrary to many, I found this to be the perfect ending to this series.  Bring on the ambiguity!!!

   
  Six Feet Under - The best ending to a TV series ever.  To end a series based on a family running a funeral home by showing how the remaining characters all die is sheer genius, [...]

  January 9th, 2008

• My Favorite TV Series’ Intros, Part 2

  As mentioned in My Favorite TV Series’ Intros, I cannot think of a single current network TV series that has a memorable intro, with or without music.  Recent favorites of mine are all on cable TV, either Showtime or HBO.  They are, in order of my liking:
   
  5.  The Tudors (Showtime) - an excellent retelling of [...]

  January 8th, 2008

• My Favorite TV Series’ Intros

  In the old days of Television, and even up to the mid-nineties,  most TV series had a musical opening or intro that would be played each week.  The intro would often provide a foundation for the series, introduce or re-introduce us to the main characters, and provide some basic atmosphere.  But on network TV, the [...]

  January 7th, 2008