Archive for the ‘Television’ Category

Happy Town

Happy Town

It had been so many years since I watched anything on network television. In general, I have no patience for commercials. Even though there are just as many commercials on cable, for some reason they are a little more tolerable. Don’t know why that makes sense to me, but it does.

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RIP Rue McClanahan

Rue McClanahan (1934-2010)

When the Golden Girls first debuted in 1985, I was only 16 years old. Still, even though I was so young, I was able to appreciate the humor that the girls offered every week. Being 16 at the time, it was inconceivable to me that women like the Golden Girls could actually have a life [...]

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Criminal Minds

So my roommate and I have a full slate on our livingroom DVR. We are total Bravoholics, from Real Housewives to Flipping Out to Make Me A Supermodel – we watch them all. We also seem to have a very strange penchant for crime shows like CSI (NY, Miami and Las Vegas), Numb3rs (not really [...]

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Hulu – My Kinda TV

I have to laugh at myself sometimes. I used to think my mom was silly for complaining about how many commercials were shown during a typical tv show. She used to make us watch PBS all the time because there were no commercials. During their peak “giving” seasons, she would take the time that PBS [...]

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The Vampire Diaries

So I never got into the whole “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” or “Angel” shows. They just seemed so silly and sophomoric. I would have thought the same the about “The Vampire Diaries,” but I have to admit, I look forward to 8pm on Thursday nights!
The story revolves around Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) and two vampire [...]

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