Tag: television

  • In Love with Louie

    Biggest sur­prise of the sum­mer for this blog­ger? It’s “Louie,” hands down. Marked improve­ment over “Lucky Louise,” his short-lived show on HBO, which last­ed just a sea­son. His raw standup and wry wit were per­fect­ly blend­ed into a more coher­ent nar­ra­tive detail­ing his dai­ly drag. Love when a come­di­an takes on the big issues, makes fun­ny…

  • I’ve Seen a Darkness

    Just watched The Promise, a new doc­u­men­tary about Bruce Spring­steen’s Dark­ness on the Edge of Town. I have mixed feel­ings. I’ll be writ­ing about it for Fancast.com this week.

  • I Want to Like Kenny Powers

    But I can’t help but feel like it’s a base­ball-cen­tric Entourage, with John­ny Dra­ma in the lead role. Hav­ing said that, I enjoyed East­bound and Down this morn­ing. Stayed up way too late watch­ing TV last night. Mad Men, Board­walk Empire and East­bound and Down in one night? How am I sup­posed to catch up on…

  • In Praise of Boardwalk Empire

    If this show is the clos­est we ever get to an actu­al con­clu­sion to Dead­wood, I’ll take it. I’ve watched the pilot episode three times! One knock: could they at least pre­tend to know how a Philadel­phi­an talks? Busce­mi will do Busce­mi, but no one in the cast sounds like they’re from Philly at all. Did­n’t…

  • Last Call for Zane Lamprey’s Three Sheets?

    I knew things weren’t good when I first caught a glimpse of Zane Lam­prey in a Sub­way com­mer­cial. When I start­ed fol­low­ing Lam­prey on Face­book, I saw that he was work­ing on a new project, but his oth­er show, Three Sheets, has got­ten a stay of exe­cu­tion. Then I read this post over on his…