If you thought The Sopranos finale was irritating, you should have seen Sunday's wrap-up episode of Showtime's The L Word. Having spent a whole season setting up the murder of the show's most treacherous, manipulative, duplicitous, greedy, exploitative and generally bitchy characte...

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Reaper (8 p.m. Tuesday, The CW) -- The funniest comedy on television that nobody watches returns for a second season. Bret Harrison plays Sam, a slacker loafing through life who discovers his soul has been sold to the Devil (an archly funny Ray Wise). This season, there's a new twist: Sam has ju...

It may not be an original metaphor, but it's still a damn good one: The U.S. government's war on drug trafficking is like squeezing a balloon -- you squish it down in one place and it pops up in another. The pressure Washington brought on Colombia during the 1990s simply moved the problem to...

 ...is, shockingly, not me. And it turns out I'm not even the hottest Garvin in Florida. Both titles belong to Jessica Garvin, the Coral Springs actress who is, to my knowledge, the only Garvin ever to have appeared in a Playboy video. (They keep begging me, but I won't do nudity unles...

See if any of this sounds familiar: A president plunges the country into a war he expects to end within weeks, but four years later, it's still bloodily dragging on. He suspends the writ of habeas corpus and tries civilians in military courts. He blocks newspapers from publishing anything he con...

Dollhouse (9 p.m. Friday, Fox) -- In Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 there was a character named Dunbar who cultivated boredom as the secret to long life -- you might not actually live longer if you immersed yourself in the dull and tedious, Dunbar said, but it sure would seem longer. Dunbar woul...

Well, we've had a suburban pot dealer in Weeds, a suburban meth-maker in Breaking Bad, and suburban wife-swappers in Swingtown. Sounds like depravity in the 'burbs is pretty well played out. Wait! What's this? A suburban pimp? By golly, you're right, we haven't had that...yet. Th...

Trust Me (10 p.m. Monday, TNT) -- Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) and Tom Cavanagh (Ed) star as a pair of cynical, witty advertising men at who balance boozing and broads and . . . What? There's a show called Mad Men on ANC with that very same plot? And it got record ratings and won a bunch of...

The traditional family sitcom cry of "Is anybody home?" takes on a whole new meaning in United States of Tara. Suburban mom Tara Gregson has dissociative indentity disorder -- what used to be called multiple personalities -- and her husband and kids never know who they'll find when they wa...