Yes, I’m Still Watching…Damages February 25th, 2009 Oh, Damages. When the show debuted in 2007, there was something very fresh about its structure, something that I couldn’t really put my finger on at the time. It was a show that brought to the table some great acting talent, in pa...

If I told you that Adam was about a man with Asperger syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism, you would instantly lose all interest in seeing it, right? Yeah, that's what I thought. If Fox Searchlight's marketers are smart, they'll keep a lid on that aspect of the film, because it's actually a ...

I’m still extremely behind on Sundance reviews. After the jump you will find my mini-reviews for Adam, Arlen Faber and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Enjoy. Fox Searchlight’s big purchase at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival is a wonderful little relationship film called Adam . I’...

“I Lied, Too” January 7th, 2009 Damages is one of the few shows that, despite airing during the period when I began this blog, I have never honestly blogged about the show. The reason is simple: I wasn’t really doing episodic reviews back when the show first emerged, and it took me...

Damages came back last night to FX, and so far it's just about as powerful, brooding and complex as the first season, which is to say, top notch television. The essence of Damages is that you never know, completely, who is telling the truth, and that pertains, especially, to Patty Hewes, and her sec...

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S02E01) "Actually, I take that back. You should be scared. You should be terrified." - Ellen Payback's a bitch, ain't it? Not if you're Ellen Parsons - then it's a slow, methodical, patience-testing process where it apparently take...

When I started my Emmys coverage for this year’s ceremony a while ago, I (as always) had a lot of plans: previews of every category (Got through a lot), reviews of every submitted episode (Almost got through those), and all sorts of other grand schemes that never come to fruition. This is the ...