Spoilers for tonight's "How I Met Your Mother" coming up just as soon as I alert the sommelier... Wow. I've been enjoying "HIMYM" for the most part this year, but an episode like "Sorry, Bro" -- both the funniest and most uniquely "HIMYM" episode dating back to at least "The Naked Man," if not to la...

By Todd VanDerWerff One of the smarter things I heard about the film Rachel Getting Married, my favorite of last year, is that in a lot of cases, most of the things that people who strongly disliked the film disliked about it are the sorts of things those who really liked the film liked about it. It...

Spoilers for tonight's "How I Met Your Mother" coming up just as soon as I give myself a catchphrase... "And so ended one of the strangest afternoons of our lives." -Future Ted And so ended one of the strangest "HIMYM"s of our lives -- and, I'm guessing, one of the most polarizing. The theme of half...

“The Stinsons” March 2nd, 2009 Listen to any fan of How I Met Your Mother talk about why they think other people should watch the show and, chances are, they are likely going to eventually say something along the lines of “this is not a traditional sitcom.” This is something ...

By Todd VanDerWerff Every season, Battlestar Galactica does a Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) episode, which delves into the character's motivations and her dark past. How much you like these episodes usually hinges on how much you like borderline melodrama and how much you like Sackhoff’s performance, ...

“Someone to Watch Over Me” February 27th, 2009 For an episode driven by the power of melody to transcend minds and to bring people together, there was a return to a familiar rhythm to “Someone to Watch Over Me,” a return to form for Battlestar Galactica as it heads into its f...

“Deadlock” February 20th, 2009 “Imagine, instead of 50,000 survivors, there are only five.” The above are the words of the fifth and final Cylon, words that are in fact quite resonant: considering what we have learned of the Cylon back story in the last few episodes, the Fina...

I just came back from the private opening of the American Idol Experience at Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios and I had a blast.  I’m thoroughly exhausted but it really was a lot of fun.  Disney really knows how to put on a show and I am extremely grateful to them for the fabulous...

By Todd VanDerWerff Genre fiction requires the infodump. Eventually, you’re going to get to a point in a science fiction, fantasy or horror work where you need to lay out, exactly, the rules everyone’s playing by. The One Ring to rule them all corrupts absolutely. Dr. Jekyll’s potion lets out ...

Oh, man they totally give away a cliffhanger from last night!Glad I don't want to be a spoiler-virgin. I'm sure it's darn hard. Not safe to watch even watch the promos on tv.   This video is mislabeled (wishful thinking?) but it is for next week's episode. Thank you, indysid! American Promo for...