“Let’s Get Rid of the Weak Players Before We Even Start” February 12th, 2009 Every year of Survivor is in search of two things: a gimmick and a character. These are the two things that have made seasons that could have been weak into something very fascinating, whether it was the i...

“Fashion is a Battlefield” January 27th, 2009 [If you're looking to view the episode online, you can do so at Global's website, but only if you're in Canada. If you're outside of Canada, well, be patient!] My first experience with any sort of Project Runway was, for a brief moment, stumb...

Filed under: OpEd, Lost, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S05E01) "You're gonna have to die, John." - Richard Alpert Time travel! The future is now! later! here! gone! beginning! ending! OK, I give up. Lost is back and the future is... well, we don't know what the future is. Or the past. Or the presen...

“Sometimes a Great Notion” January 16th, 2009 I had to wait over forty-eight hours to watch this, the beginning of the end for Battlestar Galactica as it enters its final ten-episode stretch. I logged onto Twitter in my hotel on Friday evening, as I am in Montreal for the continent’...

“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...

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...

“My Jerks” and “My Last Words” January 6th, 2008 When I heard that Scrubs was given an eighth season, I was frustrated: this is a show that has been proclaimed dead more times than I can count, and was quite actually creatively dead at a certain point in its seventh season. B...

Filed under: OpEd, Scrubs, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S08E01) It's interesting how much attention Scrubs gets from us TV-loving types, considering how little attention it gets from everyone else. Why is it? Well, partially it's because of Bill Lawrence and the cast, who have been entertaining to...

“Don’t Let a Cheese Hit Me” February 15th, 2009 While we just ended the last season of The Amazing Race a few months ago, a lot has changed over the short break between seasons. The editing has changed, the maps have become Google sponsored, the font is different, and they even wen...

“Episode One” July 16th, 2008 You may have noticed that I have never quite blogged about Project Runway in the life of Cultural Learnings, which is for two main reasons. First and foremost, I’m late on the uptake, having only discovered the series in its fourth season. And, second,...