NOTE: This column was written in front of a comatose studio audience. After enough seasons of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, one’s interest in the characters calcifies to either indifference or outright hate. Munch and Ice-T don’t grate because they rarely have anything to do; likewise with Cragen and Dr. Huang. They function to
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“There is a television program, an elegant, enigmatic element of entertainment that engaged and ensnared the collective consciousness of American culture. That very program challenged, changed, and contorted culture considerably for decades afterwards. That program is, The Twilight Zone.” Today at exactly 10:00pm will be the fifty-fifth anniversary of the aforementioned, The Twilight Zone.
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If there’s one thing I love more than procedural police fiction in which writers use current events as an outline for scripts, it’s horror movies. Not many are very good, yet bad horror movies are much more fun to watch than shitty comedies or shitty Holocaust dramas. In the malaise-filled days during my college education,
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A Batman show without Batman…yet. That could pretty much sum up the new show Gotham which started airing on the Fox network Mondays this week. Check your local listings. You know, for the bat-time and bat-channel. Ever since Smallville premiered on the WB (now the CW), fanboys were clamoring for a crossover with the caped
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NOTE: Last week, Law & Ordocki referred to Richard Belzer as “the world’s greatest sex machine”. This was incorrect; in fact, Kris Kristofferson is “the world’s greatest sex machine”. Richard Belzer is “Connecticut’s greatest sex machine, 1973-1978, 1980, 1983″. We apologize for the error. Law & Order: Criminal Intent is easily the least self-assured of
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