The Ghost Whisperer. (2005 Fall Premieres)
If nothing else, The Ghost Whisperer has made me more appreciative of other, better shows. That’s something, I guess.
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If nothing else, The Ghost Whisperer has made me more appreciative of other, better shows. That’s something, I guess.
It’s impossible to write anything about the movie itself without wallowing in spoilers, so here are some random notes on the preview-watching experience.
Do I really need to post something about this show?
Three takes on making the world a better place: the saccharine, the salty, and the acidic.
It’s too early to say for sure, but it doesn’t feel like any of these shows have captured the unconventional, genre-busting Lostyness of Lost. But zombies will trump fish-people or body snatchers any day of the week.
Dennis Hopper realizes what a bad show he’s on, and delivers his laughably awful lines with his usual gusto.
The networks keep pumping out legal dramedies, and I keep watching them, possibly as some sort of penance for unspecified sins.
CBS and Fox must have been playing some weird game of one-upmanship when developing How I Met Your Mother and Kitchen Confidential.
If there’s any potential for the show, it’s in the cast.
If you’re going to ask me to follow your characters through twenty-some-odd years of their lives, then you need to give those characters some potential and set up stories for them that are more than just the chaff lying around on the floor of a daytime soap’s writers room.
As they travel from town to town in search of scary demons to purge, Dean and Sam have their fair share of male-bonding moments, most of which seem to involve calling each other “bitch.”
The big problem with Bones is that the writers and producers don’t seem to trust the actors to convey any of the characters’ qualities, and they don’t trust the audience to pick up on them, and so the script ends up being as ham-handed and overly obvious as possible.
Some simple lessons that I’ll want to keep in mind for my next job.
Nowadays, The Simpsons is considered a comedy emeritus; a respectable, even gentle show when compared to its coarse neighbors.
After spending all summer implementing a series of web sites for various clients, each more elaborate than the last, it’s actually kind of relaxing to take the design of my own site and tear it down to a bare minimum.
I was really looking forward to Capcom’s Killer 7, which only makes my unhappiness with the game that much greater.
Michael has potential for development, not only because he’s the main character, but because he’s so insufferably smug about his grand schemes that you just know he’s due to be taken down a peg or two while in the joint.