Party Down

With The Office still going pretty strong, Parks & Recreation being decent, and Flight of the Conchords being over for the time being, there hasn’t been much comedy TV in our house lately. Except for the occasional re-watching of Arrested Development episodes, everything has been stone-serious TV (Breaking Bad, Lost, Damages, we’re hardcore).

Discovering Party [...]

Aboard the Battleship Pretension

I started listening to back episodes of a new podcast, Battleship Pretension, thanks to a recent /Filmcast episode, on which the two guys from the BP podcast were guests. The two hosts, Tyler and David, sit down for an hour a week and discuss some random topic related to film or television. Examples: [...]

Good Eats

A YouTube user called LikeTheHat seems to have posted nearly every episode of Alton Brown’s Good Eats. If you like cooking (and watching people cook) as much as I do, look at the episode list and search his archive for some good clips and recipes.

The nurturing president

On Waszak’s tip, I started watching the classic Dana Carvey Show on Hulu. It was a classic example of a show ahead of it’s time, offensive and edgy before that was cool.

It might have had a chance of avoiding cancellation if it was on cable, but back in ‘96, the networks didn’t go so [...]

On the Fringe

Colette and I just watched the series premiere of Fringe, JJ Abrams’ new show on Fox. I have to say I was thoroughly entertained throughout, but it seems like it might devolve into a monster-of-the-week type pulpy show, like what most of The X-Files episodes were. As long as they can pull of [...]

TV Update

Colette and I have been watching more TV shows lately, after a lull where we haven’t watched much since The Office season ended. On my own I’ve been making my way through The Shield season 3 and Generation Kill, but Colette doesn’t like ‘em, so I’m left to watching whenever I get a chance.

Over [...]