Best of 2008

31Dec08

One of the great gifts of having a blog is the opportunity to spout off opinions as if they are truth. And the end of the year is the time for bold opinions that quantify the previous year, often in multiples of ten. I thought about offering a TV Top Ten for the year, but […]

Filed under: Film, New Media, Not Quite TV, Television, TV Shows   |  6 Comments
Tags: 30 rock, Battlestar, breaking bad, bsg, celtics, chuck, colbert, daily show, dark knight, death cab, dj earworm, dr. horrible, friday night lights, gta4, Lost, middleman, portal, pushing daisies, rachel maddow, radiohead, red sox, the bad plus, the office, The Wire, true blood, tv on the radio

The Art of Imitation

30Sep08

(Finally, a posting of substance (hopefully)…) In the early days of television, radio comedian Fred Allen famously quipped “imitation is the sincerest form of television.” While Allen’s own preferred medium of radio was similarly invested in copying, cloning, and combining, he did diagnose the chief impulse of television’s role as a commercial creative medium: always […]

Filed under: Narrative, Television, TV Shows   |  3 Comments
Tags: fringe, true blood