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Friday, 18 May 2012

Television Collision

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Television Collision: Watching Live vs. Inhaling the DVDs

No matter how hard I try (and I try very hard), I simply cannot keep up with all the shows simultaneously on the air in any given season. First priori...

Television Collision: Game of Thrones’ Kings Aren’t Clashing (Yet)

My undying love for HBO’s fantasy epic Game of Thrones was firmly established last year. During the initial airing of the first season I literally cou...

Television Collision: Showrunner Fatigue and the Case of Scandal

In the world of television I believe in the general rule that it is never a good thing when a single showrunner/creator is given too much power. Curre...

April Fools Week: Work It Was a Work of Art, We Just Weren’t Ready for It

For Valentine’s Day 2012 I got the worst present ever: one of my favorite new comedies was rudely canceled by ABC and replaced with the absolu...

Television Collision: Making the Case for Cougar Town As Best Comedy

These days in TV cirticism there is a veritable debate going on about what currently ist he best comedy on the air. The most vocal fans seem to stand ...

'House of Lies' Seeks a Darker and More Developed Range of Characters

The always exemplary Phoebe Raven, who is out this week, has been less than impressed with the slate of Showtime original series that have per...

Television Collision: The River Doesn’t Run Deep Enough

When the concept of ABC's The River was first revealed… no one got excited, because we had all seen The Blair Witch Project a little over a decade ago...

Television Collision: Drama or Procedural – The Conundrum of Awake

During my recent visit to Los Angeles I noticed the abundance of oversized billboards and ads advertising NBC’s new midseason show Awake. Thes...

The Good, the Bad, and the Oscars

In a rare occurrence of global scheduling CC2K’s Television Editor Phoebe Raven and Film Editor Kristen Lopez are sharing an actual, physical ...

Television Collision: 500 Episodes of The Simpsons – What Now?

It’s hard to write anything about The Simpsons that hasn’t already been written. It’s also hard to write anything that anyone can agree upon. The show...

Television Collision: Spartacus Is Back With A Vengeance

What started out as a guilty pleasure people talked about in hushed whispers, because no one was sure whether or not it was alright to like so...

Television Collision: The Cultural Implications of “Good Cop, Bad Cop”

This week I chose to highlight a topic that lies somewhere between the world of television and the world of movies. It came to me while watching TV an...

Television Collision: Golden Globes 2012 – An Exercise in Arbitrariness

Usually the Golden Globes are a fun, albeit very inconsequential event. Although the award is not as prestigious as the Oscars in the movie business o...

Television Collision: The Moral Corruption of House of Lies

It’s that time of year – again – when another round of new shows is being rolled out: midseason. For some reason this time around it seems the network...

Glee: Season Three Makes a Loser Out of Loyal Fans

The fantastic Ms. Phoebe Raven is out enjoying her holidays and has left me in charge of her television column this week, so let’s wax nostalg...

Television Collision: Terra Nova Makes Bad People of Us All

Terra Nova aired its double-sized finale this past Monday and it is still unclear whether the show will return to the air (hence the finale promotions...

Television Collision: Why Survivor Outwits All of Us

As Survivor is gearing up to air its twenty-third season finale this Sunday, I thought I’d share my personal experience with this most eclectic of all...

Television Collision: I Hate My Teenage Daughter Breeds Bullies

Humor is subjective and oftentimes it is more than futile to debate whether or not something is funny – although sometimes taking a harder look at the...

Television Collision: The Walking Dead Is Treading Water

SPOILER ALERT! If you have yet to see the midseason finale of Season 2 of AMC’s The Walking Dead (which aired on Sunday, Nov. 27th), then don’...

Television Collision: The Disturbing Message of “Mancession”

As the line-up of new shows premiering in this Fall of 2011 was revealed months and months ago, critics remarked on a peculiar trend: there seem...

Television Collision: Keep Me in the Dark - A Case Against Spoilers

I am obsessive about TV, that's no secret. Most of the time I am indulgent about my obsession as well, I love television and I make no excuses about i...

Television Collision: Lost Girl Is A Lost Cause

Canadian fantasy show Lost Girl is currently airing its first season on SyFy for American viewers. CC2K's TV Editor Phoebe Raven already reviewed the ...

Television Collision: New Fall Shows Worth Watching

Even a TV addict like me sometimes has to admit that the substance of my usually happy abuse can get a little more than overwhelming. Specifically I a...

Television Collision: Fall’s Best New Show Homeland Hits Close to Home

I try not to be “one of the herd” too much and just repeat what other TV critics have been saying all day, every day, but sometimes there are those...

Television Collision: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Why Is Ringer No Fun at A

Don’t act surprised, you knew it was coming, my inevitable review of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s new show Ringer. As a Whedonite and Buffy-holic, ...

Television Collision: Emmy Fatigue and the Duality of Twitter

Some weeks these columns are easier to write than others. This week’s column practically writes itself, because the Emmy Awards were handed out Sunday...

Television Collision: TV Needs to Raise the Stakes

Just as Fall TV is getting ready to kick off, some of the summer shows are airing their season finales (or in some cases, like Entourage, finally goin...

Television Collision: Is Season Four A Return to Form for True Blood?

Since I devoted an entire Television Collision post to my low expectations of Season Four of True Blood, I thought it was about time to I went back to...

Television Collision: The Unlikability of Breaking Bad

More than any other basic cable channel in recent years AMC has established itself as a place for quality dramas (FX might be the only channel that ca...

TV Court Is Now In Session: Franklin & Bash vs. Suits

I was ruefully absent these past three weeks and I apologize, but you see, I had to move from one continent to another, so perhaps you can forgive me ...