She’s never had to face reality as a real daughter of someone, which means (gasp!) being wrong every once in a while.
Bones has found a way to make all of its characters feel like a family without beating that dynamic against our head.
If you’d believed my Twitter feed this evening, the premiere of Life Unexpected might just be the most anticipated thing on television since the last time Leno passed the baton to Conan. It’s Juno meets Gilmore Girls (though, I’d argue that one was born out of the other, but that’s just me). In a lot […]
The teaser of this week’s Lie to Me ended with the main character, Cal Lightman, seemingly shot dead. There’s been a buzz since the airing that, because there was never any doubt that by the time the end credits rolled the human lie detector would be back on his feet, the drama was all manufactured […]
It wasn’t that long ago that our fearless leader pointed out that, should one cast a Cylon in something, it would be wise to use him. It’s a maxim that has existed for millennium. Okay, more like a couple of months, but the idea has been around forever. Hell, just take a look at every […]
“It’s the characters, stupid!” I know you’ve heard me say it before: the most important piece of any good drama — be it television, film, literature, or theater — is having good characters. On my favorite show, it’s easy to identify my favorite: Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman … sure he has a different […]
Someone said to me today that Leverage is perfectly cast, and that’s an assessment that I truly can’t argue with. The show has a brilliantly put together group of actors, who are asked to do some pretty heavy lifting each week, what with the different characters they are asked to play. Not only the badass […]
