Hanging with the Ballers Professional Football isn’t all that meets the eye. There is a whole different game behind the scenes: from lying and cheating to using drugs and partying. The hit HBO show Ballers explores exactly that. In the first season of the series Spencer Strasmore, played by Dwayne Johnson, is struggling to find … Continue reading
The Magicians Season One (Universal Home Video) The Magicians is sort of like what Hogwarts Academy from the Harry Potter books would be like if it were visualized by MTV – lots of gorgeous college-aged students misbehaving and experimenting with spells, sex and bacchanalia. This new series, which debuted on SyFy Channel last December, is … Continue reading
Father Knows Best Season One (1954) (Shout! Factory-2008) A fresh look at Father Knows Best does nothing to answer that chicken-or-the-egg dilemma which has haunted us for over a half century: was family life in the 1950s really this stable, or did television devise a set of standards for happy living so impossible to attain that it could … Continue reading
My Name Is Earl The Complete First Season (2005-2006) (20th Century Fox Home Video-2006) The darkly cheerful My Name Is Earl, a tale of obsession and redemption, is told through the narration of a newly minted Dudley Do-Right who used to be a backwoods badass. His actions are an exercise in how everything in the universe … Continue reading
How I Met Your Mother Season One (2005-2006) (Fox Home Video-2006) Those charmingly misguided TV sitcom writers seem to have four general rules: One: all twenty-somethings, regardless of financial obligation and career path, must live in Manhattan, in cool apartments with HUGE bathrooms. Two: all Manhattan-dwelling twenty-somethings are magically blessed with lots of free time, … Continue reading
Dharma & Greg Season One (1997-1998) (Twentieth Century Fox-2006) Watching the terrific Dharma and Greg reminds us of the time in which it was first broadcast, the late nineties; an era not so far away, yet compared to what was to come, now seems like a million years ago, a tranquil oasis of nice and peaceful. If we miss … Continue reading
Las Vegas Season One – Uncut & Uncensored (Universal/NBC-2004) As glittery, fast-paced, fun and frantic as the city that inspires it, the series Las Vegas is an overwhelming triumph of style over substance. Full of greed, action, jackpots, neon lights and beautiful women and men, the show is as good an advertisement for the gambling capital as … Continue reading
The Office Season One – 2004 (Universal Home Video-2005) In most cases, television never gets the office environment right, and most real-life office slaves – who watch TV precisely to escape their pointless daytime duties – don’t seem motivated enough to write angry letters about the infuriatingly glaring inaccuracies. Office comedies are usually put together … Continue reading
Kojak Season One – 1973 (Universal-2005) With Ving Rhames taking over the role of Kojak on USA Network’s newly configured version of the original cop series, there’s been newfound interest generated in the pioneering seventies drama and the actor who made bald cool and classy. Back during the polyester decade, the term “Who Loves Ya, Baby?” – one of Kojak‘s trademark expressions – … Continue reading
Punky Brewster Season One 1984-1985 (Shout! Factory-2004) Description: When I was younger and Punky Brewster was on its first run, I didn’t like this show. I found its star, the perky little moppet Soleil Moon Frye, rather annoying. However, in the years since, I have actually become a fan of Soleil’s adult work as an actress, in … Continue reading
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