Category: Television
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Here's a fun piece of video from truTV. A police video camera captures the pursuit of a dangerously speeding car – which then apparently drives straight through a chain link fence, leaving the fence undamaged and the cops baffled. At first I couldn't figure out how this happened. But when I Googled "Garden City" +…
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That's my reaction to the series finale of ABC's Lost. I guess the showrunners weren't kidding when they said it was a spiritual show. No, they didn't explain everything – in fact, they left a great deal unexpained – but I think that's just as well. I'd still kinda like to know what the polar…
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As the six-season saga of ABC's Lost winds down — or I should say, revs up — to its two-hour finale on May 23, an interesting perspective is offered by the May 14 issue of Entertainment Weekly. In a cover story, "The Last of Lost," written by the always-perceptive Jeff Jensen, the subject of the…
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Tonight the sitcom Scrubs, which has moved to ABC for its final season, featured a long scene in which two doctors talk to a dying patient. The patient asks if they think there's anything after this life. Both doctors say yes. One says he visualizes a happy, carefree (albeit semipornographic) heaven, while the other doctor…
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Say it ain’t so, Laurie.
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I like Lost. Now, I’m not one of those hardcore fans who replay each episode looking for clues, or who hang out in chat rooms trading theories on how the multiple mysteries will finally be resolved. The mythology of Lost is so convoluted, its various quirks and tics and twists so incomprehensible, that I don’t…
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I don’t watch The O’Reilly Factor very much anymore. Like many ego-driven personalities, bloviating Bill has become a caricature of himself. But I had it on last night and happened to catch a story about the Pope’s alleged intention to dispatch more exorcists to the field. This story was reported last month and I thought…
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Joss Whedon finally comes to his senses and returns to TV, the medium that suits him best. Whedon created the outstanding TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one of the most original and consistently entertaining shows in television history, as well as its underrated spinoff Angel and the short-lived but first-rate sci-fi show Firefly. After…
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I received an email informing me that an "investigation" of paranormal researcher Gary Schwartz would be aired on Fox News Channel this weekend. As best I can tell after perusing the FNC schedule, the program in question is Geraldo at Large, which airs tonight (Saturday) at 8 PM Eastern Time. The show re-airs at midnight…