All 22 episodes of ‘Gilmore Girls’ Season 2 (2001-02), ranked
TV review: Rory enters her Bad Boy phase as Jess joins “Gilmore Girls” in the second season.
Television
Taking a stand against plot holes, or: How the heck did Lester sneak back in to his hospital room?
TV and movie commentary: The “X-Men” saga and recent episodes of “Fargo,” “Hannibal” and “24: Live Another Day” have suffered from plot holes.
John’s 10 favorite TV characters at the moment (Commentary)
The recent return of “24” further solidifies that this is an age of shock-value TV, where the body count of main characters is more valued than good character building. But TV’s reputation as a character […]
First episode impressions: ‘24: Live Another Day’ (TV review)
“24: Live Another Day” (8 p.m. Central Mondays on Fox) comes along four years after the eighth season, but Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub slip back into their iconic characters of Jack Bauer and Chloe […]
Exploring ‘TMNT’ multiverse: 12 different continuities!
Commentary: In one last 30th anniversary “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” post, I look at all the different continuities, from movies to TV to comics to games.
For fans whose interest goes beyond the films, Disney continues to sap the fun out of ‘Star Wars’ (Commentary)
Disney has been doing a great job of sucking the fun out of “Star Wars” since it purchased Lucasfilm in October 2012. First, it canceled “The Clone Wars,” leaving many storylines dangling. Now, to judge […]
First episode impressions: ‘Fargo’ (TV review)
I have mixed feelings about the 1996 Coen Brothers movie “Fargo”: I can appreciate the craftsmanship, yet it’s also not really my thing, with its moments of extreme violence. I feel much the same way about the stylistically […]
‘Hannibal,’ ‘Walking Dead,’ ‘Bates Motel’ provide 1-2-3 TV horror punch (TV commentary)
I have a friend, Shaune, who’s a big horror movie fan, but he has found the current character stuff on “The Walking Dead” rather boring. This is understandable: Television has never been able to be […]
First episode impressions: ‘About a Boy’ (TV review)
Although I’m a big fan of the Nick Hornby novel and the Hugh Grant movie, when I heard that “About a Boy” (8 p.m. Central Tuesdays on NBC) was being made into a TV series, I wasn’t […]
Did anyone else think Rick was dead? (TV commentary)
With Rick lying on a sofa without moving, Carl puking up his breakfast and bizarre dream sequences popping up (albeit from Michonne, not Carl), Sunday’s mid-fourth-season premiere of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” obviously called to mind the […]