With 2010 winding down, I decided to take a look back at “2010,” the 1984 movie, to see how prescient Peter Hyams (the film’s director) and Arthur C. Clarke (the book‘s author) were in predicting the future.
Show: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (Season 3, episode 10) Airdate: Dec. 15, 1998 Overview: This episode is the structural midpoint of the franchise; it’s sort of a backdoor pilot for “Angel” and it introduces the First […]
Show: “Futurama” (Season 2, episode 8) Airdate: Dec. 19, 1999 Overview: In the year 3000, Christmas is known as Xmas and Robot Santa Claus has been programmed with too strict of a “naughty or nice” […]
Show: “My So-Called Life” (Episode 15) Airdate: Dec. 22, 1994 Overview: Rickie’s getting beat up at home, Angela wants to help him and a homeless guitar-playing girl, Brian’s lonely and Danielle doesn’t know what’s going on […]
Show: “The Simpsons” (Season 1, episode 1) Airdate: Dec. 17, 1989 Overview: This is a classic not only because it’s a Christmas episode, but also because it’s the very first episode of “The Simpsons.” Sometimes […]
Seth MacFarlane probably had the idea for “Blue Harvest” kicking around in his head for a while, and when it became an actual episode of “Family Guy” in 2007, he probably thought, “Wow, we really did a […]
This was the year when TV changed from low-definition to high-definition and from squares to rectangles (I still have a square, and I know I’m missing some things off to the sides, but at least […]
TV review: “The X-Files’ ” fourth season treads water with the grand mythology story yet still delivers some of the show’s best episodes.
The first season (only six episodes) of “The Walking Dead” (9 p.m. Central Sundays on AMC) has wrapped up, and a theme has emerged: Should the survivors be hopeful for the future of the human race, or […]
TV review: In its third season, “The X-Files” hits its stride. There are fewer clunky episodes; it’s now a well-oiled machine.