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Let's Rush To Judgment: 'Carrie'
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Carrie was Stephen King's first published novel. First released in 1974, it was followed in 1976 by Brian De Palma's film adaptation, for which both Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie were nominated for Oscars.
King told Entertainment Weekly in 2011 that he didn't see much need for another ...
Death And Dyeing: Five Thoughts About The Return Of 'Mad Men'
Monday, April 08, 2013
1. The symbolism was a bit heavy-handed. It's frustrating that Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner doesn't trust viewers of the show enough to allow symbolism to live in an episode as suggestion and not insistence. The Mad Men audience is small and self-selecting; it is made up of people who ...
Real TV Listings: Let's Make A Lava Lamp Fish Tank, You Guys
Friday, April 05, 2013
It's Friday, and that means that television is serving up a few gems (new episodes of the wonderfully deranged Happy Endings) as well as a bunch of stuff intended for a target demographic of "started partying early; already passed out."
In that spirit, we bring you a few Real TV ...
Let's Rush To Judgment: 'Grown Ups 2'
Friday, April 05, 2013
This is an experiment with a minimalist approach to the Let's Rush To Judgment post.
Presumably, the jokes in this trailer are the best jokes in the movie.
That is all.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: In The Long Run
Friday, April 05, 2013
On this week's extremely punchy round-table podcast, once we cover our most important landmark of the week, Stephen Thompson gets through some preposterous claims loosely connected to this video and we get on the topic of this really fun book, we deal with two ...
Remembering Roger Ebert
Thursday, April 04, 2013
There's always been Roger Ebert. And when I read that he had died Thursday, that's what caught in my throat. Not just sadness, but bafflement. I don't understand. There's always been Roger Ebert.
This will be the first night in my life I go to bed and he's not out ...
Putting Late Night In Perspective: Under The Massive Boot Of Judge Judy
Thursday, April 04, 2013
While we go on about the Johnnys, Jimmys, Daves, Jays, Conans, and additional Jimmys of the late-night wars, where was Joe? Specifically, where was the enormous media coverage of the end of Judge Joe Brown?
CBS Television Distribution canceled Brown's show in late March, reportedly after ...
'Arrested Development' Comes Back On Netflix On May 26, So Get Extra Sleep Now
Thursday, April 04, 2013
Netflix has announced that the new "anthology" season of Arrested Development will arrive — all 15 episodes at once — on May 26. The show, which ran on Fox from 2003 to 2006 and won an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, will bring back its entire cast, including ...
Viewer Discretion: Deciding When To Look Away
Monday, April 01, 2013
I was out of the house, as it happens, for most of the first half of yesterday's Louisville-Duke game, and when I got home and looked at Twitter, before I turned on the TV, there was a huge stack of stuff to read, and the first thing that caught ...
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Moody Mysteries And More Punching Bags
Friday, March 29, 2013
On this week's show, Glen and I are joined not only by our producer Jess Gitner, but also by a new face for PCHH: NPR Books editor Petra Mayer, whom you may very well know as much of the voice of our books team on social media.
We start with ...
The Good News Is That We Know 'Idol' Is Really Live Now
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Last night on American Idol was Motown Night, when we all learned that Motown songs (like "I Heard It Through The Grapevine") should all be sung as seriously as possible, wearing a scowl, with all the fun sucked out. (And that was a performance that was pretty good.) ...
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Kickstarter TV And Comedy Contests
Friday, March 22, 2013
On this week's show, the regular band is back together, and I am a rock. I am an island.
Specifically, now that the original feverish excitement over the Veronica Mars Kickstarter and what how it might change the landscape has subsided, we take a look at what it might mean ...
Here We Go Again: Leno, Fallon, And Why The Late-Night Wars Are So Boring
Thursday, March 21, 2013
When rumblings began in early March that NBC might be preparing in earnest to replace Jay Leno with Jimmy Fallon, I felt more like Bill Murray than I ever have.
Not the Bill Murray in Ghostbusters or the Bill Murray in Meatballs or even the Bill Murray in Stripes. No, ...
Men Are From Mars, Women ... Love Cup Holders?
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
When you read the words of Clotaire Rapaille, a "French-born psychiatrist-turned-marketer" quoted in yesterday's interesting Slate article about the marketing of cars to women, it's hard not to read them in a voice that's sultry and French and not entirely serious, as if he's some kind of sales ...
Why Not Fall From A Giant Bucket?: Tomorrow's 'Splash' Headlines Today
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
With the recent tragic news that this summer will not bring a new season of ABC's stupidest show, Bachelor Pad, this has been a very trying time for people who believe that Dancing With The Stars is too highbrow and lah-dee-dah for them. What are they to do? Where can ...
'The Simpsons' Better Than 'Cheers'? It Is To Laugh
Monday, March 18, 2013
For the last couple of weeks, Vulture has been running a "Sitcom Smackdown," a contest between 16 sitcoms of the last 30 years to determine an eventual champion.
From the beginning, it was fairly openly a nonserious exercise in terms of determining actual quality: Murphy Brown was booted ...
Pop Culture Happy Hour: For Young And Old Alike
Friday, March 15, 2013
While I'm on vacation, I'm stepping in quickly to drop this week's show, for which Stephen and I were lucky enough to be visited by two special guests in Glen and Trey's absence: our producer, Jess Gitner, and one of our mothers, Maggie Thompson. Because there were three generations of ...
Gone Fishin': Monkey See In Repose
Friday, March 08, 2013
What comes after awards season? After the Oscars, after the cold of winter begins to lift, after practically every midseason network show is yanked after fewer episodes than you have fingers? What then?
Well, what happens then is vacation, at least around here. I will be gone the week of ...
Joss Whedon's 'Much Ado About Nothing' Gets A Snazzy Teaser Trailer
Friday, March 08, 2013
Here's how I started my review of Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing, which I saw at the Toronto International Film Festival in September: "It's my position that there are films in the world the highest and greatest purpose of which is to be delightful."
Whedon's (yes) delightful ...
'American Idol' Makes A Play For A Little Variety
Friday, March 08, 2013
Last night, the 10 American Idol finalists were announced, and one thing is for sure: the five-year streak of pleasant-seeming, guitar-playing white dudes (in reverse order: Phillip Phillips, Scotty McCreery, Lee DeWyze, Kris Allen, and David Cook) is over.
Those who have lamented this streak — who often call it ...