The Daily Show (seasons ? – 18)
{5/5} “There is near-universal consensus that the melting is due to global warming, though the Bush administration counters that the ice caps are not melting. Rather, the water has been liberated.” The Daily Show season 18 just ended. I’m not sure why their season ends in September — new episodes are coming next week. I’m […]
Pushing Daisies (season 2)
{4.5/5} “There are complicated issues in this situation that you don’t even know nothin’ about. Except that their complexities are so complex they make this shallow conversation absurd.” Ned and Chuck continue to try to make their relationship work, even though they can’t touch each other. Olive can’t deal with all the secrets she’s learned […]
Whose Line is it Anyway? (seasons 1 – 9)
{5/5} “The show where everything’s made up and the points don’t matter. That’s right, the points don’t matter — it’s like the talent portion of a beauty contest.” Whose Line is it Anyway? season 9 just finished. The first 8 seasons aired from 1998 to 2007. I haven’t seen much of the British version, which […]
Bones of the Earth
{5/5} “We have means of detecting a paradox before it actually happens — and, again, I won’t tell you what they are. But any threat to this precious and fragile enterprise will be nipped in the bud, I can assure you that. And those responsible will be punished. No exceptions. And no clemency, either.” Leyster […]
The East
{4.5/5} “We want all those who are guilty to experience the terror of their crimes.” Jane works for a private security firm. Her new assignment is to infiltrate an anarchist group known as the East. The East attacks major corporations — for example, they dumped oil in the house of a CEO of a corporation […]
The Majestic
{4.5/5} “That’s why we call it The Majestic. Any man, woman, child could buy their ticket, walk right in. Here they’d be, here we’d be. ‘Yes sir, yes ma’am. Enjoy the show.’ And in they’d come entering a palace, like in a dream, like in heaven. Maybe you had worries and problems out there, but […]
The Fall
{4.5/5} “You always stop at the same part, where it’s very beautiful. And interesting.” Alexandria is a young girl who fell and broke her arm and she’s at the hospital. She meets a man named Roy, also a patient, who tells her a story about Alexander the Great. Roy is paralyzed from the waist down […]
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
{5/5} “Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were no one would ever talk to you?” Charlie’s aunt was killed in an accident and his best friend committed suicide a few months ago. Now he’s starting high school — most of the kids either ignore him or treat him badly. He makes […]
Pushing Daisies (season 1)
{4.5/5} “Do you think dying has made me morbid?” Ned can bring people and animals back to life by touching them. But if he touches them a second time they’ll go back to being dead. And if he doesn’t touch them a second time within one minute then someone else will die — to make […]
Outpost
{4.5/5} “Felicitas turned to her friend. Adriana stared straight ahead. Felicitas felt sorry for Adriana because she knew Adriana hadn’t changed, didn’t look at things the way she now did. And it was the same all over the yard. Some now had the spark of life. Others, like Adriana, were still dead, their eyes leaden. […]