Archive for the 'Television' Category


New Year’s Eve TV

The winner for me was Stephen Wilson, Jr. I was bouncing around from Andy and Anderson on CNN to Ryan Seacrest on ABC to Nashville’s Big Bash on CBS. And most of the time I stayed on Nashville’s Big Bash. Because there was an authenticity there, a direct connection between performer and viewer that I […]

One Battle After Another

And Hollywood wonders why this was a box office disappointment? There have been reams of pages utilizing “One Battle After Another” as an illustration of a failure of the audience, that people just won’t come out to see a great movie. Having now watched it on HBO… I was hipped by Harold that it was […]

The Seymour Hersh Documentary

Wow. I was going to write about another Netflix documentary, “Breakdown: 1975,” but when the ending reflected the attitudes of today…I lost the inspiration. You see there’s no snow in Colorado. Just the stuff they made back in November. Since then, not only has it been too warm to make more snow, it hasn’t snowed […]

Bleak House

I didn’t read it either… But I did read “Tale of Two Cities” in high school…you know, it was the best of times and the worst of times (kind of like today, although I think we’re leaning towards “worst”). And “Great Expectations” with Pip. But that’s it. As for reading Dickens in college… It was […]