Archive for the 'Television' Category


Diary Of A Ditched Girl

It takes three or four episodes to get completely hooked, but then… We watched this show because the “New York Times” said it was one of the best foreign series of the year. And at first I didn’t get it, it seemed too light, too surface, but then… What we’ve got here is Amanda, who […]

Netflix/WB

Maybe if Ted Sarandos buys Trump a gold Bentley… I don’t see how this gets approved. Then again, if you’re predicting the future…it’s a fool’s errand, because Trump has become so UNPREDICTABLE! It’s kind of like antisemitism… You know, they came for the Jews, and I did nothing because I was not a Jew. Then […]

The Beast In Me

Are you watching this? We didn’t start until finishing “Death By Lightning” first, which I do not recommend, despite all the positive reviews. The dialogue is positively stilted. Just because the action took place over a hundred years ago, that does not mean people spoke in a stiff, non-colloquial way. It’s only four episodes, and […]

Misinformation

Last night Bill Maher said the average price of a Taylor Swift ticket was over $4000. Really. My favorite story on this came from Tony Wilson. His first job out of Oxbridge was in a television news department. On a Saturday night he collected the European football scores and the newsreader got them wrong. Tony […]