Alan Ball’s True Blood series works well for television, as it has enough sensationalism to tantalize and enough story girth to make the viewer care about the characters. That one can finally invest emotion into monsters, including an undead Civil War victim, a transformer who can shapeshift into various animals, and a female mind reader, […]
My Three Sons: The Series
When one thinks of cutting edge television, My Three Sons does not immediately leap to mind, but this beloved Boomer-era staple. It ran for 12 seasons, which, for a family sitcom, is second in longevity only to The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet and broke the nuclear family mold. Fred MacMurray’s Steve Douglas was a […]
Marnie
Marnie is an in-depth character study of a truly unhappy woman (Tippi Hedren) and the pathological man (Sean Connery) who loves her. In some ways, this one is every bit as riveting and fascinating and anything Hitchcock ever did. For example, when Marnie enters the Rutland mansion in her riding habit wielding a pistol after […]
Welcome Back, Kotter: The Series
Travel back to a time when sitcoms were recorded live on tape before a studio audience and dialogue was dominated by nonsensical catch phrases, like “Up your nose with a rubber hose!” and “Off my case, potato face!” The year was 1975. Saturday Night Fever had yet to make John Travolta a star, and stand-up […]
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