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Soapbox: Give The Wire a Chance
Here's how much critics love The Wire: The show's Wikipedia page has has a running list of major publications, including Time and Entertainment Weekly, that have called it the best show on television. Yet the show, which kicks off its fifth and final season of exploring the darkest side of Baltimore on Sunday, has been mostly ignored by both awards shows and viewers.
As a relatively recent convert to the show myself, I can understand why it's had a tough time.
Soapbox: Is Quarterlife a Synonym for Selling Out?
For most of my TV-watching life, I've defined myself as a fan of Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the producing team behind Relativity, Once and Again, and, of course, My So-Called Life. I remember reading about their latest project, Quarterlife, several years ago, back when it was still an ABC pilot awkwardly titled 1/4life. I was bummed when it didn't make the network's schedule, and I was happy to hear the show was finally surfacing online.
Soapbox: Warner Bros. Exec Needs to Stop Hating on Women
Anyone want to get nice and riled up to start the week? Good. Then check out this alleged statement from a Warner Bros.
Soapbox: Captivity
I have never once had any inclination to see the latest "torture porn" movie Captivity, but after reading the most scathing review in the world, I'm even less interested. In fact, I'm nauseated, in a similar way to how I felt about Hostel: Part 2, but even more so.
Apparently, the "plot" of the movie consists of blond model Jennifer (Elisha Cuthbert) being tortured in a variety of ways by a sadistic man.
Soapbox: Enough With the Sequels Already!
Giddy from their record-breaking first weekend, the producers and studio execs behind Spider-Man 3 are falling over themselves with news and ideas for the next Spidey installments. Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chair Amy Pascal is claiming that "There'll be a fourth and a fifth and sixth and a seventh," and that "As many stories as Peter Parker has to tell, we'll do sequels." There are already rumors flying around about the villains that will be included in Spidey's fourth chapter: According to Cinematical, Spider-Man will have to face off with a man-sized lizard (called Lizard) along with Carnage the serial killer.
Soapbox: Maybe "FNL" Shouldn't Get a Second Season
If you've been reading Buzz for a while, you know I adore "Friday Night Lights." It was easily my favorite new show this year; even now, three weeks since the show's season (and possibly series) finale, I get chills thinking about Coach Taylor's halftime speech.
Though the fate of the show is still up in the air (and will be until NBC announces its fall schedule May 14), signs have been looking good for its return.
Soapbox: Why You Should Watch "Significant Others"
We all have TV shows that we champion long after they've been canceled, and one of mine is "Significant Others." Just to be clear, I'm not talking about the Jennifer Garner series of the same name that Fox canceled in 1998. This show, which aired for two seasons on Bravo in 2004 and 2005, featured a cast of unknowns and an almost entirely improvised script about troubled couples in therapy.
Soapbox, Revisited: What's the Matter With "My Boys"
Recently I went on a rant about the TBS original series, "My Boys," which I find lame and annoying. It seems to want to be a kind of "Sex and the City" for tomboy-types, yet the writing is not very good, and the stereotypes that were so cliche in "Sex and the City" are simply reinforced in new ways. Clearly, I'm in the minority in my dislike, because TBS just picked up "My Boys" for nine more half-hour episodes.
Soapbox: What's the Matter With "My Boys"
Because I went to journalism school in Chicago and have lots of guy friends, I was excited to watch the new show "My Boys," which airs Tuesday nights at 10 on TBS. The show follows a sportwriter named PJ (played by Jordana Spiro), who lives in Chicago, writes for the Sun-Times, and has a pack of close guy friends. It sounded right up my alley.
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