AltWeeklies Wire
The Closer Ends This Yearnew
The TNT crime drama The Closer ends after seven seasons. Farewell to a great show we hardly saw.
Tags: The Closer
Bill Maher on Obama's Budget Speech, the Right and Performing in the Southnew
"I mean, conservatives are even liking [Obama] more. The majority of conservatives now think he deserves a green card!"
Boardwalk Empire is Martin Scorsese's very promising foray into televisionnew
Scorsese isn't the only reason to have confidence in this chronicle of Prohibition-era crime in Atlantic City.
Tags: Boardwalk Empire
The Lack of Wit is a Weeds Killernew
When most of the fun is in the subplots, maybe it's time for the writers to come up with some real breakthrough for Nancy Botwin.
Tags: Weeds
Crescent City Rising: David Simon Takes on Post-Katrina New Orleansnew
How will critics, bloggers and discriminating fans judge Treme, coming from the creators of The Wire, which some of us consider the greatest TV drama of all time?
Tags: David Simon
Rush Radio: Truth is False and Logic Lostnew
If you're a card-carrying liberal, you may rightly be asking yourself: Isn't there enough conservative radio in the area already? Why isn't there equal counterprogramming of progressive talk across the radio band? And does it even matter that there isn't?
The Year of Staying In: In Lean Times, TV is a Saving Gracenew
You've got to laugh to keep from crying, and in 2009, as bad news streamed constantly on the cable news channels, I valued sitcoms more than ever. Thank God there were comedies worthy of our time.
'The Prisoner' Should Make Us Feel Right at Homenew
Let's welcome back one of the granddaddies of the paranoid genre, The Prisoner, which has been revamped for AMC in an effort to keep us tuned in now that another season of Mad Men has passed. Verdict: Yes, we'll stay tuned.
