TV

After seeing the show Mad Men get all sorts of accolades I started watching it.  Due to having a 3 hour commute a day, I went through the first season in a couple of weeks.  It’s all about an advertising agency in Manhattan in the 60s, and is pretty interesting, if for nothing more than what appears to

I have a lot of spare time in my commute, and the hours make it not good “thinking” time, but more “stare like a slobbering idiot at a dumb TV show or movie” time (kinda like my weekends). Since February of this year I’ve been watching Lost for the first time, from Season 1 Episode

My review of the first of the new 24 and their collection of the latest and greatest cliches. Or, a quick and dirty 24 plot generator. Jack is retired Jack is trying to get back to normal life Random un-named-but-brown-and-islamic country is on the verge of some great peace breakthrough with the USA [saluting] [bad

I’m so glad I got my MythTV box updated over the weekend with now a total of three TV tuner cards, allowing me to record three shows simultaneously, with the option of watching “normal” tv as well (not through the PVR at all but on the TV normally). So tonight we have: Prison Break (new

Well, the dirge of crap that has come through the boob tube all summer is finally over and the “real” shows are now starting, or re-starting. There are a few coming back and a few new ones, figured I’d run through my TV schedule this month, give some ratings and see what is going to

I was going to take a bit of time tonight to trash the Knight Rider movie from last night, but it looks like IO9 has already done that far better than I could, with pictures and everything. I also recommend reading the live blog if you watched the show, and re-live the cheese.

So after a minor speed bump at the start of my watching experience (brother-in-law coming over and hanging out for an hour), I finally managed to finish watching jPod…. here’s a few thoughts. First of all, the first episode is the “introductory” episode, so it’s a bit clunkier than I presume future episodes will be.

All geeks….. don’t forget that jPod starts tonight on CBC at 9pm PST. I finished the book in two days and am so hoping that the series lives up to it. There is such potential there for a great series….