Category Archives: TV Reviews

Richard Roundtree Was One Bad Motherf-

To call the first Shaft movie a blaxploitation movie is somewhat of an insult. The word hadn’t been coined yet and it wouldn’t come into the vernacular until late summer of 1972. Shaft told the story of a private detective hired to track down the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mobster. It’s a crime actionContinue reading “Richard Roundtree Was One Bad Motherf-“

‘Simpsons’ Airs First Treehouse Of Horror On This Date

The Simpsons was an unconventional TV show when it first hit the airwaves. Originally intended as shorts on The Tracy Ullman Show, a sketch variety show, on Fox. The Simpsons had become popular thanks to the Butterfinger commercials and then the 1989 Christmas show which wowed audiences which its crudeness and humor more irreverent thanContinue reading “‘Simpsons’ Airs First Treehouse Of Horror On This Date”

‘Only Murders’ Continues To Slay Them Despite Somewhat Uneven Season 3

I’ve had this theory that most series that become big surprises during their initial season, usually start to show their cracks by the third season. Mainly, it’s because everyone anticipates the second season to be gangbusters and it usually is. This leaves some fatigue afterwards. Look at the third season of Friends and how someContinue reading “‘Only Murders’ Continues To Slay Them Despite Somewhat Uneven Season 3”

Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

After college, I took a job working as a reporter for the Americus Times-Recorder in Americus, Ga. The town was located in southwest Georgia maybe about 10 miles from Plains, where former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, live to this day. It was your typical small town in the south with the fewContinue reading “Happy Birthday, Mr. President!”

Rupert Murdoch Isn’t Going Anywhere

There’s a few things that are certain. When Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) says that he’s not stepping down as he’s froze up twice in the last few months, believe him. He’s not leaving the Senate unless it’s feet first. When Sir Michael Caine says he’s thinking of finally retiring, don’t believe him. Caine has beenContinue reading “Rupert Murdoch Isn’t Going Anywhere”

‘Winning Time’ Gets A Sudden Death Elimination As Lakers Series Canceled

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers was a difficult series that could never really find its footing. News of its cancelation this week probably comes as no surprise for some and a shock for others. The series created by Max Borenstein and Jim Hicht and spear-headed by Adam McKay could’ve been a wonderful lookContinue reading “‘Winning Time’ Gets A Sudden Death Elimination As Lakers Series Canceled”

Hypocrisy Is Becoming America’s New Pasttime

Ok, show of hands – who hasn’t watched the news the last few weeks with a certain malaise that you kinda expected all this. Jimmy Fallon, who spent years, making us believe he was a squeaky-clean cornfed white-boy comic may be a drunk who spent the last nine years making The Tonight Show a toxicContinue reading “Hypocrisy Is Becoming America’s New Pasttime”