I had been hearing off and on that MTV’s reality series 16 and Pregnant and the follow-up, Teen Mom, were interesting and addictive, but I never thought about actually sitting down and watching these series. Well, after reading a random recommendation in NY Mag while at the doctor’s office, I figured I might check them [...]

I know I’m going to get some shit for this, but I like The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet. For one thing, the hosts are so obviously disinterested, and probably drunk — and not in an annoying way like Kathie Lee. Speaking of which, has anyone seen the dragged-out trainwreck that has been the [...]

HBO’s new drama series Tell Me You Love Me is a show about love, sex, and the complications of being a couple, and in that sense, it’s not altogether groundbreaking. Plenty of shows have focused on the minutia of coupledom, from thirtysomething to Sex and the City, not to mention The L Word and Queer [...]

Big Love is an odd show about an odd topic. It combines two things that appeal to very different audiences — devout religion and abnormal sexual practices — but is completely justifiable in its juxtaposition of these two elements in that it’s based on real life…sort of. Our protagonists, a large (to say the least) [...]

Marijuana-related entertainment carries a bad reputation, and with semi-good cause. What with Cheech and Chong numbers 2 through 18, Dude, Where’s My Car? , Evil Bong (some movie we spotted on the TV Guide channel, probably while drunk, and decided to Netflix, but which nearly destroyed our will to live), and any of the other [...]

The BBC’s Panorama: “Scientology and Me” Ah, the British.  Whenever I lose faith in America, which happens a few times a day, I take comfort in knowing that there is a major world power filled to the brim with atheists and other smart people.  Instead of bowing to economic pressure like they could have so [...]

One of the reasons I love network TV (possibly the only reason) is that just when you’re so fed up with all the bullshit that you’re about to swear off TV altogether, something crawls out from the wreckage, much like a wildflower seeking out the sun. To Catch a Predator is just such a flower. [...]

Passions is the kind of show you can’t just flip on and watch for a few minutes before forming an opinion. Like all soaps, it takes a while to learn all the characters and whatever, but, beyond that, it’s incredibly uneven. Sometimes there’ll be weeks in a row of boring relationship drama, but sometimes, there’s [...]

I’m not usually too interested in medical dramas (or medical comedies, for that matter). You can only watch so many emergency tracheotomies before it becomes painfully clear that the writers are running out of ideas. They always have to resort to putting the doctors in dangerous situations and romantic relationships, and often both. It seems [...]