Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 4:54pm
At the beginning of the third episode of ABC’s new primetime soap “October Road,” Nick Garrett, a 30-year-old writer-teacher returning home after 10 years, makes a sappy, contrived confession to his mother’s gravestone. At that point, one can’t help but expect her corpse to suddenly pop up and inform the viewer that the joke is in fact on them, and this isn’t...
The sight is a familiar one for “24” fans: Counterterrorist agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) sits panting, handcuffed to a chair as he’s tortured by non-descript Middle-Eastern men. How will he get out of it this time? After a phone call prevents the leader from cutting off Jack’s fingers, only one guard is left. With a vicious plunge and menacing eyes, Bauer...
“Oh, Jesus!” exclaims the monotone Tim Gunn to Kayne Gellespie about his strange bag-like, business-in-the-front-party-in-the-back garment on Wednesday night’s episode — but it really seems to sum up “Project Runway 3.” Kayne, as you can imagine, is out. Finally. Finally Kayne’s spiky hair, immature designs and love-me-I’m-from-Oklahoma pretensions are...
Best What The F-ck Moment — The Zidane Headbutt Is there anyone else utterly obsessed with French soccer god Zinedine Zidane’s rage-induced headbutting of Italian opponent Marco Matterazzi in the 83rd minute of the World Cup finals? Even if you equate soccer with fly-fishing on the sports radar — which many of you probably do — there’s something undeniably...
Move over, "Laguna Beach." There's a new pseudo-reality show in town that you can't afford to miss: YTV's student-produced "Ivy U." I hope you didn't think I was serious. Zing! Take two: Move over, "Laguna Beach." There's a new pseudo-reality show in town that you can't afford to miss: MTV's "8th and Ocean" -- and it is certain to satiate that penchant for...
"Passion lives here." In Torino, that is. With this motto in mind, the saccharine Feb. 9 opening ceremony wowed audiences with skating "Sparks of Passion" -- a cross between a blowtorch and an extraterrestrial speed skater -- and a maudlin configuration of a 4,000-person heart. This spectacular celebration culminated with the Games' time-honored cliché: the lighting of...
It began with a bang, literally, when Orange County's heroine Marissa Cooper shot Trey, Ryan's ex-con brother and the latest beneficiary of the Cohen family outreach program. Marissa's plummet from adolescent alcoholic to resident gunslinger typifies Season Three's over-dramatized story line. With the vodka-swilling Marissa to lead the way, the O.C. ventures into...
The British sitcom "The Office" stands as a unique anti-comedy -- its best moments rely not on good jokes, but on the oppressively revolting silence inspired by horrifically bad ones. The brilliance of the show was that it transformed this nausea into something hilarious, cathartic, and addictive. Aspiring to replicate this experience, NBC has remodeled "The...
It's Wednesday night -- forget the problem sets and hundreds of pages of reading, it's time to play the part of vicious fashion connoisseur. "Project Runway" is on. A reality show about sixteen fashion designers competing for the top prize that easily stands-out on the rerun-driven Bravo network, "Project Runway" has deservedly attracted a rabid following amongst...
"Taradise" may have induced vomiting, and Freddie Prinze Jr.'s comedy was truly pathetic, but here are seven shows that prove television was more worthwhile than Thucydides reading in 2005. 7. My Name is Earl (NBC, Thursday 9 p.m.) A new show about karma, a list of wrongdoings that need to be righted and Jason Lee's moustache. Earl (Jason Lee) wins the...