The Bastard Review, Episode Three “Effigy/Ddelw”

(It's Episode Three because the two-hour pilot is listed as two episodes, "Pilot Parts 1&2"). I said last week's episode was overstuffed, and that was an understatement, even for a two-hour presentation. At the end of this one I was left wondering what, if anything, had happened; it seemed weirdly sparse,

The Bastard Review

The two-hour pilot to Kurt Sutter's new FX series The Bastard Executioner is, among other things, a prime example of the difficulty inherent in making a good pilot. All pilots tempt their writers toward exposition, and the bigger the story the writer wants to tell, the greater the temptation. Few can resist,

Slutty Saturday – Jiggle TV edition

I know a bunch of us are old farts and remember fondly the days when television programs featured scantily clad women showing cleavage plus a healthy amount of sexual innuendo just to draw in the male viewers.  This happened with Three's Company WKRP in Cincinnati Charlie's Angels Fantasy Island The Love Boat and, of course, the

The Republican Debates Open Thread

Oh boy, folks.  It's time to watch 10 crazy people yell at each other tonight. Here is your list of lunatics, in descending order of poll results that don't in any way matter yet:   The Donald   Jeb (Yep Another) Bush Scott (Fuck the Poors) Walker Ben (No Matter What He Says, He's Somehow A Freaking