My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

(And how come Curtis Armstrong isn’t more in demand as a character actor, anyway?)

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

And so with a bit of sorrow, tempered by immense joy and constant anticipation, we bid a fond adieu to another season of Doctor Who. The plots have been duly twisted, the revelations duly revealed, the jokes laughed at and the scares screamed at. (Well, not literally. Unless you’re my five-year-old daughter, who has gotten very good at burying her face in my shoulder and asking me to tell her when this bit is over.) So, now that we know everything we know…what do we think about what we know? Let’s talk more after the cut!

continue reading "Doctor Who: Season Six Post-Mortem"

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

Context. Well, sort of, assuming you watch Community and/or Doctor Who.

(Yeah, yeah, it’s getting time for another “nerdiest post ever” contest…)

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

(yeah, I expect some arguments over this one)

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

On Twitter, regarding the Animalympics posts, Tobias Carroll writes

I am absurdly happy that you did this. Said cartoon had nearly passed into the realm of “things I thought I’d hallucinated.”

Everybody has things like this, don’t they? Even in the age of Google.

One of mine, for example, is an educational cartoon from the late 70s/early 80s, that if I had to characterize it in a single sentence I would say was basically “Civilization, the cartoon series” – it was a series of vignettes about human advancement, with a trippy proggy synth-based theme. I’m not sure if it actually existed and I watched it, or if it’s the remnants of dreams as a kid. Does this ring a bell to anybody else?

Post your own “did I hallucinate that or what?” in comments, or answers to other people’s hallucination-or-did-it-happen TV shows.movies.