The Final Season of Friday Night Lights premieres on DirecTV this Wednesday (it will air on NBC sometime in 2011). To commemorate my favorite show, here are a few lessons we’ve learned, about life, television, and about Texas:

1. It helps to shoot locally.

Television started airing live in New York as an extension of [...]

The bottom line is, OUTSOURCED brings up more questions in me than it is ultimately asking. It is actually a pretty straight forward show with like-able characters and simple problems set-up in each episode. It is traditional in the sense that it is a sitcom.

It is nontraditional in the fact that it is [...]

If I haven’t already recommended everyone go out and watch Community, than I apologize. Since the start, Community has been worth writing about.

The John Hughes homage pilot expanded into a meta-sensitive series about relatable characters working together to accomplish relatable things, like a community college degree, or just starting over. Think Scranton, but [...]

By the time I finished watching the second episode, I had this nagging feeling that I could not shake. It was like a suspicion I had, against myself, that I was fooling myself into wanting to watch more of this show. Critics who have received screeners up to episode 3 have been very [...]

Call it an identity crisis. Last month, film critic Christopher Kelly took FOX series The Good Guys to task for “proving worthless [at] nurturing Texas viewers’ imaginations.” His criticisms went beyond not recommending the show; his main argument was against the lack of quality in television, and by extension the lack of quality [...]

RE: Roger Ebert in Newsweek “Why I Hate 3-D (And You Should Too)”

Let me preface by acknowledging that Roger Ebert is a Pulitzer Prize winning movie critic of unarguably the highest modern esteem, and deservedly so, who has been writing since before I was born and is damn good at it.

But his article [...]

Maybe a lot. Especially considering the imminent re-release of AVATAR in 3-D screens this August.

James Cameron spent 10 years making AVATAR, but less than 3 months of actual advertising before it opened at the end of 2009 and within a month set the new record for worldwide box office (not corrected for inflation [...]