DVD Review: Pushing Daisies – The Complete Second Season
Warner Bros. | 2008 | 598 mins | Not rated Just when I thought network television might have passed all their flair for originality on to cable television, along came Pushing Daisies. Created by Bryan Fuller, Daisies was truly unique; the show centered on a pie maker named Ned (Lee Pace), with the ability to […]
DVD Review: ER – The Complete Eleventh Season
Warner Bros. | 2005 | 1023 Mins. | Not Rated Despite numerous cast changes, ER remained a strong performer in the Nielsen ratings during the series eleventh season, averaging 15.5 million viewers per week and finishing the season as the 16th most watched television series of the year. After the eleventh season, Noah Wylie, who […]
DVD Review: The Best of Star Trek – The Next Generation
With the new Star Trek film currently in theaters, I suppose it makes sense that CBS/Paramount would take the opportunity to release a small compilation of episodes from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The series, created by Gene Rodenberry, ran in first run syndication from the week of September 28, 1987 to the week of […]
DVD Review: Boston Legal: Season Five
Created by David E. Kelley, Boston Legal was a spin-off of the long-running series The Practice, Boston Legal followed the personal and professional exploits of a group of attorneys working at the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt. A solid top twenty show in the Nielsen ratings, Boston Legal has the distinction of drawing […]
Blu-ray Review: Dexter – The Complete Second Season
Dexter is back and he’s chillier than ever in Blu! Dexter is a drama series based on the 2004 Jeff Lindsay novel, Dexter Darkly Dreaming. The novel was adapted for television by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter James Manos, Jr., who wrote the pilot episode. Set in Miami, the series centers the series centers on Dexter Morgan […]
DVD Review: The Waltons – The Complete Ninth Season
When The Waltons hit the air in 1972, producers Earl Hamner Jr., Lee Rich and the series other executives constructed the show to emphasize both the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Great Depression in an effort to evoke a kind of nostalgia for the recent past. Hamner, Jr. understood that while it should be obvious […]
DVD Review: October Road – The Complete Second Season
Created by André Nemec (Alias), Scott Rosenberg (wrote the film Beautiful Girls) and Josh Applebaum (LIFE ON MARS), who also serve as the series’ executive producers, asks the question, can you really go home again? Written by Scott Rosenberg, he freely admits that the show is semi-autobiographical and based on what happened after Beautiful Girls […]
DVD Review: Peyton Place – Part One
Though Peyton Place hit the air several years before I was born, it’s always been a great curiosity of mine. Through the years, I have read Grace Metalious’ 1956 novel and her 1959 follow-up, Return to Peyton Place and seen the 1957 film adapted from the novel. However, I had only seen an episode of […]
DVD Review: Galaxy Quest (Deluxe Edition)
Though it was inspired by Star Trek, to call Galaxy Quest a simple spoof would mean belittling one of the greatest sci-fi comedies ever made. Written by David Howard and Robert Gordon and directed by Dean Parisot (Fun with Dick and Jane). While the film obviously has a lot of fun pointing out the silly […]
DVD Review: That Girl – Season Five
That Girl was the first sitcom to focus on a single woman who was not a domestic or living at home. Some consider the show the forerunner of highly successful series such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Murphy Brown, and an early indication of the changing roles of American women in Feminist-era America. […]