• April 21, 2015
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Television

With the dim Arctic light, the ever-present snow, and the need to carry a gun outside at all times (polar bears!), the remote island-settlement of Fortitude is a place...

• March 2, 2015
• Action, At Home, Television

It’s my understanding that roller skating at Venice Beach in a swimsuit with no sort of built in bra and short shorts that tended to gap away from your...

• February 2, 2015
• At Home, Drama, Television

I know I wasn’t the only one that just about threw in the towel on Season Four of Downton Abbey. As if the carnage of losing two popular characters...

• January 18, 2015
• At Home, Drama, Television

Many moons before binge-watching series on Netflix became a common practice, and before many series became readily available to rent on DVD, I sat down and watched the entire...

• November 14, 2014
• At Home, Family, Television

If you grew up in the 1980s, chances are you were familiar with ALF (and perhaps thought he was the funniest cat-eating alien on earth). If you’re anything like...

• October 22, 2014
• At Home, Fantasy, Television

For your 21st birthday, if your three older brothers and your cousin took you out into the woods, told you to strip, stand in a circle of rocks, and...

• September 25, 2014
• At Home, Science Fiction, Television

For those who have lived in a cave, Doctor Who is the (VERY) longing running (50 years) British sci-fi show about a time-and-space travelling doctor that thought of a...

• September 13, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Television

Set in 1961 London, the series Breathless opens intriguingly, as a handful of doctors and nurses discreetly visit a woman in her own residence to perform an illegal abortion....

• July 23, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Television

If you’ve been following the Hallmark Channel’s adaptation of Janette Oke’s When Calls the Heart series, then you’ll be thrilled to find the third installment, When Calls the Heart:...

• July 17, 2014
• At Home, Documentary, Television

PBS’s Pioneers of Television series covers the history and cultural significance of several related shows in each installment, and Season 4 is every bit as delightful as the ones that...

• June 20, 2014
• At Home, Horror, Television

I’m a sucker for paranormal stories, with creepy unexplained phenomena that goes bump in the night. I may not be religious, but I’m not one to question the spirit...

• April 29, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Television

Apparently I wasn’t the only one who thought that Jeremy Piven, starring as the titular character in the Masterpiece series Mr. Selfridge, was simply too much. It wasn’t just his jarring...