• April 9, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Television

As someone who unexpectedly kind of loved When Calls the Heart, I was thrown off when its sequel, When Calls the Heart: Lost and Found began with a reworking...

• March 16, 2014
• At Home, Comedy, Television

Television can be a pretty bleak landscape these days, but if I look at it from a kid’s perspective, I actually feel kind of sick. When I was a...

• March 16, 2014
• At Home, Comedy, Television

If you’ve seen Season One of Family Ties, you’ll be happy to pick up where you left off with the Keaton family. Season Two finds Alex taking speed supplied...

• March 16, 2014
• At Home, Comedy, Television

It seemed to me that Seasons 1 and 2 of Family Ties approached perfection, and yet, I love Season 3 even more. When Meredith Baxter Birney’s real-life pregnancy is...

• March 8, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Television

Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys are Elizabeth and Phillip Jennings. They are an attractive married couple with two kids, and they go off to work together every day to...

• March 6, 2014
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Family, Television

By now, most of us are well-versed in the premise of the ABC Family drama, The Secret Life of the American Teenager.  Regardless of whether you’ve actually seen the...

• February 25, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Mystery, Television

Like the other seasons, episodes are hit and miss in this uber-popular BBC modern adaptation of the classic Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Luckily for this season, the weak first episode...

• February 24, 2014
• At Home, Horror, Television

If you read the comments on IMDB for this film, you’d think it was the scariest movie ever made. Well, I wouldn’t go that far, but if you are...

• February 24, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Mystery, Television

Right away, one thing I appreciated about Sherlock is that Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) is almost immediately greeted by a disdainful female crime-scene cop as, “Hey, Freak.” Because, think...

• February 22, 2014
• Action, Animation, At Home, Television

I’ve always been puzzled about the intended audience of comic book cartoon shows. I mean, they’re animated and usually air when and where kids can find them, but they’re...

• February 21, 2014
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Television

The Simpsons have become such a ubiquitous part of pop culture that it’s easy to forget that new episodes are still being made, deliberately, with the same edgy humor...

• February 16, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Television, Thriller

As horror goes through its cyclical phases (vampires! witches! plagues!), the theme of zombies keeps returning like the pesky undead that they are. We are used to seeing them...