Tag: Popular culture

Hat tip to Lionel Deimel who noiticed that Peter Berg, executive producer of NBC’s Friday Night Lights, who also directed and co-wrote the 2004 film

The season finale–and possibly the series finale of my beloved Friday Night Lights airs on Wednesday at 8 on NBC. The AV Club says this

Our favorite network television show has won a prestigious Peabody Award. Said the judges: “No dramatic series, broadcast or cable, is more grounded in contemporary

My friend Desson Thomson reviews the film about life in a Carthusian monastery. (An earlier item on the film is here.) He writes: At first,

A documentary about life among Carthusian monks is getting terrific reviews. The LA Times loves it. So does Newsday. A. O. Scott of the New

If the Anglican Communion should collapse between 8 and 9 p. m. EST, you will ned to read about it elsewhere. Like all right thinking

The show is a sometimes guilty pleasure for me. Jane Mayer examines the politics of the men behind Jack Bauer in The New Yorker, with

I seldom mention the unusual questions I sometimes field from members of the press, because, really, it is my job to be asked unusual questions

Ken Tucker on actor Gaius Charles: [H]e’s offering one of the most nuanced presentations of a young black man on TV. Read it all.

The most annoying sentence of the week was written by Lee Siegel in an otherwise insightful, not to mention exhausive examination of the peculiar genius