Stephanie Klein Greek Tragedy

Two years ago, I wrote on this blog about the TV series LOST, and its link to the book FlashForward
by Robert J Sawyer. Tonight ABC aired the premiere episode of FlashForward, inspired by the very same book I’d mentioned.…

I love our girl Tina Fey. No question. So when she mentions that a kissing scene with Don Draper makes her sweat through her "lady blazer," I take her for her word. She busted a pit. But then I began…

Jillian & Ed
Jillian, I love you. I do.
Whenever anyone begins with proclamations of love, they’re about to go somewhere ugly. And I am. I’m about to get ugly. But first, I’m going to be pretty: I love neurotic…

"Ma, you can’t feed the chicken chicken!" "What, I should make separate meals?"
They’re coming. The real housewives of The Lone Star State. They’re really coming.
Growing up, I’d always heard my mother refer to the women at our country…

 
The season finale of Lost begins very much like the setup to a punchline joke: a priest and rabbi walk into a bar. Except it’s a tiki bar, and we’re about to realize that this is a total sci-fi…

 
It’s why I love Lost. Yes, go ahead, skip the post if you don’t watch Lost. But let me say this, I love TV that makes us feel. Lost, I will say, never makes me feel. It makes me…

 
It’s like reading Monarch Notes before you read the actual book: you know all about the author’s personal history, the influences in his life, the literature to which he was exposed, the constraints of his society, and then you…

 
This dude looks like Kevin Spacey’s brother, and I KNEW he’d have an accent. And then there’s Richard Alpert, who speaks to the English Dude (Charles Widmore?), reminding him that the island decides who to keep. Obviously, this bloke…