the final(e) showdown

Over the course of this year I sat down and watched almost 50 series finales. When I started this, it was to see if you could actually care about characters and their stories without having ever seen their history. That’s how TV shows I think vary the Read More

Here we are, the final finale for this article series. Wish we could’ve ended with one as epic as where we started, but who knew Scrubs went out so weak? Did they not know they weren’t returning for a tenth season? I mean they had to since Zach Braff Read More

Just a few more to go in this series and we’re wrapping it up with a couple of medical shows — one a comedy and the other a drama, which we’re starting off with. House, M.D. was one of the best shows on Fox when it was on top of its game and when it was Read More

This is the first show in a long time in this series about which I had absolutely no idea what to expect. I did know Oz was set in a prison, but other than that I was clueless as to who, what, when, where, and why anything was going to happen. I also Read More

This month we’ll look at shows based around crime. Whether they were about prisons, cops, or the bad guys on the outside, November explores our love of the outlaws. So I was going to go with Oz first, but I am in the middle of moving and had to do a Read More

Despite what’s happened with the leading man of The Cosby Show in recent years, I didn’t want to dismiss this show as a staple in television. While it wasn’t the first to showcase black people, it was the first to really give audiences a new way of Read More

One of the most syndicated shows in history, I was very surprised to learn The Brady Bunch only ran for five seasons. While it didn’t last as long as one may’ve guessed off the top of their head, it’s forever synonymous with classic TV and fits in just Read More

It's been awhile since I've watched the finale episode of a show about which I know absolutely nothing — not even a character name to shout out during bar trivia. With that, Green Acres was on my screen this week and unfortunately like I Love Lucy, this Read More

Done and done with a month-long look at the Must See TV of the past, and now onto shows that are often considered the classics of television. The shows that are timeless, meaning that no matter which generation is watching, they are finding them as Read More

As we round out our month of must-see TV we head into a show that hasn’t been gone all that long. A decade ago Tina Fey started her life after Saturday Night Live by making a show that, well, um, sort of parodied her time at the sketch comedy show. 30 Read More

Continuing on our journey with Must-See TV this week we’re getting into a show that went through some major casting changes during its run due to real life health issues. While the show wasn’t as great when Charlie Sheen stepped in for Michael J. Fox, Read More

Most of the shows we think of as great TV were once a part of the Must See TV lineup, including My Name is Earl. Yeah, it doesn't have the pop culture icon prowess of Seinfeld or Cheers, but what it did was give normal (aka broke) people a chance to see Read More