Danny Novo
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This bit from Alan Sepinwall’s review of the last episode of Lost is key to why I loved it, and the series as a whole. “Ultimately, “Lost” didn’t succeed because of the mythology. We’ve seen too many examples of mythology-heavy, character-light series fail over the last six years to think that. “Lost” succeeded on emotion, whether […]
We’re watching last night’s Survivor episode. You’ll have to have been watching Survivor to get any of this. The producers lucked out this season, when the down-on-their-luck tribe took out Aaron instead of James with their chop to the head. ‘Cause James is awesome. Awesome. The editors need to take a break from the 5-second-interstitial animal-of-the-week […]
We’re sitting here watching our second episode of Ghost Whisperer of the night, and Melinda just checked her cell phone and found the dreaded “No Service” message. That makes two perilous situations in a row where her cell phone company has failed her. You’d think they’d get more towers in Grandview. In other news, I […]
Today at lunch someone offhandedly mentioned the island of Bora-Bora, and I had a vivid flashback to Tales of the Golden Monkey, a TV series from 1982, starring Stephen Collins. I saw it on TV in Spain, dubbed, sometime in the mid-eighties, and even though it only ran one season, I loved it. So I dug […]
