PSYCH Pineapple Watch “Bollywood Homicide”: It Could Be Bunnies

I’m not entirely sure what to make of “Bollywood Homicide”. I can usually stomach Shawn’s less graceful moments, but some of his, er, cultural insensitivity was a bit much here (I’ll decline to repeat the worst joke at the Holi Festival, thanks). On the other hand, some of the cultural jokes were delightful, including the [...]

Squee! It’s…

Squee! It’s…look, CW, can we talk? I know we don’t get along that well, largely because I am not a twelve-year-old girl and am therefore not part of your target audience. I know I’m apparently part of that 10 percent of women in the world who simply don’t understand America’s Next Top Model (“congratulations, you’re [...]

CASTLE Could Use Some LIFE Lessons

Three weeks in, Castle has settled in to a predictable pattern typical of crime procedurals. The good guys are called to a grim murder scene; red herrings take said good guys down some dead-end paths; good guys crack the case and cleverly wring a confession out of a worthy foe. It’s the state of the [...]

Wake Up Your DVR–LIFE Returns Tonight

I love my DVR. It keeps me out of enormous amounts of trouble and organizes me better than any calendar ever has, but for some reason it hates Life. No matter how many times I try to teach it to love Life, it skips over the adventures of Charlie Crews and Co. pretty regularly. I [...]

The Ten Best Television Moments of 2008

I’m one of those grouches who generally doesn’t love New Year’s Eve, spending the evening grousing in a corner about another year slipping away into the ether. In a lot of ways, however, 2008 has been great enough to kick me out of that rut. This year, we saw whales in two different oceans and camped with [...]

LIFE Makes AFI’s Top Ten of 2008

NBC’s Life received its first ever awards attention Sunday when the American Film Institute announced its top 10 TV programs of the year. The other television honorees (which include series, telepics and minis) are Breaking Bad, In Treatment, John Adams, Lost, Mad Men, The Office, Recount, The Shield, and The Wire.
Conspicuously missing from the list [...]

LIFE “Black Friday”: You’re Scaring the Children

I’ve been a little concerned about Life this season. Moving it around to multiple time slots makes me nervous the audience won’t be able to find a show that wasn’t exactly burning up the ratings charts to begin with. In addition, after a clever and spooky season opener, the plots sagged a bit. The convenience of an [...]

NBC Orders a Full Season of LIFE

Despite its middling ratings, NBC has given a back nine order to sophomore cop drama Life.
“This unique crime drama continues to offer consistent and compelling stories each week,” said Teri Weinberg, executive vp, NBC Entertainment. “We love Life and are thrilled that we get to see more of these characters and amazing new cases.”
The critically [...]

NBC Revamps Its Wednesday Nights

NBC is filling up Wednesday nights with crime dramas, making it the first network to rejigger its fall schedule. The new Wednesday night block will premiere Nov. 5 with Knight Rider (staying put), Life (moving out of the Friday dungeon), and Law & Order (retuning to its old roost sooner than anticipated). The underperforming Lipstick [...]

LIFE: Everything the Same, Everything Distinct

NBC has their very own House, and they don’t even know it. You probably don’t either, given how very few people tuned in to watch the remarkable Life last season.
How exactly, you’re probably wondering, is Life like House? Well, aside from the monsyllabic nomenclature, they’re both shows that take a very tired television genre (cop [...]