Rediscovering my passion for the series Scott Bakula starred in–one of my favourite shows from back in the day, Quantum Leap. The show’s premise is that physicist Samuel Beckett “leaps” back in time, inhabiting the bodies of different people. He’s trying to change history, to put right what went wrong, and hopefully return home.
What I [...]

I finally finished Season 6 of The Sopranos. The series started strong and really had me hooked up until around the 5th season when things began to drag. The same plots repeated themselves, with little variation, thus eliciting little surprise.
 
What I notice is that Tony Soprano ends up killing many of the people he professes [...]

A few notes about how the weekend is unfolding. I checked in at 8:30 AM and took a little nap, as well as a nice shower to get rid of the oil and sweat that just sits on your skin whenever you travel for a long period of time. By the afternoon, I was ready [...]

The story of Lillo Brancato being sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in a botched robbery that claimed the life of an off-duty policeman is making headlines. It’s major news, partly because he’s a celebrity who starred in feature films and the television series The Sopranos–but this event has special implications because [...]

I haven’t seen a single episode, yet the sense of anticipation I feel while looking forward to watching the British series This Life is heavier than the advance lineups for the latest/lamest Star Wars installment/disappointment. The best measure of it’s impact and the way it won audiences hearts over is the uniformly caustic reaction to [...]

I read this quote in a Toronto Life article about the decline of the CBC: “We’ll just have to do the best we can.” All of which, to my mind, sounds like a man who is only too happy to win battles but doesn’t much care about the war.
What it made me think about was [...]

We often talk about situations where a person reveals their character. It doesn’t take difficult or near-impossible situations to get a reading; even the most mundane or ordinary circumstances can provoke a telling reaction.
With the reality series The Contender, someone raised the question about why contestant Ahmed Kaddour failed to make the grade. He entered the [...]

A friend from NYC gave me about a dozen episodes of Mad Men, the television show about advertising executives set in the 1960’s. One of the best parts about the show is the graphic that includes a man plunging to his death throughout the introduction credits.
For all the racism, sexism, and homophobia that occur in [...]

Observe Floyd Mayweather’s brilliant performance on the highly touted Dancing With the Stars television program. Many people believed that he was the professional, and that Karina Smirnoff was his partner. The judges, however, were absolutely scathing, giving him the lowest score: “[Judge] Carrie Ann told him to remember his partner is ‘a woman; she’s not [...]

Was flipping channels and caught an old Seinfeld. Then I thought about the time I saw Jason Alexander on David Letterman explaining what he was working on a few years back. While he’s gotten more than a few bit parts and other assorted roles, he really hasn’t had any notable appearences.
Is it devastating a personal [...]