My Favorite TV Shows of 2010 (In No Particular Order)

Doctor Who (BBC America)
Best episodes: “The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone,” “Vincent And The Doctor,” “The Lodger”


Boardwalk Empire (HBO)
Best episodes: “Anastasia,” “Nights In Ballygran,” “Home”


Fringe (Fox)
Best episodes: “Peter,” “White Tulip,” “The Plateau”


Cougar Town (ABC)
Best episodes: “Letting You Go,” “Finding Out,” “You Don’t Know How It Feels”


Lost (ABC)
Best episodes: “Happily Ever After,” “Across the Sea,” “The End”


Terriers (FX)
Best episodes: “Fustercluck,” “Agua Caliente,” “Quid Pro Quo” 


Mad Men (AMC)
Best episodes: “Waldorf Stories,” “The Suitcase,” “The Beautiful Girls”


Parks And Recreation (NBC)
Best episodes: “Galentine’s Day,” “Summer Catalog,” “The Master Plan” 


Community (NBC)
Best episodes: “Modern Warfare,” “Cooperative Calligraphy,” “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas”


 The Good Wife (CBS)
Best episodes: “Bang,” “Mock,” “VIP Treatment”


Better Off Ted (ABC)
Best episodes: “Beating a Dead Workforce,” “The Impertence of Communicationizing,” “Lust in Translation”

LOST: It Wasn’t About The Answers, But The Journey

In the end LOST was, like life itself, not so much about the answers, but the journey.

The show dealt with issues we all struggle with regardless of religious views - why are we here, what really matters, what happens after we die. Who doesn't think about those things?

The final 15 minutes was shown through Jack's POV. So it was framed by his beliefs, his worldview. I imagine the Kwan's saw or would have seen it very differently. Was it purgatory? Was it a metaphysical room between universes and time? Was the island rewarding the "good" people? Was the sideways time all just that brief moment between Jack's life and his death? Was it something Jacob set up? Or Jacob/Jack? or Jacob/Hugo? I don't know. I don't care.

In the end, the story of LOST, the story that Damon and Carlton decided to share with us, was about these people. I thought the final scenes said so much about community and the importance of the families that we create through circumstance and love.

I'm good with that.

Dude!

Video of every Hurley "dude" from Lost (also DPE: "Dude Per Episode")



via @moryan & Jorge's blog

Oh! The Humanity!! In Which Gov. Palin Shows Us How Not to Pardon a Turkey

Not since the hilarious "Turkeys Away" episode of WKRP in Cincinnati has there been a more misguided use of Turkeys! Wearing a Burberry scarf, drinking a Starbucks Latte, former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave an interview yesterday on KTUU Channel 2 in Anchorage, Palin is interviewed at a turkey farm while a man drains the blood from dead turkeys in the background.

I partially grew up on a farm, I'm not a vegetarian, I love eating turkeys, and I don't inherently think there's anything wrong with eating them ... but honestly, how dumb is that to stage a T.V. interview right there. I believe most people are of the we-don't-want-to-see-how-our-food-gets-to-the-table-just-so-long-as-it-does mentality. And that's fine. Just more proof that she just doesn't get it and that Wasilla was missing their village idiot during this campaign!!

My favorite thing were the Chyrons below the MSNBC footage:

0:20 "TURKEYS DIE AS GOVERNOR PALIN TAKES QUESTIONS FROM THE MEDIA"
0:35 "GOV. SARAH PALIN KEEPS TALKING WHILE TURKEYS GET SLAUGHTERED BEHIND HER"
1:00 "GOV. PALIN APPARENTLY OBLIVIOUS TO TURKEY CARNAGE OVER HER SHOULDER"
1:20 "GOV. PALIN NOT REALIZING THE INCONGRUITY OF HER WORDS VERSUS HER BACKDROP"

I had to double check to make sure I wasn't watching The Daily Show.

hillary widmore

OMDG! This guy is an amalgam of most of my friends. I can talk LOST, BSG or 24 to them, er... well 24/7 but if politics comes up, the eyes glaze. I literally once used LOST and BSG as an analogy to explain the Presidential Race. Hillary Widmore... I'm still laughing. Goonies Never Say Die!

From The Daily Show, June 3, 2008