Feature: TV Nights

There are a lot of shows on television, I mean, a lot of shows. Quite honestly, there are more shows than you can shake a stick at on television (you could of course shake a stick at your television and cable box, but that's not the same thing). I, somehow, manage to watch a substantial portion of the shows on TV, and in this feature regularly discuss what I've watched, what I think about it, and why. It's a conversational, informal, discussion, and as such is always better when there's more than one point of view being expressed, which is to say, feel free to comment with your opinion.

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• Confusing Cashmere Mafia and Lipstick Jungle

  Up until last night I'd managed to watch Cashmere Mafia and Lipstick Jungle and not confuse the two. That's all over now.

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Feb 22, 2008

• What I Get for Praising a Television Show

  I've said great things about the revamped Law & Order. Needless to say, it's changing. What else must then be coming this fall?

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Feb 21, 2008

• The Last Dregs of This Television Season

  The strike may be over, but my mood is growing more foul.

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Feb 19, 2008

• Inequality on Thursday Night Television

  There's a weird, distorted, disturbing view of the world put forward on NBC on Thursday nights.

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Feb 15, 2008

• Law & Order Chooses Character Over Couture, Cashmere Mafia...

  Given the choice, I'd always choose characters and stories over clothes. Others may feel differently.

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Feb 14, 2008

• Giving American Gladiators a Smackdown

  Today, we talk filler, and not the delicious kind one finds inside donuts.

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Feb 12, 2008

• The Celebrity Apprentice Starts to Reek of Desperation

  Some rules are made to be broken, others, not so much.

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Feb 08, 2008

• Wednesday Night and Train Wreck Television

  Being an uninvolved bystander doesn't always mean you're innocent.

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Feb 07, 2008

• American Gladiators Has Found Its Own Terminator

  And here's how Gladiators is just like The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Feb 05, 2008

• Politics Versus American Gladiators

  The President interrupted what otherwise would have been a perfectly adequate night of TV viewing yesterday.

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Jan 29, 2008

• A Chuck Sandwich Leaves Me Hungry

  NBC aired the last two new episodes of Chuck last night. What were they thinking? Why would they promise more soon?

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Jan 25, 2008

• Boston Legal Proves Itself to be Smart Television

  Last night, Boston Legal got off of its soapbox, stepped away from the pulpit, and delivered a great episode.

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Jan 23, 2008

• Terminating Television on Monday Night

  Sarah Connor and those Gladiators get me all riled up.

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Jan 22, 2008

• The Celebrity Apprentice and the Mind of Gene Simmons

  Gene Simmons got himself fired last night. Could it have been on purpose?

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Jan 18, 2008

• Cashmere Mafia Grows on Me (But Just a Little)

  Last week I complained mercilessly about the show, this week I complain less.

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Jan 17, 2008

• Boston Legal Rehashes and I Look to the Web for Help

  Boston Legal was sort of new last night, but there's little else out there. Maybe some webisodes will help me with my TV fix... or not.

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Jan 16, 2008

• Gladiators Kill with Kindness While Terminators just Kill

  Sticks and stones may break my bones (bullets work too), but words will never hurt me (though they do give me a headache).

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Jan 15, 2008

• Summer Glau and Last Night's Adolescent Males

  The Globes I skipped. Terminator and Scott Baio however...

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Jan 14, 2008

• NBC, The Apprentice, And Earl Are Holding Back On Me

  I hate it when TV holds back, don't you?

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Jan 11, 2008

• Cashmere Mafia Could Use a Little Law & Order

  Yup, it's me. I'm back and I'm going to whine about whiners.

  Opinion by Josh Lasser — on Jan 10, 2008