Category Archives: TV

“That weren’t no man!”

Posted on December 12, 2010 by

I just watched the pilot episode of Frank Darabont‘s zombie TV series The Walking Dead.  I loved the scene where the main character, after learning about the nature of zombies, goes back to the first zombie he met, a woman … Continue reading →

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“You made this place so you could find each other.”

Posted on May 24, 2010 by

One great thing about the television series Lost (2004-2010) is that the mysteries were never solved.  We kept looking for the man behind the curtain who was pulling all the strings, but that person was never revealed. The Others seemed to … Continue reading →

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“If you don’t tell me what happened to Walt, none of it will have mattered.”

Posted on May 22, 2010 by

Check out Mike Hale’s infuriating commentary on Lost (2004-10) in the New York Times.  It’s fine that Hale doesn’t like Lost very much — that’s his prerogative as TV critic — but the reasons he gives for disliking the show suggest … Continue reading →

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“These are the fittest, well-fed, best-kept horses I’ve ever seen.”

Posted on January 27, 2009 by

Recently actor Liam Neeson was a guest on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. He was supposed to be there to discuss his new movie, but the interview ended up focusing on a local New York City political debate about … Continue reading →

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“Barack Obama will win: It’s all in ‘The West Wing.’”

Posted on October 30, 2008 by

Here’s a fun article comparing the current presidential election to the final season of the best TV shows in history: The West Wing (Sorkin et al, 1999-2006).

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“Churches could lose their tax-exemption status.”

Posted on October 14, 2008 by

It seems like every time I watch TV there’s an anti-Prop 8 commercial on. (For those of you outside California, Proposition 8 is a voter initiative to amend the state constitution making same sex marriage illegal. This is in response … Continue reading →

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“Some labels are best left in the closet.”

Posted on July 2, 2008 by

This week my wife dragged me to see Sex and the City (King, 2008). I don’t have much to say about the movie itself. But I do want to comment on a recurring criticism of the movie. Many reviews complained … Continue reading →

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Nonviolent Heroes and the Failure of the Christian Imagination

Posted on May 28, 2008 by

Last year I went to a conference on “Faith, Film, and Philosophy” at Gonzaga University. I gave a paper on what Batman Begins can tell us about the nature of fear and the relationship between justice and revenge. (One of … Continue reading →

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