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Angie Dickinson’s bold and brassy lady cop made some serious feminist inroads…

Spooky stuff from the Vancouver ‘Stargate’/’Outer Limits’ cabal of creative types…

Girl power solves crime. Yuck.

So few married people genuinely seem to enjoy marriage… and these four couples are not among them. This faux reality series combines the worst of reality TV with the worst of fictional shows: while pretending to offer a “real” look at the interpersonal trials and tribulations of “actual” couples, including “therapy sessions” in which they … more…

Oh my god, I can’t believe how much of this stuff I remember from my very youngest childhood: the silhouettes pronouncing syllables that come together to form whole words! the tiny scuba guy swimming in alphabet soup looking for letters! the adventures of Letterman and his archenemy, who takes a T from “train” to make … more…

The coarseness of spirit that every reality show evinces is a depressing reminder of the boorishness of contemporary American society: reality “entertainment” may be the 21st-century version of the game show, but the reveling that accompanies the dispatch of the losers is appalling, the suspense mined from the “who’s gonna get voted off?” dismal. And … more…

The buzz is that devoted fans of this sci-fi series got so frustrated waiting for this long-time-coming DVD release, they made this the most-bootlegged series ever, with homemade discs burned from videotaped episodes selling like hotcakes on eBay. Additional buzz has it that this set was rushed out in an attempt to cut off that … more…