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There’s plenty to watch on network television, but we have long been living in the Golden Age of Cable. Ever since HBO told us, “It’s not TV. It’s HBO,” we’ve been hooked. Ponying up the money for cable can be difficult, but these channels make it worth the price. The Veterans: HBO has lost many [...]
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Cable: You Really Got A Hold On Me
Posted: February 16, 2008 in best tv shows you aren't watching, burn notice, cable, pilots, starpulse articles1
Best TV Shows You Aren’t Watching: ‘Medium’
Posted: October 28, 2007 in best tv shows you aren't watching, medium, starpulse articlesMedium is one of those rare procedurals that skillfully blends family and personal life without intrusion. Before Coach and Mrs. Coach came along on Friday Night Lights, this NBC drama had the best married couple on television. Based on the life of real life psychic and medium Allison Dubois, Joe and Allison are a modern [...]
Best TV Shows You Aren’t Watching: ‘Weeds’
Posted: October 28, 2007 in best tv shows you aren't watching, starpulse articles, weedsIf Big Love is one of the best reasons to get HBO, the breezy and entertaining Weeds is one of the best reasons to get Showtime. A hilarious, sometimes absurd satire of life in the suburbs, religion, family and dealing pot to make ends meet, Weeds is much like its namesake: highly addictive. But once [...]
Best TV Shows You Aren’t Watching: ‘Big Love’
Posted: October 23, 2007 in best tv shows you aren't watching, big love, starpulse articlesDon’t let the patriarchal overtones of HBO’s polygamist drama fool you. It’s the women who rule the roost in Big Love. Sure, Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) has three wives, but he only appears to be in charge of his family and life. Whether it’s his compound past forcing him to deal with his crazy family [...]
Best TV Shows You Aren’t Watching: ‘Friday Night Lights’
Posted: October 20, 2007 in best tv shows you aren't watching, friday night lights, starpulse articlesThe praise has been spread high and wide by critics, but for whatever reason, people aren’t watching NBC’s incredible Friday Night Lights, perhaps the best written, acted and produced show on television. Not a show about forensic specialists, lawyers or doctors, Friday Night Lights shines a microscope on regular folks living in a small town [...]
Best TV Shows You Aren’t Watching: ‘How I Met Your Mother’
Posted: October 20, 2007 in best tv shows you aren't watching, how i met your mother, starpulse articlesThere is an heir to Friends out there and, shockingly, it’s on CBS. The network’s How I Met Your Mother, a modest ratings player that deserves better, is a charming, funny, romantic quest for true love. The show spawns lines like, “It’s gonna be legend — wait for it — and I hope you’re not [...]
Best TV Shows You Aren’t Watching: ‘Supernatural’
Posted: October 20, 2007 in best tv shows you aren't watching, starpulse articles, supernaturalIt’s hard to imagine with the multitude of shows on network and cable television and the increasing use of DVRs that there’s something good out there that you aren’t watching. Surely, the number of hours logged on your TiVo would suggest otherwise. But on that channel that you don’t really watch or sandwiched between megahits [...]
