Resurrected: Season 5 brings new life to ‘The Walking Dead’
The Walking Dead is a show that works best when the characters are on the move, and there is a clear objective. So far, season five has given us both.
Laughs tracked: Fall TV sitcom roundup
With the fall television season well underway, it’s time to pick some of this year’s winners and losers. Here are my quick-hit reviews of five of this fall’s new sitcoms.
Identity crisis: Can ‘Gotham’ fly without Batman?
Two episodes in, and it’s still unclear exactly what Fox’s Gotham wants to be. A Batman prequel? A police procedural set in a comic book universe? A gritty character drama? Ultimately, it’s all those things, without doing any one of them particularly well.
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times: Celebrating ‘The Simpsons’ at 25
By JIM SABATASO | STAFF [A version of this story appears in the Sept. 3, 2014, edition of the Rutland Reader.] The Simpsons is having a moment. Entering its 25th season, the animated Fox sitcom has faded in and out of relevance, but its lasting cultural impact, like Martin Prince’s precious geode, must be acknowledged. The…
The Simpsons said it: 9 times ‘The Simpsons’ embiggened the American lexicon
By JIM SABATASO | STAFF Today begins FXX’s 12-day Simpsons marathon. As a result, the Internet is having a veritable orgasm of Simpsons clickbait. So it’s time we get on the bandwagon. I’ll post a more thoughtful piece on the show’s lasting cultural impact next week. In the meantime, here’s something to hold you over. Like Shakespeare before it,…
The Plaid Crew 