What's Alan Watching? (Page 176)

The Wire, Season 1, Episode 9: "Game Day" (Veterans edition)

In case you missed it -- and, judging by the minimal comments, I'm guessing many of you did -- I decided to double up on "The Wire&

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 1 Aug 2008

The Wire, Season 1, Episode 9, "Game Day" (Newbies edition)

In case you missed it -- and, judging by the minimal comments, I'm guessing many of you did -- I decided to double up on "The Wire&

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 1 Aug 2008

What kind of day has it been?

Blogging's been pretty light the last couple of days, in part due to a lack of interesting primetime stuff to write about, in part due to me having

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 31 Jul 2008

Sepinwall on TV: The re-freshman class of '08

Today's column looks at how the five freshman shows from last season -- "Dirty Sexy Money," "Life," "Pushing Daisies," "Private Practice&

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 31 Jul 2008

Money can be exchanged for goods, services, or higher ratings

Well, it looks like AMC's $25 million ad campaign for "Mad Men" season two actually worked. The season premiere drew an average of 1.9 million

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 29 Jul 2008

Middleman, "The Cursed Tuba Contingency": Randolph Scott!

Spoilers for "The Middleman" coming up just as soon as I enjoy a lobster dinner... When you do a show as strange and eclectic as "The Middleman,

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 29 Jul 2008

Pucker up, Buttercup!

So after reading yesterday's Ben Stein-related thread over at Throwing Things, I noticed that one of the HBO multiplex channels was showing "Ferris Bueller's Day

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 29 Jul 2008

All TV mailbag: Emmy snubs, background music and more

Today's column has me answering reader questions about people and shows snubbed by the Emmys (including Vincent D'Onofrio, pictured above), plus the return of possibly the

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 29 Jul 2008

The Wire, Season 1, Episode 8: "Lessons" (Veterans edition)

Okay, in an attempt to get these season one review of "The Wire" back on schedule and hopefully finished before Labor Day, I'm going to try

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 28 Jul 2008

The Wire, Season 1, Episode 8: "Lessons" (Newbies edition)

Okay, in an attempt to get these season one review of "The Wire" back on schedule and hopefully finished before Labor Day, I'm going to try

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 28 Jul 2008

Mad Men, "For Those Who Think Young": Get off my lawn!

Spoilers for the "Mad Men" season two premiere, "For Those Who Think Young," coming up just as soon as I take off my hat... "Young

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 27 Jul 2008

Generation Kill, "Screwby": Camel killer

Spoilers for episode 3 of "Generation Kill" coming up just as soon as I track down a photo I loaned out... I'm running out of things

By Alan Sepinwall

/ 27 Jul 2008