Friday Night Lights had two small weaknesses throughout the course of its five-year run. The first was a tendency to devolve into melodrama and the other was its somewhat understandable yet pathological need to end nearly every episode with an improbable last minute victory for the good guys.
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Part Two of Can Any Show Survive Jumping the Shark?
January 21st, 2012 
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Can Any Show Survive Jumping the Shark?
January 15th, 2012 Geoffrey Geib Jumping the shark is the ultimate death knell for any television show, the surefire, single-phrase description that lets everyone know the expiration date on the milk carton has come and gone. For those few who don’t instantly recognize the phrase, it was born decades ago from Happy Days when Fonzie was on waterskis and literally […]
Posted in CABLE, Geoff Geib, NETWORK, RANTS & REVIEWS, T.V., TELEVISION & CABLE, Uncategorized 1 Comment »MISS PIGGY HOSTS WILLY WONKA ON ABC FAMILY
November 22nd, 2011 Beyond the Marquee As the new Muppets movie prepares to take the world by storm, the seemingly never ending promotions and marketing blitz of parodies, cameos and appearances of our favorite furry friends continue. This Wednesday night, November 23rd at 8:00 pm, none other than the beautiful and talented Miss Piggy will be hosting Willy Wonka and the […]
Beyond the Marquee: The Web-Series (Episode 3): Everything Old is CLUE Again!
November 13th, 2011 Beyond the Marquee When thinking about the games that used to occupy my closet as a kid, some classics come to mind; Candyland, Stratego, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Connect Four, Monopoly and most notable CLUE. Many a family game night, way before they went main-stream were filled with my family making accusations of which characters committed the murder, where […]
The Best Hour and a Half on Television!
October 17th, 2011 AwesomeA In this critic’s opinion, I must say that the end of the HBO’s series Entourage was very depressing. All be it, the show’s last episode was it’s best, even if the men’s version of Sex In The City was cut way too short.
That Hurt.
October 13th, 2011 Geoffrey Geib Brad Pitt is a movie star. Brad Pitt has, on at least once occasion, worn a sweater[1]. That is the extent of my personal knowledge of Brad Pitt, but it does not even begin to adequately reveal the man’s nature in any real sense, nor even within the media-created identity that is presented to us. It’s […]
