High Definition: Men of a Certain Age

Last night, Ray Romano returned to television in the new TNT dramedy, Men of a Certain Age, and everybody did not love him. TV veterans Romano, Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap, Enterprise) and Andre Braugher (Homicide: Life on the Street) play a trio of college buddies now in their late 40s, struggling with where life has taken them. Each has a piece of the American dream, but for none of them is it enough....  read more

House Review: Season 6 Premiere, "Broken"

Season 6 begins with House in a mental institution for a Vicodin addiction and subsequent hallucinations. (It also begins with a great dream-like sequence of him shackled to his hospital bed set to Radiohead's "No Surprises.") Except for a two-minute phone conversation with Wilson, none of the usual characters are in the episode. Except that they sort of are....  read more

House Review: Season 6 Premiere, "Broken"

Season 6 begins with House in a mental institution for a Vicodin addiction and subsequent hallucinations. (It also begins with a great dream-like sequence of him shackled to his hospital bed set to Radiohead's "No Surprises.") Except for a two-minute phone conversation with Wilson, none of the usual characters are in the episode. Except that they sort of are....  read more