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Lessons from LOST to ONCE UPON A TIME: Have Television Writers Been Given Too Much Creative License?

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In the after-math of LOST, an interesting trend has begun to emerge in television viewing patterns:  viewers are now gun-shy of investing in serialized television.  Viewers are no longer willing to invest their time and energy into a show that may take them some place they do not want to go.    For LOST not [...]

14 Posted in Featured, Lost, Once Upon a Time

Has the Phrase “Game Changer” Jumped the Shark?

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“Game changer” just does not mean what it used to.  In fact, it means virtually nothing these days simply because the over-use of the term has diluted the very meaning of it.  When did the phrase “game changer” turn into such a snooze-fest? Back in the good ole days, when you heard that a television [...]

10 Posted in 24, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Featured, Fringe, Lost, NO ORDINARY FAMILY, Smallville, Stargate, The Cape

Good News, Bad News: LOST’s Josh Holloway Enrolls in COMMUNITY College

Good News: According to Entertainment Weekly, LOST alum Josh Holloway is thisclose to agreeing to a cameo in COMMUNITY’s upcoming two-part season finale. Bad News: Nothing gets a TV Addict down like season finale talk… in February… too soon!

2 Posted in community, Lost

No Ordinary Guest Star! Rebecca Mader Reflects on Her Incredible Journey Thus Far

What’s luck got to do with it? When it comes to the trajectory of Rebecca Mader’s career — who will follow up succumbing to the most notable nosebleed in the history of the television with a three episode guest stint on NO ORDINARY FAMILY starting night — very little. Or at least that’s what we [...]

1 Posted in Lost, NO ORDINARY FAMILY

CASTLE! BROTHERS & SISTERS! MODERN FAMILY! Our TV Addict Week in Rewind

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The Oh No They Didn’t of the Week: Is it just us, or is BROTHERS & SISTERS coming perilously close to jumping the proverbial you-know-what by pairing Kevin and Scotty up with the most adorable adoptee since the gang from GROWING PAINS adopted Leonardo DiCaprio? Funnest — If Most Difficult To Explain To Those Who [...]

4 Posted in Brothers & Sisters, Caprica, Castle, Cougar Town, Featured, How I Met Your Mother, Lost, The Bachelor, Week in Rewind

Our Top 10 TV Shows of 2010

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While they may not have been the year’s most critically acclaimed or the country’s most popular, each the following shows made this TV Addict’s Top 10 of ’10 for the simple reason that each week, they left us jonesing another fix. You know those people who say “less is more?” Yeah, they’re totally wrong. As the [...]

16 Posted in 2010 Year in Review, community, Featured, Fringe, Lost, Mad Men, modern family, Parks and Recreation, Team CoCo, The Good Wife, The Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead

Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Fan-Made Credit Sequences That Are Way Better Than The Ones Used By The Show

This morning, our friends over at For Starters — a site devoted to TV’s credit sequences — posted a fan-made GOSSIP GIRL opening so good we were blown away. More importantly, we were inspired to shine the light on some openings made by fans that not only blow the real ones away, but prove that [...]

9 Posted in Glee, Gossip Girl, Lost, Smallville, Supernatural

Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Highly Predictable Season Finales

THE GOOD WIFE Political intrigue, family drama and the return of Cary! Yes, Tuesday’s season finale of THE GOOD WIFE had all the makings of a fantastic season ender. Until of course the overzealous publicity department at CBS inexplicably felt the need to completely spoil the ending by releasing what turned out to be a [...]

11 Posted in Brothers & Sisters, Chuck, Lost, Private Practice, The Good Wife

LOST Series Finale: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

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The Good: What started with an eye opening pilot (in every sense of the word) ended with an eye closing — and our favorite story-telling device “the bookend” — as Jack died a heroic death, successfully defeating Ol’Smokey, single-handidly saving humanity from an uncorked island of evil, and in doing so, allowing for Sawyer, Kate, [...]

35 Posted in Featured, Lost

The Questions LOST MUST Answer Sunday Night!

At this point, so many questions have sprung up around that time-hoppin’, guardian-needin’, monster-makin’ island that the only thing we know for certain is that LOST will never be able to answer them all on Sunday night. And we’re okay with that. Or at least trying to be.

25 Posted in Lost