Last Samurai Standing was something I stumbled across a few months ago on Netflix. My wife and I started watching it together, but that proved tricky since it’s a violent show and not exactly something you can have on with our 4-year-old, Alex, around. My wife found it too intense, so I ended up finishing…
Category: Television
Things I Like: Amanda Tanen (Ugly Betty)
Amanda Tanen is one of the more memorable characters in Ugly Betty, largely because of how she occupies space in the main cast throughout the series. She is not a good person by any conventional measure, but she has a way of growing on you over time, much like her best friend Marc St. James….
Things I Like: Alexis Meade (Ugly Betty)
Alexis Meade was one of the most memorable characters on Ugly Betty, which is saying something given that she was kept hidden for the first half of season one and was long gone before the show reached its conclusion. I had a significant crush on Rebecca Romijn when I was around ten years old, having…
Things I Like: X-Men ’97 (TV Series) Season 2
I remember catching the X-Men cartoon as a kid in the 1990s, though it always seemed to air at inconvenient times. It was my first real introduction to the team, and when X-Men ’97 arrived and picked up the old series as though it had never stopped, I was genuinely excited. Season 1 delivered on…
Things I Like: Max Black (2 Broke Girls)
Kat Dennings did such an exceptional job as Max Black in 2 Broke Girls that I think of her as the true center of the show, even though the series was structured around two equal leads with Beth Behrs as Caroline Channing. I genuinely enjoyed the series, but I am convinced that without Kat Dennings…