Appealing TV: The CW’s Season Starts, American Horror Story: Hotel, And The Walking Dead

Appealing TV: The CW’s Season Starts, American Horror Story: Hotel, And The Walking Dead

So, what else is on? Monday, October 5 Halloween Baking Championships (9pm, Food Network) Halloween is really just Nightmare Before Christmas hoodie season for disaffected…

Appealing TV: The Walking Dead, Going Clear, and Wrestlemania Comes to the Bay Area

Appealing TV: The Walking Dead, Going Clear, and Wrestlemania Comes to the Bay Area

So, what else is on? Monday, March 23 Teen Mom (10pm, MTV, season premiere) The saga of staged sex tape entrepreneur Farrah Abraham and the…

Appealing TV: Asians? On My TV? NBC’s Attempt at The Americans, and You Better Call Saul!

Appealing TV: Asians? On My TV? NBC’s Attempt at The Americans, and You Better Call Saul!

Real talk, I am still beguiled like hell from last night’s Katy Perry/Missy Elliot/Lenny Kravitz performance at the Super Bowl. Oh, what’s that? You weren’t…

Appealing TV: Appealing TV: Say Goodbye to 2014 With The Help Of Marathons Of Shows From the Past

Appealing TV: Appealing TV: Say Goodbye to 2014 With The Help Of Marathons Of Shows From the Past

Happy new year! That means: Hangovers! Pretending for a precious few hours that the upcoming year is going to be any different than the past…

Appealing TV: Thanksgiving Day Parades, Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas, and Young Nuns

Appealing TV: Thanksgiving Day Parades, Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas, and Young Nuns

Whether you celebrate with your nuclear family or friends (which, according to Spaced, is the family of the 21st century) or if you’re just listening…

Appealing TV: The Flash, The Affair and The Walking Dead

Appealing TV: The Flash, The Affair and The Walking Dead

This week I’m bringing you up to speed on the the tail end of the deluge of premieres for this TV season! So, what else…

Appealing TV: Psych, Enlisted, And The Walking Dead

Appealing TV: Psych, Enlisted, And The Walking Dead

It’s cute of productivity experts to always smugly bemoan the billions (upon billions) of dollars of lost productivity that March Madness reportedly wreaks on the…

Appealing TV: The Winter Olympics, The Walking Dead, and The Devils Ride

Appealing TV: The Winter Olympics, The Walking Dead, and The Devils Ride

When I was in the third grade, I distinctly remember my teacher taking umbrage at the network then known as UPN’s attempt to counterprogram against…

Appealing TV: New Year New Year’s Specials, New Community, and (Old) Happy Endings on a New Network

Appealing TV: New Year New Year’s Specials, New Community, and (Old) Happy Endings on a New Network

I’ve seen New Year’s resolutions you people wouldn’t believe. Getting back into yoga. Reading a book a week. All those moments of optimism will be…

Appealing TV: Generation Cryo, Treme, and Holiday Special Season is the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Appealing TV: Generation Cryo, Treme, and Holiday Special Season is the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Don’t worry about societal pressures demanding conformity to some ethereal notion of tradition or holiday. So what if you’re not having a Norman Rockwell-ass Thanksgiving…

Appealing TV: The Walking Dead, Witches in NOLA, and The CW Gonna CW

Appealing TV: The Walking Dead, Witches in NOLA, and The CW Gonna CW

And the first casualty of the 2013 – 2014 television season is ABC’s lottery winner drama, Lucky 7, starring Isiah Whitlock Jr, better known as…