After the sudden death of her husband, Nancy Botwin has spent five seasons masking each problem in her life with an even bigger problem. Weeds has never shied away from writing Nancy into a corner and then embracing whatever crazy measure she has to take to escape. Whether that be dealing weed, marrying a DEA agent, burning her town to the ground, smuggling drugs across the Mexican border, marrying a Mexican drug lord or putting a hit out on his boss all in the name of her family. Weeds is …

Acquired by NBC after all thirteen episodes of the show were produced, Persons Unknown is an international coproduction from Fox and Usual Suspects writer Christopher McQuarrie. Like Lost and various other shows in the last few years, Persons Unknown brings together a group of disparate individuals with seemingly no connection. There’s the single mother going through a divorce, a US marine, a car salesman… you get the picture. Each one is kidnapped and wakes up in a hotel room in an abandoned town surrounded by nothing but mountains. The characters …

We all have our favorite primary ones. Buffy, Angel, the dude from Firefly, but what about the unsung heroes of the Whedon-verse? They are the ones who never see the light of the opening theme yet touch us so profoundly and hilariously. Below is a humble listing of the top ten tertiary Whedon characters who stood out far more than they had the right to.

Klara Prast – Runaways

After Brian K. Vaughan passed the torch to Joss, most of us didn’t know what to expect. However, in the second stint of …

Going to the movies this week? Bet you’re gonna go see Iron Man 2. Yes? No? Yes. Good. There’s a fair chance you’ll enjoy it. The special effects are great, the plot moves at a fast pace, the dialogue crackles, the villain is menacing and Robert Downey Jr.’s performance as Tony Stark is perfect.
All the good things you’ve heard about this film are true. It’s a good superhero film.
So why does it feel like this review is going to be negative?
What Iron Man 2 represents is your standard, lazy superhero …

”There’s no more truth out there than there is in the world I created for you.”
In The Truman Show, Jim Carrey’s character discovers that every second of his life has been filmed and broadcast live to millions. While this may sound like the starting point of a bleak dystopian drama, the film takes a more interesting direction by showing the many advantages of Truman’s life over our own existences. Although he’s suffered the stage-managed ‘death’ of his father and the sinister vanishing of a woman he loved, the show’s creator …

I never used to watch a lot of television. It used to just be Buffy and Angel. Then in 2003, Buffy ended and Angel began winding down. At this time, hot off the heels of The Shield’s success, FX developed another original series: Nip/Tuck. I didn’t seek Nip/Tuck out. It was a marriage of convenience. Veronica Mars, Battlestar Galactica, House, Weeds, Dexter, The Inside and many others would eventually come along, but it was Nip/Tuck that provided my maiden voyage into a post-Buffy and Angel world.
Needless to say after the …

Once upon a time ago, the April PPV used to be known as Backlash. An event that promised follow up from the previous month’s Wrestlemania spectacular. In reality, April is a transitional period for the WWE where many of the creative team suffer burn out after putting all their energy into Wrestlemania the previous few months. This means Backlash is usually a series of rematches, with the odd attempt at setting up new storylines for the coming year.
This year Backlash morphs into Extreme Rules, victim of WWE’s …

I’m going to preface this review by admitting that I have only read the first The Walking Dead trade paperback. I read it at the end of last year but resisted reading the second trade as all interviews indicated that the show would be quite faithful to the book. Having read the pilot script I am glad of this.

Frank Darabont’s pilot script, as you may have read elsewhere, is very true to the first few issues of Robert Kirkman’s comic. The episode opens and closes with the character of Rick …

For two seasons Damages did it. A complex show that spanned various timelines, had multiple characters, an intricate plot and a strong thematic through-line. For two seasons these elements were woven together, nary a glaring plot hole in sight.
Season three focused on Patty Hewes’s struggle to recover money from a Ponzi scheme perpetrated by the fractured Tobin family. For much of the season it looked like the third year would stand up there with Damages’s first two seasons. The dynamics of the Tobin family mirrored that of Patty’s makeshift professional …

This interview was originally conducted on March 25, 2007.

Now a co-executive producer on House and an Emmy award winner for directing the episode “House’s Head”, three years ago Greg Yaitanes was an executive producer on the short-lived FOX series Drive.  Here he discusses his role in the show.

Pasha: There are three executive producers on Drive, two of whom are writers.  As the non-writer one, what do your duties consist of as an executive producer?

Greg Yaitanes: My role as a Non-Writing EP?   Teacher.
Drive’s late pick up meant that …