We'll Miss You Larry King...

Larry King has been playing in my house since before I could remember, and after 25 YEARS the show aired its final episode.

We'll miss you Larry!!

True Blood: I Got A Right To Sing The Blues

Popular Culture has an obsession with vampires these days and it's scary. TRUE BLOOD is the new black and black is definitely in. I can't even lie, the show is amazing but this weeks episode, I Got A Right to Sing the Blues, portrayed the show's minority characters in a quite disturbing light. As a good friend of mine said to me while we were watching: "This is what all of America is watching right now". (SPOILER WARNING) Tara, who is not a vampire, bites someone in the neck and breaks through the skin after a questionable sexual abduction. I happened to be watching the episode with some spanish boyfriends and they were offended to see that the only hispanic character on the show was a homosexual, pursuing an African-American character. Later, we watched ENTOURAGE and the only African-American character on the show was the maid.

The television line up made me think about the correlation between classism and premium cable. It might be a stretch to connect the dots but I'd like to make the argument that premium channels have a unique  political battle that has already been fought over basic cable but to a lesser degree. In my experience, minority characters on channels like Showtime and HBO are made to be wildly exotic, if present at all...a splash of color to a very traditional setting. Am I being sensitive? If you watched the show this week, feel free to comment.  

Pretty Little Liars...

Wouldn't it be crazy if the "Pretty Little" clique at every high school was actually gossiping about something scary instead of airy? This show is a HIT, lol! It's like Desperate Housewives meets Gossip Girl on the corner of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. This doesn't surprise me, seeing as the show is on ABC Family...And it makes sense that ABC would take one of their most popular shows for a female demographic and fuse it together with a popular teen show from a competing network.

The idea of never knowing the truth and getting caught in dirty secrets is timeless and ageless and I really think the whole point of the psycho-stalker ghost is to illustrate how each character is extremely paranoid about keeping up false appearances. Dare I say, this dead friend of theirs...Allison...is merely a figment of their imagination to confront the larger issues of their social life. Who knows, though? PRETTY LITTLE LIARS is definitely a must see!

The Hard Times of RJ Berger...

The Hard Times of RJ Berger - MTV Shows

It's official...MTV's new series The Hard Times of RJ Berger is a smash hit! I think it's going to be the WONDER YEARS of our generation if the writers can keep their mojo going. Check out the pilot episode...courtesy of MTV.com. ENJOY!