by Jeffrey Davies | Oct 30, 2019 | Blog, Pop Culture, TV |
Halloween might be the time of year to decorate your lawn with pumpkins and ghouls, giving out candy to your neighborhood’s costume connoisseurs, or trying to figure out the most clever costume to wear to the office or to a party. But the best way to celebrate...
by Jeffrey Davies | Oct 28, 2019 | Blog, Pop Culture, TV |
Some families have Christmas, and others have Easter. Friends had Thanksgiving. But no TV family has ever done Halloween like the Conners. This week marks 30 years since the first Halloween episode of Roseanne aired back in 1989. And in the three decades since, nobody...
by Jeffrey Davies | May 24, 2019 | Blog, Pop Culture, TV |
Last week, The Big Bang Theory—the highly-rated sitcom that first debuted on CBS in 2007—bid farewell after 12 long seasons. When the series first started, traditional half-hour sitcoms with laugh tracks, a multi-camera setup, and live studio audiences were starting...
by Jeffrey Davies | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog, Pop Culture, TV |
On September 22, 1994, NBC aired the pilot of a new television sitcom called Friends. It began just as simply as the title suggests, with five twentysomething friends lounging at a coffeehouse, discussing mundane details about their personal lives. These people don’t...
by Jeffrey Davies | Jan 14, 2019 | Blog, Books, Movies, TV |
“I’m rolling my eyes right now, but that’s who I was. It’s who I am. I have a hard time just existing. I always think that if only I could be somewhere else, with someone else, doing something else, then I would be happy, finally. The hole...
by Jeffrey Davies | Jan 4, 2019 | Blog, Movies, Music, Pop Culture, TV |
When I started university, I started watching The Lizzie McGuire Movie at the end of every semester as a way to relax. It may be cliché, full of plot holes, and targeted towards millennial preteens, but very few movies have the power that the film’s most famous song...
