Dan Clarendon

Primetimely • June 29, 2016

Required Reading: Jesse Williams’s Powerful BET Awards Speech

Some pop culture moments cannot be ignored — including the speech Grey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams delivered as he accepted the Humanitarian Award at the 2016 BET Awards. Here’s the transcript in toto.

Primetimely • April 5, 2014

TV’s Weirdest Family is in Kohler’s “Two Kids, One Toilet” Commercial

The commercial entitled “Tresham” shows the strangest ostensibly-“cute” family dynamics on TV. It’s more a PSA for lockable bathroom doors than it is an ad for bathroom plumbing.

Primetimely • March 23, 2014

Phil Robertson Is a Ducking Bigot

Duck Dynasty‘s Phil Robertson is a bigot, and A&E is reprehensible for not taking his offenses more seriously and for kowtowing to its Phil-supporting viewership.

Primetimely • September 17, 2013

The Great TV Show Title Jumble

Primetimely • June 16, 2013

Completion for Completion’s Sake Totally Sucks

What compels is to power through if we’re no longer interested? And how close do we have to be to the series finale?

Primetimely • February 15, 2013

House of Cards: Is it television?

I wonder: does the show fit into the definition of television? Isn’t series television, by its very nature, supposed to come out piecemeal?

Primetimely • October 13, 2012

TV's Improbable Seventh-Inning Stretches

Now Season 7 is up and running, and Dexter seems to have a new lease on life. Beyond that, it could be one of the best seasons yet.

Primetimely • May 11, 2012

Episodic Blockbusters = Commercial Magic

Why don’t blockbusters ever start on the small screen? Why can’t the stories behind these tentpole movies (which are often novels or comics) be reformatted episodically and aired as limited-run series?

Primetimely • March 21, 2012

The Blog Post Where Plot Twists Go to Die

At the risk of paying the sin forward, here are all the twists that have been ruined for me — only posted for the amusement of curious readers!

Primetimely • February 2, 2012

Shit My Boyfriend Says

or, A Television-Related Word Association Experiment With the Love of My Life

Primetimely • December 7, 2011

New Show Haiku

Let me recklessly and unfairly pass judgment on all the broadcast network’s new scripted offerings… in haiku form!

Primetimely • November 3, 2011

“Gossip Girl” Is Not Terrible — There, I’ve Said It!

Well, I’ve been tempted again, and I have to admit, I lost control.

Primetimely • April 5, 2010

The Redemption of Katherine Heigl

My intuition says that these words are hers — this is how she really feels. And I respect her for owning up to her past mistakes.

Primetimely • February 6, 2010

The Cult of the Almighty Spoiler

Grant me the serenity to accept the spoilers I cannot un-know, the courage to go with the unspoiled flow, and the wisdom to know to do so!