TV Show Reviews

Blake Shelton & Dia Frampton

House of Hong and House of Lies: A Delightful Merger

Last week, TV Dinner featured a new show that didn't quite manage to dazzle in its early stages, but it wasn't to give the impression this column has sunk into some kind of fortress of TV luddism or that there genuinely aren't any promising new shows debuting this season. On the contrary, shows like ... More >>

Marination Station and Portlandia Not As Pretentious As You Would Think

​ After a grueling TV-less holiday assuredly filled with human interaction, home cooking, and other domestic terrors, the entertainment business has welcomed us back into its warm, corporate-sponsored bosom for another fertile crop of watchable television. While there's no shortage of promisin ... More >>

Up All Night and A Pizza Mart Pull Through When It Counts

Sarah Anne Lloyd, 2011.​ While the fall television season may bring cheer to more discerning couch potatoes through bringing back time-tested serial delights, it's also the time for television newcomers to step up to the plate and get crowds buzzing for the next big thing. NBC has no shortage ... More >>

Archer and Pike Place Chinese Break New Ground

Sarah Anne Lloyd, 2011.​ As the Fall TV premieres begin to burst forth onto our screen like a giant, whacked pinata full of illegitimate Mad Men progeny and "supernatural dramas," TV Dinner is here to help you sort the wheat from the chaff. This week will investigate a particularly golden bale ... More >>

Sons of Anarchy and Smarty Pants Are Gruff, But Filling

Sarah Anne Lloyd, 2011.​ Seattle introverts and extroverts alike are at a pretty universally satisfying part of summer right now: Seattle is getting the last of its legitimately warm summer days as well as the first of its legitimately good television to usher in the fall TV season. The fourth ... More >>

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark: Won't Someone Please Save Katie Holmes?

Sarah Anne Lloyd, 2011.​ Seattle introverts and extroverts alike are at a pretty universally satisfying part of summer right now: Seattle is getting the last of its legitimately warm summer days as well as the first of its legitimately good television to usher in the fall TV season. The fourth ... More >>

Here's That New Radiohead Song Everyone's Going to Be Talking About in Exactly 3, 2, 1 . . .

When Radiohead speaks -- or releases anything that can be viewed, downloaded or purchased -- the world stops to listen.

Game of Thrones and Jak's Grill Offer More Than Blood and Gristle

Sarah Anne Lloyd, 2011.​ The Night-In: Prime Top Sirloin ("Jak's Size," cooked rare) with Garlic Mashed Potatoes, House Salad and Mixed Vegetables from Jak's Grill to be eaten in front of HBO's Game of Thrones. The Restaurant: Due to Seattle's noticable lack of Medieval Times or really any s ... More >>

Blood Red Shoes Heart Twin Peaks

British garage rock duo Blood Red Shoes (not to be confused with Seattle's Blood Red Dancers) have a Northwest affinity. Earlier this week, the Brighton duo (guitarist Laura-Mary Carter and drummer Steven Ansell) released the above video postcard, featuring themselves traveling around Snoqualmie, ... More >>

Twin Peaks 20th Anniversary Celebration

British garage rock duo Blood Red Shoes (not to be confused with Seattle's Blood Red Dancers) have a Northwest affinity. Earlier this week, the Brighton duo (guitarist Laura-Mary Carter and drummer Steven Ansell) released the above video postcard, featuring themselves traveling around Snoqualmie, ... More >>

Summer DVD Roundup

​August is the cruelest month. It's reached that point in the summer where a movie based on boys' action figures, G.I. Joe, has recently eclipsed another movie based on boys' action figures, Transformers 2. Things will reach a nadir come Labor Day weekend, when studios traditionally dump the w ... More >>

Clem Snide

​August is the cruelest month. It's reached that point in the summer where a movie based on boys' action figures, G.I. Joe, has recently eclipsed another movie based on boys' action figures, Transformers 2. Things will reach a nadir come Labor Day weekend, when studios traditionally dump the w ... More >>

The Pajama Men

​August is the cruelest month. It's reached that point in the summer where a movie based on boys' action figures, G.I. Joe, has recently eclipsed another movie based on boys' action figures, Transformers 2. Things will reach a nadir come Labor Day weekend, when studios traditionally dump the w ... More >>

Tim Harrington of Les Savy Fav Gets His Own TV Show, "BEARDO"

​August is the cruelest month. It's reached that point in the summer where a movie based on boys' action figures, G.I. Joe, has recently eclipsed another movie based on boys' action figures, Transformers 2. Things will reach a nadir come Labor Day weekend, when studios traditionally dump the w ... More >>

Gossip Girl: Fire Walk With Me (OMG!)

​August is the cruelest month. It's reached that point in the summer where a movie based on boys' action figures, G.I. Joe, has recently eclipsed another movie based on boys' action figures, Transformers 2. Things will reach a nadir come Labor Day weekend, when studios traditionally dump the w ... More >>

Three and Out

​August is the cruelest month. It's reached that point in the summer where a movie based on boys' action figures, G.I. Joe, has recently eclipsed another movie based on boys' action figures, Transformers 2. Things will reach a nadir come Labor Day weekend, when studios traditionally dump the w ... More >>

Project Greenlight: The Complete Second Season

Miramax Home Entertainment, $39.99

Hot Dish

Miramax Home Entertainment, $39.99

TV on DVD

Miramax Home Entertainment, $39.99

Farrah Forever!

Guilty favorites, hidden pleasures, and obscure treasuresthe TV vaults have opened up and are flooding onto DVD.

The lost boys

Bedroom suburbs and their hazards.

'The Chris Isaak Show'

Bedroom suburbs and their hazards.

Fall Arts Preview - Theater

Bedroom suburbs and their hazards.