DonaldSutherland-related stories
Posted Sep 13th 2009 10:00AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd, Scrubs, Reality-Free, Jane After Dark

Several DVD sets came my way this week, so I did some marathon viewing sessions for
Jane After Dark. I'm brand new to some of these, so you'll get the stark, raw newbie version. But I'll start with one I've watched since the beginning ...
Dirty Sexy Money: The Complete Second and Final Season. I really liked this show at the beginning. It had all the elements of a great series, including excellent actors (starting with Donald Sutherland, Jill Clayburgh, and Peter Krause) and intriguing storylines with rich people, sex, murder, and mystery. But by the time they got to season two, the storylines just seemed to fizzle out. I would love to hear your thoughts on why
Dirty Sexy Money didn't work. Crummy writing? Poor use of great actors? Too many characters to keep track of? Poor timing with the writer's strike occurring in the middle of its run, resulting in ten months between seasons?
Bonus features: Directing the Darlings (behind the scenes with director Jamie Babbit); A Total Knockout (a day in the life of Natalie Zea, who played Karen); Dirty Sexy Crafty (a featurette about the food on the set); Faux Pas (bloopers); deleted scenes.
Continue reading Jane After Dark: Sexy Samantha talking Greek in Scrubs
Posted Nov 6th 2008 12:40AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Dirty Sexy Money, Reality-Free

(S02E05) That was more like it! Just as I was about to write off this week's episode as another bland installment of
Dirty Sexy Money, down came an embarrassment of primetime soap riches. Letitia's trial was resolved with the kind of speed only possible in TV-land, and we got a cliffhanger and three major shocks to boot! Read on for the details.
Continue reading Dirty Sexy Money: The Verdict
Posted Oct 30th 2008 8:33AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Dirty Sexy Money, Reality-Free

(S02E04) Election night on
Dirty Sexy Money was about more than simple politics. There were lost children, marriage proposals, and bribes to worry about. With so many major things happening, though, I wish some of the minor storylines had been cut from this episode. Nick's gradual transformation into the next Tripp Darling is fascinating, and we finally got a better idea about Simon's master plan. Next week's installment appears to be a lot meatier (and soapier), so I'm not worried.
Continue reading Dirty Sexy Money: The Silence
Posted Oct 23rd 2008 9:25AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Dirty Sexy Money, Reality-Free

(S02E03) We already know what it's like to be a Darling: lavish parties, vast conspiracies, and emotional outbursts. This week's episode gave us some insight into what it's like to be a George: same psychological problems, less money. Letitia's upcoming trial brought Nick face-to-face with someone from his past, and this person had quite a story to tell.
Continue reading Dirty Sexy Money: The Star Witness
Posted Oct 9th 2008 8:29AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Dirty Sexy Money, Reality-Free

(S02E02) The Darlings had to bury one of their own this week, and they sent the deceased off in style. Sure, the eulogy was written about someone else and some of the mourners were arrested, but that's part of the fun of these events. The rest of the episode was business as usual--power struggles, inappropriate sexual partners, and suitcases filled with cash. No complaints here.
Continue reading Dirty Sexy Money: The Family Lawyer
Posted Oct 2nd 2008 12:42AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Dirty Sexy Money, Reality-Free

(S02E01) The Darlings are back! Despite all the behind-the-scenes
personnel and casting changes,
Dirty Sexy Money appears to be better than ever. Loyal fans were rewarded with a major development in last season's murder mystery, and the premiere gave new viewers plenty of reasons to come back for more. Season One feels like it ended ages ago, but "The Birthday Present" was the perfect refresher course in the elements of this gorgeous, twisted world.
Continue reading Dirty Sexy Money: The Birthday Present (season premiere)
Posted Mar 26th 2008 8:30AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Celebrities, Dirty Sexy Money

From March 14th to March 27th,
The Paley Center for Media is presenting the twentieth-fifth annual William S. Paley Television Festival. The Paley Center, formerly the Museum of Television and Radio, says that the festival celebrates "television's rich and diverse programming and the creative process behind the medium." This year the festival included
Chuck, Friday Night Lights,
Pushing Daisies, Gossip Girl, and
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reunion.
Last night, I attended the
Dirty Sexy Money panel. For what happened during the panel discussion, read on past the jump...
Continue reading Paley Festival: Dirty Sexy Money
Posted Dec 14th 2007 10:01AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: OpEd, 24, Boston Legal, The Shield, My Name Is Earl, Festivus, Heroes, 30 Rock, TV Squad Lists, Damages, Journeyman, Dirty Sexy Money, Samantha Who?
... Six welcome returns.
Every fall season I get stoked about all the new shows, with cool new premises ("A guy travels through time trying to make right what once went wrong!"-- Journeyman not Quantum Leap), and all the big changes in store for existing shows. But it's equally exciting to see which beloved actors will be returning to television. Brad Garrett coming back to television in 'Til Death last year? Cool! Patricia Heaton and Kelsey Grammer both coming back to television ... together? That's gotta be awesome, right? Jerry O'Connell on Carpoolers ... well ... ? I like the guy, but I'm not scheduling a 'Welcome Back' shindig for him.
Half the fun of a new television season is the return of great actors and actresses to the small screen. And while I could have easily done 10 or even 20 of these, I've narrowed it down to the six talents who were most welcome back in my house on a weekly basis this past year. I've even been so bold as to rank them. Feel free to agree, disagree and present your own lists in the comments.
Continue reading On the 6th Day of Festivus, TV gave to me...
Posted Oct 6th 2007 9:16PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Dirty Sexy Money
This week on Dirty Sexy Money, Nick George continued his search to find out who murdered his father, Dutch. The prime suspect as of the season premiere was Tripp Darling, the cuckolded rich husband of Letitia Darling and Dutch's employer. Letitia hinted that Nick might find some clues if he looked in Tripp's diary.
After a lot of pausing and playing on my DVR player (and a little questioning the purpose of my life or lack thereof), I have a transcription of the diary entry we saw Tripp writing during this past week's episode. Click below to see it.
Continue reading Tripp Darling's diary
Posted Jan 25th 2006 11:47PM by Sarah Gilbert
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Programming, OpEd, Commander-In-Chief
This week, watching Commander in Chief,
I felt as if I was in the middle of a lovable Steve Martin movie, one where the children were full of hi-jinks, the
sexual escapades were many, the adults were in charge of Very Important Things and, at the end, everyone met over
the breakfast table to giggle and eat homemade pancakes. In other words: schmaltz. In other words: saccharine. Gah! And
just when we thought Nathan Templeton was going to be evil again.
Speaking of Donald Sutherland's
evilness, I was happy to see just a glimpse of it, but it was prefaced by such a terrifically (I almost wrote,
monumentally) obvious and overplayed line from Jim. I'll get to that in a minute. But first:
Isn't this show supposed to be award-winning? Oh, right, it was Geena Davis. Well, congratulations sweetie, I
think you deserve it. But with dialogue like this, you may not keep the honor for long.
Continue reading Commander in Chief: Wind Beneath My Wing