judith ivey-related stories
Posted Nov 17th 2009 10:12AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Animation, Reality-Free, Gone Too Soon
Before
The Simpsons begat
Futurama, current executive producer of
The Simspons Al Jean, along with Mike Reiss, created a short-lived animated series about a film critic who hated almost every film he ever saw.
Starring
Jon Lovitz in some brilliant voice work,
The Critic ran through two networks in two seasons. Like
Futurama and
Family Guy, it found some success with reruns on cable -- in this case, Comedy Central -- and a subsequent DVD release. But unlike those series,
The Critic remains but a distant memory.
Continue reading Gone Too Soon: The Critic
Posted Jul 14th 2009 7:21AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Nurse Jackie
(S01E06) "Nonsense. Nothing is better if I leave." - O'Hara to Nurse JackieCome on, people! I'm not getting much comment love on my
Nurse Jackie reviews. Is no one watching the show? Because I'm sort of loving it at this point.
Well, I guess it had to happen. It was a sure bet that we'd get a storyline where Jackie plays Dr. Kevorkian and helps a patient end their life. I have to think there's no way that crusty old Nurse Korsenowski would have done well in palliative care. Why not let her go out in dignity?
Jackie is all about breaking the rules for the good of the patient, but was this really for the good of the patient? I think it was, and the "do no harm" thing would have been if she
hadn't helped her die. It would have done more harm for her to go into hospice. Thoughts, please!
Continue reading Nurse Jackie: Tiny Bubbles
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