Episodist

Thirteen seasons and ten years in, Top Chef has lost quite a bit of its luster.  Like all competitive reality shows that last long enough, i...

This is going to be a little more personal than most of what I write here. As a teenager, I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a ...

I try not to get into the utilitarian questions of whether a show is good or bad here -- generally, if I'm following a show past its fir...

Can TV do criticism?  My immediate answer would be yes -- there's been a long history of TV wisemen from the robots of Mystery Science T...

In popular memory, sports break down to fleeting moments -- the brilliant goal, the pennant-winning home run, the career-ending knockout.  T...

Whereas most reality shows take glee in rolling around in cultural trash, Top Chef has aspirations (some would say pretensions) of being cla...

In my last post, I talked about how network TV shows have their creative direction constantly affected by the network's ability to c...