Let me save you the trouble: “Hey, you’re not Nathan Rabin.” In so many ways you are absolutely correct. Sadly, Nathan can’t be here for the finale this week as he’s attending the funeral of a... Read Comments: 0

In his review for Baby Mama, Anthony Lane argued that Tina Fey hasn’t yet figured out how to use her body for optimum humor, that she isn’t confident enough to go big and brassy like Bette Midler or...

As regular readers of this feature know, I’m usually quick on the draw getting this posts up within hours of the respective shows ending. Well, yesterday was totally birthday (happy belated birthday me!)...

When Liz’s on-again, off-again boyfriend The Beeper King was busted in a Dateline “To Catch A Predator” sting last season I was both amused and disappointed. I was amused because it was a pretty sweet gag and...

Well, my beautiful, beautiful TV babies, it appears that the vast eternity in purgatory that was the damnable writers strike of 2008, an event that will live in infamy as a million times worse than Pearl...

Well, my TV Club babies, tonight marked the triumphant return of 30 Rock and it couldn’t come a second too soon. I was fiending, yes fiending, for another fix of 30 Rock like a crackhead in rehab....

Well, my friends, it appears that this is finally the end. I could be wrong, and often am, but I think this is the last new 30 Rock of the season. Tonight’s episode was all about family. Jack Donaghy once again...

It is a testament to how far 30 Rock has come in a short amount of time that people don’t really associate it with Saturday Night Live anymore. Part of that has to do with quality and tone. 30...

Oh, but it fills me with profound despair to think that 30 Rock will lapse into reruns in just two short weeks. Because tonight's episode, "Cougars," was eight different shades of awesome. Thankfully an episode...

My friend Claire Zulkey recently commented how casually satirical 30 Rock can be, not in a “Aren’t we Important Artists who should be festooned with awards for our Bravery in Addressing Important Issues”...

A while back in a Newswire entry about the current writers strike, my colleague Sean O’Neal tried to preempt the inevitable “Dude, who fucking cares? Television blows monkey chunks anyway, you...

This year’s 30 Rock has so far followed a consistent pattern, with mildly disappointing episodes (key word “mildly”) followed by all-time classics. This week’s episode delivered an endless onslaught of...

This past week, I started watching my DVDs of Arrested Development again, in part to see if 30 Rock is as indebted to it as I’ve claimed, both in my review of the first season DVD and on this blog. I...

In last week’s T.V. Club blog, a reader expressed reservations about reviewing something as sprawling and relatively open-ended as a popular sitcom on an episode-by-episode basis. I share this reader’s...

It’s a measure of how high 30 Rock set the bar for itself in its first season that an episode full of funny dialogue, droll gags, Jerry Seinfeld, and amusing ideas can still qualify as a disappointment. The...