They could have ended this series with the first season.  Much like finding out "who killed Laura Palmer" effectively killed off Twin Peaks, this series lacks any cliffhangers precarious enough for the protagonists to skin themselves on.  We're just following the lives of people around the neighborhood, and I can do that already with a pair of binoculars and my parabolic microphone.

You know, I had it in for this show after seeing the (still) superior BBC version, but the show is excellently crafted; it just has a lot to live up to for me.  I will admit to a huge crush on Pam though, even though she's completely wrong for me.

If you are the type to come away from those kinds of subtle artsy flicks with a negative reaction due to your inability to form an opinion, then you definitely need to see more movies like this.

As creative as the visuals are, the puppets aren't nearly as funny as the candid audio of people getting jerked around.  Or maybe I'm just a sadist with an over-developed sense of humor?  This stuff never gets old for me.

Not as bland as I expected after having read the book and seen the ending retrodden by every news magazine expo on the vercity of the supposed big secret (that everyone who works within a mile of a water cooler already knows by now).  Still, if you have an IQ above 70, you can find a better way to spend a couple hours.

The entire cast of the show is fast-talking, with the title characters being the wittiest, most sarcastic girls in town, forever making Dennis Miller-level references over everyone's head.  The plotlines are very ordinary (should she break up with goodie-goodie Dean to go out with bad-boy Jess?), but the dialogue is always funny.  Still, the best episodes for me are the ones where the mom wears jeans.

Why does the "invasion" have to happen sooooo sloooooowly?

I never saw the original.  This was basically a glossier version of any of the Friday the 13th series.  It was a series of people I never cared about getting killed in various ways.  Pretty much like how any reality show would be if I was allowed to run it.  I want the cast of Survivor to really earn that mantle.

Variously described by fans and critics as the ultimate car chase movie, this is, in fact, the ultimate car chase movie.  Seriously, that's the entire movie.  A car chase.  I can't break this down any simpler.  If I go any slower, the police will catch me.  Check it out, if only for the great scenes of the hot hippy chick nude on the motobike.  Oh, that got your attention, did it?

The show still hadn't found its stride in these early episodes, but it's been so long since I saw them that it's like looking at a gawky stage you went through in your old photo albums and somehow still feeling nostalgic for it.

I liked this one a lot... up until the third act.  They obviously didn't know how to end a movie with so much going on, which is a shame because half the fun of a film with so many interwoven threads is to tie the audience up and have your way with them.  I got loose before the climax.  Don't you hate it when that happens?

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