If you’re keeping up with the ratings, Craig Engler of Syfy’s Twitter feed, or just keeping up with TV news in general, you might have heard that Warehouse 13 is Syfy’s most watched show ever, dethroning former champion Stargate: Atlantis. It seems the folks at Syfy were right when they told me this show was […]
I’ve spent all summer looking into how different shows deal with their MacGuffins. Some shows choose to have each season deal with a unique mystery, other shows have one huge mystery that spans the entire run of the program. Then there are shows like Lost that seem to introduce a new MacGuffin in every episode, […]
I was as excited as anyone about Fringe at the start of last season. My hopes were really high for the show, but after five or six episodes it became pretty evident that the show just wasn’t for me. I’ve never been a big fan of procedurals, and the format of Fringe was too case-of-the-week […]
I know — I still haven’t watched all of Veronica Mars yet. I still have a little over half the final season to see before I graduate from being a Veronica Mars virgin. However, I think I can still talk about how the show handled their mysteries and MacGuffins. The writers employed a very interesting model, […]
As I wind down my summer series of looking at how different shows deal with their MacGuffins, I want to talk about Desperate Housewives. I have to start by disclosing an important bit of information: I only watched the first two seasons of Desperate Housewives, so I can’t really comment on the latest few seasons. […]
So you had to figure that sooner or later I was going to bring Lost into my summer long discussion about MacGuffins, mysteries, and storylines, right? After all, I’m a little obsessed. Beyond my own fascination with the show, however, it is a perfect program to look at when talking about MacGuffins — after all, […]
The impetus behind this whole summer series for me was the final season of Battlestar Galactica. Now cut me some slack here. This article is going to make me come off as a hater, but I really did love the series. I enjoyed the final season, even though I thought the show really lost its […]
