Heather Havrilesky

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  • Giddyup, spaceman

    Buffy's creator gallops into outer space with "Firefly," taking the connection between sci-fi and westerns a little too literally.
    By Carina Chocano October 3, 2002

  • Family, work and literary vampirism

    This week's new TV sitcoms offer two dismal duds -- and a sly, bittersweet comedy about a dissipated writer who hits on his own daughter.
    By Carina Chocano September 30, 2002

  • Same old mish-"M*A*S*H"! Stat!

    On "MDs" and "Presidio Med," rogue, renegade and maverick doctors search for a cure for HMOs.
    By Carina Chocano September 26, 2002

  • Play it again, scam

    Crimes shown backward, heroes sent back to high school, and yet another trip to the '60s. This week's lame new TV shows prove a trip down Memory Lane can be a snooze.
    By Carina Chocano September 23, 2002

  • Fall's tube of plenty

    Saintly small-town doctors, Lynchian mysteries and repeating your teen years, twice: The new prime-time season lurches out of the gate this week.
    By Carina Chocano September 17, 2002

  • Sympathy for the misanthrope

    It would be easy to feel sorry for "Curb Your Enthusiasm's" Larry David -- if only he wasn't so damn unlikable.
    By Carina Chocano September 17, 2002

  • "Everything comes to an end"

    Money, drugs, psychiatry and rampant individualism threaten both of Tony's families as "The Sopranos" sounds an even darker, bleaker tone.
    By Carina Chocano September 16, 2002

  • The selling of 9/11

    We're buying schlock because we want to remember. But the more we stock up on canned memorabilia, the faster we'll forget.
    By Heather Havrilesky September 7, 2002

  • Arab-Americans, one year later

    A new PBS documentary delicately explores the lives of "100 percent American, 100 percent Arab" citizens, who find themselves permanent outsiders in a season of war.
    By Carina Chocano September 4, 2002

  • How to make an "American Idol"

    Fox's sadomasochistic battle of the power ballads mercifully ends tonight, but it's been a jaded recording executive's ultimate summer fantasy.
    By Carina Chocano September 4, 2002

  • The filth and the fury

    Conservative watchdogs at the Parents Television Council now have scientific proof: Sabrina is better for your kids than Buffy! And "Doc," starring Billy Ray Cyrus, is the best show on TV.
    By Carina Chocano August 29, 2002

  • When "Friends" meet the Lord

    All is not as it seems in "Contest Searchlight," Comedy Central's mockumentary series about the making of a bogus sitcom starring Peter Gallagher as Jesus. In chaps. In New York City.
    By Carina Chocano August 28, 2002

  • Greetings from Desperation, N.J.

    Armed with devastating performances from Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis and Gena Rowlands, director Mira Nair trains her sociologist's eye on the Garden State in HBO's "Hysterical Blindness."
    By Carina Chocano August 24, 2002

  • Stranger in a strange land

    Anna Nicole Smith is a parody of a blond bombshell in a parody of a TV show. Bloated, lonely and pathetic? Yes. The end of civilization? No.
    By Carina Chocano August 8, 2002

  • Heavy meta

    When the networks start gleefully indulging in self-referential, self-mocking camp, as in NBC's terrifying "The Rerun Show," is it about time? Or is it just time for an attitude adjustment?
    By Carina Chocano August 1, 2002

  • Meat market plunges to five-year low

    Shaken confidence, lower interest rates, slow recovery: A new season of "Sex and the City" explores the darker side of serial monogamy and finds it's a bear.
    By Carina Chocano July 25, 2002

  • CNN's breakout comedy hit

    Connie Chung's new talk show, a parade of pedophilia and murder fueled by inane kindergarten-teacher musings, is so flat-out weird it just might acquire a cult following.
    By Carina Chocano July 18, 2002

  • Watching the defective

    Tony Shalhoub plays a brilliant San Francisco detective (with a morbid fear of dairy products) in USA's agreeable old-school puzzler "Monk."
    By Carina Chocano July 11, 2002

  • Powerpuff Girls meet world

    Three kindergarten girls are here to save the day. Are they making the world safe for female heroes, or making female heroes safe for the world? Who cares.
    By Heather Havrilesky July 2, 2002

  • Cruel summer

    Amateur Whitney Houston covers! "Baywatch" babes turned low-rent spokesmodels! Obscene crank calls! If you found the prime-time season too taxing, summer TV is for you.
    By Carina Chocano June 27, 2002

  • On bended knee

    Pro-marriage revivalists praise matrimony as the way and the light. But are they bowing to a false god?
    By Heather Havrilesky June 24, 2002

  • Who wants to marry a regular person?

    In Michael Apted's sad, hopeful and deeply moving new documentary series on marriage in America," "I do" isn't a happy ending -- but rather an uncertain beginning.
    By Carina Chocano June 15, 2002

  • They care a lot

    The cops, firefighters and paramedics of ABC's reality series "Boston 24/7" are so inspiring, dedicated and hardworking it's ... weirdly depressing. Still, just try to switch it off.
    By Carina Chocano June 6, 2002

  • Meatmarket.com

    In the competitive world of online dating, singles brand themselves as sexy commodities. But what happens when the wrapping comes off?
    By Heather Havrilesky May 15, 2002

  • Thy tight buns are like a red, red rose

    Vicariously thrilling, coldly pragmatic and wildly popular, TV's new dating shows are the 21st century equivalent of medieval courtly love -- in a hot tub.
    By Carina Chocano May 9, 2002
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