Heather Havrilesky

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • On bended knee

    Pro-marriage revivalists praise matrimony as the way and the light. But are they bowing to a false god?
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Meatmarket.com

    In the competitive world of online dating, singles brand themselves as sexy commodities. But what happens when the wrapping comes off?
  • 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.
  • Bye-bye, dancing baby

    Sure, she was scary-skinny and her skirts were too short. But don't blame the unfiltered neuroses of "Ally McBeal" for the crisis contemporary women (and men) face.
  • Every damn sports show at the same time

    It's news! It's chat! It's recipes and jewelry tips and bimbonics and fat-cheerleader jokes! Welcome to the frat-house hangout zone of "The Best Damn Sports Show, Period."
  • One ring to rule them all

    From post-"Bridget" fiction to ABC's frightening "The Bachelor," the wedding porn genre mates emasculated Mr. Rights with soulless, life-size Barbies.
  • My dinner with Jon

    Jon Favreau talks about "Dinner for Five," where Denis Leary eats with Famke Janssen, and Marilyn Manson terrorizes Daryl Hannah with stories about his amateur porn movies.
  • Herman Munster, rock god

    In MTV's smash hit "The Osbournes," George W.'s favorite Satan-worshiping metal maniac is just a frazzled, law-abiding dad.
  • Bad cop, worse cop

    On FX's "The Shield," a squinting sheriff with a loyal posse dispenses vigilante justice to the lawless and the overly tan: It's a cop show George Bush could love.
  • Stuffed bunnies, real sharks

    Fox's "Greg the Bunny" offers cheap, hilarious gags on the set of a fake PBS "edutainment." Can it survive the single-camera sitcom curse?
  • What's wrong with the Oscars?

    The speeches are boring, for starters. Why don't those stars think about me?
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