Heather Havrilesky

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  • 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.
    By Carina Chocano May 2, 2002

  • 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."
    By Carina Chocano April 25, 2002

  • 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.
    By Heather Havrilesky April 25, 2002

  • 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.
    By Carina Chocano April 18, 2002

  • 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.
    By Carina Chocano April 11, 2002

  • 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.
    By Carina Chocano April 4, 2002

  • 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?
    By Carina Chocano March 28, 2002

  • What's wrong with the Oscars?

    The speeches are boring, for starters. Why don't those stars think about me?
    By Heather Havrilesky March 22, 2002

  • Lights! Camera! Liposuction!

    How TLC's tear-jerking ultra-reality shows, in which ordinary folks give birth, go on blind dates and undergo cosmetic dentistry, became the hottest thing on daytime cable.
    By Carina Chocano March 21, 2002

  • True-life lies

    NBC's "The Matthew Shepard Story" and HBO's "Con Man" try to capture the tragic lives of two very different college students using tried-and-true TV formulas.
    By Carina Chocano March 14, 2002

  • The naked and the dead

    "Six Feet Under," Alan Ball's mordant, metaphysical and deeply humane soap opera, may just be the best show on TV.
    By Carina Chocano March 9, 2002

  • A "Friends"-shaped hole

    Sure, they're back for one more year, but -- I never thought I'd say this -- I'll miss them when they're gone.
    By Carina Chocano February 21, 2002

  • News you can abuse

    "Primetime Glick" and "The Daily Show" prove you can even parody the gruesome self-parody that is entertainment journalism.
    By Carina Chocano February 14, 2002

  • Beat me! Shock me!

    Make me remember Taco Bell commercials! Two new shows torture contestants -- and the audience -- in unique ways.
    By Carina Chocano January 31, 2002

  • Men behaving oddly

    "The Other Half" does nothing to quell the Oprah-ization of TV. "The Man Show" simply runs it over with a manly power mower.
    By Carina Chocano January 24, 2002

  • All my brethren

    On CBS's unintentionally hilarious Supreme Court drama "First Monday," the nation's young and restless high court is a guiding light for the bold and the beautiful as the world turns.
    By Carina Chocano January 17, 2002

  • Prisoners of sex, prisoners of the state

    In "Sex and the City" and "Oz," environment trumps nature and nurture.
    By Carina Chocano January 10, 2002

  • MTV wants you!

    In times of war, the counterculture halts at the water's edge!
    By Carina Chocano January 3, 2002

  • What I learned about Christmas

    Everybody hates it, and other lessons from "The Simpsons," "Ally McBeal," "Alias," "Raymond" and "Malcolm."
    By Carina Chocano December 20, 2001

  • Crappy shows, you face "The Tick"!

    One dumb superhero dons the oven mitts of all that's right and strangles the red-hot throat of all that's wrong.
    By Carina Chocano December 13, 2001

  • Anatomy of a disaster

    In "Project Greenlight," Ben (Affleck) and Matt (Damon) spark an HBO documentary series that watches a chump get his chance at the big time.
    By Carina Chocano December 6, 2001

  • Tough questions for underwear models

    Dumb, beautiful women duke it out for charity on "Millionaire." Plus: Being Mick Jagger.
    By Carina Chocano November 29, 2001

  • The return of "Absolutely Fabulous"

    Edina and Patsy, living casualties of the '60s, face life in a post-millennium, "Sex and the City" world.
    By Carina Chocano November 15, 2001

  • Hugh Hefner, the Emmys and the breathless "24"

    At Hef's roast, Comedy Central bleeps every other word; Ellen DeGeneres does her best on the pointless Emmys; and "24" rocks hard.
    By Carina Chocano November 7, 2001

  • Michael Jackson scares me!

    The wacked-out singer has a Halloween special that's a fright, but not the way he intended. Plus: Emeril loses 10 pounds of scary fat and, on MTV, a crazed fan is allowed to run amok, Mandy Moore style.
    By Carina Chocano October 31, 2001
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