ABC’s ‘9-1-1’ Shocks Fans with the Best Possible Twist

On April 14, 2024April 15, 2024 By Mark PerigardIn TVLeave a comment

Characters on long-running prime-time dramas rarely grow emotionally.

From the first episode to the last, they stand as the same.

Olivia Benson is still the depressed detective apprehending perps on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” Dr. Meredith Grey remains the same passionate life-saver that she was in the first season of “Grey’s Anatomy” as she is now in the 43rd season.

It’s part of the appeal of genre TV, what marks them as comfort food.

But the 100th episode of the first-responder show “9-1-1” earlier this month stunned viewers as it pulled on a string lingering for approximately five seasons, give or take, as firefighter Evan “Buck” Buckley (Oliver Stark) was kissed by a man.

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How Leonard Nimoy Saved ‘Star Trek: The Animated Series’ from Becoming One of the Greatest Debacles in TV History

On September 11, 2023September 11, 2023 By Mark PerigardIn TV2 Comments

On its 50th anniversary, “Star Trek: The Animated Series” is finally getting some well-deserved love.

For many years, the Saturday morning series that premiered Sept. 8, 1973, has often been disparaged, if not outright ignored.

And it almost was a mess that very well could have torpedoed “Star Trek” forever, were it not for star Leonard Nimoy.

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Forever Our Dark Knight

On November 12, 2022 By Mark PerigardIn TV2 Comments

Never meet your heroes.

You’re bound to be disappointed.

Isn’t that what we are told?

But years ago, while working for the Fishrag That Shall Not Be Named, I got the chance to interview Kevin Conroy.

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‘EastEnders’ Ballum Beats Everything on American TV

On October 29, 2022October 30, 2022 By Mark PerigardIn TVLeave a comment

American TV shows are rubbish when it comes to depicting gay relationships.

Take, for example, ABC’s “General Hospital.”

The long-running serial features a gay character who appears about once every two months to provide comic relief to his bestie.

The love of his life, his now ex-husband, a legacy character no less, has been working on another floor of the hospital and hasn’t been seen onscreen in two years.

Tokens and time-fillers. That pretty much sums up the wasteland of American TV.

Not so across the pond.

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