Everybody’s Kung-Fu Fighting By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2007 by Sarah Stegall Chuck NBC, Mondays, 8/7 E/C “Chuck vs. The Sizzling Shrimp” Written by Scott Rosenbaum Directed by David Solomon There is a reason that ancient critics of theatre like Aristotle divided the art into comedy and tragedy (or what we would call drama today); it’s hard to mix the two approaches effectively. Either the comedy trivializes the drama or the drama flattens the comedy. Prime-time television is experimenting with “dramedy” these days, and I’m all in favor of pushing the artistic envelope, but the key is getting the balance…
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Dark Angel: “Blah Blah Woof Woof”
Family Values by Sarah Stegall Series: Dark Angel Episode: Blah Blah Woof Woof Writer: Moira Kirkland Dekker Director: Paul Shapiro Airdate: December 12, 2000 Interesting, that in an America legendary for its rootlessness and fragmentation, the driving force behind so many contemporary SF dramas is the search for family. Why does high-tech so often go hand in hand with high-touch? Edgy, ensemble work like “NYPD Blue” or “Law and Order” do not succumb to the siren song of high soap opera nearly as often as the more cerebral, white-collar fare offered to science fiction fans. Yet from “Andromeda” to “The…