Discovery channel lives up to its name – you do indeed discover things there, sometimes maybe more than you’d like. Want to see naked people struggling to survive in the woods in “Naked & Afraid”? A pig tongue frozen to a pole on “Mythbusters”? Sensational unscripted programming has served Discovery well. “Naked & Afraid” and […]

My first obsession with TBS came because I didn’t have HBO. In the early 2000’s, “Sex and the City” was all the rage. But those of us without HBO had to just do without — that is until it was announced that TBS would be airing it in syndication. Sadly, being on TBS meant its […]

I loved it when we cut the cord. However, if there’s something I sometimes miss from our time with cable, it’s knowing you are part of a community all watching shows together. For years watching the “25 Days of Christmas” on the ABC Family channel was how our family got festive, joining in with every […]

Back when I was in college, USA Network seemed to have a monopoly on delightfully quirky detective shows like Psych and Monk. Recently they had me reaching for Psych’s signature pineapple snack again when they revived the show for a holiday movie. However, today,  I no longer have cable. Fortunately, there are many other ways […]

Karen Beck is a freelance writer, friend, and aficionado of science fiction and dystopian books and television. You can Follow @Karenofnine on Twitter Ever watch the 1980s classic “Back to the Future” and thought to yourself, “if only this had a dollop of nihilism and much more talk of boobs?” Evidently, many, many people have, since the Cartoon Network’s “Rick […]