Content Shifter: Nine Back-to-School TV Series
By Bill Frost [Posted September 6, 2018]
The back-to-school time of year is special to people—not me but, you know, other people. The kind of people who still have high-school graduation tassels hanging from their rearview mirrors, or still refer to their college ball teams as “we” and “us,” or whine incessantly about still-not-paid-off student loans. … read more
Content Shifter: 8 TV Series from Oh! Canada
By Bill Frost [Posted August 3, 2018]
We all have friends—mostly on Facebook, the whiniest of all social-media platforms—who have been threatening to “move to Canada!” for almost two years now. They haven’t, they won’t, and they’re certainly not going to shut up aboot it. Too bad, because Canada has far more to offer than brutal hockey, legal weed and free healthcare: … read more
Content Shifter: 9 Apocalyptic TV Series
By Bill Frost [Posted July 3, 2018]
Are we living in the end times? Yeah, probably—what are you going to do about it? Better to just binge some apocalypse-centric TV shows while waiting for the end of civilization—and there are plenty to choose from. … read more
Content Shifter: 11 Adult Swim Shows You (Probably) Don’t Know
By Bill Frost [Posted May 31, 2018]
Adult Swim, the overnight alter-ego of the Cartoon Network, has been derided as an outlet of stupid and borderline-satanic TV content for stoners and insomniacs since it launched in 2001 … at around 11 p.m. and nine days before 9/11, conspiracy theorists. … read more
Content Shifter: 13 One-Season-and-Done TV Series
By Bill Frost [Posted May 3, 2018]
Beware the Ides of May! For those of you not hip to the inner workings of the TV biz, May marks the end of the traditional television season, when networks start cancelling underperforming series. In other words, they’re gonna fucking kill your favorite show! … read more
Content Shifter: 14 Fixes for Friends Fans
By Bill Frost [Posted April 5, 2018]
But where to go once you’ve binge-watched all 236 Friends episodes? Here are 14(-ish) shows starring The Artists Formerly Known as Monica, Joey, Phoebe, Chandler, Ross and Rachel outside of Central Perk (sorry, no Gunther) … read more
Content Shifter: 8 Series to Scratch Your Buffy the Vampire Itch
By Bill Frost [Posted March 2, 2018]
Even though it premiered 21 years ago this month on The WB—it was The CW of ancient days, kids—the influence of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on TV is nearly as inescapable as that of Black Sabbath on stoner metal. … read more
Content Shifter
By Bill Frost [Posted February 1, 2018]
Love is in the air—unless that’s something else slowly choking the life out of you. February is the month of Valentine’s Day, so what else to recommend but some series in the rom-com category? I mean, we all know how fucking touchy Presidents’ Day is anymore. … read more
Content Shifter: 8 (Serial) Killer TV Series
By Bill Frost [Posted January 4, 2018]
People can’t get enough of serial killers—books, podcasts, and, of course, TV series. Here are eight of the best currently available in the streamverse. … read more