Television

Television 

“Seinfeld” and The Pantheon of Legendary One-Off Characters

May 14, 2020May 15, 2020 Gowdy Cannon 7 Comments Characters, Frank Costanza, James Spader, Seinfeld

You Only Need One Scene To Become A Legend

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Television Theology 

Seeing Jesus Again for the First Time: A Review of “The Chosen”

May 12, 2020May 16, 2020 Phill Lytle 12 Comments Dallas Jenkins, Gospel, Jesus, The Chosen

God works in mysterious ways, even through a television series.

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Film Television The Five 

There Goes My Hero: Five of My Favorite Non-Conventional Heroes

October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 Phill Lytle 1 Comment Bob Newby, Gravity, Jack Lamb, Lucy, Richard White, Ryan Stone, Stranger Things, Super 8, Superman Returns, The Lion, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Witch

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Here are five of my favorite non-conventional heroes.

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Television The Five 

Our Favorite Lost Moments

September 21, 2019September 25, 2019 Ben Plunkett, Michael Lytle, Phill Lytle and Gowdy Cannon 0 Comments Charlie Pace, Dharma, Dominic Monaghan, Flashback, Flashforward, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, J.J. Abrams, Jack Shephard, James "Sawyer" Ford, Jin-Soo Kwon, Lost, The Lord of the Rings

The REO staff discusses some of their favorite moments and aspects of the show.

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Television Top Ten 

The Top Ten Characters of Lost

September 18, 2019September 23, 2019 Gowdy Cannon, Ben Plunkett, Michael Lytle, Brandon Atwood and Phill Lytle 2 Comments Benjamin Linus, Boone Carlyle, Charlie Pace, Desmond Hume, Dominic Monaghan, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, Jack Shephard, Jacob, James "Sawyer" Ford, Jin-Soo Kwon, John Locke, Lost, Matthew Fox, Michael Emerson, Penelope "Penny" Hume (née Widmore), Sayid Jarrah, Shannon Rutherford, Sun-Hwa Kwon, Terry O'Quinn, The Others

These are the best characters on Lost.

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Television 

Sawyer and the Nicknames

September 16, 2019September 23, 2019 Gowdy Cannon 2 Comments Alexandra "Alex" Rousseau, Benjamin Linus, Bernard Nadler, Charlie Pace, Daniel Faraday, Frank Lapidus, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, Jack Shephard, James "Sawyer" Ford, Jin-Soo Kwon, John Locke, Karl Martin, Katherine Anne "Kate" Austin, Lost, Nicknames, Paulo, Richard Alpert, Roger Linus, Sayid Jarrah, Sun-Hwa Kwon, Walter "Walt" Lloyd

What’s in a Nickname? So much TV lore.

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Television The Arts The Five 

Five Television Series Finales We Loved

May 24, 2019August 7, 2019 Ben Plunkett, Gowdy Cannon, Nathan Patton, D.A. Speer and Phill Lytle 8 Comments Battlestar Galactica, Chuck, Finales, Firefly, Lost, Television Series Finale, Twin Peaks

These five finales did not disappoint our writers.

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Television The Arts 

A Seinfeld Fan Gives Friends Its Due

May 6, 2019August 7, 2019 Gowdy Cannon 5 Comments Friends, Seinfeld

The last 15 years have been good for this show.

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Film Television The Arts The Five 

Five of Our Favorite “Mad Scientists” From Film and Television

March 1, 2019August 7, 2019 Phill Lytle, Ben Plunkett and Gowdy Cannon 4 Comments Back to the Future, Characters, Christopher Lloyd, Cloris Leachman, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Doc Brown, Doc Heller, Doctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Flint Lockwood, Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein, Gene Wilder, Mad Scientist, Mel Brooks, Mystery Men, Phineas and Ferb, Teri Garr, Young Frankenstein

“Alive! It’s alive! It’s alive!” Five mad scientists we love.

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Music Television The Five 

Five Amazing Songs I First Heard On TV Episodes

February 8, 2019August 7, 2019 Gowdy Cannon 15 Comments Alanis Morissette, Aqualung, Augustana, Band of Horses, Chuck, House M.D., Lie to Me, Nico Stai, Psych, Scrubs

When popular music and incredible TV collide.

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