Hello all. I’ve long had an interest in television, and in fact wrote a weekly column about it, “On TV with Mike Thompson,” my junior and senior years at Marist College. I’ve continued blogging about it off and on since I graduated five years ago, and intend to blog about it more regularly, so I’ve decided to just put all my TV-related thoughts here. For now, most of the entries are from my Marist column, but that should change in the future. Also, all the entries are back-dated, to reflect the time they first appeared, be it on my personal blog or in The Circle (the Marist College newspaper). It should be noted most of the dates for the “On TV” columns are approximate. I don’t have every issue of The Circle from that time.
And there’s no revisionist history here either. The blog entries and Circle columns are as they first appeared. For example, in an early 2000 column about Freaks and Geeks I misidentified the characters as Lindsay and Sam Beir. In fact, it is Weir. And any bad writing of mine from my college days is left alone, as well as any baffling opinions I might have had back then. (It’s hard to believe I ever thought The King of Queens was a good show.) Anyway, enjoy my previous TV thoughts, and rest assured new ones are around the corner.
Tags: Freaks and Geeks, Marist College, The Circle
