Middle (The)

TV Watch: Seasonal notes -- "Better Call Saul," "The Middle," and of course "Mad Men"

It's the birth of the "real" Mike! (Foolish as those other guys are made to look, I'll bet the actors were thrilled to be doing a scene with Jonathan Banks.) In this corner, the next-to-last episode of Season 1 of Better Call Saul registered as a "wow!"by KenThere's been an inordinate amount of crap to wade through on the TV scene, but also some oases. This includes a number that probably deserve -- and may yet get -- individual attention, but which I didn't want to go uncelebrated.WASN'T THAT AN AWESOME BETTER CALL SAUL?"You're not a real lawyer," Chuck McGill says to brother Jimmy.

What is there not to hate about Halloween?

About a Boy's Fiona (Minnie Driver), Marcus(Benjamin Stockham), and Will (David Walton)by KenYou're probably thinking this is going to be one of those spoilsport anti-Halloween diatribes. And it's true that when a friend mentioned on the phone this afternoon that he might be venturing out this evening for the parade (meaning, of course, the world-famous Greenwich Village Halloween Parade), I didn't know what to say.