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Following up on the heels of our kick-ass Gossip Girl giveaway, we’ve got copy of The 4400: The Complete Series burning a hole in our pockets (it’s a good thing Sara always wears parachute pants, otherwise it wouldn’t fit).

I don’t want to let all these giveaways go to my head, but we are very powerful, influential bloggers at TiFaux. Next week? A gilded copy of Designing Women: Season One, anointed with the blood of Delta Burke herself.

For now, though, there’s The 4400. It just came out on on DVD — all 15 discs of it. John has described it to me as a bit of a precursor to Heroes.

Here’s the premise: Over the past century, 4400 people have gone missing. Suddenly, they all re-appear in the same place in the present day, looking like they had just turn up from the sock hop or speakeasy or Whitesnake concert they disappeared from.

Somehow, the government gets involved and then people with guns start wandering around (see picture). I hope that’s not a spoiler.

Side note: I feel like the guy in this picture has some real basic cable hair.

In any case, if you’d like to win the complete effing series, shoot us an e-mail at tifaux -at- gmail -dot- com with the subject line “TiFaux is my dealer.”

Marisa addressed the more interesting points of the new Christian Slater series My Own Worst Enemy a while ago, but after the second episode I’ve got some loose observations left to make.

On the whole though, it’s a decent thriller made ‘pretty good’ by my low expectations. Those low expectations are the result of the fact that the superhero-by-night, PTA-parent by night genre is well-trod territory.

My concerns:

• Is Alfre Woodard slumming it? She’s one of those actors who always seem to lend dignity to whatever show she’s in, thereby elevating her scenes in My Own Worst Enemy (she plays the steely intelligence officer who keeps Edward on track and Henry under control). I’m sure she could lend gravitas to anything — even pre-destined duds like Gary Unmarried. However, she did star in that one season of Desperate Housewives…
• The thing that made me happiest in the series’ pilot was the moment when Henry was walking around the building after being freed from the Russian terrorists. He was walking around amid gunfire and then someone got shot, spraying blood all over his face. In that moment, I knew that this wasn’t going to be Medium — meaning we’re not going to have to endure precocious breakfast banter with ridiculous children. We weren’t necessarily going to have to be burdened with plot lines about the kids standing up to bullies at school or being nervous about a school play. Children are what ruin shows like this.
• This show is much darker than I ever would have expected (not that it can’t get darker — a choice I wouldn’t frown upon). I’d like to see more characters, more Mission Impossible-style intrigue and, yes, more gunplay.
• Remember that song by Lit called My Own Worst Enemy that they played for an entire summer? Thank God we don’t need the radio anymore.

How better to gear up for the US presidential election than with a West Wing quiz? (BuzzSugar)

This week, Sandie shared an interview with Daniel Gerroll from The Starter Wife (Daemon’s TV)

The return of Roy (ok really David Denman) on The Office made GMMR very happy. As did Kristin Chenoweth’s gut busting prank on Ellen (Give Me My Remote)

Disappointed by the lack of a good directory of online web series, Rae wants to know what you’re web series you’re watching. (RTVW)

Ladies and gentlemen, the easiest review ever in the history of the world: Black Ice by AC/DC. (Scooter McGavin’s 9th Green)

Vance is totally sweet on the Top 16 dancers on So You Think You Can Dance Canada. Plus appearances by Benji Schwimmer and High School Musical director Kenny Ortega! (Tapeworthy)

This week, Jace once again fell under the spell of Pushing Daisies and its goose down goodness, but wishes that more people were actually tuning in to watch this winsome series before it gets prematurely culled by ABC. (Televisionary)

Not watching Friday Night Lights so far this season? Well, Sara has a bit of a recap for all you stragglers. (TiFaux)

Coming to you all the way from foggy ol’ London town, Ben and Gareth dip their bread soldiers into the hard-boiled Curate’s egg that is Heroes, only, again, to find they are left with more questions than answers. (TV Spy)

The TV Addict took a closer look at Simon Baker and THE MENTALIST (The TV Addict)

Even Tim Gunn has gotten in on the anti-Prop 8 action.  I especially like his little fist wave at the end.

Warms my heart.

Just in time for most of us to have completely forgotten what happened at the end of the last season of Lost, ABC has released a trailer for season five.

What’s to come?

• Jack with an unattractive beard and a sweaty glisten.
• A tiny tow-headed Aaron who kind of sounds like one of those creepy horror movie children — the ones that say innocent things in pure voices to offset the spookiness (think Poltergeist, The Ring).
• Sun and Hurley looking stressed out.
• Ben.  Being bug-eyed and creepy.

You know what’s better than paying for things? Getting them for free.

As such, we have more swag to give away.

This time it’s the sixth volume of DVDs from The Family Guy, which contains episodes from the show’s fifth and sixth seasons. Including, it seems, the episode where Stewie kills Lois.

Here’s how that went down.

If you think you’d like to own this, send us an e-mail at tifaux -at- gmail -dot- com with the subject line “Focus on the Family.”

Whatever you say about Matt and Kim, you can’t say they don’t have enthusiasm.

The Brooklyn duo — who are boyfriend and girlfriend — are not only known for their punky pop, but for their perma-smiles — smiles so broad that their faces seem like they could snap off and fly across the room at any moment.

The band’s debut incorporated a minimal set-up of drums (played by Kim) as well as vocals and keyboard (from Matt). The comparison’s easy, but they came across as a scrappy, slightly less cutesy Mates of State. What the band lacked in MoS’s syrupy melodies and harmonies, they made up for in energy and enthusiasm (hell, their first single was called “Yeah Yeah”).

Their new video, for the song “Daylight,” shows that they’ve spent a little more money in the studio and a bit more time developing their sound. I like the clickety-clack rhythm and bouncy melody. If everything on their next album is as fully-realized as this song, their second album should be an exciting step in a more sophisticated direction.

It’s only been a couple days since the episode aired and I’m sure everyone’s sick of talking about Sarah Palin and her appearance on SNL. But I still feel the need to do a bit of hand wringing on the idea that she was allowed on the show to begin with.

There seems to be some sort of duty to fairness at SNL wherein it’s assumed that politicians from each side of the political aisle are entitled to an equal amount of cameos on the show. However, I would posit that SNL doesn’t necessarily need impress anyone with its even-handedness this close to the election.

I can’t imagine any fewer than 90 percent of the people working on SNL are anything but flaming liberals — liberals who flame hotter and brighter than all of the joints Andy Samberg has ever smoked. Very few people on that set probably plan to vote for last week’s guest star.

If I were running SNL, I really don’t know if I’d be able to invite someone like Sarah Palin onto the show this close to the election. The idea that I would give exposure and (most likely) positive attention to the woman who could (through a series of two specific disasters — a McCain victory and subsequent death) become president of the United States.

If anything, Palin’s experience on the show made her even more likable. As we’ve seen over the past several weeks, likability is her biggest asset. After all, the fair Alaska governor is basically just a really nice lady whose ascendancy to the presidency would probably dwarf the disasters called for in the Book of Revelations. So, SNL basically did her a big PR favor — even if they plan on writing an amazing sketch for Barack Obama right before the election.

Let me put it this way — I think the tension during the episode was most palpable during the Alec Baldwin segment. If we know two things about Alec Baldwin, it’s that he’s a tremendously gifted comic actor and that he is also a heaving mass of barely suppressed rage. During that moment where he said “that horrible woman,” everyone in the viewing audience (or, well, at least me) was holding their breath or nervously guffawing through a slackened jaw. We know that he actually meant it, even if he could pretend it was just a gag that was written for him.

The tension was clear.

SNL made a decision to play for ratings and comedic opportunity over partisan politics. I know that if you only pillory politicians from one side of the aisle you risk alienating half of your audience and, worse yet, losing relevance due to the perception that the show is merely satirical porn for the left wing (Despite its clear liberal bias, The Daily Show has guests from all political leanings and Jon Stewart asks them all real questions — that is a testament to the long-term success of his show and his credibility as a source of real answers.). While that may be plenty fair, I don’t know if I could stomach making the same decision.

Anyway, I don’t want to try to make an official declaration of whether or not having Sarah Palin on was morally right or wrong. In fact, if I had a thesis to this entire blog post it would probably merely be: “yeesh” followed by the sound of me sucking air through my teeth.

In further hippie liberal news, the gang from Gossip Girl are now getting in on the political scene — doing a spot for MoveOn.org — that organization you deleted a lot of e-mails for in 2004.