Auteur Watch - Dennis Haysbert

When you've worked with a long string of hacks like Michael Mann, Jonathan Kaplan and Lewis Teague... ugh... one can't help but think to themselves, man!  I should become a director!  For Dennis Haysbert, however, he's clearly opted to just live with the pain.  Having tried directing only once, and that was for a show he was already on, well... not terribly adventurous, is it?  But a 7.7 rating, as of this writing, that's... pretty good, right?  They don't yet have TV rankings by a single episode, but that's coming.  A few SQL statements in the right place on the server side, some JavaScript on the website side... some nerds could stand to make a few more millions off that, no?  Or we could just rely on good old fashioned wetware memories?  What are the greatest TV moments in a single episode?  Who shot J.R., Ellen coming out of the closet, Newhart waking up from his eight season fever dream, Alan Alda crying on "M*A*S*H", the last episode of "Breaking Bad," what have you... nope, sorry, an episode of "The Unit" will probably fall down into that obscure middle ground where nothing escapes.  As for the worst television moments... so many things to Google (TM) (R) (C), so little time.  Here's a web page, but... it seems to be just some terrible things in regular history, not TV history.  Let's try to FOCUS here, people!  Speaking of which...