With the writer's strike dragging on indefinitely and a lot of our favorite shows going into hiatus, I've taken the time to go back and give a look at some of the shows that I might have missed during the first airing. One of these is Moonlight ...

They say that in Texas, “he needed killing” is a viable defense ...

My Moonlight-watching friends tell me that the show hits its stride in the third episode and just keeps getting better. So I went into episode 1.03, "Dr. Feelgood," with high expectations. I'm happy to say that the show delivered on several levels.

Lonely hearts, you might want to read this. You aren't the only ones with relationship problems.  Vampire detective Mick St. John has a few of his own.  And while the shelves of the local Barnes and Noble are crowded with vampire romance novels, the reality of being a vampire in love sucks.

You could say that Heavener Oklahoma is off the beaten path. The town, which sits nestled under the Poteau Mountain, is a little out of my cell phone range. So risking breakdown without the help of Triple A feels like an adventure. But if I feel a little lost in the wilds of Oklahoma, how much more lost would the Vikings have been if they had indeed settled here?

One of the things that I like most about Moonlight is the way that the show consistently takes on television stereotypes and turns them on their ear.The vampires don't wear leather or goth makeup, and in episode 3.05, Arrested Development, the teenagers don't look like they've just escaped from the set of Smallville.

This is a ghost story. Kind of. It's also a cautionary tale: be careful who you argue with in life, because the results can come back to haunt you.

Let's say for the sake of argument, Satan got married. (Personally, I always thought of Old Scratch as a harem-type of guy, but I suppose it could happen.)

And let's also say that The Darkness family (as in Prince Of) had a child. But unlike his more famous half-brother, The Jersey Devil, little Lucifer Jr. and mom didn't survive the delivery.

The question is, where would The Devil bury his family? (Assuming he cared.) According to several generations of Kansas University college students, that place would be Stull cemetery.

I've been waiting since episode 2 of Moonlight to get some believable reason for Mick and Beth to love each other.

It's not that I didn't believe it. I just like my romantic flights of fancy to have a sturdy underpinning, and so far all I've gotten are longing looks and anvils that Mick and Beth are FATED! But Episode 2.06, “B.C.” changed that.

It sounds like the premise of a bad Fox Network Special: A large creature springs out of the woods, attacking local farmers before melting back into the underbrush, disappearing until its next attack.

But this isn't some shameless grab for ratings by a major network. Instead, the animal attacks occurred over a series of four years in rural, eighteenth century France. Before they would end, la Bête du Gévaudan, or the beast of Gévaudan (an area near present day Lozère) would grab the attention of all of Europe.