(whom? who?… ?) In the latest How I Met Your Mother casting news, Six Feet Under matriarch Francis Conroy has signed on to play the mother of the infamous Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris). The part was originally voiced off-camera by Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) in flashbacks that explained why Barney believes that Bob […]
If you’ve never been over to thewb.com, now is the time to check it out. The site is home to dozens of the greatest TV shows to ever grace the airwaves. It is not, however, a library of episodes. Some shows are available in chronological order, a handful at a time. Others appear thematically. FRIENDS, […]
This time it’s a couple that I didn’t even know knew each other. Elisabeth Moss (known to today’s audiences as Peggy on Mad Men but remembered fondly by me for her role as Zoe Bartlett on The West Wing) and Fred Armisen (the man behind SNL‘s Obama) recently announced their engagement. I’m trying to imagine […]
6 Actors Who Shone This Week Michael Urie (Ugly Betty), Joel Grey (Private Practice), Chandra Wilson (Grey’s Anatomy), Ana Ortiz (Ugly Betty), Jane Krakowski (30 Rock), Amy Brenneman (Private Practice). 5 Interesting Developments Violet is pregnant (Private Practice), Izzie is sick (Grey’s Anatomy), Suzuki is straight (Ugly Betty), Charlotte wants to get married (Private Practice), […]
Over the past 2 days I have watched 3 hours of Lost (the explanatory clip show and the 2 hour season premier) and as the minutes ticked past it became increasingly clear that I don’t care. While I understand why some people find the tiny details of this increasingly ludicrous mystery to be interesting, I no […]
After last season’s finale, in which (SPOILER ALERT) the show made pretty close to a shark-jumping move in having resident nerd/opera singer Zach turn out to be working for the season-long baddie, I wasn’t one of the people who proclaimed Bones dead. But then it came back from hiatus, and severely underwhelmed. The first few […]
After this week’s Privileged I’ve fallen in love with this song. Here to celebrate this love are Natalli and Vincent from So You Think You Can Dance Canada.
I realize I haven’t done a list of weekly obsessions in a while so this list goes back a bit. There have been so many really touching things on the big and small screens lately, ranging from the historic (my #1) to the artistic (the Oscar movies) to the randomly lovely (my #2). So this […]