This week’s episode of How I Met Your Mother, Subway Wars, provided a refresher course in just why I love this show. Here’s the play by play: * The way the characters’ relationships to each other are so subtly enforced, even in episode’s not explicitly about them (my evidence: the fact that every time Robin’s […]
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There are hundreds of reasons to love Queen Latifah. Tons and tons of them. I love everything she does, she’s just so cool! The newest reason? This week’s 30 Rock. The clever-as-hell episode tackled diversity in the workplace on both sides of the issue and didn’t skimp on the always-funny punches at NBC. A political […]
There are many things I love about having One Tree Hill back for at least 13 episodes, even if that might be all it gets (though if I had my way the show would go on forever). I love it’s self-aware irony (Jamie refusing to let Chase pick him up from the park because he […]
Sometimes I think I see sexism in movies where there isn’t any. I think that I am oversensitive when I whine about the portrayal of women in Hancock, or the dearth of legitimate female friendships, or the double standard represented by the MPAA’s recent decision to categorize “male nudity” as separate from “nudity,” while […]
It’s rare that I post about a show before finishing the episode. It’s rarer still that I post about Glee, since I mostly like it, don’t love it, and let it wash over me in a musically induced coma. But while Kelly’s early review focused on the emotional arch of the most recent, and […]
Earlier this year my father bought Life Magazine’s “100 People Who Changed the World”. I read the thing cover to cover. There were tons of omissions, none quite so confounding to me as Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. My dad didn’t understand why I insisted that the 26-year-old billionaire should be on the list, […]
If Glee would just throw out the ridiculous obsession with weekly themes and let the characters go through what they’re going through it could be an incredibly touching show. This week’s theme was preachy and strange, but this week’s story was really pretty great. Mike O’Malley, the show’s best supporting cast asset, brought back the […]
Young Adult novels are like catnip for me. I eat them up like they’re about to disappear, and during the process I sink inside of them and stretch out like I’m meant to live there. Because of this, I read A LOT of young adult fiction, and even the worst of it tends to hold […]