On a show as meta as Community, the season finale was bound to be semi-tongue-in-cheek dramatic. So in theory I shouldn’t have minded when all the romantic drama usurped what was otherwise an episode about dalmatian fetishes and John Oliver’s penis. But I did. The season finale was probably my least favorite episode of […]
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This week on 30 Rock, perennially single gal Liz Lemon met the perfect man. And as we’ve all known since way before he first figured out “it’s not [his] fault” thanks to Robin Williams , the perfect man is Matt Damon. This is guest casting at its finest, like Brad Pitt playing the charter […]
In a season that was often uneven, and that came after a season that was so over-the-top gimmicky that its emotional epiphanies often felted tainted by the ridiculousness, Bones actually somehow managed to make a re-believer out of me. It felt like, especially in the second half of the season, the show was aiming to […]
That man. The one who put me on edge for 2 straight hours tonight. The guy, with the mustache and the barely human instincts. That person who threatened the life of so many characters I care about, filled the screen with cold hatred and spilled more blood than I’d seen in entire seasons of Grey’s […]
Maybe it’s the rosy Joss Whedon glow (and I need to go back to watch previous episodes to tell if the directing really was that much better this episode, or if I was just more inclined to notice it), but I kind of loved this week’s Glee. I think this was the show I was […]
This week’s Glee sucked. I don’t know why I had myself convinced that it wouldn’t. Well, no, it’s easy to understand how I did that: Joss Whedon directing Neil Patrick Harris and Idina Menzel… that’s all kinds of good. But TV is a writerly medium. A brilliant director cannot rescue a terrible script, neither can […]
I was so ready to post a happy happy article about tonight’s One Tree Hill finale. I was planning a tribute to my favourite cheesy quotes of the episode (“It’s just a hill, we’ll climb it together” and “the best part of the movie is when you get a sense that they’re all going to […]
And what does Mr. Romantic deserve as the perfect accompaniment to his grand gesture of the week (in some wonderfully timed, self-referential scenes)? A little Love Actually of course. In this week’s romantic comedy-skewering yet still knowingly cheesy How I Met Your Mother, Ted Mosby got the perfect backup: the beautiful (and easily identifiable) score […]