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Love and Hate: The Men of The Bachelorette

CLICK ON THE SCALE TO SEE A CLEARER VERSION   Our annual scale’s first edition- see how we had Wes, Juan and David nailed early on as terrible while Michael, Ed and Kiptyn are rightly hanging out at the “love” end. We apologize for our shortsighted love of Jake (which has diminished over the years, […]

Adieu to the Bakers and the Newlys

 Amidst a storm of good news at the recent network upfronts, the sadness of harsh cancellations went unfelt. Now, with our joy over the renewals of Dollhouse, Chuck, Better Off Ted and Scrubs fully felt, it is time to turn our attention to the heartbreaking cancellations of two of TV’s most uplifting shows: Privileged and […]

Season Wrap Up: Gossip Girl

Rachael already covered the finale in her trademark depth in the post “What If” so I’ll try and keep it brief on this one.   Gossip Girl‘s sophomore season was a bumpy one. There were low points at which it seemed like the worst of teenage television (Blair and Nate’s early season entanglements with the […]

Dancing with the Pros
 

This season I picked up Dancing with the Stars as what can, at best, be described as a “casual viewer”. I watched a couple episodes here and there, mostly just cheering for Melissa (who’d won my heart on The Bachelor only a week earlier). But after last night’s finale (and the previous night’s competition show) […]

I Apologize Profusely…
 

… for making you watch Glee. All I wanted was for someone to make a show I understood. Not one where the emotional arcs of the characters made them human enough that I could relate to upper east side fashionistas, stylish demon slayers, Texan high school footballers or polygamists from Utah, just a show about […]

What If…
 

  What if your two favorite, bubble-stuck shows both got renewed?   And what if your other two favorite shows had finales that restored your faith in them AND made you incredibly excited for next season just at the moment when you thought there was nowhere left for them to go?   Yeah. That’s right. […]

Season Wrap Up: How I Met Your Mother

*CAUTION, SPOILERS AHEAD* Tonight’s season finale of How I Met Your Mother was everything the show is and has been for 4 seasons now. It was pretty funny, it was full of heart and it had it’s flaws. Sure parts of it were silly and sure it’s incredibly frustrating how Ted calls everything that happens […]

Fox Wants Everyone to Dance (and Sing) !

NEWS: Fox has made the (questionable) decision to air season 6 of beloved summer smash So You Think You Can Dance right after season 5 ends in the fall. The decision, no doubt, is their attempt to make their Idol-free fall months more Idol-audience friendly and put up a bit of a fight against the […]