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I’m not very impressed with the world at this very moment. So, though I am slightly obsessed with Chuck Bass, Netflix and BU Shakespeare Society’s Twelfth Nightthis week, I will instead be handing down a list of complaints and grievances. So, my big objections of the moment are as follows: The People Who Run the […]

One Tree Hill makes with the funny

You’ve gotta hand it to One Tree Hill, it knows exactly what it is. Last night’s episode was, if anything, a self aware comedy hour. Sure it had it’s big dramatic plot twists and its romantic melodrama, but for the most part One Tree Hilljust spent an hour making fun of itself.   Here are […]

Privileged Defies The TV Rules
 

First let me say that this week’s episode of Privileged(“All About the Haves and Have Nots”) was oodles better than the last. Now on to my point. TV has rules by which most shows play. Rules about archetypes and morality and edginess and socio-economic statements and what couplings work best. Privileged, since it began, has […]

The Next to Go
 

According to Michael Ausiello of Entertainment Weekly, CBS has announced that they’re breaking up with The Ex-List. I am very sad for TV’s loss of Alex Breckenridge and Adam Rotherberg as Bella’s best friends, and especially sad that Rachel Boston won’t be returning as Bella’s sister Daphne. The show as a whole I’ll miss less. […]

Can We Please Talk About How Much I Loved This Week’s Gossip Girl?

Ok, we’re talking about how much I loved this week’s Gossip Girl. Though I’ve always had a bit of a weakness for them, frivolous teen shows almost never get me fully on board because they almost never succeed in making me like all of their characters. For every Seth Cohen there’s a Marissa Cooper, for […]

Apparently It Wasn’t A Coincidence

… that The West Wingpredicted the future. They may not have known how close the democratic primaries would be or the approximate age of the 2008 Republican nominee when they wrote the prophetic final 2 seasons, but apparently the parallels between Matt Santos and Barack Obama aren’t an accident at all. Check out this article […]

On the Big Screen
 

This weekend I went to see The Secret Life of Bees, which was full of wonderful surprises. Yes, Dakota Fanning’s talent did survive puberty. No, apparently singer/actors are not always substandard, Queen Latifa, Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson were all wonderful in their roles in the film. Yes, Paul Bettany is so phenomenally talented that […]

A Tedious Ex List
 

This week’s ex, surfer boy Shane, was pretty cool. I thought he deserved at least a two episode arc. But it is promising to know that even though he left to go to El Salvador, Bella didn’t cross him off the list yet, she claims he’s “still in play”. And though this was the only […]