Imagine for a second that you’re the one person on earth who survived 2020 without a television. Congratulations, you’ve done the impossible, but I have terrible news for you- you really missed out. There was a lot of great TV in 2020- beautiful, fun, heartbreaking, sometimes life-saving TV. If you only watch 30 minutes of […]
Back in March, the great and wildly underrated Artemis Pebdani won the MyTV Award for Outstanding Guest Actress for her role as refreshingly un-corruptible politician Susan Ross on Scandal. With the dramatic fifth season (and *spoiler alert* Susan’s run for president) wrapped, Artemis took a few moments to answer our burning questions about Scandal, her […]
The first few months of the new year are the best. The temperature drops below -40°, the ice makes dog walking nearly impossible, and the best holiday is again almost a full year away, but it’s all good because it’s the Best TV Season. For 13 or so weeks in the dead of winter, my […]
FX(X)’s brash buddy comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia isn’t my kind of show. I don’t like brash, and I really don’t like that everyone on cable is a psychopath you’re supposed to pity rather than root for. But I only have one rule when it comes to anything that’s not my kind of thing- […]
I flip flop on how much I like FX’s zany bad-person comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The inspired pilot and strong first season earned the show my continued devotion, but Danny DeVito’s grotesque Frank became a thorn in season 2’s side and has remained a symptom of the show’s idiotically broad tendencies ever since. […]
Sometimes it’s fun when your favorite TV star pops up in a movie (I know I got a little thrill every time I heard the erst-while Chuck’s voice coming out of Flynn Ryder’s mouth in last year’s Disney offering Tangled). And sometimes you find yourself wondering, “Why is McDreamy being so mean to Shia LaBeouf?” […]
*Dennis and Mac are at the hardware store, buying supplies for their new boat* Dennis: We’ve gotta pop by the department store, pick up a mattress. I wanna get a nice one too. Mac: The what? The mattress? What do we need a mattress for? Dennis: What do you mean, what do we need a […]
Catching up on this season of Private Practice, an idea for a new list came to mind. You know what there are a lot of on TV? Characters who are very bad at their jobs (whether the writers meant for that to be the case or not). Sadly, on this list, only one of these […]
– December movies. It’s Oscar movie season and so far this year I’m loving it. I saw The Reader yesterday and Milk the day before that and loved them both. I was pleasantly surprised by The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and was happy when Frost/Nixon met my high expectations, though I am of the […]
-Danny DeVito on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The gang is so funny on their own, why do they need a little fat man to make them more absurd? – Mandy on Privileged. Seriously, where did that meltdown come from? – TV online viewing area limitations. I can’t watch anything on Hulu, NBC, ABC, FOX, […]
Sitcoms adhere to a pretty stagnant format, but there are a couple of shows that circumvent the system spectacularly. MASH was an early one, weaving dramatic tension into it’s comedic base. Arrested Development was another, a pioneer in both comedy and production style. This week I finished the DVDs of 2 series that exemplify the […]
I’ve decided to do my first blog post as an addendum to Kelly’s earlier Crush list, because there’s some tv-shows that even the great Ms. Kelly hasn’t gotten into and I think there are certainly dream-worthy boys deserve some crushing-love. So without further ado, my TV Crushes (in no particular order): First and foremost, one […]