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There are a few shows that the BBC makes which I have always found curiously compelling, even though, on the surface, they have very little to recommend them. These are the shows that I will watch when there’s nothing else on, or when I have to do the ironing, or when I can’t quite be [...]
Continue reading...Project Runway Gets the Blues
28. January 2008 Posted by Marcia
Project Runway, S04 E09: Even Designers Get the Blues Previously on Project Runway: Ricky continued to be touched by some angel with really bad fashion sense, as he was saved while his partner Kit went home. This week: the designers are given piles of denim and asked to create their own iconic design. I’m not sure [...]
Continue reading...Project Runway Puts Us On Garde
21. January 2008 Posted by Marcia
Project Runway, S04 E08: On Garde Last week: the world wept when Kevin was sent home instead of Ricky in the prom dress challenge. This week: the designers are asked to make avant garde outfits. Several of them prove they don’t know what that term means. For the second week in a row, the first scene is [...]
Continue reading...Project Runway Gives a Girl What She Wants
14. January 2008 Posted by Marcia
Project Runway, S04 E07: What a Girl Wants Last week on Project Runway: the designers were able to resist the free candy long enough to make outfits from Hershey’s swag, but Elisa’s chocolate dress with tinfoil elbow warmers wasn’t sweet enough. This week: the designers get new models – and clients – when they are asked [...]
Continue reading...Project Runway Offers Us Candy
7. January 2008 Posted by Marcia
Project Runway, S04 E06: Eye Candy Previously on Project Runway: Jack left and everyone was sad. Chris came back and everyone was happy. Christian won the challenge and I beat my fists against the wall in impotent rage. Also, Steven went home, but that was three weeks ago now, and I’ve already forgotten about him. Sorry, [...]
Continue reading...Project Runway Asks For the Skinny
17. December 2007 Posted by Marcia
Project Runway, S04 E05: What’s the Skinny? Last week on Project Runway: Millions were mystified when Chris’s frumpy shoulder pads were considered a more heinous fashion crime than Ricky’s poorly fitted 80s-reject of a dress and he was sent packing. This week: The designers face the ultimate challenge when they must dress actual, non-size 0 [...]
Continue reading...Project Runway Sets the Trends
10. December 2007 Posted by Marcia
Project Runway S04 E04: Trendsetter Previously on Project Runway: Carmen sent a partially-clothed model down the runway and was punished by Heidi. The show starts with the mandatory scene of designers claiming to miss the booted contestant while trying not to smile through the interview. They’re still there, bitches! Over in the guy’s apartment, the men are [...]
Continue reading...The Harsh Reality of 2008 TV
4. December 2007 Posted by Marcia
Perhaps, in your weaker moments, you think the writers’ strike might not be too terrible. You would watch less television, thereby freeing up enough time to finish that novel, or knit a sweater, or cure cancer. Finally, you can prove how useful you are to society when the great time-sucking device no longer controls your [...]
Continue reading...Project Runway Makes a Giant Disaster
3. December 2007 Posted by Marcia
Project Runway: “Fashion Giant” S04, E03 Previously on Project Runway: Marion made a dress fit for a Disney Native American princess and was dismissed. This episode kicks off on a sombre note, with a shirtless Jack perched on his bed surrounded by a staggering array of prescription bottles. Somehow, I think we’re about to find out the [...]
Continue reading...5 Supporting Characters That Take the Lead
30. November 2007 Posted by Marcia
Today, I realized that I’m still watching Pushing Daisies for one reason: Emerson Cod. The rest bore me with their romantic trials and tribulations, but the grumpy knitting detective lures me in week after week — and inspired today’s Friday 5: which tertiary characters are far more interesting than the supposed stars? 5. Blair Waldorf. [...]
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Monday’s top picks:
There’s something for everyone on Monday night. How I Met Your Mother still makes me laugh every week, which is something I never thought I’d say for a CBS comedy. CBS, 8:30
Chuck also still makes me laugh. So does Heroes, which follows it, though I’m pretty sure Chuck is the only one that’s intentionally funny. NBC, 8:00 and 9:00
For cheesy goodness, Gossip Girl’s second season has more than lived up to the promise of the first one. Chuck may be the greatest soap villain since Amanda Woodward first flexed her claws. CW, 8:00
31. January 2008 Posted by Plattie
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