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Gossip Girl Makes the Grade
I make no secret of the fact that I love Gossip Girl. Sure, the show’s first season had a somewhat rocky start, but I’ve been an unabashed fan for quite some time now, and it is with difficulty that I attempt an objective review of the show’s second season. Let’s face it — we don’t [...]
Continue reading...Why I Hate British Soaps
25. September 2008 Posted by Plattie
I hate British soaps. Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, the late, lamented Brookside, even that young upstart soap, Hollyoaks. I hate them all. And what is more, I cannot for the life of me fathom why everybody else doesn’t hate them as well. But Eastenders regularly attracts in the region of 8.4 million viewers for every revolting [...]
Continue reading...Privileged Tells An Old Tale
9. September 2008 Posted by Marcia
Back in May, I listed Privileged (then called Surviving the Filthy Rich) among the 5 new shows you could skip this television season. Having now seen the pilot episode, I would like to say that I was absolutely right. I love it when that happens. To be fair to the show, it’s nowhere near as dreadful [...]
Continue reading...What’s Old Is New Again: 90210
4. September 2008 Posted by Marcia
Tuesday marked the premiere of one of the most buzzed-about shows of the fall season, 90210, and the reception has been notably lukewarm. Tepid. Possibly even a bit bored. I understand that everyone was expecting a bit more, which makes sense. The original Beverly Hills 90210 was a cultural milestone, the show an entire generation grew [...]
Continue reading...Spotted: The Return of Gossip Girl
1. September 2008 Posted by Marcia
Today is, of course, a holiday in the US, and I don’t mean that obscure holiday known as “Labor Day.” Hell, most people can’t even say exactly what is being celebrated. However, any TV fan knows that today is the start of the new fall season, and that is definitely cause for celebration. While there are [...]
Continue reading...Climbing on One Tree Hill
25. April 2008 Posted by Marcia
I have a secret shame, and those who’ve read this blog for a while know that I rarely feel shame over my television choices. I mean, I watch America’s Next Top Model, so I have nary a leg to stand on when it comes to trashy TV. However, during the strike, I was so desperate [...]
Continue reading...Comfort Television
31. January 2008 Posted by Plattie
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...TV’s Latest Double Act: Echo Beach and Moving Wallpaper
16. January 2008 Posted by Fergus
The best thing about living in the UK during a writers’ strike? Access to lots of original programming. (National health care is a distant second.) Today, Fergus looks at ITV’s latest brainchild, the television twofer of Echo Beach and Moving Wallpaper. Britain’s ITV has a strange habit when it comes to drama. They’ll happily trundle on [...]
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. [...]
Continue reading...Gossip Girl Better Get Her Bitch On
4. October 2007 Posted by Marcia
All yesterday, I had planned on writing a post on the Chuck v. Reaper cage match that exists in my head, but I got distracted by last night’s Gossip Girl. I already know I like Chuck, but GG is just sort of pissing me off. Because, no matter how much I try not to, I [...]
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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
13. October 2008 Posted by Marcia
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