Posts by Amelia Steinmetz
Top Ten – Sidekicks Who Steal the Show
Sidekicks Who Steal the Show To be clear, these aren’t necessarily the best sidekicks of all time…though that would be a good list…OK that’s definitely coming up at a later point. But THIS list is for the sidekicks that are arguably better than the hero or protagonist, the ones who totally steal the show. These…
Read MoreTop Ten – Movie Urban Legends
Movie Urban Legends Goldfinger It was just like any other night for James Bond, he makes an entrance in a swanky casino, foils the cheating scheme of an International criminal, and takes the guy’s secretary to bed as his reward. But next thing you know Oddjob knocks him out cold and when he comes to…
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Best Fictional Bars and Restaurants The Peach Pit – Beverly Hills 90210 The Peach Pit is amazing because of its chameleon nature, rendering it homey diner by day and totally kicking rock club when it becomes The Peach Pit After Dark. The diner is the perfect setting to discuss the eternal teen drama of two…
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Actors Who ARE Their Characters Mayim Bialik/ Amy Farrah Fowler As the only legitimate nerd on the Big Bang Theory, I’m convinced the part was written specifically for this former child star. A full two years before neurobiologist Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler met Dr. Sheldon Cooper and became television’s most awkwardly endearing, non-sexual couple, she…
Read MoreReality Bites – Comedy Central’s Roast of Charlie Sheen
TV for the week of September 18, 2010 Monday’s roast of Charlie Sheen was the highest rated Comedy Central roast in history with 6.4 million viewers, that’s more than Hugh Heffner, David Hasselhoff and William Shatner pulled. Which makes total sense, the masses have been lapping up the Sheen trainwreck for years now especially…
Read MoreReality Bites: Whisker Wars
What’s more fun than watching grass grow? Watching facial hair grow of course! At least that’s what IFC hopes as its newest reality show aimed at the hipster underground attempts to make people care about drunk hairy guys. Whisker Wars follows bearding Team USA around the country as they battle for hairy glory in preparation…
Read MoreReality Bites: Top Gear vs. Top Gear
Nothing is more maddening than telling a friend about a new TV show you’re into and having them smugly say “oh yea I’ve been watching the British version for years…its way better.†And nothing brings me more pleasure than being that smug douche. So when I heard that the…
Read MoreReality Bites: Jersey Shore
Of all the reality show formulas I hate the people-living-in-a-house genre second most, after the legal prostitution masquerading as dating shows of course. Big Brother bores me to tears and Real World hasn’t been relevant or real since say 1995. But my secret shame, my guiltiest of guilty pleasures is watching the antics of what…
Read MoreReality Bites – Young, Broke & Beautiful
Television for the week of July 25th IFC is like the hipster generations MTV, and like its acronymed predecessor it’s started replacing the films which were once it’s bread and butter with reality based programming having nothing to do with the title of the channel. Young, Broke and Beautiful is IFC’s stylized travelogue following…
Read MoreReality Bites: Man vs. Wild
Television for the week of July 10th In November 2007 the Writers Guild of America got their panties in a bunch about not getting access to the good table at craft services or some shit and went on strike for four months. A lack of new programming left a void bigger than Oprah’s Minge in…
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