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FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA
WE ARE MEN ** (out of ****) Just when you think that We Are Men might be a good show with some terrible elements, it finally proves itself to be a terrible show with some pretty good elements. The premise of four recently divorced gentlemen hanging out makes me immediately want to retch. Why?…
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LUCKY 7 ** (out of ****) Lucky 7 has a lot on its plate, even for a pilot. It has to introduce us to seven different characters, each of which work at a gas station/auto shop. They have to keep the show suspenseful, even though we all know how this episode ends: the septet…
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Flickchart’s Greatest Battles In which we pit two movies together using flickchart.com, debating their merits or lack thereof. ROUND ONE TOMMY BOY VS LOVE, ACTUALLY There’s something about Love Actually that makes it very watchable, until you think about it for more than ten seconds. Tommy Boy, however, actually gets better when you think…
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BACK IN THE GAME ** (out of ****) Back in the Game isn’t the kind of pilot that makes you furious while you’re watching it, wondering if television will ever again reach the heights of “your day,†whenever that was. It’s hard to be furious, not because it’s any good, but because it does…
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THE CRAZY ONES ** (out of ****) Robin Williams is an easy punching bag. Once the king of the comedy world, a title that never lasts very long, Williams shtick seemed to run its course for everyone on the planet, at the exact same time. Thanks to ballooning alimony bills, my favorite reason…
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THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW **1/2 (out of ****) The danger of airing your first two episodes in one night, as opposed to just the pilot, is that we lose that week of focusing on the potential the pilot has. We can’t dream about all of the ways the second episode will improve on the…
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THE GOLDBERGS **1/2 (out of ****) The Goldbergs the show is a lot like The Goldbergs the family, which is not a way of saying that the show is successful. It’s screamy and grating, and fitfully funny, and you don’t mind if it you spend ten minutes with them every once in a while,…
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TROPHY WIFE *** (out of ****) All month long we’ll be discussing Pilotitis, a horrifically contagious diseases that surfaces every year around this time. Symptoms include tired, hack ideas and spoon feeding information down people’s throats. Trophy Wife isn’t a perfect show, but it is able to skip past so much of the terrible…
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THE BLACKLIST **1/2 (out of ****) I made it clear at a pretty young age that I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. This excited older people to no end. It wasn’t because they thought I was going to be an especially good writer, or because I would one day…
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HOSTAGES *1/2 (out of ****) My goodness, what a shit show. Hostages is pretty much everything that’s awful about my job, all rolled up into a turd sandwich. Dylan McDermot (who has a lifetime membership to just always get a new TV show why? The Practice? We talking about Practice?) is a hostage negotiator…
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