FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA

MADE IN JERSEY *1/2 (out of ****) CANCELED   Made in Jersey is such an abhorrent, transparent mess, you can almost hear the studioheads and producers greenlighting aspects of the show as you’re watching it. People like procedurals, or least like to watch unconventional oddballs run around the town and stumble into clues. Is this…

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FALL TV REVIEW

Hi, I’m Mike TV   LAST RESORT *** (out of ****)     A lot of ingredients go into making a television show. That’s not an earth shattering revelation, but let’s go over them briefly as this is a part of the Fall TV Review. For a show to be good (we won’t even talk about…

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FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA

ANIMAL PRACTICE   ** (out of ****) From the moment I could dream, I dreamed of owning a monkey. I would only “own” it in the strictest of terms; in reality, it would be my best friend. We would do everything together, from reading comic books to baking cookies to spying at girls in the…

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FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA

PARTNERS * 1/2 (out of ****) Having a gay lead character seemed like a daring thing to do roughly a decade and a half ago. Now in this, the late late nineties, we’ve all decided that it’s cool to have gay friends, not think it’s a big deal that one of our family members is…

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FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA

FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA   THE MOB DOCTOR ** (out of ****)   Much like Guys With Kids, The Mob Doctor has a title so awesomely generic that we already know that we don’t want to watch it before seeing even a single second of it. In case you needed an actual premise, a surgeon has…

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FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA

FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA   GUYS WITH KIDS * 1/2 (out of ****) Close your eyes and imagine how good a show named Guys With Kids is. Think about how many times you laughed? Zero? Less than zero? Do you think it could be so unfunny that it actually took away a laugh from an episode…

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FALL TV REVIEW

FALL TV REVIEW 2012 In which we take on the insane task of watching and reviewing every new tv show that debuts this fall.  GO ON             Matthew Perry has tried so hard to come back to the world’s good graces since Friends ended all those years ago. He had to sit and watch all of…

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