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MARCH TV EXTRAVAGANZA – THE LOST EPISODES
THE 100 ** (out of ****) No channel on television has a more defined personality than the CW. If you’re an hour long show about young, attractive adults who find out their life has a genre bend to it, you’re probably on the CW. If you’re anything but that, you’re definitely not on…
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BLACK BOX ** (out of ****) From what I’ve heard, bipolar disorder is a pretty serious thing. It can ruin entire relationships and families. It’s essentially built-in drama, which makes it surprising that it doesn’t appear on television more often. This might be because the people behind the scenes aren’t as evil as we…
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TRIPTANK **1/2 (out of ****) What if the answer to television’s recent overtaking of film, as far as everyday conversational relevance, lies in Comedy Central’s short-animation-fest TripTank? Think about it. When we sit down to watch a movie, we know we’re going to live with these characters for two hours or so. Even if…
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SIRENS **1/2 (out of ****) Almost immediately, you recognize that Sirens is going to entirely fall on the heads of its three stars. And that’s a little scary, seeing as I don’t recognize two of them, and one of them I only know from After Scrubs. It’s a workplace comedy, but the quality of the…
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FRIENDS WITH BETTER LIVES *1/2 (out of ****) At first, the title of CBS’ new three-camera seems like a more honest moniker of many sitcoms. “This is the story of people who, although they might resemble some of your friends in various ways, lead much more fun, attractive lives than you do.” Instead, it’s the…
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TURN **1/2 (out of ****) Hearing the pitch for Turn a year or so ago was both exciting and scary. Exciting, because it’s pretty dope, as it tells the story of America’s first spy ring, a group of people who infiltrated the British army for one George Washington. It was scary, for…
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DEADBEAT ** (out of ****) Hulu and Netflix shows are fun to review because I can use the amount of shows I watch in a row as a determinate of how good they are. I’m typically very happy when there’s only one terrible episode of a network show to review, because most…
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CHANALYZE In which we dig in to each specific channel, seeing if there really is something to this whole “channel personality†thing FOX Did the FOX network create Channel Personalities? I’m not old enough to remember what the world was like before FOX, but I do remember them quickly becoming the network that certainly…
Read MoreListen, Fellas, I Don’t Get It Either – Grey’s Anatomy
LISTEN FELLAS… In which Kerri tackles (as a female writer) the kind of content that’s marketed only to females. I remember when the term “chick-flick” started cropping up. It started out as an epithet of sorts to be used solely towards tear jerkers about middle aged women and particularly terrible romantic comedies with plots…
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MIXOLOGY * (out of ****) After three years of reviewing pilots, I think I’m all done. The worst. The WORST. THE WORST. Everyone involved should be banned from television forever. Do not watch, even if every cast member is a close relative of yours. Fuck everything. I’m out. – Ryan Haley
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