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ALPHA HOUSE/BETAS/GAMMA DELTA AND THE EPSILON ZETAS
ALPHA HOUSE *** (out of ****) One of the biggest problems with Hulu’s original line-up, most of which was reviewed on the PopFilter Podcast, is that it doesn’t feel professional. No one minds if a show is super low-budget, or if it stumbles out of the gate a little bit, but their shows don’t even…
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REIGN *1/2 STARS (out of ****) I don’t know if it’s a good idea to aim to be a “guilty pleasure.†It can happen by chance, or maybe you’re the type of creator who is prone to think up ideas that are common in other “guilty pleasures.†Either way, if you use it as a…
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Freaks and Drinks Episode VIII: Girlfriends and Boyfriends Or: “Freak Girls Go All the Way” This is Freaks and Drinks: the one and only article on the internet dedicated to bringing you a new drinking game for every episode of Freaks and Geeks. In this episode, the rubber hits the road on Nick and Lindsay’s…
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HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU SHOULD DO? In which we tell you about awesome things that you must look into and enjoy. Stop watching Late Night with CONAN It hurts, doesn’t it? The whole Team Coco thing was a great idea. When Coco himself was allowed to do his show again on TBS, however,…
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INSTANT MOM **1/2 (out of ****) Maybe I’m getting tired. Maybe you can only come up with so many synonyms for “television garbage†before you want to just give up altogether. Instant Mom, Nick at Nite’s newest attempt to produce new versions of the old stuff they show, wasn’t the worst thing I watched this…
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THE TOMORROW PEOPLE ** (out of ****) If the Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot took a couple more baby steps towards figuring out how to bring superheroes to the small screen, The Tomorrow People took a giant leap back. Television’s special effects will always get better (or cheaper), but they will never be as…
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HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU SHOULD DO? In which we tell you about awesome things that you must look into and enjoy. STOP BINGE WATCHING We all have one rule in this ever-changing world of media consumption: no rules. Give us what we want, when we want it, and shut the hell up about…
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WITCHES OF EAST END ** (out of ****) One of the hardest things about creating a pilot, much less an entire run of a show, is knowing exactly how seriously to take your shit. Take it too seriously, and we will laugh at you for your lack of self-awareness, and because you think your…
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HOT PACKAGE **1/2 (out of ****) Here’s a sweet little number that, for me at least, came out of nowhere. Hot Package goes past being just an Entertainment Tonight parody to looking and feeling exactly like it. It has the cheesedick hosts (including the almost dead Pat O’Brien as the barely alive Pat O’Brien),…
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SEAN SAVES THE WORLD * (out of ****) Because 17 fans of the Hallmark Channel demanded it, Sean Hayes is back on television in Sean Saves the World. NBC is banking on the fact that the world fell in love with a supporting actor on Will and Grace, and not the terrifyingly flamboyant, scene-stealing…
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