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The Thirst Games Presents: Tina Fey vs Amy Poehler
PART II: Parks and Recreation Welcome to part two of this epic rivalry between the shows of two best friends that I completely made up. Last week we took a look at Tina Fey’s 30 Rock. This week, Amy Poehler’s and Parks and Recreation is under the microscope. Debuting in 2009, and now in its…
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COMOODY CENTROODY AND THE NO-BUMMER 2013 For the last year or so, Comedy Central has been handing out TV shows to stand-up comedians like it’s the mid-nineties. The major difference is that they aren’t trying to wedge the comedian’s stand-up persona into the same family sitcom we’ve seen literally a hundred bazillion times, but…
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DO NO HARM * (out of ****) Nicely done, Do No Harm. You couldn’t even make it to when this review was due. Do No Harm this week was placed in the TV Hall of Fame for doing something few shows have ever done before: not make it to its third episode. And…
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THE FOLLOWING **1/2 (out of ****) The Following is probably early-2013’s most anticipated new show. It’s on FOX, which knows how to promote the everliving fuck out of something, especially if you are a viewer of their sports programming. It has, for television, a major star in Kevin Bacon, and it’s about a serial…
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LEGIT ** (out of ****) Louie and Legit are two FX comedies in which their stand-up comedian stars, Louis CK and Jim Jeffries, respectively, play themselves. Aside from the fact that they both have five letter titles that begin with L, that’s pretty much where the similarities end. Not every comedy has to be…
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OUT THERE **1/2 (out of ****) The last thing we need is another weirdo cartoon about little weirdos growing up to be bigger weirdos. And that’s exactly what Out There, which had a sneak preview last week, and premieres seems like on the surface. It’s about two social outcasts trying to get through the hell…
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DECEPTION ** (out of ****) Watching Deception kind of makes you wonder what kind of homes will, based on this pilot, become Decpetion homes. Somewhere out there there are NCIS homes, and Big Bang Theory homes, and Survivor homes, and although I’ve never met anyone that belongs to these homes, these houses that make…
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I swear to God I don’t hate TV. I love it. I love everything about a very small percentage of it. I’m one of those people who, when you tell them that “You don’t watch TVâ€, or that “You don’t even own a TVâ€, I judge the shit out of you, about how big of…
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CHICAGO FIRE – **1/2 (out of ****) NASHVILLE – *** (out of ****) The first question you need to ask yourself as you prepare to create an hour long drama is “Where does my main character work?†Real people spend about 40 percent of their lives at work, but TV characters, particularly in dramas could…
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EMILY OWENS, MD * 1/2 (out of ****) Emily Owens, you know, from Emily Owens, MD, is a normal girl that’s just like all of us normal girls. She’s a little nerdy, a little neurotic, and not what you’d call traditionally hot. All of these traits serve one purpose: relatability! If we watch…
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