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Jane the Virgin Chapter 20 Recap: Luchar!

April 27, 2015 StayTuned Staff

On Chapter 20 of Jane the Virgin, we return to Jane and Alba in the car looking at Petra and her mother. Alba begins to explain to Jane that her so-called accidental falling down the stairs wasn’t really an accident. She tells Jane that it was the night of the awards at the afterparty when Alba decided she was going to give Petra a piece of her mind for being so rotten to Jane. Instead of Petra coming to the door, her mother answered it — but she was in a wheelchair. Alba got a glimpse of Petra’s ex-hostage Ivan […]

HAPPYish Episode 1 Recap

April 27, 2015 StayTuned Staff

HAPPYish premiered tonight on Showtime. I’m not going to lie: it exhausted me to watch it, but I’m going to keep watching, nonetheless. It’s a bit eye-rolling to watch an angsty, artsy interpretation of a wealthy, white male having an existential crisis, but I’ll try my best to keep my recap positive because, even though the pilot episode wore me down, something about it interested me. I think it was the murderous elf. More on that later, though. As the show opens, we see Mt. Rushmore, and hear a voiceover from Thom Payne, the show’s main character, which is pretty […]

Review: Showtime’s new comedy “HAPPYish” has a low-joy ceiling

April 23, 2015 Ryan Berenz

What is happiness? Does it even exist? And why are we pursuing it? In Showtime’s HAPPYish, 44-year-old ad man Thom Payne (Steve Coogan, Philomena) faces a mid-career crisis when the agency he works for brings in two social-media savvy Swedish 20-somethings to overhaul its creative direction. Thom is confronted with adapting to skinny jeans, books on tablet devices and the fact that there are desperately lonely souls who follow Pepto-Bismol on Twitter. He’s realizing that the consumer and media monster he helped create has turned against him. At home, Thom’s antidepressants are depressing intimacy with his wife (Kathryn Hahn), and […]

Jane the Virgin Chapter 19 Recap: Run, Petra, Run!

April 20, 2015 StayTuned Staff

On Chapter 19 of Jane the Virgin, Jane has gone through all the steps of a break-up, leading up to her confronting Rafael about the situation. Rafael mentions that Jane had doubts about him in the first place, so it wasn’t like things were headed down the wrong path anyways. All of a sudden, Jane’s fellow employees and friends barge into Rafael’s room with all the supplies for a baby shower. Could they be any worse with their timing? Luckily, Jane’s friend has some sort of psychic sense and knew felt that the couple weren’t on good terms. She also […]

Jane the Virgin Chapter 18 Recap: Monster-in-Law

April 13, 2015 StayTuned Staff

On Chapter 18 of Jane the Virgin, Rafael still doesn’t seem to be putting Jane before his hotel, leaving her supported only by a wall at a birthing class. Jane doesn’t need to talk negatively about Rafael to her mother to only further prove Xo is right about Rafael being the wrong guy for Jane. Instead Jane turns to Andie to vent, which might not have been the very best decision. Jane tells Andie the huge doubts she’s been having about Rafael and Andie’s advice is to stay calm because it’s only hormones that are making her feel this way. Yeah, I’m […]

Louis C.K. returns for a “playful and goofy” Season 5 of his FX hit “Louie”

April 9, 2015 Ryan Berenz

Louis C.K. returns for Season 5 of his hit FX comedy series Louie on Thursday, April 9, at 10:30pm ET/PT. The season premiere episode, “Potluck,” immediately follows the series premiere of The Comedians. C.K. says his standup material inspires the direction of the writing on the TV series. “I always have an intention at the beginning of the season, but I can never really quite get to the intention,” he says. “Like I start with an intention, and then I just kind of move around, and then I look at what I wrote, and I go, ‘All right. Let’s shoot it. It’s what […]

Netflix releases trailer for Orange Is the New Black Season 3

April 9, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

Netflix today released an all-new trailer for Orange Is the New Black Season 3, as well as some images from the new season. The trailer and photos give us a first look at the new OINTB season, which premieres June 12 on Netflix. The popular comedy, created by Jenji Kohan (Weeds), is about a diverse group of inmates serving time in a women’s prison. Piper (Taylor Schilling), Red (Kate Mulgrew), Crazy Eyes (Uzo Aduba), Taystee (Danielle Brooks), Poussey (Samira Wiley), Sophia (Laverne Cox), Daya (Dascha Polanco), Gloria (Selenis Leyva), Big Boo (Lea DeLaria), Pennsatucky (Taryn Manning) and all of Litchfield’s ladies are back, while Alex […]

Summer Schedule 2015: USA Network

April 9, 2015 Kellie Freeze

On Tuesday, USA Network announced its summer slate of new and returning shows. I was happy to see the return of familiar faces like Royal Pains and look forward to meeting new friends like Mr. Robot, which recently slayed at SXSW, and Complications. I interviewed Jason O’Mara about Complications for the June issue of Channel Guide Magazine, and he was an utter dream and his thrilling show is a total adrenaline-rush. It certainly proves the line from Wicked, “No good deed goes unpunished.” And, as you can imagine, I’m beyond the moon with excitement at the news that Playing House has […]

Weird Loners Episode 2 Recap – “Weird Dance”

April 8, 2015 Eric Kohanik

OK, it’s time for a second encounter with that oddball foursome of New Yorkers at the core of Weird Loners. It’s the morning after the night before. As the second episode opens, a slumbering Stosh (Zachary Knighton) is just waking up. And, judging by all the boyhood pictures he’s seeing of his cousin, Eric (Nate Torrence), Stosh probably didn’t get to choke the sheriff. (OK, so you have see the Episode 1 recap for this to make sense.) Anyway … Stosh is startled by Eric, who has been standing over the bed staring at him for about an hour. Eric […]

Jane the Virgin Chapter 17 Recap: #MoveOn

April 6, 2015 StayTuned Staff

After another long two weeks of not having a Jane fix, The CW’s Jane the Virgin finally returned to premiere Chapter Seventeen. As we return to the Villanueva family, it’s been a week since Xo moved out with Rogelio. Xo and Alba still haven’t spoken to each other, which really seems childish. Jane and Rafael stop by to visit the new house so that Jane and Xo can leave for their class. In order to prepare herself on the finer details of having a baby, Jane goes to a lactation class. Soon after the class starts, Jane realizes that she […]