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Getting Lost: “Something Nice Back Home” Preview

ABC has been running previews for this week’s episode that contain the line, “The island takes one survivor for its own.” Does that mean that another character will be meeting an untimely end, a week after we said goodbye to Alex (not to mention three random members of Locke’s camp who were too stupid to listen to Sawyer — and the sound of gunfire — and stay inside their house)? Maybe, although it’s a pretty open-ended statement. Still, after watching the previews below, we’d be a little worried if we were Claire, Sawyer or Miles. Here are the unanswered questions […]

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Survivor Fans Vs. Favorites Week 11: The Curse of the Killer Bitch

By Elaine Throughout this game, I kept picking different titles for the episode: Parvati plays nice. James gets batty again. Girls gone wild. Erik sucks. But nothing fits the episode quite as well as Killer Bitch. And, good Lord, isn’t she? I mean Natalie, of course, who used the B-word so frequently to describe Jason (who hadn’t done a single thing to earn the title but be fiercely loyal to her) that I suspect that parents who let their young kids watch this show as either a lesson in how to grow up to be Dick Cheney or the next […]

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Puppy Love? : A "Family Guy" Recap

Posted by knockturn Wow, a new episode? Finally … Brian and Stewie are at Joel’s 2nd birthday party when Brian spots a girl across the yard. When she tells him she thinks magicians are hot, he tells her he’s a magician and would be happy to do a show for her kid’s party. Stewie volunteers to be his assistant, but at the party it turns out that this woman has a boyfriend and they they’re completely happy in their fixer-upper relationship, so Brian bails. Turns out that Brian found his soulmate years ago in the form of Tracey Flannigan, to […]

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An ANTM Health Warning

by WindUpDoll Kids, I’m generally not an off-day poster, but I thought this story was more of a public service than a post. Please, please don’t talk while your favorite programming is on. Especially America’s Next Top Model. Discuss.

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Getting Lost: “The Shape of Things to Come” Review

Posted by Mike and johhnysweeptheleg Wow. There’s a lot to digest from last night’s episode, “The Shape of Things to Come,” so we’ll just say that it’s great to have the show back. Now, let’s get down to business. johnnysweeptheleg’s Lost In A Moment: We know what the writers were doing during the winter-long strike. Instead of growing beards like Conan and Dave, they perused the Lost blogs and read all the whining over the balance of questions versus answers. If you like things getting blow’d up and shot at, you loved last night’s Lost.

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The Office: “Night Out” Recap

Posted by Mike, Ryan and johnnysweeptheleg You know, The Office isn’t just about laughs. The show provides a public service. Consider the open of last night’s episode. Thanks to Michael, we now know what to do if we ever see a shiny object underneath a car. In the best-case scenario, it’s a quarter. Worst case, it’s tinfoil, and you get gum in your hair and spend the morning getting your head slathered in peanut butter and massaged by Dwight. The lesson learned? Let it go.

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American Idol Works The Drama For All It’s Worth

We begin this episode with Ryan kissing both Paula and Simon on the top of the head. I’m wondering if he was dared to do that. So my EPG is telling me that Andrew Lloyd Webber is performing tonight. I see now that he’s at the piano. That’s a good thing. The group sing to start the show is ‘All I Ask Of You.’ It’s a duet, but we’ve got 3 guys & 3 girls, so it’s close enough, I guess. They forgo almost all choreography, but you can tell Andrew Lloyd Webber insisted on some kind of harmony. It’s […]

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Time For the ANTM Girls To Mispronunskiate Eyetailian

Dominique, Rhodes’ scholar, says going to Rome is like going to a museum. They have old buildings there — really old! Lauren doesn’t fit in with the other girls, but she’s totally psyched about getting this far. Whitney is feeling plus pride at being the farthest-going plus-size contestant. Anya totally biffs when getting out of the minivan. Fatima claims that she’s back, with a bang! Ah, yes, the confidence before the language-barrier meltdowns. TyraMail comes in the form of a picture of Tyra as the Mona Lisa. The Rome Top Model house is, of course, gorgeous. Katarzyna calls it off […]

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Sports

Long Overdue Erin Andrews Post. Also, Spelling Bee News.

Posted by Cubicle QB I’ve long resisted doing another Erin Andrews related post just to boost traffic and perpetuate an already very exhausted Interweb phenomenon (look guys, bare calves!). But today there is actual relevant Erin Andrews news involving the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Via Deadspin and The Futon Critic comes the news that Andrews will be joining ESPN and ABC’s coverage of the bee as a correspondent. Dancing With the Stars host Tom Bergeron is also added as a host. Out are last year’s hosts Mike & Mike and reporter Stu Scott — we will miss ripping on them.

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American Idol Meets Musical Theater

The Idols are being challenged like they’ve never been challenged before. David Duchovny and family are looking forward to that challenge. Maybe that challenge is the fact that every episode they’re told that sounding like you’re on Broadway does not equal sounding like a pop star. So making Andrew Lloyd Webber sound contemporary will be a challenge. The band has been brought onto the stage and is closer to a full orchestra than usual. The Top Six Idols are belched out of the stage again. Brooke looks like she’s going to cry already. Good call, Vote For The Worst. We […]