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2 Sentence Review: Lifetime’s Website mylifetime.com

August 5, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: Lifetime’s Website mylifetime.com

If you’re like me and missed How I Met Your Mother the first time around, Lifetime’s website presents you with the chance to catch-up on old seasons (now on Season 4). In addition, in case you missed the premiere, Season 8 of Project Runway started last week – (OMFG, Casanova?!) – and you can watch...
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Why I Eat TV

August 2, 2010
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Why I Eat TV

Judging by ratings, lots of people think they like it, but a taste for trash is an acquired one. Once you realize it's garbage, it doesn't go down easy.
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2 Sentence Review: Avatar: The Last Airbender

June 29, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: Avatar: The Last Airbender

No, James Cameron has nothing to do with this one, thank Zeus’s beard. Check out the Emmy Award winning anime on which M. Night Shyamalan is basing his newest labor of arrogance love and you won’t be disappointed by the clever dialogue, excellent pacing and plot, and truly unique storytelling, or you’ll have all...
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2 Sentence Review: The Good Wife (CBS Drama)

May 19, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: The Good Wife (CBS Drama)

In its breakout season, this legal/family drama, starring many familiar faces (see Julianna Marguelies , Chris Noth , Matt Czuchry , Archie Panjabi , and Christine Baranski ) is...
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2 Sentence Review: “Parenthood”

May 13, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: “Parenthood”

The collection of stars from Parenthood‘s cast range everywhere from Coach to Six Feet Under to Gilmore Girls to Die Hard. The writing works itself away from cliché (despite the show being one) when it comes out of the mouths of talented actors, to the point that I’ll wedge in a family dramedy between 24 (yes,...
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2 Sentence Review: The Vampire Diaries on the CW

May 5, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: The Vampire Diaries on the CW

Teen dramas (read: The OC or Dawson’s Creek) plus town overcome by vampires (read: True Blood) equals a winning formula for guilty pleasures (see: Twilight series). Whether it’s the sibling rivalry between Salvatore brothers Damon (a/k/a Boone from Lost played by Ian Somerhalder) or Stefan (a/k/a Jack Bauer’s son-in-law played by Paul Wesley), Elena/Katherine, Elena’s witch...
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Thr33s: 3 Reasons to Watch the In-Betweeners on the BBC

May 4, 2010
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Thr33s: 3 Reasons to Watch the In-Betweeners on the BBC

1.  Simon Cooper. Yes, it may be illegal to have a crush on someone who still attends comprehensive school but actor Joe Thomas’s 1983 birthdate makes it totally legit. 2.  Impress your friends. When the American version debuts, you can tell your friends in passing, “Oh, I loved the British version.” If the show...
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2 Sentence Review: Ryan Phillippe Promoting MacGruber on SNL

April 27, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: Ryan Phillippe Promoting MacGruber on SNL

Rather than disrupt a small chain of solid SNL episodes, Kristen Wiig, Will Forte, and Maya Rudolph should have promoted MacGruber themselves. Unless there is ever a re-release of Breach, the creators of SNL should only ask Ryan Phillipe to host if Jon Hamm is unavailable.¹ ¹ Saturday Night Live – Saturday Night Live...
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2 Sentence Review: Treme and/or The Wire

April 25, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: Treme and/or The Wire

Trying to explain (or, for that matter, even succinctly summarize) the myriad reasons why The Wire—one of the most, if not simply THE Most, critically lauded and acclaimed TV series in the history of, well, TV—is so damned richly deserving of every, single last comma and syllable ever committed to said veritable mountain of...
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