Ah, good ol’ Labor Day. While Obama’s out in the Motor City praising the unions and the middle class… While the American workers at Ford contemplate whether to go on strike (turns out, they should’ve taken the bailout money, news reports say)… And while Michele Bachmann terrifies us with gloom and doom of a...
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Posts Tagged ‘ TV ’
Labor Day Means Workin’ the Television
The Grey Lady Talks Trash
Reality TV is nothing like looking in from the outside of high society—even the depths of high society.
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Adventures in Channel Surfing
"Yeah, you put a little Jagermeister in and you get a little bit of nice Jagermeister out."
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Trash Diet: Week One
"Jersey" is a state of mind. It involves screaming, hot tempers, frequent use of terms like "sleep with one eye open" or "watch your back," overuse of the word "like" and/or a generally limited vocabulary.
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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: 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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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: “Justified”
What started as a gritty look at an old school, bullseye-shootin’, catch phrase-spoutin’ sheriff taking on the white supremacists, drug runners, and other twisted shit going down in the bowels of Nashville has turned into a villain-of-the-week “Walker, Texas Ranger” with the missing character depth to prove it. And there’s not even any roundhouse...
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Don't Yuck My Yum!
Most people who know me think that I “watch TV that lowers IQ.” (Yes, that was a quotation.) While this statement is both upsetting and insulting, I would have to agree. Each night, after a long day of work (read: unpaid internship) and a strenuous work out at the local gym, I shower,...
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I Have Nothing To Say (a.k.a. the nonpretentious Reaction to Obama’s Inauguration)
I find it relevant to point out that not one contributor – on the left or the right – weighed in on the momentous day that was yesterday.¹ Does this mean that we’re burnt out? We needed a breather after the raucousness that was our twitterized Vice Presidential debate. Or, we’re we too busy...
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