You think werewolves, and skeletons and goblins and vampires (oh my!) are truly scary? You don’t know scary! Wait ’til you’ve seen Billy Eichner and Rachel Dratch from Funny or Die, a “comedy video website founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s production company, Gary Sanchez Productions” (wikipedia) go through Continue Reading
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The Walking Dead lives on for season 5!
It will hardly come as a shock to anyone familiar with the ongoing, ever-building successful of AMC’s highest rating scripted series The Walking Dead that it has been renewed for a fifth season. With the premiere episode for season 4 ratings its decayed body parts off – according to Continue Reading
To re-imagine or not to re-imagine: That is the great TV show question
Picture this my TV-watching friends. [cue wavy, migraine-aura like swirls that traditionally usher in a dream scene] It’s 2042 and TV executives are huddled around a table, pondering which new shows they should commit to beaming directly into each citizen’s neural net. As always it’s a hard task, complicated Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Isolation” (S4, E3 review)
“No matters what happens, we’ll cope. We have to.” (Beth to Maggie) Never has an episode of The Walking Dead been so accurately titled. The sense of isolation, never normally in short supply in a hostile apocalyptic landscape where humanity’s remnants are stretched few and far between, is palpable Continue Reading
Great questions of our time: What do the fox and Cookie Monster say?
A couple of days ago via Twitter, Sesame Street posed two vitally important questions via two delightful Vine videos chock full of their trademark wit and pop culture knowingness, and to save us lying awake at 3 am pondering what the answers could possibly be, gave us those as Continue Reading
Frasier reunion: Another wonderful serve of tossed salad and scrambled eggs
SNAPSHOT Psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane (Grammer) returns to his hometown of Seattle, Washington, following the end of his marriage and his life in Boston (as seen in Cheers). His plans for a new life as a bachelor are complicated when he is obliged to take in his father, Martin Continue Reading
How I accidentally fell in love with The Middle
It’s funny how some shows sneak up on you. Shows you never imagined you would enjoy and had pretty much consigned to the “I will never see a single episode EVER” pile, for any one of a multitude of reasons, suddenly find themselves on your must-see list and usually Continue Reading
TV review: Super Fun Night, “Anything For Love” (S1, E1)
Rebel Wilson is an impressive talent. From her earliest days on Australian TV when she appeared in shows such as Pizza, The Wedge and Bogan Pride, through to her recent impressive success in Hollywood appearing in films Bridesmaids and Pitch Perfect, she has shown a winning flair for combining Continue Reading
TV review: The Crazy Ones (pilot episode)
Ladies and gentleman of the blogosphere I have finally found my breakout sitcom of the new season! The Crazy Ones, by TV maestro David E. Kelley (Boston Legal, Ally McBeal), is that almost elusively perfect blend of snappy, not a syllable wasted clever writing, spot on comic timing, and Continue Reading
Hurrahs all around! Parks and Recreation turns 100 … and Community gets an air date!
My how time in Pawnee flies! Seems it was just yesterday a wide-eyed, optimistic and highly spirited young lady by the name of Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) was thrilled to be the deputy director of the Parks and Recreation department of this idiosyncratic city in Indiana, dream of turning Continue Reading