Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (UKS) has always been a goofily, quirky show. Almost from the word-go, but certainly as it went on over four seasons and 51 gloriously kooky episodes, one of Netflix’s big sitcom breakouts came to inhabit a televisual body that never shied away from being as hilariously off-the-wall Continue Reading
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Waiting for a treat: Cookie Monster is, believe it or not, a self-control expert
SNAPSHOT Cookie Monster joins NPR’s Life Kit Parenting Podcast to talk about practicing self-control, especially when you have to wait for something you really want… like a plate of delicious chocolate chip cookies. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) If you’re lucky, you’re one of those people who can wait and wait Continue Reading
Grab a phone! What would a 2019 iteration of Friends look like?
We know things have changed since Friends finished its 10-season run back on 6 May, 2004 but, wondered Nerdist, just how different would be the show be if I debuted today? What would change? What would be the same? Would the changes be so dramatic that the show would be Continue Reading
Broke but not broken: New animated series Bless the Harts
“Bless the Harts follows a group of Southerners who are always broke as a joke, and struggling for the American dream of status and wealth. What they don’t realize is that they’re already rich, in friends, family and laughter.” (synopsis via Coming Soon) There’s something about animation that gets me Continue Reading
Hell is other people: Thoughts on … After Life
The thing about grief, which hangs over After Life like an omnipresent dark cloud, is that it doesn’t play out the way you think it will when it’s simply an abstract concept. In other words, when you’ve yet to lose someone. But when that kind of life-altering, world-shattering loss strikes, Continue Reading
Dream over or just begun? Eurovision 2019 – who won, who lost and who’s sweeping up the glitter?
One of the fun things to do as you watch the Eurovision Song Contest, and trust me “fun” is a relative concept in this instance, is to try and divine which songs Europe will, and just as importantly, won’t like, and thus which will progress from the two semi finals Continue Reading
Beverly Hills 90210 reboot: Can’t get the theme song out of my head
SNAPSHOT The series, which premieres August 7, is a quasi-revival of the original featuring the original actors of the 1990s teen drama playing “heightened” versions of themselves. In a tongue-in-cheek twist, the actors star as versions of themselves reuniting as they consider a 90210 revival. How’s that for meta? (source: Continue Reading
Cameras … zombies … action! Season 5 of Fear the Walking Dead is almost here!
SNAPSHOT Heading into season 5 of Fear the Walking Dead, the group’s mission is clear: locate survivors and help make what’s left of the world a slightly better place. With dogged determination, Morgan Jones leads the group with a philosophy rooted in benevolence, community and hope. Each character believes that Continue Reading
Saturday morning TV: Help! … It’s the Hair Bear Bunch
For a kid who dutifully played by the rules the entire time I was growing up (eldest child; say no more), I sure had a love for cartoons where people or bears or squid or rabbits – or insert creature of your choosing – flouted the regulations with gleeful, mischievous Continue Reading
Here at Schmoopy Doop last! Rick and Morty announces season 4 premiere date
Two years everyone! Almost two long years! That’s how long it’s been – well, technically one year and seven months but you can’t shout that without sounding ridiculously and embarrassingly over-precise – since we saw new episodes and could grab our Szechuan Sauce and sit back and enjoy the inspired, Continue Reading