I was surprised by this film when Netflix recommended it. Partly because I’d never heard of it, and partly because the premise is so unusual. I think Netflix has a hard time suggesting things for me because my tastes and interests are so diverse, but this one is one of the ones I really enjoyed […]
Tuesday Night Needs to Pick Up the Pace: Except Justified, Which is Perfect the Way It Is
New Girl Nick’s dad (special guest appearance by Dennis Farina!) shows up for a visit. He wrangles Jess into buying a horse to sell back for a better price. She knows how upset Nick is with his dad, so she abandons them to try to get them to talk it out. It’s fun having guest […]
CBS Monday: Overplayed, New Endings, and TV History
How I Met Your Mother Barney meets Robin’s dad, and from what we’ve seen of him before, he’s a little scary. Barney: Vampire in the daylight! Vampire in the daylight! Ted is desperate not to let Barney and Robin get a wedding band instead of a DJ, and admits that it’s because he still wants […]
ABC Sunday Night: A New Line Up with Twists and One-Liners
Here we go: recaps from the new Sunday night line-up from ABC! Enjoy! Revenge This one was pretty loaded, let’s see how we can keep up… Amanda tries to take things into her own hands when she finds out why Jack is in jail. Emily plots to bring the initiative, namely Helen Crowley to her […]
Thursday Dramas Heat Up and Try to Make You Cry
I didn’t quite get to Elementary yet, but I believe they’re off this week, so I may take my time getting to it. Apologies! In the meantime, enjoy catching up with last week’s Last Resort and Grey’s! Last Resort Marcus has to deter a ship going after his new allies, the Chinese, who are delivering […]
Review: Serious Moonlight
I was even more disappointed with this movie than I thought I’d be. On the plus side, it has awesome actors, good outlook for a director, and a great writer, but it just was terrible. Not funny, too predictable, and completely unbelievable. Meg Ryan and Timothy Hutton (reunited after all these years since French Kiss!) […]
Tuesday Dramas: Falling a Little Flat
Private Practice This episode is told from Amelia’s perspective. She tries to get back into dating, but it turns out the only man she’s really interested in the new ER doc, James. They spend some time together and really connect, but his conservatism political views throw her a bit, and she is worried her addiction […]
Wednesday Night: Surprises, Twists and Less Than That
American Horror Story: Asylum Lana gets released and visits Dr. Thredson’s apartment to give him the good news that the police are coming to arrest him for the Bloodyface murders. He presses his luck and she shoots him before the police arrive. Astonishingly enough, it looked to me like she missed the vital organs and somehow he still dies. She […]
Guys with Kids and the Scoop on 1600 Penn
Guys with Kids Marny’s dad comes by for a visit (Ernie Hudson, you probably remember him as Winston Zeddemore from Ghostbusters!) and makes Gary nervous because he’s never been alone with his father in law without Marny’s mother as a buffer. Chris is dating again and when he gets stood up, since he got stuck with two tickets […]
Tuesday Night: Surrogates, Gay Bars and Bob Costas
Here’s the recaps from Tuesday that we missed because of the unfortunate spring scheduling that pits 8 great shows against each other within a two-hour time block Go On Ryan is faced with a TV appearance embarrassment as Bob Costas asks him to do a screen test of sorts for his show. Mr. K, after assisting with […]