Category: television
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Dear Diary, Today I Met the Greatest Guy…and then He Ate Me
So, I know that all of you out there have been waiting with bated breath for my take on the CW’s new series Vampire Diaries because: a) I am basically a 14-year-old girlb) I am virtually a PhD-level scholar of the current vampire Zeitgeistand c) You knew there was no way I wasn’t tuning into…
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The Four Kinds of Women You Can Find on Reruns
Blanche, Suzanne, Samantha Rose, Charlene, Charlotte Dorothy, Julia, Miranda Sophia, Mary Jo, Carrie
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Glee is Joy
Last night’s “preview” episode of the fall TV series Glee was awesome. It was fun, was well-written, had some compelling characters, and was–yes–a little moving. It’s created by Ryan Murphy, who also brought us Nip/Tuck and Popular. Glee builds on a lot of the genius that was Popular, is savvy about high school power dynamics,…
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Why We Can’t Help But Love Lauren Conrad
It’s Lauren Conrad’s last season on The Hills, they’re saying, and it seems to me a good opportunity to self-examine why I can’t seem to feel anything but love for her. She’s pretty much everything we should hate: fabulously rich, dubiously famous, amazingly beautiful, and accepting hand-over-first the extraordinary opportunities presented to her. But despite…
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Digging Up Bones
While Beau’s been here, I’ve not been blogging as much because I’ve been taking some vacation time…and watching season 1 of Bones with him. Beau likes watching shows about forensic scientists, so I thought he’d like this. I watched Bones when it first came on because, you know, the David Boreanaz thing (see also Buffy),…
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