You could look back on this little mini-season and perceive some rocky moments along the way, most notably the poor dialogue, repetitive characters (just how many rednecks does the cast require?), sketchily drawn characters (basically, everyone who isn’t Rick, Lori, Shane, Andrea and,...

“What has become of us, Kurt?” Oh, God. We had a terrible epiphany last night watching this show. We think the gimmicky theme episodes as well as the occasionally equally as gimmick Very Special Episodes might actually represent when the show is at its strongest. Because last...

As much as we enjoyed the performances and were intrigued by the directions the plot is going (sort of), we didn’t like this episode as a whole and it took a second viewing to figure out why. The writing struck us as both a little lazy and a little impressed with itself. Rewatching the...

In really good epic drama, there are kings and queens. Not in the literal sense (although sometimes), but in the character sense. What we mean by that is there are those few among the usually sizable cast whose interpersonal reactions and mostly private drama determine the larger fate of the...

“What in the G.D. Hell?” Glee’s kind of a funny show. That probably sounds like a painfully obvious thing to say, but we mean it’s funny in the sense that the audience has a somewhat unusual relationship to it and to our way of thinking, that relationship gets weirder...

Because we’re heading into the end of the first season, the pace has picked up considerably with this episode. Not that we’ve reached the boiling point yet, the show is still too low-key (some would say slow) to get us there to quickly. Instead, many of the characters are coming...

We’re going to resist breaking this episode down into Pros and Cons because we always hated that form of review/recap. No matter what, it always comes across too smug by half. Still, the temptation is strong, because here we are, hours after the episode ended, still undecided as to...

“You make the underflaps of my breasts burn like when I used to rub them with poison sumac.” Well alright! We weren’t expecting that at all. In fact, how would we? Who could rightly predict that bringing Gwyneth Paltrow in for a guest stint would re-energize the show,...

Hit it, ladies! That’s right, hookers! RuPaul’s Drag Race is back come January! Darlings we have been out in a drag-free wilderness for too long, nary a sequin or false eyelash in sight. Thankfully, Miss Ru is back and she’s got a bevy of new girls to whip into shape....

We’re not exactly being original when we point out that Boardwalk Empire, like most organized crime stories, is essentially an examination of power; what people will do to get it, what they do to hold on to it, what happens when it fades and how the powerless figure into the story....

Despite the ever-expanding size of the cast, this episode made it clear that for now at least, The Walking Dead is Rick’s story. He drives almost all the action and like any decent square-jawed hero, he’s become the moral center of the story. As the people around him flirt with...

“No. This is my hill to climb alone.” In recent weeks, there has been a rhetorical explosion around the concept of bullying, especially gay bullying. That’s a good thing, of course; a very good thing. Tragic that it took a flurry of young men taking their own lives in the...

It seems fitting that Nucky would finally make the shift from politician to organized crime boss while basking in his political power and throwing his weight around, becoming a kingmaker in the process. At the height of his political game, he realized it’s not enough because he’s...

Well. So much for the idea that the gore was just harmless and cartoon-like in nature. We immediately switched over to the Golden Girls the second this episode ended. Nothing scrubs the brain free of heavy thoughts like those lovable old bitches. We had a couple of problems with the writing...

People (not many) have asked, “T Lo, what happened to your The Event posts?” Well, here’s what happened. The last episode that aired had so little forward movement on the plot that we couldn’t string together more than a couple sentences for a review and then a week...

We can’t in good conscience pat the writers on the back too much this week because they took the subtext of this episode and made it the actual title of the episode. Tsk. Here endeth the criticism of the writing for this episode. The subject this week couldn’t be simpler but it...

A bit of “conventional wisdom” has popped up over the weekend regarding Mondo’s collection and we have to say we disagree rather strongly with it. It’s this idea that because Mondo uses relatively simple shapes and techniques in his collection, that means it’s...

We tried, minions. Really we did. Much to the chagrin of probably most of you, we really tried to look at this collection with a fresh set of eyes and with the judges’ critiques still ringing in our ears. And to be fair, there are some pieces here that we like. But overwhelmingly, our...

We felt bad for Andy, who was quickly dispensed with by the judges in favor of an extended catfight over Gretchen and Mondo. His collection deserved better than that, in our opinion. We wouldn’t have declared it the winner, but he showed some downright beautiful pieces and enough...

“Mexican terrorist ants!” At the risk of once again being branded anti-Glee philistines by the commentariat, we have to admit we weren’t really looking forward to this episode at all. If there’s one consistency with Glee, it’s that the “theme”...

We made the point earlier that Michael C’s designs are in the Bob Mackie mold and that’s still true, but maybe a bit of a disservice to him because it implies he’s a costume designer. If we were to pick more modern designers for comparison, we’d toss out names like...