Modern Family is easily the most intelligent American comedy I’ve seen in a while, currently on its first season in Australia and, I believe, its second in the US. It follows the escapades of ‘modern family’, the Pritchett-Delago-Dunphy-Tuckers. Patriarch Jay Pritchett (Ed O’Neill) is on his second marriage to much younger Gloria Delago-Pritchett (Sofia Vergara), who has a son from a former relationship, Manny (Rico [...]
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For some reason, I ended up on CBS last night and sat through Two and a Half Men. I had seen this show once or twice, a long time ago, and didn’t even realize it was still on the air. After wasting half an hour of my evening, I remained baffled as to why this show is 1) on the air and 2) even moderately [...]
I’m not sure exactly why I watched Bride Wars. It didn’t look like my cup of tea at all. I believe it was that my sisters loved it, although one of them also loved Twilight, so that should have been a big warning there. Wars follows the story of lifelong best friends Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) whose boyfriends propose around the same [...]
“Accidentally on Purpose” is a new sitcom starring Jenna Elfman that centers around a 37-year-old woman who starts a fling with a much younger man, only to find herself pregnant. The premise immediately made me raise a feminist eyebrow, since there are just so many tropes and clichés that potentially lurk just below the surface. Watching the pilot episode, I was pleased to find it [...]
There are lots of things I really wanted to like about Glee. It’s definitely creative and different, it demonstrates some appreciation for high-school-outsider status, and it’s probably the first tv show that I can think of that really engages my love of musicals. Having observed some of the commentary surrounding the special preview episode that aired this summer, I was already aware it wasn’t going [...]
I’ll admit it, I expected watching Lifetime’s new drama, Drop Dead Diva which premiered this past Sunday in the States to be something like watching a house burn – it’s just too dreadful to look away from. The basic premise of the show is that two women, polar opposites in everything from looks to brains, die at the same time. One, Deb, is so shallow [...]
A couple of cable channels have been running The Golden Girls lately, and after Bea Arthur’s passing, I decided to watch some episodes. I watched the show now and then years ago and found the writing inconsistent – sometimes they recycled plots from other sitcoms, and other times they came up with something pretty original and funny. At the very least, they portrayed four women [...]
