I realized the other day that one of the reasons I loved “Wings” so much was that Helen wanted to be a concert cellist, and she was always getting her heart broken on that dream because music is so competitive. She also wanted to get married and got her heart broken by men occasionally, but that she dealt with or shrugged off. Music was her [...]
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Scrubs is a wacky silly show that dares not to have a laugh track. Sometimes it’s hilarious: “Hey, how come Frankfurt and Hamburg have nothing to do with frankfurters and hamburgers?” “How come your Lake Titicaca is not filled with boobs and poop?” And sometimes it’s brilliant on gender, like when Elliot and Turk are arguing over which it’s harder to be in medicine: a [...]
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the sitcom Samantha Who? First, I generally hate sitcoms, and the premise of the show – a woman rebuilding her life after an accident that causes complete amnesia of who she is and what she’s done – seems exceptionally cliché at first. The show quickly redeemed itself in my eyes because it uses the trope in order to explore the [...]
It’s not difficult for me to hate characters like Barney from How I Met Your Mother. Last Monday’s episode, The Bracket, demonstrates it perfectly. It’s not a show I watch, for reasons Purtek highlighted in her review of another episode, and because I have no real desire to. I happened across five minutes of it last week, and sought out the full episode just to [...]
I just watched an episode of Friends, and please, God, give me that half hour of my life back. Basically, Rachel tells Ross she’s slept with four or five men while he’s slept with two women (including her). He freaks out that she had ‘wild animal sex’ with someone and feels deeply insecure. She reassures him that they have something much better than wild, animal [...]
There’s a pervasive cultural myth that all a woman has to do is flirt, and men will give her everything she wants. Angry Men’s Rights Activists kvetch about it in forums all the livelong day. Spice Girls Feminists brag about it and think it’s great for women. And some of us don’t think it’s the big solution to women’s problems it’s cracked up to be. [...]
I don’t have much to say about The Vicar of Dibley – A Holy Wholly Happy Ending (Series 5) except: He falls in love with her at first sight. Which addresses a concern several of us have voiced: there are so many stories of ordinary-looking men with wives who look like supermodels, so where are all the stories of ordinary-looking women with gorgeous men falling [...]
