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Category Archives: Final Thoughts
Final thoughts and grades for television seasons.
First Impressions: The Mindy Project ‘Pilot’ – Even Barbie Has A Boyfriend
I never really got into the American version of The Office, so much of the hype around Mindy Kaling’s pilot script that was dropped by NBC and picked up by Fox earlier this year was lost to me. Continue reading »
Season finale review: Wilfred ‘Secrets’ – Mommy’s Getting Shitfaced Tonight
In many ways, ‘Secrets’ is a microcosm of Wilfred‘s second season as a whole: weird, engaging at times, and inconsistent. Continue reading »
Animal Practice ‘Pilot’: Monkeyin’ Around
Deep within the core of NBC’s latest comedy failure Animal Practice, is a solid comedy premise that could become quite a quirky little cult comedy – something the network’s explicitly stated they’re trying to move away from. That philosophy ends up burying what promise there is to the show under a blanket of horribly mundane and … Continue reading »
The Killing ‘What I Know’: One More Time
When a show spends multiple seasons building up to a defining moment, its needless to say the moment better pay off. Breaking Bad‘s done it twice – in both the season 3 and 5 finales, to varying successes – and The Wire did it masterfully a number of times, among many others. But after two seasons … Continue reading »
Veep ‘Tears’: Tweaking The Tear Nipple
‘Tears’ put a cherry on top of a fantastic first season of Veep, a poignantly hilarious half-hour about the 24/7 news cycle, public opinion, and how the slightest over-reaction to anything positive or negative can be disastrous for politics. It was a almost-perfect culmination of the show’s first eight episodes, capturing the satirical genius of creator Armando Iannucci … Continue reading »
Cougar Town ‘My Life/Your World’: A House Full Of Humanity
Without a Cougar Town episode on the schedule last week, I took the opportunity to revisit the bumpy first eight episodes of the show, which are a major contrast with the show that Cougar Town eventually turned into. What I love about those episodes is that rather than try and get everyone to forget they happened, they’ve embraced … Continue reading »
Don’t Trust the B—- In Apt 23 ‘Shitagi Nashi…’: Behind the Pillar
Tonight’s episode of Apt 23 is all about ‘being cool’, and the severe insecurities that lie beneath the surface of everyone, whether they’re cool or not. It’s not the best episode we’ve seen thus far – and since it wasn’t written as a season finale, does a poor job acting as one. It’s still a fun … Continue reading »
Final Thoughts: New Girl (Season 1)
Any network sitcom that focuses all of its promotional material on the single known entity always make me wary… too many shows rely on the appeal of mildly successful actor in their premieres, and for ensemble comedies, this can be dangerous. So needless to say, I was quite worried when the hype machine began for … Continue reading »
Community ‘Digital Estate Planning/The First Chang Dynasty/Introduction to Finality’: It’s About Family
Three wildly different episodes of Community finished out its third season tonight, a fitting showcase for the most versatile comedy around. All of them dealt with the different themes and stories flying around this season, from Chang the Dictator to Pierce’s father (and Jeff’s, for that matter) right down to the struggle for Abed’s sanity and the … Continue reading »
