Daily Archives: November 16, 2011

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Five Reasons You Should be Watching Happy Endings

Admittedly, the first time I saw a promo for ABC’s Happy Endings, I was nonplussed, to put it mildly. As a long-standing fan of Fox’s 24, my memories of Elisha Cuthbert were a shade, well, terrible. Throughout her run on the show as star Keifer Sutherland’s daughter, she seemed an uneven performer whose character did a lot more to get in the way than it ever did to help move stories along.

By the time Happy Endings was through it’s first season, I had managed to avoid the show completely, save for risking ocular injury at the trailers that popped up during Modern Family. Then, something weird happened. ABC Family ran a marathon of the first season, and once I overcame my own biases against Ms. Cuthbert, I came to realize-Hey, this show is actually rather amusing. Continue reading

Community, Benched; Prime Suspect, Pulled; And NBC is Going With What?!

There are just a bunch of crazed dingleberries over at that network. Seriously. You really want to believe that their decision making ability is in tact, but what it seems we’re actually getting is drunk uncle Marvin, singing show tunes to an oven mitt, declaring war on a lobster pot, and flirting shamelessly with your mother’s cousin Shirley.

NBC needs an intervention.

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