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Jersey Shore Recap: The Ballad of Vinny Guadagnino

We’ve known from the very beginning that the Jersey Shore was just too much. Too much drama and silliness contorted by the inebriated and raucous ramblings of the eight people stuffed into a shore house in the buttcrack of New Jersey’s Wendigo realm called Seaside Heights. It has all been too much; the braying at the top of their lungs, the fights, the smushes, the showing of kookas, the living in a mini-hoarders wet dream, the sometimes psychotic repetition of the same people doing the same things, expecting different results, but ultimately pooping out shoulder-shrugs and continuing on their merry way toward lunacy and an enlarged liver.

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Torchwood: Miracle Day, “The New World” (Episode 1) Recap

Are you ready for a new run of Torchwood?  Haven’t watched Torchwood before?  Now’s a great time to start.  Read on, my friends.

If you’re not familiar, Torchwood is a BBC television series, which was started as a spinoff of Doctor Who.  In case you didn’t realize (which I didn’t for months and was mocked mercilessly for by my nerd friends), Torchwood is an anagram for Doctor Who.  That said, this show has nothing to do with Who, but I wanted to throw that out there due to my mild obsession.  The show ran for two seasons, followed by a 5-part “miniseries” called Children of Earth. If this show piques your interest in the least, I recommend Children of Earth as it’s rife with theoretical moral issues and just a darn good story.

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SYTYCD Recap: Jesse Tyler Ferguson is Our New Best Friend!

Forget everything that happened last night on that dance-a-two-step episode of SYTYCD. It was all just filler…no what we really care about is finally after a million seasons and more dancer sweat to fill all Gaterade Shill Bottles everywhere…our beloved Cat Deeley can finally say, “I’m Emmy nominated!” It’s about damn time.

Okay, now on with the show.

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