It’s time once again for everyone’s favorite frivolous awards circle-jerk: The Golden Globes! Ricky Gervais is hosting once again. Because controversy. Or whatever. Morgan Freeman will receive the Cecil B. DeMille award this evening. If you ask me, they’re fifteen to twenty years late with that one. But you didn’t ask me, so give big daddy one second to swallow a couple of numb-numb pills. Okay. Pour yourself a drink, and make it fancy–maybe put it in a real glass instead of a plastic tumbler–because tonight we drink with the stars!
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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.
These are all things we know. What we didn’t anticipate was the eventual toll this would take on one of the participants. Continue reading
There’s always a television show that seems to catch everyone’s attention and love, but yet you hate it. Continue reading
Welcome to my first ever recap! Some of you didn’t watch last season, and it’s possible that someone of you who did watch forgot everything, so we’re starting out with a few minutes of clips. Dance Moms centers around a studio run by a crazy beast of a woman who likes to yell at everyone. Continue reading
Oh Em Gee, guys! It is the Project Runway we’ve always fantasized about–the season that includes the likes of Mondo, Miss Sugarbaker, Adonis Rami, Austin Scarlett, and Our Lady of Rosettes, Kara Janx. Talent and crazy bananas! What more could we ask for? (Aside from Tim Gunn and Andrae, obviously.)
Mix your cocktails, pop open that wine (or, if you’re like me, pop out the little cardboard square of your cheapy-cheap boxed wine), and join us for a bad attitude liveblog.
Former celebrities decide Donald Trump is as good a Pension plan as any; your boss is still horrible; Olbermann just can’t stop doing that thing he does; So You Think You Can Dance trims the fat, and Melissa McCarthy may be asked to continue a franchise. Continue reading
Like yesterday’s post, only more brooding and homicidal.
Breaking Bad: It’s pretty simple at this point. If you’re not watching Breaking Bad you’re an idiot and better be contributing great things to society. Because missing out on TV’s finest hour-long drama is inexcusable. Showrunner Vince Gilligan has steadily taken more risks with the plot and in the fourth season the writers went all out. One five-minute sequence in the season premeire involving a box cutter set the tone, which this season was along the lines of “Holy shit.” A lull in the middle led some fans to question whether the creative minds were on the right track but the last third of the season blew audiences away. Another season, another otherworldly performance by Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston. But season 4 belonged to Giancarlo Esposito as drug kingpin Gus Fring. Special shout-out to composer David Porter and music supervisor Thomas Golubi for his fantastic song choices. Continue reading
The SAG Award nominations are out, and as many an actor will attest, fawningly, the SAGs are that one award that means the most (Not really. They all want the Oscar.) since it’s chosen by fellow thespians. Is it a complete Oscar predictor? No. But it is a good indicator of who the top contenders will most likely be. Continue reading
Let’s take a look at some of the best television has had to offer. Continue reading
Lowe’s has apparently pulled its advertising from the only decent show on TLC, All American Muslim. According to The Hollywood Reporter, something called the Florida Family Association encouraged its followers to email the show’s advertisers, stating, “All-American Muslim is propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda’s clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values.” Luckily, TLC says that advertiser support for the show remains strong– I don’t know about you guys, but I think this is the only redeeming show on the network. Continue reading