SatC: The Sex is Almost Over
Flipping through the channels this weekend, I came across a Season Five episode of Sex and the City. For the first time, I realized that I was truly going to miss the show when it’s done this summer. I honestly…
Felicity: Damn You
I was hooked on Felicity all through the first season. Always one for overly dramatic teen angst, the starting-your-life over story came just as I was graduating college and trying to figure out my little path to take. And while…
Alias: Will the New Nikita Please Get a Fucking Gun?
I’m sure this will shock no one, but Amy and Michelle have a new addiction. A new, bad, cheesy addiction. Okay, fine, not bad. But we’ll leave in cheesy. Michelle thinks Amy will agree with her on that one. She…
Buffy: Bored Now
Awhile back we did a piece lovingly entitled Buffy Bitching, wherein we detailed our discontent with the past few seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. From the uselessness of Xander to the weaknesses of the villains to the passive cipher…
Trading Spaces: The Other House
Written by Amy B. From going barefoot to holding cabinet doors for Amy Wynn, below is Amy’s account of working in Genevieve’s house for Trading Spaces. Cast of Characters (in order of appearance) Amy – that’s me! Corinne and I…
Popular: Cancel Our Subscription
Written by Brad, Amy Brad: Several weeks ago, I sat in horror during the season/series finale of Popular. The producers either wanted to screw everyone who watched the show, or they didn’t expect it to be canceled at the end…
Gurl Interrupted: The Inside’s Special Agent Rebecca Locke
FOX’s new crime drama, The Inside was created by Tim Minear, the man the Weekly Standard calls “one of the five best minds in television,” and Howard Gordon (24) who is likely one of the unnamed other four. The show…
Buffy: Something Witchy This Way Comes
The Buffy season six finale was, to put it bluntly, two of the worst hours in the history of the series. It was the culmination of a season more terrible than The One With The Initiative, and even worse than…
The Siren Song of Fandom
When I was in high school and early in college, I had a bad habit of dating boys back to back. I’d already have another one in the wings by the time I got around to breaking up with whatever…
Pan Am: Experience Makes the Difference
A few weeks into the 2011 television season, a friend told me I had to watch ABC’s Pan Am. This wasn’t in my plans, as I had no interest in the show. From the ad campaign it seemed similar to…
What Manic Pixie Dream Girl Movies Can Learn From Leslie Knope
The thing about Parks and Recreation that’s stood out from the beginning — or, at least, since the show first hit its stride during the second season — is how great it is to its female characters. That’s pretty much…
Buffy: Less Than Gay?
Dead Lesbian Cliché? In spring 2002, the Internet was all aflutter with the rumor that Amber Benson’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer character, Tara Maclay, was to be killed off on the series. Now, for those of you who don’t follow…
Completely Smitten with Love Monkey
It’s mid-season and the networks have been kicking out the replacements in overdrive lately. Sandwiched between quirky-girl shows like Heather Graham’s Emily’s Reason’s Why Not (already shelved after one episode) and Jenna Elfman’s Courting Alex, I kept seeing promos for…
Wade’s Got a Dance Show
I really hadn’t planned to watch The Wade Robson Project. I’m not a huge fan of competition shows, and I only tune into the American Idol audition episodes for the entertainment factor. Once it focuses on people who can actually…
Alias: One in Five, Bitch
Season finales, on a whole, are over-hyped, overblown debacles of painful proportions. An entire season builds up to one hour, that damn finale that’s usually way too predictable and never seems to quite tie everything together in a way that…
Three Cheers For The Queers
Thank god the Bravo network has decided it doesn’t give two snaps about Middle America. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which premiered to more buzz than my gay office has heard since family favorite Clay bit the big one,…
Dawson's Creek: Woes from the Creek
If the word “suck” didn’t exist, Dawson’s Creek would have created it. And I can say this because I’ve watched from the beginning. Every single, excruciating, soulmate-overdosing second. I’ve watched. I’ve taped. I’ve written fanfiction. I can say this, you…
High Stakes Hootenanny
In the interest of full disclosure, I’m a lifelong Democrat, and I’m voting for John Kerry. That said, I briefly considered voting for Bush while at the Joss Whedon Fundraiser for Kerry, High Stakes 2004. It’s not that I don’t…
Buffy: If We Wrote It
Oh, how many times have you wished that you could take the reins of your favorite show? Especially when it started to slide off the path into a very bad place? Here’s our list of things we would have changed…
The WB Bows Out
When they announced the merger of The WB and UPN, I was surprised but gave it little thought. I knew both netlets had been struggling with ratings, and a joining of the two for a potentially competitive network made decent…
Why I Am Excited For HBO's Girls
In the trailer for HBO’s Girls, Lena Dunham’s character, Hannah, tells her parents that she thinks that she might be the voice of her generation and then qualifies it with, “Or at least of a generation.” Similar expectations are being…
Eureka!
The premise of Eureka is that, once upon a time, Einstein and Truman made a secret deal to build a town where the world’s awesomest scientists would all live, breed, collaborate, and build Weapons of Mass Destruction in an underground…
The One Thing Friday Night Lights Got Wrong
I loved Friday Night Lights, but I didn’t watch it until the whole show was over and off the air because I thought I wouldn’t particularly enjoy it. I grew up in East Texas. My high school was Friday Night Lights…
Buffy: Drink Up, Friends
Written by Michelle, Amy, Melynee and Kristen After a group-viewing of the hideous, craptastic Xander/Anya wedding, we realized that we’d be hard-pressed to make it through yet another episode of this once excellent show without some outside help. Because, people,…
X-Files: MSR D.O.A.
Written by Amanda, Kathy Adams Once one of the most prolific ‘shipper groups on the ‘net, fans of the Mulder/Scully relationship (MSR) on the X-Files have been through eight seasons of teasing and rocky times. It’s a miracle anyone is…
How Real is American Idol?
I was a latecomer to the American Idol frenzy. A die-hard reality television hater, I held out for the entire first season, even when everyone around me was gossiping about it over the water cooler. The more people loved it,…
I Was a Background Extra
Last year I moved to Los Angeles from a small town in northern California in an effort to become a “real musician.” I spend most of my time here writing songs and playing gigs. I also spend a lot of…
Buffy: Normal Again?
I am intrigued. Not by the Anya/Xander storyline. Not by Willow. Or Dawn or Xander. By Buffy. I’m actually intrigued by Buffy. I know, I know, I just wrote her off! However, if the end of “Normal Again” is ever…
Spoilers: the Crack of Generation Net
Amy: My relationship with spoilers is a long and sordid one. It started with that blasted magazine that should really be banned from stores everywhere. You know the one – the TV Guide. Oh, it looks all innocent – but…
Buffy: The Point of No Return
*this was written before the viewing of “Tabula Rasa.” At times, I appreciate that the entire cast and crew of Buffy are willing to do things that are daring and different. At other times, I wish that they would just…