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…
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…
X-Files: Adieu, To You and You and…
Written by Amanda, Kathy Adams Like Chris Carter, we had a larger plan, and it was this: Watch the last four episodes of the X-Files, review them together each Monday…
Alias: The Players
Written by Michelle, Amy, Melynee We’ve done this one up specifically for the Nikita-inclined. Get out your scorecard and play along… The Agencies SD-6: Not technically a character, but the…
Enterprise Goes Virtual
In the wake of an act of domestic terrorism, the crew of the Earth starship Enterprise launches an investigation and discovers that the xenophobic terrorists may have received aid from…
Wonderfalls: Fall In
The sadly canceled FOX caustic-romantic-dramedy Wonderfalls is now available on DVD. I’m here to tell you why to watch, and why, despite the press’ comparisons, this is so not Joan…
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…
Buffy: When It Was Good
Here’s the deal: we each picked our favorite ten episodes/moments/storylines/characters/what-have-you over the seven seasons Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been on the air. We combined our lists, noted the overlaps,…
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…
American Idol Goes Hollywood
Hello PopGurls readers! I’m excited to be here; I hope you’re excited to be reading about the ninth season of American Idol, a show I have loved and loved to…
Buffy’s Slayerettes Grow Up
Written by Melynee, Amanda My life got real busy all of a sudden, and I started working on my notes for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer recaps, and I realized…
Josh Holloway Lights My Fire
When I was in the sixth grade, my best friend and I had a crush on a boy named Jason. Jason was a year older, and was that intelligent-preppy-nerdy-sweet type…
Buffy: When It Was Bad
Y’know how there’s that stuff that makes watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer worthwhile? This is really and truly not it. Just like our Best of… List, The 31 or so…
90210 — Deja Vu All Over Again?
Nearly twenty years ago, when Beverly Hills 90210 first premiered, most girls were twittering away about the drama to their best friends on commercial breaks. I was a late-bloomer, getting…
OTP: Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Colonel John Sheppard of Stargate: Atlantis
As an avid consumer of media (books, movies, TV shows) I’ve had many favorite pairings or ‘ships, but I never really understood the concept of One True Pairing (OTP) until…
Dawson’s Creek: Capeside Redemption
Laura: I’ll preface this bit by admitting, up front, that I was pretty much in tears for most of the Dawson’s Creek finale. Not for the episode itself (more on…
Downton Abbey: A History Lesson Cleverly Disguised as a Soap Opera
Sometime back in the fall of 2011, Downton Abbey happened. I don’t mean that the show premiered; it actually premiered in the US in the fall of 2010. But sometime…
Trading Spaces in 40 Days
From the first phone call to taping b-roll footage, below is Erin’s first-person account of auditioning and landing a spot on the TLC show Trading Spaces. Cast of Characters (in…
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…
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…
Reality Shines in American High
I know Michelle hates it, but there is something to be said for reality programming-when it is showing us actual reality and not some farce dreamed up by greedy producers…
Eliza Dushku Slays Us
Michelle: Eliza is all about attitude. Her bad-ass slayer saved season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in many ways. From the minute Faith burst on the scene she was…
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…
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…
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…
Smallville: With Friends Like Lex…
This morning at an airport newsstand I picked up a copy of Movieline with Sarah Michelle Gellar on the cover. It was more habit than anything because I care even…
You’ve Really Got Some Minerva, Veronica Mars
Teen detective drama Veronica Mars faced a lot of upheavals this year, not only with the show moving from UPN to the shiny new hybrid network The CW, but also…
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…
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…
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…