2 Broke Girls: The Side Effects of Registered Emotional Companions
Season 1, Episode 20: And the Drug Money 2 Broke Girls tends to reserve its cold open for Max’s social commentary monologues on hipsters, rich people and whatever random group that happens to wander...
View ArticleBones: The Trials of Organic Baby Wipes (Even With A Coupon)
Bones Season 7 Episode 8: The Bump in the Road Coupons kill. Bet you didn’t know that. To be honest, I didn’t either. And while I still (and you do too probably) remain skeptical, I can’t argue because...
View ArticleGirls: The Voice Of An Aimless Generation
Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot Near the end of the first episode of Girls, the lead character, Hannah (Lena Dunham), drinks a cup of opium and then heads off to her parents’ hotel room to convince them to...
View Article2 Broke Girls: Taxes and Trash Talk
Season 1, Episode 21: And the Messy Purse Smackdown Let’s be clear here, this episode was mostly filler. The cold open did push the cupcake business forward one more baby step with Max’s glee over...
View ArticleModern Family: Break Out Of Your Shell
Season 3, Episode 20: The Last Walt The episode starts with some really sad news. The Dunphy’s elderly next-door-neighbor, and Luke’s good friend, Walt has passed away. Phil and Claire are really sad...
View ArticleAwake: The Episode Where Michael Ran Around Nude to Save His Marriage
Season 1, Episode 8: Nightswimming The episode had one of the most amusing and confusing openings ever. It didn’t start with Michael but with two cops in a car. They get a call from campus security to...
View ArticleParks and Recreation: Political Suicide
Season 4, Episode 19: Live Ammo After being on hiatus for over a month, Parks and Recreation returned last night with a brand new episode. In “Live Ammo” we find our favorite Pawnee residents going...
View ArticleGirls: Who Are The Ladies?
Season 1, Episode 2: Vagina Panic Last week, Girls began with what was easily among my favorite pilots of any show that I’ve ever watched. A quick survey of the internet at large tells me I’m mostly...
View ArticleAwake: The Episode That Changes Everything
Season 1, Episode 9: Game Day Last night’s Awake was on the most brilliant episodes of the season. The parallels were actually quite amazing. I’m actually quite fascinated with the chaos theory of the...
View ArticleParks and Recreation: Not Going Anywhere
Season 4, Episode 20: The Debate With Leslie still behind by 8% in the polls, the city council debate is the best bet to close the gap. In order to cover a lot of ground, the campaign crew puts Ann,...
View ArticleGirls: Dancing On Their Own
Season 1, Episode 3: All Adventurous Women Do Throughout “All Adventurous Women Do” characters engaged in various acts of dress-up, both literally and in the more playful sense of a child trying on...
View Article2 Broke Girls: Cupcake Commitment
Season 1, Episode 22: And the Big Buttercream Breakthrough 2 Broke Girls isn’t the kind of show that ramps up to a big, show-stopping finale, so as the penultimate episode, “And the Big Buttercream...
View ArticleGirls: You’re So Vain, I Bet You Think This Song Is About You
Season 1, Episode 4: Hannah’s Diary The lack of diversity in Girls has been a hot topic on the internet since the show’s debut. I have avoided touching on the matter because people on both sides of the...
View Article2 Broke Girls: Making It
Season 1, Episode 23: And Martha Stewart Have a Ball I didn’t expect much from the 2 Broke Girls season finale. It’s a sitcom in a very traditional sense. It’s light on drama, character development and...
View ArticleModern Family: Pick The Right Footwear For Disneyland
Season 3, Episode 22: Disneyland When Modern Family didn’t take advantage of the idea of 24-hours of Disneyland for their leap day episode I was happy. I thought a Disneyland episode would be a little...
View ArticleGirls: Grown-Up Problems
Season 1, Episode 5: Hard Being Easy Toward the middle of the episode, after the fallout of Hannah’s journal entry, Charlie, not unkindly, tells Marnie that, “they’re not grownups” and there’s nothing...
View ArticleModern Family: Jay’s Sandwich All Around
Season 3, Episode 23: Tableau Vivant This episode was the penultimate episode of season 3. Modern Family is not one to take advantages of their final episodes to use cliffhangers or start plotlines...
View ArticleAwake: Taking Care of the Little Guy
Season 1, Episode 12: Two Birds In case you haven’t heard the sad news Awake has not been picked up for a season season by NBC. It wasn’t a complete surprise if you were checking the ratings, but I...
View ArticleGirls: Home Is Where You Hang Your Goo Goo Dolls Poster
Season 1, Episode 6: The Return When I first saw the promo for “The Return,” I hoped that it would focus solely on Hannah. It’s not that I’m not interested in Marnie, Shoshanna and Jessa; it’s just...
View ArticleHouse, Thanks For the Memories: A Long-Time Fan’s Top 5 Episodes
I’ve been a House fan since mid-season three. I actually caught a repeat episode (1.19 “Kids”) while channel surfing one night, and I fell in love with the show. I’ll be honest: I didn’t love House...
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