Remember how I started out recapping this show by being like “Well, it’s mildly ridiculous, but engaging,” and then how that turned into “This show is dumb and annoying.” and then how that turned into “Oh my god this show is ridiculous but I made a commitment to see it through so I guess [...]

Raise your hand if you saw promos for Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23 and saw the reliance on the Van Der Beek and the shying away from the word “bitch” and the whole “crazy whacky 20 something women” plot and immediately wrote the show off as a mix of 2 Broke Girls and [...]

Last night’s epsiode of Smash didn’t stand a chance. I had planned on watching the show as I usually do – on my lunch break from my 8 – 5 job, hunched over my iPhone, taking notes and cackling into my turkey sandwich. But Amtrak had other plans. Or should I say Amtrak as assisted [...]

You know what I always felt The West Wing needed? A hunky young president madly in love with a former member of his staff who is now one of the most powerful women working behind the scenes in DC. Shonda Rhimes, otherwise known as the Alex Whisperer, heard my call and gave us Scandal which [...]

Sandra Oh can make eating cereal the most fascinating thing in the world. She had maybe three lines in the episode last night but every second she was on-screen she was imminently watchable. Processing betrayal and working to overcome it. She was this ball of fury tamped down tightly. And opposite her was Owen Hunt. [...]

  The last time I wrote about Ringer I thought six months had past, but either Siobhan is gestating the way in which an Elephant does, or I was somehow mistaken? Either way, Siobhan is still pregnant, so pregnant, all wearing tunics and what have you. So I guess this is a retraction? But really [...]

The only thing worse than watching Smash, is, to pilfer shamelessly from the immortal words of Oscar Wilde, is not watching Smash. It was with great relief that I fell back into the gently back-lit sea of Times Square liquor stores and dreamy mythic Brooklyn apartments comprised almost entirely of windows – all the better [...]

  The thing I love the most about Scott and Bailey, a more richly layered take on  Cagney and Lacey that airs on ITV is the way in which it was conceived. Actress Suranne Jones (Tennant fans may remember her from her stint on Single Father) and her pal, Coronation Street veteran Sally Lindsay were [...]

The other day I was talking to a family friend I don’t see very often and they asked if I watched Two and a Half Men. They’re a very nice person and they clearly love the show so I had to be quite demure (shocking I know) and say I didn’t get a chance to [...]

Television has a long and storied history when it comes to managing their actress’s real-life pregnancies. Typically this involves standing behind couches or holding boxes,  being shot from the waist up, or being abducted by aliens, you know, the usual. Less common, though not untried, the actress in question may find herself donning a fat [...]