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The magic of bottle episodes: how “background check” saved New Girl

The magic of bottle episodes: how “background check” saved New Girl

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Very rarely does an episode from a mediocre TV show appear out of nowhere and change your life. Even more rarely is that episode a bottle episode. However, season 4 episode 6 of Fox’s New Girl aired years ago and completely changed everything I thought I knew about comedy. This episode, called Background Check, starts with Winston (Lamorne Morris) warning everyone in the loft that, in order to pass police academy, his supervisor is coming over to perform a routine…

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Podcast and TV merge in new comedy show

Podcast and TV merge in new comedy show

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My Brother, My Brother, and Me is a short (6 episodes total) and up and coming TV show based on a podcast of the same name starring the McElroy brothers, Justin (the oldest brother), Travis (the middlest brother), and Griffin (the sweet baby brother) who give advice to people and try to solve their problems. The podcast itself is a hilarious advice show, and the new TV show follows suit. The whole show can only be found on Seeso.com, a…

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The One I’ve Been Waiting For: A Love Letter to Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino

The One I’ve Been Waiting For: A Love Letter to Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino

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Reasons I love the Palladinos/favorite moments of the Gilmore Girls revival: “I smell snow” opening Setting Emily and Lorelai’s huge fight in the kitchen, where their biggest fights always happened Seeing LANE’S FATHER. Paris in the Chilton bathroom Carole King coming back Lorelai going to do “Wild: and finding her version of it behind a coffee shop. In Omnia Paratus. The Gorilla masks. I want my own life and death brigade. For just that one sequence, set so perfectly to…

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Not The Fastest Man Alive—But Close Enough

Not The Fastest Man Alive—But Close Enough

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“The Flash” is an awesome TV show. Veeeery minor spoilers follow, but nothing significant. It’s not without its flaws, which we will get to in depth, but it’s an incredibly fun and enjoyable program that anyone with even the most vague interest in the superhero genre should check out. “The Flash”’s biggest advantage is that it truly understands the balance between the funny and the serious and knows how to work that divide. As my friend says, this a show…

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Gilmore Girls is returning!

Gilmore Girls is returning!

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In case you haven’t heard, Gilmore Girls is coming back.   When I first heard the news last week, to say that I was overjoyed was an understatement. Word on the street is that Netflix has a deal with Warner Brothers for a limited series revival of the show, which ran for seven seasons from 2000 to 2007, and that all of the major characters are expected back. It seems to be that the way it will work is that…

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The Absurd, The Surreal, The Chronically Depressed II

The Absurd, The Surreal, The Chronically Depressed II

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Okay, so let’s quickly recap what we’ve been over so far. The first part of this article established that Rick and Morty and Bojack Horseman represent major game changers to both the genres of comedy and animation, more specifically adult animation. This is because they are the first major series that chose to dedicate their thematic content to very real and seldom discussed topics. Instead of making cocksure political jabs, the comedic equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel, they…

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Stannis Burns On

Stannis Burns On

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Heavy spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 5 follow. Like, seriously. Heavy.   Trigger Warning: this blog post includes a discussion of extreme violence and rape that occurred on this television program.   Stannis Baratheon is a straight-up monster and we should all hate him. But for a while there in season five, we forgot that. We started to like him. We may have even started to root for him. His rescue of Jon Snow and the Night’s Watch, his weary correction…

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Can I Watch TV Without Being Critical? Should I?

Can I Watch TV Without Being Critical? Should I?

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“Take a break, and watch some TV,” they said. “It’ll be fun,” they said. I am not sure who ‘they’ are, but I would like to watch whatever is on their Netflix queues. TV shows, as entertaining and mindless they may seem, are loaded with misogynistic, LGBTQA-phobic, racist, etc. content and language that most people let slide because it is “not real life” or it is progressive in some other way. It amazes me that people who think this way…

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A Friends-Newbie’s Thoughts on the Ross Geller Type

A Friends-Newbie’s Thoughts on the Ross Geller Type

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I had never watched Friends before it very recently went on Netflix in the beginning of 2015. By that point I had already seen all the other sitcoms where a group of straight white people have quirky shenanigans in New York City, but I had never seen the ‘original’ cult-classic obsession. So I started it, and as much as the wannabe-cynical-anti-mainstream-hipster part of me didn’t want to like it, of course I did. Gosh freaking darn it, I did, from…

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Reflections from Big Brother

Reflections from Big Brother

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Generally, my summers are not complete unless I spend a sickening number of hours watching a new television show. Working 40 hours a week this summer, though, I found that the time I normally allotted to my disgusting TV comatose was suddenly limited. What I needed was something that I could watch as it was airing so I couldn’t possibly take it all in at once. One of my friends from home convinced me to watch the premiere episode of…

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