Category: TV
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Sorry, No Post This Month. But!
As the title implies (or explicitly states, if you want to split hairs), I wasn’t able to get around to writing a formal post for this month. Other projects, plus a fair amount of general chicanery, took precedence. Please know that your palpable disappointment will satiate my ego for weeks on end. However, I can offer you…
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TV Recap: Press Your Luck, 1/23/85
By and large, the game shows foisted upon us these days blow. They all seem to be filmed on the same set, take themselves too seriously, and have hosts whose sole aim is to wring. Maximum. Tension. Out. Of. Every. Moment. Yeesh. I yearn for the heyday of game shows: the 1980s. Without getting too meta,…
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Fixing Advertising, One Commercial At A Time
If we’re being honest, the Seahawks didn’t display the worst decision-making ability on Super Bowl Sunday. Of course, I’m referring to the always-anticipated commercial spate which, for the most part, came off like a series of farts in church. Really, Nationwide: using the image of a dead kid?! I love things done in poor taste, but eww. That Mercedes-Benz “Tortoise…
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In Which I Write About 18 TV Shows That I Don’t Watch
I live in Portland. It’s a city of iconoclasts — many of them filthy and unshaven, but that’s neither here nor there. One of the traditional American institutions we Portlandians love to rebel against is watching television. We can say “I don’t even own a TV” at parties and somehow not come off as douchey. Personally, I think it’s…
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Meeting Peyton Meyer: A Running Diary
Just who is Peyton Meyer, you ask? Only one of the stars of The Disney Channel’s hit series Girl Meets World! Or, as I like to refer to the show, Hands Meet Ears — the high-pitched warble of the titular character is almost as irritating as the voice of that one girl on that other Disney Channel show.…
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My Mind At Its Most Random
Here’s a helping of the deepest, darkest thoughts that have been lurking in the recesses of my mind packaged in a convenient blog format! -Melissa McCarthy’s new movie, Tammy, has been savaged by critics, and that’s putting it kindly. Let’s review: since her breakout role in Bridesmaids, she’s starred in Identity Thief (painful) and The…
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Amazing But True: These People Have Never Hosted SNL
As the 456th season of Saturday Night Live winds down, I’m taking stock of where the show is at. No, I’m not one of those dinosaurs that laments how far the show has fallen from its “heyday” of the original cast (check the tape, folks – it was just as hit-or-miss then as it has been in…
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Why “Friends” Still Seems Fresh
Saying that network television has been circling the drain for awhile is a bit like calling sports-related concussion data mildly unsettling. The Big Four as currently constituted are nothing more than a mishmash of reality shows, crime procedurals, tepid comedies, talent shows and – my personal favorite – talent show results episodes. Recently, I’ve caught a few…
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Wasn’t The Afterschool Special Special?
There are many relics from yesteryear that I (and in many cases, only I) look upon with fondness. The USFL. Music videos on MTV. Using my phone as, well, a phone. Whatever became of of the Afterschool Special? Growing up is hard, but this anthology of angst set us straight on the whatnots of adolescence, serving up…
Geoff Wondering 