Posts by Tess Lynch

  • Top Chef Masters Season 4, Episode 3: ‘What Would Brian Boitano Eat?’

    To punish me for rooting for Chris Cosentino last week, the gods sent the gentle citizens of Yorba Linda 30 earthquakes over the course of 24 hours. I’m sorry, Yorba Linda. I did that. So let me begin by saying that Chris Cosentino was really tacky this week and I am considering shifting my allegiance […]

  • Chef Masters

    Top Chef Masters Episode 2: Cake Disasters

    There is something sort of melancholy about Top Chef Masters. Maybe it’s because Curtis Stone axes the contestants so casually in comparison to Padma Lakshmi’s Pietà-like “Pack your knives and go,” or maybe it’s just because there are more seasoned veterans with more on the line than in rookie TC seasons. Failing to impress people […]

  • Girls

    Girls Talk

    A no-holds-barred conversation about the finale of HBO’s provocative new dramedy and its most polarizing character: a boy named Adam.

  • The Guy Fieri Problem: On The Next Food Network Star

    There are a lot of people who look like Guy Fieri — for instance, this season’s Food Network Star contestant Michelle, Anne Burrell, and Violent J after he washes his face — but Guy Fieri is a unique being. He inspires culinary and personal hatred for a number of reasons, including wearing sunglasses on the […]

  • Goodbye, Andy: SNL’s Digital Short Auteur Heads to That Big Happy Madison Production in the Sky

    The writing was on the wall, but like invisible ink, you can’t really read the writing until it’s illuminated under the special black-light glow of a publicist’s confirmation. And so we learned, on Friday, that Andy Samberg was officially on Lazy Saturday Night Leave, moving on to the Sandlier pastures of the upcoming Adam Sandler […]

  • Chernobyl Diaries

    Chernobyl Diaries and Meta-Horror: What Happens When Watching the Watchers Is More Boring Than Scary?

    What’s scarier about living in a time of constant surveillance: being watched, or being caught watching? Paranormal Activity genuinely scared the shit out of me in 2009. Like The Blair Witch Project that preceded it by a decade, it was almost as scary to think about what it was like to film the movie as […]

  • Grandpa Mick and Good-bye to Kristen Wiig: The SNL Season Finale

    Last weekend, the topic of the short-lived but supposedly really great (11 Emmy nominations! Conversational endorsements!) Buffalo Bill came up. I haven’t seen Buffalo Bill, and there was no time to fix that between when it drifted across the table of La Scala salads and when I hopped Griffith Park and took it to the […]

  • Girls Is From Mars, Women Are From Venus

    I like that Girls exists. I like its style, I like Jemima Kirke in general, I like women who make things that aren’t cute, I like seeing regular-looking naked people, and I like anything that reminds me of “Scotty Doesn’t Know.” I also don’t enjoy watching Girls, even though in theory it’s right up my […]

  • Will Ferrell Returns to SNL, Wrapping the World in a Warm, Familiar Comedy Blanket

    Before DVRs, part of the charm of Saturday Night Live was that it created a sort of community of viewers — granted, the kind of community who didn’t have anywhere to be on a Saturday evening, so not necessarily a club you wanted to join four times a month. Its jokes became like prehistoric viral […]

  • The Survivor Finale: ‘Perception Is Not Always Reality’ (Except When It Is)

    For the first time ever, the Survivor finale included nary a dude. This is a pretty big deal, and certainly a turnoff for some of the viewers this season, especially those who felt that Troyzan’s torch should have never been snuffed (I know they exist because Troy mentioned how many of them had approached him […]

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