The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
March 7, 2012
YouTube HOF: The Wire
Opening Scene Robert Mays: I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this scene — it’s somewhere between five and 15. When it comes to my experiences with TV, the only feeling that approaches the first trip through The Wire is vicariously living through the first time of others. My college roommates love to give […]
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Handicapping American Idol’s Top 13
Before the Final 13 perform tonight, we wanted to handicap each contestant’s odds to win and compare it to Vegas’s predictions. No need to wait any further, let’s just get right into it. [Ed. note: All wagering analysis is for entertainment purposes only. If you actually put money on this, you have a serious problem. […]
Read moreKaty Perry’s Acting Career Flourishes With Mustache
Check Perry out on last night’s Raising Hope.
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A Very Angry Man: Justified Season 3, Episode 8
People get framed for things, alliances shift, and Wynn Duffy … dyes his hair?! All this and more in “Watching the Detectives,” the latest episode of Justified. The Shot It turns out that when Quarles tracked Gary down in Oklahoma, it wasn’t just to have a nice drink: It was so he could throw Gary […]
Read moreWoody Allen to Return to Acting Via Pimping
Woody and John Turturro are going into the gigolo business.
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Smacketology: Day 3 – The Sweet 16 and the Rise of Bubbles
Perhaps unsurprisingly, because of the vagaries of the selection criteria for the Field of 32, an accidental tapping of some kind of seeding-related Zeitgeist, or some factor as unknowable as where McNulty and Bunk might choose to place their penises at the conclusion of any given bender, there were a mere three upsets in the […]
Read moreMarch 6, 2012
A Brief Journey Into the Dark Heart of JuggaloBook
It was only a matter of time. Yesterday, word got out to much of the non-degenerate world that after years of domination, Facebook finally had a serious competitor. No, not Twitter2. Or Google++. Or LinquedIn. JuggaloBook. If reading that word, potentially this great world’s final portmanteau, doesn’t register with you sourly, then up until now […]
Read moreThe Mike Schur Rebuttal Bracket and Some Smacketology FAQetology
We’ve already recapped Day 1 of Smacketology for you earlier this morning, but let’s take another opportunity to address our reader feedback. Say what you will about the seedings, the individual matchups, the apparent and crazy-making oversights in our Field of 32, but our Wire bracket has certainly gotten you talking. (If by “talking,” you […]
Read moreMaking Sense of Bravo’s Love Broker
Bravo’s new show Love Broker — which premiered last night — gives us the life of Lori Zaslow, a New York-area matchmaker for the firm Project Soulmate. She is skinny and blonde and pretty and nutty. The fictional characters she calls to mind are 30 Rock‘s Jenna Maroney, or a hybrid of Reese Witherspoon and […]
Read moreThe Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Smacketology Special Edition With Guest Chuck Klosterman
With Chris Ryan in the air somewhere over Oklahoma, special guest Chuck Klosterman was kind enough to sub in for him on this week’s podcast, bringing his strong opinions and even stronger facial hair to the studio. Our discussion of Grantland’s ongoing The Wire character bracket (vote now on Facebook!) turned into a far-ranging (and […]
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The Hidden Lessons of The Bachelor’s ‘Women Tell All’ Episode
During a masterfully manipulative and tear-soaked apology on last night’s predictably drama-crammed “The Women Tell All” special, Courtney, confronted with a litany of her various misdeeds by a frothing mob of TV sister-wives, wailed, “Nobody gives you a manual on how to be on The Bachelor!” She’s right: There is no manual, yet, at least […]
Read moreThis Week’s Top 10 Urban Adult Contemporary: The Finest in Grown-and-Sexy Soul and R&B
1. Beyoncé, “Love on Top” Scoring no. 1s. Breast-feeding in public. Your fave could never! Grade: B Best YouTube Comment: “I sang this song great. Very hard song to sing. Me and Beyonce are the only people who can sing it good.” —MrRodriguez1956
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Smacketology: Day 2 – On Mouzone, Mofos, and Matchups
Before we review yesterday’s voting results, I’d like to say a few words about Brother Mouzone. Due to widespread bureaucratic failure and alleged ballot stuffing, Brother Mouzone snuck into Smacketology as an 8-seed. I’d like to say before God and David Simon that the seedings found in Smacketology do not reflect the views of the […]
Read morePlease, Tim Tebow, Do The Bachelor
Chris Harrison is working on convincing Tebow to do the show.
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