So every year I swear I’m not going to watch this show, and every year my wife ends up sucking me in to whatever vapid menagerie of losers ended up getting past the casting couch this time around. This year of course is no exception, and the “twist” is that it’s the first time we…
Ah, reality TV, that niche of the television industry most rife with pedestals and pitfalls. For every Masterchef there’s a Bachelor, for every Amazing Race there’s a Long Island Medium, for every Big Brother 14 there’s a Big Brother 15. Shark Tank, Mark Cuban’s foray into the medium, borrows much of the schlock from the…
My daughter is sixteen months old. We watch Sofia the First. We watch Jake and the Neverland Pirates. We binge watch Yo Gabba Gabba. She doesn’t quite know what’s going on all the time, but she knows what she likes, and she isn’t shy about demanding more of it. Coincidentally (or not coincidentally?) the same…
At least there are tits. Nothing is more disappointing than wasted potential. Among new TV shows, this is the show that everyone is discussing. But no one is saying, “holy shit, this is great!”, it’s basically, “damn, it could be so much better”. That’s not good. Disney has a brand to protect, of course they…
DOUBLE FEATURE! Or, I MISSED LAST WEEK’S REVIEW AND I’M CATCHING UP!!! I want to treat this as a state of affairs for Agents of SHIELD. We’re four episodes in now, for better or for worse we probably have a good idea of what we’re getting. A few shows have managed to have earth-shaking tonal…
Teaser: explosion on the SHIELD plane and Coulson is about to get sucked out the side. Flash back to about a day earlier. Half the members are questioning why Skye is on the team. Well she’s not, she’s a consultant “Just like Tony Stark” We get more exposition about Coulson being “hurt” in the Battle…
Welcome to the first installment of Some like it Watched, the segment where we, the ScreenSnark staff, attempt to examine why a particular show is popular. This week, Joel our Chief Editor, in his infinite cruelty assigned Dancing With The Stars as our focus of examination. We will break this post down per contributor Jam:…