The Switch Hitter category is where one of the Screensnark writers picks a show he watches and forces other writers to watch and report back.
I love Property Brothers. It is simple and it is formulaic, but formulaic is just fine when you have a great formula. And Property Brothers does. The format is simple. A couple has a list of wants and needs for their next home which they cannot afford in their local market. The Property Brothers…
Oooooooooomg this week I was on the button, which actually isn’t as easy as it seems. I get confused and I picked a show that maybe my fellow screensnarkers did indeed watch instead of one they don’t. I don’t watch toooooo many fuckery weird programs ( okay Shelly okay). For Switch Hitter this week I…
I’m a bit of a talk show junkie. Chances are, I’m actually watching someone promote their new show than the show itself. Not many people could pull off what Ferguson does on a nightly basis. He doesn’t have emmy award nominated teams of writers. He seemingly wings it every night, flying without a net. And…
This week I might have been confused but I did a Switch Hitter and not a SLIW. I’ve been in a Walter White Christmas induced fugue state, forgive me. I picked Ultimate Survivor Alaska on Nat Geo. I don’t know if there have been ultimate Survivors in Maine, Virginia, or Arizona..I assume not. But I…
Long Island Medium TLC Let’s just say my pick of Long Island Medium as the Switch Hitter topic has been somewhat controversial around the screensnark water cooler (which I think needs a filter change, who is in charge of that?). Some have called foul. The idea of the Switch Hitter segment is to make others…
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…
Channel 4’s Derek, a Netflix exclusive. Can Netflix really claim exclusivity to a show that already has a channel attached to it’s name? Anyhow, Derek is a Ricky Gervais vehicle shot similarly to his original Office mockumentary style. It takes place in a nursing home wherein Gervais plays the title character Derek, a simple minded,…
“I can’t be in love if it’s plastic To live on my own just seems tragic But we’ll raise our swords high when our day comes You thought it was gold, but it was bronze” This summer, my wife got addicted to British television. One show that she began to watch, which I decided to…
Finally, my time has come. I can address this cultural monster. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has become an extremely strange pop culture phenomenon. A show obviously geared towards children, little girls in particular, has turned into a program enjoyed by people of all ages. 4chan started the ball rolling, with a few outspoken…
Phil Keoghan: I’m sorry to tell you that you have been eliminated from the race Julie Chen: You have been evicted from the Big Brother House. Jeff Probst: The Tribe Has Spoken. As long as those people are on the air saying those phrases, I feel good about things, if only for an hour(or in…