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Shit My Boyfriend Says

or, A Television-Related Word Association Experiment With the Love of My Life

Here’s a list of every current show I watch, and my boyfriend’s instant reaction to each.

  • 30 Rock “Oh, Tina Fey…” (smiles)
  • American Horror Story ”Thrills me.”
  • Boardwalk Empire “Costumes…”
  • Breaking Bad “Oh, I don’t know.  I don’t know.  Come back to me with that one.”
  • Burn Notice “Never saw it… oh, but that guy is hot.”
  • Californication [...]

2010 Primies: Best Episodes

It’s often hard to remember all of the television I watch every year, but some episodes make themselves impossible to forget. The following hours or half-hours of television were exemplary in some way, whether it was for the writing or the direction of the episode; for the way they ended [...]

2009 Primies: Best Episodes

Aloha, dear TV junkies.  I may be on vacation, but thanks to some coffeshop wi-fi, I’m still able to update this here blog with cinnamon-bun-sticky fingers.  Surely you didn’t think I’d forgotten about honoring the best small-screen moments of 2009!  Listed below are my favorite episodes across the airwaves from all [...]

41 Shows Reviewed in 140 Characters or Less

Rose Byrne in "Damages"

Note: The following post first appeared as an article by the same name in The Climax, Hampshire College’s newspaper. Also, some of these micro-reviews may exceed 140 characters—my bad!

I am a student of television. Writing television scripts is my Division III [a senior project, in Hampshire speak]. So I have no shame in the [...]

The Prime Times: Lawn Mower Meets Foot Edition

Seconds before disaster on "Mad Men"

I can’t even fit all the news that’s fit to print into one blog post, but here are some of this week’s most interesting tidbits:

2009 Emmys: My Winners

Chandra Wilson in "Grey's Anatomy," Jon Hamm in "Mad Men," Glenn Close in "Damages," Aaron Paul in "Breaking Bad," and Kristin Chenoweth in "Pushing Daisies"

The Emmys snuck up on me this year, but ever since I learned that the ceremony [...]

Dostoyevsky Novels and the Dream Era

Patton Oswalt

The A.V. Club recently posted an in-depth interview with comedian/actor Patton Oswalt, the voice of the rat in Ratatouille and the star of upcoming drama Big Fan (and, incidentally, a man whose first name is my middle!). His insights into comedy, acting, and fatherhood are all astute and articulate (if a tad profane). [...]

The Everywhere Actors

Michelle Forbes in "24," "Lost," "Battlestar Galactica," "In Treatment," "True Blood," and "Alias"

When you watch as much television as I do, you see familiar faces all the time, and then you have to ask yourself (or IMDb), “Where have I seen him/her before?” For example, I’m watching the first season of House, [...]

The Hierarchy of Obsessiveness

The Hierarchy of Obsessiveness

The following post was originally published on my old blog on February 4, 2009.  Updates to this post are noted below.

Under some pretense of being an organized person (ha!), I keep a very meticulous list of the episodes I have yet to see for all the shows I follow. And I’ve noticed definite trends regarding my [...]