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Bricking Bad

Simultaneously reaching new levels of inappropriateness and awesomeness, some Michelangelo of Legos (or, more accurately, some friend of a Reddit user) has used the innocent construction blocks to recreate Walter White’s underground meth lab from Breaking Bad.  And then some other [...]

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 [...]

2011 Primies: Best Shows

My year-end accolades (or year-beginning ones, as the case may be) always come with a disclaimer: I haven’t watched all the awesome TV out there. There’s no Boardwalk Empire on this list, no Homeland, no Game of Thrones… and I can’t even award Breaking Bad because I’ve only seen three episodes of this year’s season! But, c’mon, every [...]

2011 Primies: Best Moments

We all watch television in eager anticipation of those watercooler moments—those moments so shocking, so emotional, so incredibly awesome that we have to a) rewind to watch them about twenty times and b) rehash them to death with all of our fellow watchers. And I honor my picks for those moments here, along with video clips of each [...]

2011 Primies: Best Characters

The start of a new year makes us all reflect on the previous 365 days, but it makes this blogger reminisce not only about the year that was but also the television that was. That’s right: as is tradition this time of year, it’s time for another round of the Primies. Not the most prestigious awards, perhaps, but let’s hope [...]

2010 Primies: Best Characters

In the waning hours of 2010, allow me to kick-start the Second Annual Primie Awards. Below are my favorite fifteen characters from the past year of television, again listed in descending order of awesomeness. (One could only dream of a context that would bring all of them together to share the screen!)

  1. Kalinda Sharma (The Good Wife) If mystery [...]

As Seen on TV

If you’re a diehard fan of a show, you can proclaim your love loud and proud with your standard t-shirt bearing the show’s logo. But sometimes, you want merchandise that’s a bit less conventional. Maybe a bit less straightforward. Maybe a bit more of an insider-y reference. For such occasions, I recommend the following items.

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The Prime Times: Let’s All Go to HBO Edition

You want the latest skinny? I got your latest skinny right here.

  • Dustin Hoffman is migrating to television to headline HBO’s new series Luck, created by David Milch (Deadwood). Variety reports that the show will center on “several eclectic personalities who ply their trade [...]

The Prime Times: Get Your Fill Edition

Yes, this installment of The Prime Times is chock-full of fortifying TV scoop. Yumm-o!

  • Steven Spielberg is in talks with FOX to develop a dinosaur drama! (That sentence begged for an exclamation point.) The project, tentatively titled Terra Nova, would see a family from the future travel to prehistoric times. But obviously, [...]

2009 Primies: Best Shows

Because I’m theoretically on vacation, let’s just speed through this! Here are my picks for the ten best programs on the boob tube for the year of 2009. (Hint: AMC takes the cake!)

  1. Breaking Bad
  2. Mad Men
  3. Lost
  4. Battlestar Galactica
  5. 30 Rock
  6. True Blood
  7. Modern Family
  8. Fringe
  9. Glee
  10. Dollhouse