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Leverage Preview
People like that, corporations like that, they have all the money. They have all the power. And they use it to make people like you go away. Right now, you’re suffering under an enormous weight. We provide…Leverage. If you’re a certain age, you might have grown up as I did, watching shows like It Takes…
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Pushing Daisies: “Robbing Hood”
Ned: I’m out of counter space, so I’m stress baking in my head. Chuck: Feels like you’re stress baking me. Ned: I’m channeling fear into anger. Emerson: Anger leads to hate. Chuck: Hate leads to stress baking the people you love. Watching tonight with one eye and a heavy heart was probably not the best…
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Grey’s Anatomy – The New Medium?
Ok, I admit it. After last week, I was ready to give up on this show. But, I tuned in for one more week because I’ve been watching this show forever and it’s a hard habit to break. I don’t think I could handle Grey’s crapping out on me and I don’t think I’m the…
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Ugly Betty – “When Betty Meets Yeti”
Ugly Betty’s latest episode, “When Betty Meets Yeti” (Season 3, Episode 9) kicks off with Betty getting annoyed at Amanda, who treats Betty like an at-home assistant. Feeling upset about still being assistant, it becomes worse for her when Nick (Alexis’ old assistant) visits Mode magazine, bragging about his new job as deputy culture editor…
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Pushing Daisies: “Oh Oh Oh…It’s Magic”
There have been quite a few very well suited guest stars on Pushing Daisies – Molly Shannon, Patrick Fabian, the brilliant Paul Reubens – but none fit quite so well as Fred Willard. Now, I’m a sucker for Willard, always have been. He’s got a real warmth to go with the absurd-oblivious air he affects,…
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Ugly Betty: “Tornado Girl”
Betty begs for the chance to give the final approval for Mode magazine’s latest edition while Daniel is away at a business retreat, sans cell phone. This particular issue sports a flashy tornado with a supermodel imposed over it and the title ‘Eye of the Storm’. Satisfied the issue is ready to go and after…
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Pushing Daisies: “Dim Sum Lose Some”
Barack Obama secured the votes of every fan of Pushing Daisies the moment he declined ABC’s offer of airtime for the Obama Half-Hour Flower Power Variety Hoe Down. Although I don’t know if the twenty or thirty of us still watching this marvelous little exercise in quirkiness are enough for him to be picking china…
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Mad Men: “Meditations on an Emergency”
Like a nautilus shell, we’ve spiraled out over 13 episodes, but finally circled back on ourselves, bigger, stronger, and more beautiful than before. No, let’s try this instead. Matthew Weiner is composing and conducting a symphony, each of the players his instruments. As it is a modern symphony, he is unrestrained in choosing his instrumentation.…
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Pushing Daisies: “Frescorts”
Sorry he was unable to write a review for the previous episode, the Blog Maker made a silent vow never to miss one again. Yeah, really. Sorry ’bout that. For the tens of you who come by, here’s my drive-by of last week: at first it seems incredibly bold to dispense with all the Lily-is-your-mother…
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‘Charlie Jade’ recap: ‘Ouroboros’
Charlie told me once, everybody breaks. But he never did. Not once. – Karl Lubinsky And so the story of Charlie Jade, a story one half-hour in the future, comes to a close. A bittersweet ending for sure – there was a lot of story left to tell – but a satisfying end to twenty…