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As the President predicted in the premiere, the weeks and months following the attack at Roslin leaves more victims in its wake than just those with the bullet holes. Our flashback recap of the second season of The West Wing continues this week with “The Midterms,” and not everyone is holding it together as well as they seem.
“What’s next?” Let’s bitch it out after the jump…
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Lost Girl hits the stage for an episode that delivers a metric ton of exposition, wrapped in an otherwise “okay” package. It’s a strange combination: an episode that I can’t say I “enjoyed”, but that I loved moments of.
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Fast, witty dialogue? Check. Kelly Bishop as a somewhat surly matriarch? Check. Charming and whimsical smalltown American setting? Check. This must be an Amy Sherman-Palladino show.
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After a double dose, Teen Wolf settles back into its regular timeslot with less of an emphasis on abs and nudity, and more on drawing battle lines. Everyone has to pick a side. Which one will you go for?
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It was the penultimate episode of Girls, and boys were not invited…well, Adam (Adam Driver) was – for maybe a minute. Katherine (Kathryn Hahn) came back to chat with Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and offer her some life advice, while Hannah (Lena Dunham) had a pretty crappy week. Her arch nemesis in University published a book and she had a complete blowout with Marnie (Allison Williams). It was girl-on-girl action as our little show that could examined the bonds between women….or girls.
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Week three of Showcase’s new sci-fi series, Continuum, continues to impress as the series delves into the dynamics of the Liber8 group and exposes the factions within.
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It may have been a low-key finale for Mad Men, but the last episode of the season certainly threw subtle suggestion out the window. After a season chalked full of shockingly overt moments, did this quieter episode give us a much needed breather?
Let’s take a closer look after the jump.
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After what I considered a reinvigorated S4 last year, summer favourite True Blood is back with fresh episodes (and butt shots). So can the show maintain its creative resurgence?
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So this summer is quickly becoming the Summer of Sorkin here at Bitch Stole My Remote. In addition to covering his new HBO series The Newsroom (starting Sunday June 24th at 10 EST), I will be diving back into the second season Aaron Sorkin’s little man-behind-the-White-House-curtain drama The West Wing. Every Wednesday (the same night it aired back in 2000-2001 on NBC!), I’ll be posting a flashback recap of the next episode of Season 2. So if you’d like to join me, watch one episode each week and visit here on Wednesdays so we can bitch it out. How well does the season, which is arguably the meatiest and best written of the series, hold up twelve years later? Is Sorkin’s optimism regarding the federal government still relevant? Is CJ’s hair still somewhere between atrocious and sad? Let’s find out!
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Lost Girl returns after a two week hiatus (thanks for nothing, long weekend!). After a dud and an aggravating tease, what does a fresh episode of everyone’s favourite succubus bring? Not much it turns out.
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