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If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear? If Alex’s (Ariel Winter) cellphone slips through her fingers and down a sewer grate during her revenge-fueled paparazzi stakeout while she tries to get a bad picture of her sister, Haley (Sarah Hyland), does anybody care? Nope. Why? Because it was a throwaway storyline. Read on! [Read more…]
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Revenge does the time-warp again with another all-flashback episode – this time jumping back six years to 2006. Does the narrative upheaval pay-off?
Let’s bitch it out… [Read more…]
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After a brief Thanksgiving-week stint off, Once Upon A Time returns for a rare flashback-free outing that mixes sweet and saccharine.
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Taking a page out of the Friends Thanksgiving episode playbook, this week Happy Endings gives us a kind of flashback episode when Brad (Damon Wayans Jr.) and Max (Adam Pally) met on The Real World: Sacramento. That’s right, it’s the return of old Brad and Jane (Eliza Coupe)! [Read more…]
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It’s all about releasing tension on Last Resort as Chaplin (Andre Braugher) goes on the offensive looking for the missing nuclear firing key. Meanwhile everyone else just needs to cut loose.
Let’s bitch it out… [Read more…]
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Ohhh, guest stars. Although not necessarily the beginning of the end, I have to wonder if Matthew Broderick’s guest appearance is the faint pre-echo of the death knell sounding for the show’s creativity. Or maybe we’re just in sweeps months. But still: consider yourself warned, Modern Family.
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