On ABC, Family Matters: “Fizbo” and “Here Comes My Girl”
“Fizbo” and… “Here Comes My Girl” November 25th, 2009 Thanksgiving is a holiday about family, which when deployed in television does one of three things. The first is to emphasize the cohesiveness of...
View ArticleCougar Town –“Rhino Skin”
“Rhino Skin” January 6th, 2010 I think a lot of people have chosen to judge Cougar Town entirely based on Courteney Cox’s performance as Jules, which was perhaps fair early in the season – the show...
View ArticleCougar Town –“Turn This Car Around”
“Turn This Car Around” March 24th, 2010 Earlier this week, How I Met Your Mother did an episode which more or less spoke to one of the more popular readings of the show: people think that Ted is a...
View ArticleCougar Town –“Everything Man”
“Everything Man” March 31st, 2010 I feel as if “Everything Man” was written as some sort of ridiculous joke, fitting for the night before April Fool’s Day. My point is not that the episode wasn’t...
View ArticleCougar Town –“Letting You Go”
“Letting You Go” April 28th, 2010 I am officially nearing the point with Cougar Town where I may make it my personal crusade to travel across the country in order to force every person who gave up on...
View ArticleSeason Finale: Cougar Town –“Finding Out”
“Finding Out” May 19th, 2010 Jules Cobb loves plans. She makes the argument in “Finding Out” that plans make everything better, an argument which is proven correct as an elaborate plan at the end of...
View ArticleSeason Premiere: Cougar Town –“All Mixed Up”
“All Mixed Up” September 22nd, 2010 I am officially to the point where I am done “defending” Cougar Town: I refuse to accept that anyone who has recently watched the series could think it is anything...
View ArticleCougar Town –“Makin’ Some Noise”
“Makin’ Some Noise” October 6th, 2010 There’s an interesting duality to Cougar Town: the series is more consistently driven by change than any other television sitcom, and yet at the same time it...
View ArticleCougar Town –“The Damage You’ve Done”
“The Damage You’ve Done” October 13th, 2010 When Cougar Town changed (for the better), it could have completely ignored its past: considering that Jules dating younger men was a failure, there was...
View ArticleMad Men, The Americans, and Brushes with Everyday Terror
“The Crash” and The Americans’ “Trust Me” May 21st, 2013 Of the shows I fell behind on earlier this year, The Americans is what I’ve considered my first priority to catch up on, although even that has...
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