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Kell on Earth: For Whom the Kell Tolls

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We were so busy buying bread and toilet paper for the impending snowstorm that we missed Kell on Earth last night. Luckily fictional freelancer Betsey Morgenstern was there during the filming, so she filled us on what happened. More »

02/09/10

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RuPaul's Drag Race: Miss Tyra If You Nasty

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Girrrrrrrrrl. Episode two of RuPaul's beautiful gift from the thin slip of heaven that still remains has come and gone, and we still don't know just what the hell we're watching. But it's OK. We'll watch it anyway. More »

02/09/10

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Big Love: Sweating It Out

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The fourth season of HBO's sweeping melodrama was brought down to Earth a bit this week, even though the beginning of the episode seemed like an overstuffed Robert Altman movie. More »

02/08/10

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Real Housewives of Orange County: Marriage, Californian Style

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If you've ever been to one of those awful gator parks in Florida, the ones off the highway, then you've seen this show before: A bunch of ancient scaly things laying about, moving only occasionally to viciously snap at something. More »

02/05/10

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Project Runway: Serious Like a Heart Attack

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Project Runway is all about vision and delusion. The vision to insert a product seamlessly into a challenge. The delusion it won't make us puke. The vision to do something great for the world. The delusion that we care. More »

02/05/10

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The Real World: An Inquest into the Wasting of Perfectly Good Pizza

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This is a transcript from a hearing of the Senate Pizza Responsibility Committee for an inquest into the wasting of two whole pies at a residence at 2000 S St, NW in Washington, D.C. The honorable Senator Joeseph Lieberman presiding. More »

02/04/10

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American Idol: Hollywood Ho

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Well gang, we did it. We got through a month of auditions episodes. Many of us died, even more of us are injured or dying, but we've struggled across the finish line and next week will taste glorious Hollywood. More »

02/04/10

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American Idol: Mile-High Shitty

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Twas our penultimate tale of auditions on Idol last night, and yet again a woeful menagerie of lost souls flitted across our screens, floating through the thin air of Denver like warbling cowboy ghosts. More »

02/03/10

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Everything That's Happened on Lost So Far, Just from Memory

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Lost is so confusing! But not that confusing. Here I will try to write, from memory without using any wikis, fan sites or Google, everything important that's happened on the show up to tonight's final-season premiere. Wish me luck. More »

02/02/10

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RuPaul's Drag Race: Wigs in the Wind

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Last night was the second season premiere of Logo's drag queen Project Runway/Top Model hybrid, and the first time I ever did watch it. And girl? I am just not sure what the helllll to say about it. More »

02/02/10

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Kell on Earth: Under the Gaydar

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We were too dumbstruck by Glenn Close's reconstructed face on Damages to watch the premiere of Kell on Earth. Luckily fictional freelancer Betsey Morgenstern was working as an undercover intern for Kelly Cutrone during filming. Here is her full report. More »

02/02/10

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Big Love: Like Father Like Son

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Well, that got dark really quick, didn't it? What had been an oddly buoyant season of Big Love took a serious turn toward the sinister last night, as Bill became that which he most hates. More »

02/01/10

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Real Housewives of Orange County: Screams from a Mall

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Oh ye accursed dark clouds, why have you returned to Orange County? After a few slightly-less-than-tragic episodes, we were greeted last night with the crumbling of a family at the happiest place on earth, a Southern California shopping mall. More »

01/29/10

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Project Runway: There's No You in Team

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Project Runway is all about vision and delusion. The vision to create conflict with mismatched pairs. The delusion this is fair. The vision to allow the models to talk. The delusion they will have something to say. More »

01/29/10

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Click here to read <em>Real World</em>: The Male/Female Emancipation Proclamation

Real World: The Male/Female Emancipation Proclamation

For far too long, women have lived under the tyranny of men, especially in their romantic relationships. This treaty devoids them of any attachment to any male, be it emotional, physical, or sexual. We hereby declare: More »

01/28/10

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American Idol: Barney Does Dallas

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You know what we are not supposed to mess with? Texas. There is to be no messing in or around Texas. None. So wait. Why then was American Idol blustering through Dallas, shaming people horribly last night? More »

01/28/10

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American Idol: Man, I Gotta Get Out of LA

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We're goin' to Hollywoooood! No, adorable wisher, we're not done with auditions and watching Hollywood Week. This week's installment of 10,000 Maniacs: The TV Series just took place in LA, so the judges could sleep in their own beds. More »

01/27/10

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Big Love: Define 'Incest'...

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The fourth season of HBO's social drama just keeps getting bigger. Last night we saw a trip across the country, an accident that brought two fringe cultures together (sort of), and a wild and surprising kiss. More »

01/25/10

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Real Housewives of Orange County: Youth Is Wasted On the Old

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Last night on the Housewives, daughters were in peril. Friends were in peril. It's a dangerous time to be a Housewife in Southern California — what was once easy and meaningless is now fraught with... slightly less ease. More »

01/22/10

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Click here to read <em>Project Runway</em>: Bought the Farm

Project Runway: Bought the Farm

Project Runway is all about vision and delusion. The vision to make designers use difficult fabrics. The delusion that burlap must be ugly. The vision to give the models control. The delusion that anyone cares what they think. More »

01/22/10

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Jersery Shore: Unsolved Mysteries of the Guido Tribe

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It is with a heavy heart that we must end the most important sociological experiment of our time. For all that we have learned we are, there is still so much left unanswered about these mystical creatures. More »

01/22/10

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