House Shows, Ranked
1. House of Cards
What Was How I Met Your Mother and Why Is Everyone Mad at It?
How I Met Your Mother, the long-running CBS sitcom, ended last night. There was a, sort of, twist. Fans were disappointed:
Actual Legislators Are Puppets on a String for House of Cards
In House of Cards, Kevin Spacey plays a duplicitous, self-serving networker who masterfully manipulates the political process for his own career gain. He is now playing this role in real life, as well.
University of Iowa to Girls: Go Away
HBO's Girls, a show in which the children of famous people play the children of non-famous people, ended its season this week with the lead character being accepted into the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop. The University of Iowa has responded with: Do not come here.
What Is And Is Not "Cool," According to Greg Gutfeld
Greg Gutfeld, the Joy Behar of Fox News, has a new book* out (*HAVEN'T READ) called "Not Cool: The Hipster Elite And Their War on You." What is and is not "cool," according to Greg Gutfeld? A brief guide** below.
Elite Manhattan-Based Critic Can't Tell Regular Folks on TV Apart
Media-insider nepotism baby John Podhoretz, whose many professional duties include criticizing film for the Weekly Standard, alerts that publication's readers to a troubling development in the culture wars: His television is full of "white trash." This is the fault of "fancy high-end TV producers," and by extension…
The Case for Veronica Mars, Even If You've Never Seen It
The Veronica Mars movie is out today. It's a strange thing to talk about. Every piece about it, including this one apparently, must talk about how it only happened because fans of the original Veronica Mars television show went on Kickstarter and supported it. So it was never designed to be an independent cultural…
Showtime has ordered a pilot of a new show called "Billions"—set in the world of hedge funds—created by legitimately hardworking journalist and Wall Street bootblack Andrew Ross Sorkin. I seriously bet Sorkin is so fucking rich by now. Fuck, man.
Rob Ford Is Sorry For Appearing On Jimmy Kimmel Live A Day Early
Rob Ford is scheduled to appear on tonight’s Jimmy Kimmel Live—not that Ford would know when “tonight” is, exactly. In a gag skit mocking Ford’s habit of not being aware of reality, the embattled Toronto mayor appeared a day early on Kimmel’s show, bursting through a pair of double doors, Kool-Aid Man-style, after…
Watch Tonight's Best Olympic Event: The Terrifying Asteroid Flyby!
An 885-foot-long asteroid will speed by the Earth tonight at 27,000 miles per hour, but what's the tie-in with the Winter Olympics? Well, it was "almost exactly" a year ago when another chunk of space rock actually exploded in the sky over Russia—and that's where Sochi is, in Russia!
Let’s Talk About House of Cards
Did you watch all of the second season of Netflix’s House of Cards this weekend? Good. So did I. Let’s talk. Spoilers ahead.
I Can't Stop Watching the New Game of Thrones Trailer
The new Game of Thrones trailer is out, and it's everything you hoped it would be: just over a minute and a half crammed with swordfights, dragons, backstabbing, and sex. The new season starts April 6. Get hype.
Nybro Action Team! Girls Recap: Episode Six
The Nybro Action Team consists of Hjalmar Sveinbjőrnsson and Alex Bejerstrand, two under-employed friends and former Nybro residents now living in northern Sweden. Hjalmar is a student and a chef; Alex helps run his father's talent agency. They will be recapping Season 3 of HBO's Girls.
A Brief History of Jay Leno's Joke-Stealing
Tonight marks Jay Leno's final episode as host of The Tonight Show, after occupying that position for some 21 non-consecutive years. Many would argue that he stole that job from David Letterman, whom Leno's predecessor, Johnny Carson, had picked for the spot. Many would argue that he then stole it again from Conan…
Eleven-Year-Old Attempts Suicide After Bullying Over My Little Pony
Michael Morones is an 11-year-old boy who was bullied relentlessly at school in Raleigh, North Carolina, because of his love for My Little Pony. Bullied so much that he tragically attempted suicide by hanging himself from the railing of his bunk bed.
Nybro Action Team! Girls Recap: Episode Five
The Nybro Action Team consists of Hjalmar Sveinbjőrnsson and Alex Bejerstrand, two under-employed friends and former Nybro residents now living in northern Sweden. Hjalmar is a student and a chef; Alex helps run his father's talent agency. They will be recapping Season 3 of HBO's Girls.
Time Warner Cable: not just screwing over New Yorkers anymore. TWC subscribers in Southern California lost as much as an hour of the Super Bowl tonight after the cable company's live feed froze in the middle of an ad during the second quarter.
CNN is “expanding the definition of news” by laying off 40 editorial employees. According to the Financial Times, one of the axed staffers was “a pregnant producer who was two weeks away from giving birth to twins.”
Super Bowl-Bound Seahawk Richard Sherman Wins Taunting Championship
The Seattle Seahawks are going to the Super Bowl, after cornerback Richard Sherman ended the San Francisco 49ers final drive by leaping and tipping a pass for teammate Malcolm Smith to intercept in the end zone. Nobody was more impressed by Sherman's performance than Richard Sherman, as he demonstrated in his cruelly…
If you like the homicide cop reality show The First 48, you'll love this wholesale indictment of the police work it depicts. "In Miami...at least 15 men have walked free of murder charges spawned under the program's glare."
