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DorothyMantooth
06/02/09

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Aw, Tom Jane makes up for his annoyingness with his AD cameo.
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Eric Northman is mine
06/02/09

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I love True Blood but seriously i hope Eric is given a larger role this season. He's an awesome character in the books and I hope the show doesn't deviate from that. My other favorite characters are Lafayette and Pam. As for Sookie, she's probably going to annoy the hell out of everyone but whatever. June 14th could not get here any sooner.
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unclevanya
06/02/09

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I guess August 20th is too late to call "summer viewing" so I understand the omission of Project Runway 6.

I'm really not feeling The Fashion Show. If I ever walk past Isaac Mizerables on the street again, I may have to have words with him.
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Lolita Hazed
06/02/09

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Oh, yeah, and um, My New BFF? TONIGHT?!

Comedy gold, that show is.
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Lolita Hazed
06/02/09

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TRUE BLOOD

TRUE BLOOD

OMFG I'M SO EXCITED TO SEE WHAT GOES DOWN WITH SATAN LADY.
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rockandhardPL
06/02/09

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Why did Alex Mack never make it in real life. She was ready. I thought she would be the next Sarah Michelle Gellar if she got her ears pulled back. Then she disappeared. Miss her.
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Lolita Hazed
06/02/09

@rockandhardPL: I miss her too. O where did you run to, Larisa Oleynik?
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Spirit Fingers
06/02/09

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Um, Richard, you forgot Psych! You would deign to mention vacuous shows appearing on ABC family and neglect the Ebony and Ivory comedy gold team on Psych? Sure it's slapstick hijinks minus Fred's ascot and Scooby's sandwiches, but nonetheless it makes for entertaining marshmallow fluff while you wait for the other darker shows about drugs, bloodletting, and the quiet desperation of the 1960's, to hit their mid-summer stride. Surely you must agree. They wear polo shirts and drive small hybrid cars on that show, and wowza! the special effects. "Cue the zing, zang, sound while we highlight a piece of thread and an Indian Head penny on the corner of an area rug in the billiard room, under a candlestick, held by a dead man with Colonel Mustard taped to his chest" Right-O!
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DennyCrane
06/02/09

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Top Chef Masters liveblogs please? I'll even help!
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katekate is squared
06/02/09

@DennyCrane: I would do just about anything for a Top Chef Masters liveblog, up to and including Toby Young.
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MisterHippity
06/03/09

@DennyCrane: Yes, a Top Chef Masters live blog will happen. At least, Gabriel Snyder said he'd let me host another one, last time I corresponded with him on the subject.
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MisterHippity
06/03/09

@katekate is squared: NO, WAIT. Don't do anything to Toby Young! Please! It isntt necessary. The live blog is happening.
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PeteyNice
06/02/09

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No love for Burn Notice? Booo!

And how dare you insinuate that Gossip Girl isn't real! It is more real than American Idol or Survivor.

While we are on the topic of reality shows, no love for Big Brother?
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unclevanya
06/02/09

@PeteyNice: Also mad love here for Big Brother, although after last year's winter edition, I reserve judgment until I can spot at least 2 housemates who don't make me vomit.
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naugahydeinplainsight
06/02/09

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Ach! No love for ? Back on Thursday.

Plus The Closer, which has developed one of the best ensembles going anywhere.

Best of basic cable, even during the summer, is beating most network fare.
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naugahydeinplainsight
06/02/09

@naugahydeinplainsight: Missing words there: Burn Notice. (I'm not even gonna mention the missing preview function any more.)
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EleanorRigby
06/02/09

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Seriously, why is The Secret Life of the American Teenager (and hello, it's not a secret if we can see she's pregnant) so bad when Greek is so good?
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TedSez
06/02/09

@EleanorRigby: I don't know if this is the reason, but the cause is that it's made by the same woman who brought us the wretched, horribly written "Seventh Heaven."
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ediebeale
06/02/09

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They're never going to deal with Joan's rape. You still Joan is suddenly gonna prosecute? Not a cliffhanger! Just sad.

And yes, that's all I got from this post.
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Richard Lawson
06/02/09

@ediebeale: I don't think it's a cliffhanger, per se, and I don't think she'll legally do anything. But it'll still have repercussions. Tonally, at the very least.
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ediebeale
06/02/09

@Richard Lawson: Sorry this was a knee-jerk reaction to a Jezebel post about this where all these commenters were like "god, why didn't Joan make some sort of grand anti-rape gesture in the season finale!?" Because it's 1962, dummies.

I will be mad, but not surprised, if she marries that awful dude.
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misslinda
06/02/09

@ediebeale: She won't marry him, she just can't! Even before the rape she was clearly not happy. She knows she's still a knockout (even with her "advanced age") and that she was fine before she met the nice doctor and will be fine after she kicks him to the curb. He's going to disappear quickly, which is why he hardly had a speaking role to begin with. If she marries him, her character becomes truly uninteresting. We have enough housewives on the show, we need her to be the vamp that Peggy won't be.
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otherginger
06/02/09

@misslinda: I betcha she marries him. She can be the posterchild for the tragedy of pre-Movement feminism.
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misslinda
06/02/09

@otherginger: I thought Peggy was the poster child for the tragedy of pre-Movement feminism. I wouldn't put money on it one way or the other, I'm just so happy to have my stories only two months away!
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