Sometimes it seems like the Coen Brothers are actively working to stymie moviegoers. After last year’s multiple Oscar-winning triumph, No Country for Old Men, they’ve returned to their long-running obsession with idiots for the comedy Burn After Reading. Their longtime fans have come to accept massive tonal shifts between movies, […]
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The All-Pilot Project: Hole in the Wall & Priveleged
This edition of the All-Pilot Project heralds an exponential increase in instances of people falling into green-colored water. Seriously, that didn’t happen on 90210 at all! Today’s edition brings us the opening salvos of FOX’s game show Hole in the Wall and the CW’s Privileged. Let’s see how they fare! […]
Big Brother 10: The FInal Veto (Sep 10)
SUNDAY Previously on Big Brother: Renny went home and Keesha was sad. Jerry half-assedly tried to break up the Dan/Memphis/Keesha alliance. Dan won Head of Household, and then there was a Sumo wrestler sitting in the living room. Yeah, it got weird. We see a flashback of Renny leaving, then […]
Big Brother 10: Live Eviction Week 8 (Sep 5)
Previously, on Big Brother: Jerry won Head of Household through what can only be an irreproducible freak occurrence. He then cut a deal with Memphis to get Dan eliminated. Memphis made Final Two deals with everybody who isn’t Renny, and then rocked the Veto. (Renny notably struggled with identifying who […]
The All-Pilot Project: 90210 (Sept 4)
What is the All-Pilot Project? That’s a good hypothetical question. You see, we here at spunkybean love TV, but as with all love, there is a dark, often smelly, underside. For every Lost, there is an According to Jim. For every Project Runway, a Married by America. And for every […]
Who Needs Fresh Air?: Heroes, Season 2 (Aug 29)
It’s been almost nine months since Heroes last aired. If you conceived immediately after the Season Two finale, you’re just about ready to give birth. (Congratulations, by the way.) The second season took quite a beating, to the extent that the network and creative team keep promising us that the […]