Who would take the time to review the first episode of a long-cancelled show? The All-Pilot Project, that’s who! In our desperate attempts to catch up, we’ll even review a show that’s currently airing, so as to seem somewhat relevant. Harper’s Island CBS, Cancelled The Premise: A murder mystery spun […]
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Mad Men Roundtable: Season 3, “Love Among the Ruins”
MYNDI – This episode felt like a lot of set-up to me for some fireworks to come. The battle lines have been drawn between Roger and his ex, Mona. Daughter Margaret doesn’t want Roger’s new wife Jane in attendance at her nuptials, though Mona was at least willing to concede […]
The All-Pilot Project: Southland and The Goode Family
Once again, we’d like to apologize for getting so far behind on the All-Pilot Project. But you have to admit, some of these pilots have been pretty rough. However, if we don’t get caught up, we’re never going to get to ABC’s Defying Gravity, which turned out to be Grey’s […]
Mad Men Round Table: Season 3, “Out of Town”
EJ – Well, Season Three bursts out of the gate with the Secret Origin of Dick Whitman. Now, we know that Dick/Don’s real mother was a prostitute who died in childbirth, but this sequence raises some questions. First, is his father really his father? It seems like there’d be a […]
Smell the Embarrassment!
We are in what the elders of our tribe call “The Dog Days of Summer”. We’re not sure what that means exactly, but we get the gist. For those of us indoorsy types, there’s not a lot of new programming to keep us occupied. Seriously, last week ABC pre-empted a […]
The Most Awesome Thing We Saw Last Week: Gordon’s Back!
You know, we’ve taken a couple of weeks off in our cataloguing of Awesomeness. Please don’t think that this reflects some sort of sea change at spunkybean, perhaps a new regime that assumes a “take it or leave it” approach to Awesome. No, you can rest assured that we care […]