newVideoPlayer("/RH_RamonaLuann_gawker.flv", undefined, NaN,""); Once more unto the beach, dear friends. Well, sorta. There was some actual New York City adventure on RHoNYC last night, but some people were still mired in the Hamptons. As always, disasters struck. Jill met with her gay life coach/ho...

By Todd VanDerWerff One of the things that draws me to the medium of television is the way a series can show the process of doing something. Think of how Project Runway gives you a quick shorthand to the process of coming up with new fashions or how the best procedural cop shows take you inside the ...

By Todd VanDerWerff “Rough Edges,� written by Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer and directed by Dan Attias, just plunges forward, pell-mell, not terribly concerned with if it makes a lot of sense (that Woodruff letter storyline still feels dropped in from another series entirely, Mormon content no...

By Jonathan Pacheco Whenever a character makes the trek from a small country town to the Big Apple, you know something important’s going to happen. Jason Street and Tim Riggins seem to realize this as well. While celebrating the success of their house-flipping project, Jason reveals his intentions...

By Todd VanDerWerff One of the smarter things I heard about the film Rachel Getting Married, my favorite of last year, is that in a lot of cases, most of the things that people who strongly disliked the film disliked about it are the sorts of things those who really liked the film liked about it. It...

newVideoPlayer("/RealWorldLadybits_Gawker.flv", undefined, NaN,""); This is both the best and dumbest season of The Real World that's ever come rumbling out the damn gate. Trannies and grasping beauty pageant ladies and lamewads abound. Brooklyn is in ruins. Our episode began with Chet, the blonde-h...

I have to start this post with a HUGE lol at one of Sawyer’s perfectly timed comments. Taking to Horace he says, “Let me talk to your buddy with the eyeliner back there.” MUAHAHAHAHAHA. He just referenced Richard as Guyliner –are you kidding? As if it was possible to love S...

First, the main part of the post is the second part–relating to the video clips on this post. But before that–some big updates….VERY exciting. I would like to express my joy that one of the best television shows ever has been picked up for a second season. In Treatment will premier...

By Todd VanDerWerff As if making penance for the last two weeks of limited Juniper Creek storylines, Sunday night’s Big Love, “Fight or Flight,� written by Patricia Breen and directed by Adam Davidson, was probably the most Juniper Creek-heavy episode of the season, if not since Season One. So...

By Todd VanDerWerff Every season, Battlestar Galactica does a Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) episode, which delves into the character's motivations and her dark past. How much you like these episodes usually hinges on how much you like borderline melodrama and how much you like Sackhoff’s performance, ...