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The Real World (New Orleans), “Au Revoir Nawlins”: never oppose Louisiana’s appetite
“It all just got really real there for a second.” – Eric
The Real Housewives of Orange County, “He Said What?”: needs more zombies
Bring on the undead invasion — these women have sapped my will to live.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey, “Portrait of an Italian Family”: oh no she didn’t!
The Giudices and the Gorgas unite for a family portrait, Jacqueline finally gives up on Ashley, and Teresa’s new cookbook stirs up drama.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey, “Belly Up & Up”: inner goddesses
Teresa and Ashley: leave the vinegar at home — you need to use honey sometimes to get people on your side.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, “Blame It on the Altitude”: skis the limit
The BH bunch heads to Colorado for some ski time.
The Rachel Zoe Project, “New Beginnings, Big Changes”: bananas and a baby
The stylist to the stars is finally with child, but will she slow down at all?
South Park, “The Poor Kid”: a wink at the South Park of old
“We are all just one Pabst Blue Ribbon away from being White Trash In Trouble.” – Narrator
The Pillars of the Earth, “Anarchy”: struggling in adaptation
What we see on Starz unfortunately pales in comparison to the book – at least thus far – in terms of storytelling power and coherence and overall entertainment value.
The Pauly D Project, “Hello Pressure! I’m Pauly D”: yeeeeahhh budddyyy
Biggy is scared to tell his girlfriend that he will be moving to Las Vegas.
The Pacific: HBO’s dark, gripping bookend to Band of Brothers
The further I got lost in the harrowing and exhausting depths of HBO’s The Pacific, the more I began to understand its genius.
The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs, “Storytelling”: big apple tricks
New York City plays host to the next stage of the Iron Chef competition.
The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs, “Primal: Heat and Meat”: the elements will get you
The Food Network stacks the cast in the latest season of The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs.
The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs, “Improvisation”: so an octopus met a marshmallow…
Can the judges make quick work of some zany ingredients?
The Marriage Ref, “Sarah Silverman, Matthew Broderick, Martin Short”: call of booty
“I’m gonna go husband, but I think they should get divorced.” – Sarah Silverman
The Lying Game, “Pilot”: The Parent Trap with a twist
“You might look like Sutton, but you don’t kiss like her.” – Ethan
The Little Couple, “Will You Be My Surrogate?” and “See You Later, Alligator?”: one step closer
In the season opener of The Little Couple we pick up right where we left off in the season finale earlier this year. Jen and Bill are about to meet with their potential surrogate, Cindy, and her husband James.
The Great Human Race: NatGeo gets back to ancient school basics
The concept of The Great Human Race is simple and clever: drop two people on different points on the “migratory route” of human history — from Africa to North America — and see what happens.
The Great Food Truck Race, “What Happens in Vegas”: taco-flavored kisses
A second season of Food Network’s food truck race speeds into action.
The Great Food Truck Race, “Midnight Truck to Georgia”: location, location, location
The Golden Peach that wasn’t.
The Great Food Truck Race, “Miami Heat”: and then there were two
The heat gets turned up a notch as the race for $100k draws to a close.
The Great Food Truck Race, “Hog Wild in Memphis”: hogs and cheaters
Sometimes you just need to have a little faith in yourself before doing something erroneous.
The Great Food Truck Race, “Big Bites, Little Apple”: comfort zones
Having the advantage doesn’t always work out in your favor.
The Great Food Truck Race, “A Pinch of Salt Lake City”: SLC truck
Sometimes offering a bargain isn’t always the best deal.
The Good Wife, “A New Day”: cha-cha-changes
What happened with Alicia and Will? Look no further…
The Good Wife, “The Death Zone”: libel and spot of tea
Alicia and Will go after a media tycoon from the U.K., while Eli and Kalinda finally join forces.
The Good Wife, “Feeding the Rat”: wait, did he say love?
Alicia and Diane fight to save an innocent man.
The Glades, “Swamp Thing”: human trafficking isn’t boar-ing
A surprisingly kinetic and curious episode.
The Glades, “Iron Pipeline”: it’s always the awkward ones
The Glades knows how to throw an (orange) curve.
The Glades, “Breakout”: diluted effectiveness
The Glades brings out an hostage situation to finish off its second season.
The Glades, “Beached”: emphasis on the bikinis
You’ll need to gargle with alcohol to forget those opening lyrics.
The Glades, “Addicted to Love”: drug addicts as metaphor?
The Glades uses an impressive metaphor.
The Exes, “Pilot”: comedy all-stars draw a foul
The TV Land bro-comedy tries to find charm in divorced dudes starting over.
The Dudesons in America, “Spaced”: I do this for Einstein and gravity
“If you fail, the consequences will be pain.”
The Daily Show, “President Barack Obama”: the audacity of conversation
“Are we the people we were waiting for?” – Jon Stewart to President Obama
The Daily Show, “Howard Stern”: media kings
While the Stern interview was not a classic, it’s always good to see two media kings (one the self-proclaimed King of All Media, the other merely the top television talk show host-meets-fake news anchor) at the top of their game.
The Colony, “New Beginning”: when actors attack
“I don’t get it.” – Josh (Tom Hanks), Big
The Chicago Code, “Pilot”: they tell me you are wicked and I believe them
“They say Chicago is the city that works. What some people don’t understand is it works it a lot of different ways.” – Alderman Ronin Gibbons
The Chicago Code, “Hog Butcher”: star on the wall
“I’m a lot of things, but I ain’t going to be no hypocrite.” – Wysocki
The Challenge: Battle of the Exes, “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”: stupid, stupid Vinny
“You just ripped my shirt in front of the f—ing cameras!” – Mandi
The Challenge: Battle of The Exes, “Love Is A Battlefield”: honey, ah, sugar, sugar
The Challenge is back, baby!
The Challenge, “Tainted Love”: slip-slidin’ away
“Okay guys, there’s two balls and three boys.” – T.J. Lavin
The Challenge: Battle of The Exes, “Where Did Our Love Go?”: The Challenge gets trivial
“I would love nothing more than to spit in Paula’s face.” – Naomi
The Cape, “Pilot” and “Tarot”: a superhero hits the small screen
Can The Cape replicate the genre-based success of The Walking Dead?
The Biggest Loser is a deeply weird TV show
For the most part The Biggest Loser seems like a show that spreads positive messages and encourages people to live fitter and healthier lives, there’s an element to it that I find tremendously odd and not a little bit disturbing.
The Big Bang Theory, “The Zazzy Substitution”: in which Sheldon becomes a crazy cat lady
“Now if you’ll excuse me, the father of the atomic bomb wants a saucer of milk.” – Sheldon
The Big Bang Theory, “The Wiggly Finger Catalyst”: Raj talks to the unhearing
“Oh, Emily wouldn’t do that. She’s deaf.” – Penny
The Big Bang Theory, “The Toast Derivation”: Sheldon’s not the center of the world
“They’re having fun wrong.” – Sheldon
The Big Bang Theory, “The Thespian Catalyst”: going Bollywood
“Cute is for bunny-rabbits. I want to be something with sex appeal — like a Labradoodle.” – Raj
The Big Bang Theory, “The Skank Reflex Analysis”: fallout from unexpected hookups
“I feel like two completely different people – Dr Jekyll and Mrs. Whore.” – Penny