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Family Values Tour: Trophy Wife

Posted by on 11:29 am in Ted McLoof, Television | 0 comments

Family Values Tour: Trophy Wife

Hopefully, what we have to look forward is stuff like ABC’s Trophy Wife, which in its tone and wit reminds me of the way-underrated Suburgatory. It’s not that Trophy Wife doesn’t do a lot of the things I’ve already claimed that contemporary (and, let’s face it, traditional) family sitcoms do: it affirms family values, its central family is so white you need sunglasses to watch them, they live in a comfortable upper-middle class neighborhood, etc. Product placement abounds, from the cars to the phones to the hilarious prop that is (of all...

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I Lost 9 Pounds In One Day After Drinking Tap Water

Posted by on 10:08 am in Featured, Social, Will Ruff | 0 comments

I Lost 9 Pounds In One Day After Drinking Tap Water

Tsinghua University Hospital v. the International SOS Hospital   I shouldn’t have had the water. They brought me to a room that was small. It had maybe a dozen seats, and setups for IVs. It wasn’t a bad room, but it was unfamiliar. I didn’t know what my expectations were, but what I noticed was that it looked somewhat dirty; the paint on the walls was faded, and the equipment looked old and worn. Wear and tear from past patients. Over the last 18 hours I’d lost 9 lbs. because I drank the water and it made me sick....

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Show With Promise Alert: Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Posted by on 8:15 am in Featured, Russ Stevens, Television | 0 comments

Show With Promise Alert: Brooklyn Nine-Nine

No one wants to go down with the ship.  I just finished watching Dexter and my TV life is worse for it.  That being said I am extremely careful with the shows I sample now.  I watch them, I follow their ratings, and I even check to see how many/what hashtags a show can generate.  This is all in an effort to never go down with the ship again.  The following series of articles is designed to give you an idea of the new broadcast shows I’m sampling in hopes they stick around for a few years.  Brooklyn Nine-Nine Lets start right out by...

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Family Values Tour: Dads

Posted by on 6:55 pm in More Featured, Ted McLoof, Television | 0 comments

Family Values Tour: Dads

  Dads is bad. Dads is painfully, totally, in spots off-the-charts bad, made with the kind of primitive humor and style that makes you wonder whether anyone involved had ever seen a sitcom before. It’s the only multi-camera, laugh-track sitcom of the lot here, but that’s not what makes it regressive. It regresses to a time long before the advent of multi-camera sitcoms. Dads’ premise is simple enough: two guys (Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi) work together designing videogames. They have a hot, young Asian secretary who does everything...

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NLDS Preview

Posted by on 5:57 pm in Featured Sports, Sports | 0 comments

NLDS Preview

Pittsburgh Pirates vs. St. Louis Cardinals Pittsburgh Pirates (94-68)   Overview: After not making the postseason in two decades, the Pirates have had a great season making the postseason and winning the Wild Card game. It is one of the best stories this season. They have done it by having a great mix of veterans and young players.   Hitting: R: 634 (20th) AVG: .245 (22nd) OBP: .313 (17th) HR: 161 (14th)   The Pirates have a mediocre offense. They are anchored by a legitimate superstar in outfielder Andrew McCutchen. They did add some...

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NFL Notes: Week 4

Posted by on 12:59 pm in Featured, Featured Sports, Matt Cargile, Sports | 0 comments

NFL Notes: Week 4

  It’s week 4 and the season is still in the early stages.  Teams at this point start to show their true colors, but some are still sheep in wolves clothing or vice versa.  I really think you won’t know a team till the sixth week. Right now there’s at least one undefeated team that won’t live up to their early hype.  And looking at the list, the obvious choice is Kansas City. They’ve had 2 games at home and another game in Jacksonville which is like a home field advantage to everyone in the NFL except the...

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If The Playoffs Were Food and Drink, Autumn Edition

Posted by on 12:01 pm in Andrew Rose, Featured, Pop Culture, Sports | 0 comments

If The Playoffs Were Food and Drink, Autumn Edition

  Last spring, in attempts to trump the playoffs predictions of so-called experts by using non-sports-related metrics, I turned to local food and drink in lieu of win-loss records and statistics. My completely subjective signature dish bracket called for the Memphis Grizzlies to stand atop the NBA (they lost in the conference finals), but my math-based, mostly-objective breweries bracket accurately crowned the Chicago Blackhawks as Stanley Cup Champions. I decided to run the gimmick back once more for the MLB playoffs – this time...

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Once Upon A Time Series Review

Posted by on 9:12 am in Pat Wong, Television | 0 comments

Once Upon A Time Series Review

  Score: 9.5/10   “Believing in even the possibility of a happy ending is a very powerful thing.” – Mary Margaret Blanchard/ Snow White   I believe that a good story is a good story regardless of genre (e.g. action, love story, etc.). Once Upon A Time is one of my favorite shows on television. When my cousin’s wife recommended the series to me during its first season, I wrongly judged a book by its cover and was hesitant to watch it as I believed I had outgrown fairy tales. Once Upon A Time is not just a good story. It is a...

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Marvel’s Agents of Shield Episode 2

Posted by on 1:20 pm in Pat Wong, Television | 0 comments

Marvel’s Agents of Shield Episode 2

Score: 6/10   Episode 2 is titled “0-8-4”. The episode begins with agents Grant Ward (Brett Dalton) and Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) voicing their concerns about the other members of the team to the leader of the squad, Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg). Their concerns about Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) and Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) are that they have no combat experience and would be liabilities in the field. However, Fitz and Simmons are S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists whose expertise is valuable for the team. Ward’s and May’s biggest issue...

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Family Values Tour: The Goldbergs

Posted by on 11:42 am in Ted McLoof, Television | 0 comments

Family Values Tour: The Goldbergs

The soapy family values that MJFS can’t help but avoid are on full display in The Goldbergs. For weeks I’ve been seeing Facebook ads proclaiming, “Liked The Wonder Years? You’ll love The Goldbergs,” and reviews have strangely lumped the two together as well. I have no idea why. Aside from the presence of the protagonist narrating the show as an older man, I have to say that I have seen The Wonder Years, and you, Goldbergs, are no Wonder Years. TWY was an unusually accurate portrait of the awkwardness of adolescence, set against the background...

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