Vampire Diaries Welcome Back. Whodunit? The Vampire Diaries Season 3 Episode 16 It should be categorically impossible to miss fictional people as much as I do, but I’ve decided to neglect the part of me that feels like maybe this level of empathy for fictional people and the ways their families mess them up By Duana • Mar 16, 2012 11:42 am
Break Ups Facinelli/Garth Finished: Why do I care so much? Forget first, I am not even the ten-thousanth person to say online that I loved Sassy, that it formed me and my views; one of the first ways it did was when I read the article about Jennie Garth and her then-husband, Daniel Clark, giggling over the “I hate Brenda” By Duana • Mar 13, 2012 04:31 pm
House of Lies I Love You, Marty Khan House of Lies Season 1 Episode 9 recap I heard a scandalously good piece of gossip the other day. Or, not gossip, I guess, because it turned out to be true. As I marveled, the story-teller pointed out that in addition to being true and full of juicy details, it By Duana • Mar 13, 2012 01:58 pm
Smash …You could get smashed to watch, I guess? Smash Season 1 Episode 6 So. About Derek. I’m supposed to think he’s a jerk, right? That he’s mean and terrible and maybe someday he’ll be fired? That was the goal of the writers? Because mostly I agree with him. I think he’s right about By Duana • Mar 13, 2012 11:21 am
Girly Throw Downs Becoming Peggy - Mad Men Season 5 Preview #1 With Mad Men finally, finally at a reachable distance and with such a long time since we checked in with our crew at SCDP, I wanted to remind myself where we are with all our characters. As always, I find Peggy the most compelling. Though she’s grown up over By Duana • Mar 09, 2012 11:08 am
Baby and Bump Obsession The Porny Name Pool! (Lainey: please see Duana’s article and then details on our pool below that. This is a throwdown!) I know the fear of all mothers these days is judgment. Everyone worries they’re going to get judged for what they do or don’t feed their kid, who takes care By Duana • Mar 08, 2012 02:54 pm
House of Lies House of Hopes House of Lies Season 1 Episode 8 Hello! Did you miss House Of Lies? They very smartly didn’t put this episode up against the Oscars, although with the amount of strategy and manipulation involved in either, you could easily have changed the channel and gotten a similar experience. I By Duana • Mar 06, 2012 12:53 pm
Smash Send me the Names Smash season 1 episode 5 I know some of you are Broadway-philes, or watch obscure TV like I do, or keep track of third leads in straight-to-video productions. Send me the names of your personal favourites. Those pets you have who sing and act, who should have been cast in By Duana • Mar 06, 2012 11:24 am
Girly Throw Downs Do You Still Wonder Why I Love "TV People"? So, for those who didn't hear about this story - Tyrese tried to contact Amber Rose about collaborating on some projects. Except he got her email from a mass email that included amberrose@emailprovider.com, not realizing that's actually the address of Amber Tamblyn. If you& By Duana • Mar 05, 2012 03:01 pm
Goldie Hawn I told you pilot season was fun The following is not even one full day’s casting gossip from the pilot sphere. Leah Remini and Sara Rue, who are, for many of you, the quintessential ‘TV people’ have each booked pilots that sound exactly like TV-people pilots: - Rue plays a nosy neighbour. Elsewhere, Remini’s former By Duana • Mar 02, 2012 11:30 am
Parenthood Parenthood Season 3 - Everybody Falls …Including Billy Riggins. (Lainey: what? Billy Riggins is on this show??? Why didn’t you SAY SO?) I’ve been trying to figure out who the Parenthood viewer is. It’s not everyone, because then the ratings would be, you know, up. I used to think it was about those By Duana • Mar 01, 2012 11:05 am
Smash Smash It All To Hell Smash Season 1 Episode 4 recap It’s such a rare thing to have episode titles actually onscreen. These days they’re mostly for the production team and get talked about in the press. Anyway, this is “The Cost of Art”. And the cost of art is boredom. Sorry, but By Duana • Feb 29, 2012 02:23 pm
James Spader The Office is failing its characters So the announcement has been made that James Spader will leave The Office after the current season. Exec Producer (and Toby) Paul Lieberstein said this: “James always wanted this to be a one year arc, and he now leaves us having created one of the most enigmatic and dynamic characters By Duana • Feb 29, 2012 12:17 pm
Whitney Cummings Who has the Responsibility? So this came out of Whitney Cummings' Twitter while she was livetweeting during the Oscars the other night. "If Christian Bale murdered me I would have an orgasm right before I died." So, let's go with a couple of assumptions here. That the "murder& By Duana • Feb 28, 2012 02:58 pm
Gorgessity Wisdom of the Woman You're looking at the pictures going “more Julia”? But it's not my fault that my wistfulness made her decide to come out of hiding and explain to young actresses why they have a cross to bear. Look at the Vanity Fair cover. She still makes you By Duana • Feb 28, 2012 12:48 pm
Bad Style Worst Dressed: Melissa McCarthy It pains me to have to say it. But you know that I'm right. I looked at that dress, felt disappointed, and then went back to look at McCarthy's award season to see what I wanted instead. I mean, it's hard to say. All By Duana • Feb 27, 2012 04:59 pm