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Secret Diary of a Call Girl: Not worth watching?

By Elaine B Recently, I commented that Swingtown would be so much better if it were on Showtime. Now I am not so sure. Tuning in to my DVR’d premiere of Billie Piper trying to be sexy, I found myself longing for Elizabeth Berkley in the smarmier and far more entertaining Razzie award-winning film Showgirls. What’s wrong with Call Girl? Well, almost everything. First off, in spite of her perky voice-over narration (the best thing about the premiere), Belle is … Not. Very. Nice.

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Swingtown Revisits Seventies Sexism

By Elaine B Sometime in the mid ’70s, I listened as a pair of bus drivers exchanged ideas about the philosophies of Kant and Camus. It occurred to me that these guys have a job in which they use a bit of brawn (managing a seventies-something bus was not easy) and about half a brain, leaving the other half for deep thoughts. As a budding novelist, it seemed like a great career change. So, armed with the new sexual non-discrimination laws, I went off to the Milwaukee Transit Company’s employment office and applied. The interviewer took one look at my […]

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Swingtown Promises Summer Sizzle

One of the very first things Alice found when she fell down the rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll’s famous novel was a bottle that said simply, “Drink me.” Alice immediately looked for a warning, some sign that what was inside was not poison. Finding none, she tasted and, seduced by the exotic blend of scents and sweetness, finished it off. Cautious people would say that she was a fool, but I was part of the “Drink me” generation – indeed, “Drink this” was the beginning line of many a great weekend party while I was in college – and the […]

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Getting Lost: There’s No Place Like Home, Parts 2 and 3 Review

Posted by Mike and johnnysweeptheleg If we had told you before last night’s Season 4 finale aired that Jeremy Bentham was dead, would you have cared? Probably not, unless you were a philosophy major in college. Now, John Locke would have been another question entirely. As it turns out, they’re the same guy — and they’re both dead. Or are they? As Lost fans, we’ve been conditioned to question just about everything we see. As such, we’ve been trying to think of reasons Locke might still be alive. Here’s what we’ve come up with:

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Getting Lost: “There’s No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3” Preview

This is it. The last Lost preview of the season. Thursday night, beginning at 8pm ET/7pm CT, ABC will air an encore of “There’s No Place Like Home, Part 1” with never-before-seen bonus footage followed by the two-hour season finale. It’s been an incredible season so far, and it promises to get even better during the final two hours. Here are the unanswered questions heading into this week’s season finale, “There’s No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3”: Why did Ben allow himself to be captured? How does Faraday know about the Orchid station? Other than Sun’s dad, who […]

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Getting Lost: The Top 10 Things We Love About This Season

Here they are, in no particular order, the 10 things we have enjoyed most about the current season of Lost — one which we feel will go down as not only the best in the series’ history, but one of the best in television history, as well. Yeah, it’s been that good. 1. The new characters. While in the past we’ve been subjected to pointless additions to the cast (Nikki and Paulo, we’re looking in your direction), this season’s newcomers have played vital roles in the overall story arc and have quickly become integral to our enjoyment of the series. […]

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“One Tree Hill”: The Slippery Slope Continues 18

Posted by: haro1d Boy, what an unsatisfying ending to a pretty unsatisfying season. Things started out like they were going to be neato or something, with Jackson Brundage (Li’l James) plunking out the old OTH themesong with Gavin DeGraw. Then we got into the episode, and here’s what went down: Lucas woke up from his big booze binge with a mohawk, which Haley insisted on shaving off. Brooke had to return Angie eight days early and wept when she did. Dan Scott paid another visit to Reverend Carter, the fellow who was ahead of him in line for a heart […]

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Getting Lost: “There’s No Place Like Home, Part 1” Review

Posted by Mike and johnnysweeptheleg Those of you who want answers might have been a little disappointed by last night’s episode of Lost. Sure, we found out that Jack now knows about Claire being his sister. And we know that the Oceanic 6 is trying to pass off Aaron as Kate’s son. But we were only able to officially cross off one item from our list of unanswered questions. Still, that’s OK, because this is just the first of a three-part finale (with the final two parts airing over two hours on May 29, in case you’ve forgotten). Think of […]

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One Tree Hill: The Slippery Slope Continues 17

Posted by: haro1d OTH’s penultimate episode this season was a lulu. Here’s what went down before it all came up: Dan Scott is second on the list for a new heart. Little Angie got hers fixed. Deb exposed herself online to a stranger … or maybe someone not so strange. Meanwhile, James found the card for Dan that his mommy threw in the trash and wandered off down the road before being happened upon by Haley. The breaks keep on coming for Mia: She’s doing a Starburst Something-or-Other Concert Tour. (And Rocking the Vote, man.) On a break from recording […]

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Getting Lost: “There’s No Place Like Home, Part 1” Preview

This week’s episode of Lost, “There’s No Place Like Home, Part 1,” is the first installment of the season’s three-part finale, which — in one of the most complicated finale schedules we can remember — airs two weeks before the two-hour presentation of Parts 2 and 3 on May 29. That’s right. Lost is going on yet another mini-hiatus, thanks to a two-hour Grey’s Anatomy season finale on May 22. That aside, we wanted to discuss something from last week’s episode. During “Cabin Fever,” Ben suggested that he wasn’t always the “leader” of the island. So who was? How nice […]