I ranked all the second season episodes of Community to demonstrate how consistently good it was this year. I’m ranking all the sixth season episodes of How I Met Your Mother for a somewhat different reason. After a poor fifth season, HIMYM desperately needed a comeback. And for the most part it had one. It [...]
Archive for May, 2011
How I Met Your Mother: Season 6 in Review or Ranking the Episodes
Posted in Television, tagged How I Met Your Mother on May 28, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Community: Season 2 in Review or Ranking the Episodes
Posted in Television, tagged Community on May 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
You know what’s fun? Community. You know what else is fun? Lists. So this list of all the second season episodes of Community ranked from 24 to 1 is sure to be a blast. It should also have the added benefit of demonstrating just how good the second season of Community was. 24. Early 21st [...]
The Good Wife: Season 2 in Review
Posted in Television, tagged The Good Wife on May 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Who are you? A citizen of some country. Of some region. Of some state or province. Some city or town or locality. You’re a man or a woman. A son or a daughter. A husband or a wife. A mother or a father. Or single and unattached. Gay or a straight. You have a job [...]
Community: “A Fistful of Paintballs” or Avoiding The Part One Curse
Posted in Television, tagged Community on May 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Part ones get off too easy. The first part of two-part episodes are usually light on action and weighed down with dull exposition. They also tend to be padded, as television writers accustomed to telling stories in 42 minutes struggle to fill 84 minutes of air time. Despite these problems, fans and critics alike generally [...]
Happy Endings and Lousy Beginnings
Posted in Television, tagged Happy Endings on May 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Back when I was in elementary school, a new student joined my class and promptly started beating the shit out of me. For obvious reasons, my opinion of him was not too high, and I expressed my dissatisfaction over the situation with my parents, who suggested that I attempt to befriend him. I’m not sure how great [...]
