I have been rather enjoying rediscovering Coupling, a British comedy series that ran for four brief seasons in the early 2000s. I think of it as Friends for a smarter audience and with more emphasis towards exploring relationships and sex. It is incredibly well written – and its premise is rather sweet (I recommend watching the [...]
Heart | The Spanish Teacher | Yes/No | Michael The Warblers sucked. Sebastian was decent but there is a high bar for liking a villain and he doesn’t quite cut it and we don’t quite forgive him enough to declassify him from villainy. As a counterexample, we do find ourselves liking Sue because she does surpass that bar AND she has [...]
The Spanish Teacher | Yes/No | Michael Let’s see: It is SO. OBVIOUS. who the real winner of the Glee Project is. Sam’s first song was a spot on rendition of Stereo Hearts. Damian’s first song was It’s not easy being green. Go figure. Now he’s being “deported” back to Ireland because his visa renewal (*ahem contract*) was [...]
Yes/No | Michael This episode was perhaps long overdue given the rich musical Hispanic culture and of course the show acknowledges the demographic trend. I do not think it was particularly believable that Will has a Spanish problem because we have seen him teaching before (can he really not know the meaning of orejas? And mixing up [...]
last week This episode was a giant ‘meh’. No real animosity between supposedly bitter rivals. Seriously quit with the Samcedes thing already. Ugh. Now she’s cheating on her boyfriend with him. Preachy Yalie Quinn. Wasn’t Finn thinking about enlisting? Poor, poor Rory. No moonwalk?! But there were some redeeming factors. Mike Chang. 2Cellos with broken [...]
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