Family Guy “Farmer Guy” Review
Crime is up in Quahog, and Peter and Lois are worried about raising their family in such a violent, lawless place. Which isn’t terrible different than how the town behaves most of the time. Like, in the MacFarlane-verse, how is Quahog not considered America’s shithole already? That’s neither here nor there, I guess. Peter does [...]
The Simpsons “The Fabulous Faker Boy” Review
This week, we open with a truncated credits sequence so there’s more time to devote to the highly anticipated Robot Chicken couch gag. Was it worth the excitement? Kinda sorta. I’m no fan of Robot Chicken, but it was pretty cool to see the Simpsons characters done in Claymation/action figure style. As with many of this [...]
Family Guy “Save the Clam” Review
During a bush-league softball match, everyone’s favorite not-Cleveland black guy Jerome accidentally kills Horace, the owner of The Drunken Clam. The bank takes possession of the bar, and Peter, Quagmire and Joe barricade themselves inside to stop it from being torn down. You know, the trope of the neighborhood folk banding together to stop the [...]
The Simpsons “Whiskey Business” Review
Moe’s feeling suicidal, as usual, and after a botched attempt to hang himself, St. Anger round his neck, Homer performs CPR and saves his sorry ass. Moe now owes Homer a Wookiee Life Debt, and since Homer doesn’t want any uggos as his indentured servants, he, Marge, Carl, and Lenny take Moe on a trip [...]
The Simpsons “Pulpit Friction” Review
Church episodes aren’t always the easiest thing for me to discuss because as a godless heathen I simply feel rather far removed from churchgoing culture. My folks usually only remembered their faith on holidays or when they wanted to tell me all about how awful I am. I remember that I once escaped out the [...]
Revolution “Ghosts” Review
Revolution is a frustrating show. It likes to play with the expectations and emotions of the viewers, not through intelligent writing, but through greatly fluctuating quality and baffling character motivations. I honestly thought I was going to have to eat my words from the review of the last episode. Unlike the first half of the [...]
CSI “Sheltered” Review
The body of a teenage boy is abandoned in a wasteland, with an origami crane left in his pocket. When another boy is taken by the killer, an intrepid journalist, an overweight private eye, a junkie of an FBI agent, and the bereaved father must solve this deadly puzzle before it’s too late. The body [...]
Revolution “The Stand” Review
After a long break Revolution returns with Monroe wielding the electricity and bearing down Charlie and friends. The midseason finale was good. There really isn’t a way around that and it left on so much more of a high note then the rest of the season that expectations were raised. Revolution has been such a [...]
Girls “Together” Review
Is it really the end of the sophomore season of Girls? Sadly, it is. However, we know they’ll be back for a third season, so it’s not the worst news in the world. And to top it all off, it was an excellent episode When we last left Girls, Hannah was busy rupturing her ear [...]
Family Guy “Call Girl” Review
After seeing a bird of prey swoop in and murder the smaller visitors to Chris’ birdhouse, Peter decides to become a falconer. He uses his capable and trusty falcon Xerxes for damn near everything from fetching him things to making him dinner. Naturally, Family Guy uses this to make several terrible jokes, like Xerxes tearing [...]
