This was an interesting episode -- or, rather, the experience of watching it was interesting. There were parts of it that were legitimately quite funny, other parts were very touching, and everyone nailed it from an acting standpoint. I think the problem (if there was one) was that everyone knew we
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"Do you want to be a good man?" "I want to be effective." "Does one discount the other?" "It can." So said Peter to Pastor Isaiah in this episode, although I wonder if that will end up applying as much to Alicia
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View the gallery The great secret of this show is that the Male Cop Necktie Game is totally on-point.
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View the gallery First of all, apologies that this is a wee bit later than usual -- the Golden Globes shoved me down the Downton well and only just now fished me out. Point the second: I could not get the PBS app to work for me when I was taking
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View the gallery As someone who doesn't watch Agents of SHIELD, hasn't seen either Thor movie, and saw Captain America 2 on a plane -- meaning, Marvel is not a priority -- I was surprised at how enjoyable Agent Carter is. It helps that she has a Sydney
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The last frame of this episode had me shouting, "Wait, WHAT?" I'm getting a little weary of the election stuff, but it's made for some intriguing changes to Alicia's character, and I can't decide if she's going to
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Welcome back, dear friends, to the Downton Abbey recaps! This show brings me great pleasure and many wonderful coats and I delighted that it is BACK. As ever, I sincerely thank everyone who has already seen this season (either by non-televisual means, or because you live in the UK)
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View the gallery The fifth season of Downton Abbey premieres for those of us in the United States on this Sunday, January 4th, and I AM EXCITED. Let's prepare by looking back at some of the notable ensembles of season four. As ever, I am UNSPOILED -- despite occasionally
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This show is SO EXCITED about Rachel Bilson's prodigious pregnancy cleavage. They're also apparently excited about her actual pregnancy, as we will soon see. To remind you of how we left things: Lemon's Mean Grandma Betty loaned her a bunch of money to rebuild
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It's the last episode before a break -- we're off until early February, y'all -- and the writers did indeed leave us with a couple cliffhangers amidst a satisfying twist or two. But first, we have to get through Rayna preparing for her wedding to Luke
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Hey, remember when this show had Nostradamus floating around making announcements? It was awfully rude of him to leave right before EXTREMELY TERRIBLE THINGS started happening, which you'd think maybe he would have had an inkling were on the horizon. (In fact, I suspect that's exactly
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All you need to know is that Hayden Panettiere completely won TV in this episode. Forever. Until the next time she wins it. How's THAT for a teaser? We begin this hour in Rayna's house, which is as brimming with Christmas Cheer as if it were
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No more new episodes until January, so in the meantime we can dissect this very odd episode. Parts of it were very funny, parts of it were very sad, but on the whole I think it was a little TOO cutesy with itself to the point where I got distracted
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Hello, Fug Nation, and apologies for the tardiness of this recap. I got run over by a deadline and a turkey, in that order. Luckily, not that much happened in this episode -- I've come to the realization that this show is very good at making it SEEM like
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We've reached the night of the CMAs, and one big question remains unanswered: What the hell happened with Rolling Stone? Wasn't a big part of doing the cover story that it would help her campaign for CMAs votes? I'm assuming that hasn't
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