The A.V. Club
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Joel McHale has revealed that a familiar Community character is going to die when the show returns this spring. With no more information to go on, let’s all suggest possible candidates. I’m putting my money on Leonard.
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Because it’s Friday and it’s been a hell of week, please enjoy this video of Assistant T.V. Editor Erik Adams seductively reading Fox’s latest promo materials. Special thanks to intern Becky Frass for the adding the special effects, and to intern Camaree Turman for not cracking up during taping.
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Oh, I don’t know, Lucille Bluth really seemed like a peach.
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Now that the producers know ahead that the show is ending, they can take that lingering mystery and solve it with a two-minute Hugh Laurie monologue.
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Report: Watching Episode of ‘Downton Abbey’ Counts As Reading Book
“It’s a period piece with British accents and drama that hinges on each character’s place within an aristocratic peerage system, so needless to say, viewing one show from beginning to end is basically the same as reading a book.”
Then Meredith Blake is a scholar.
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If there’s a problem with Smash it’s that the show doesn’t really avoid cliché. Indeed, it steers right toward every cliché in its path. That’s going to be a dealbreaker for a lot of people, who may be hoping for something more original in its storytelling. But the show is so damned sincere about how much it embraces the clichés of the backstage Broadway story that those inclined to like this sort of thing—and I’m very much one of them—will forgive it some of these excesses. There are things that absolutely don’t work—a subplot featuring Julia trying to adopt a baby is just awful, particularly when it involves the actor playing her teenage son, who’s one of the worst actors I’ve seen in a series of this quality in quite some time—and there are things that are troublesome, like the portrayal of Ivy in later episodes.
Noel Murray and Todd VanDerWerff share their first impressions of Smash.
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Would George Michael Bluth love Downton Abbey, or would the stress be too much for him?
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Patton Oswalt to test the bounds of your affections by appearing on Two And A Half Men
We’re only watching if he remains motionless for all of his scenes.
