DanLauria-related stories
Posted Nov 10th 2008 11:20PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: How I Met Your Mother, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E07) Behold the power of cute.
It's just a little sock, but it wields so much adorableness, it makes everyone who touches it into a babbling idiot. How else do you explain what we saw by the end of this interesting episode? By the time the sock was finished imposing its widdle biddy ruthlessness on the Scooby gang, some of them weren't recognizable.
At least the sock didn't make Marshall into a girl, like in the picture above. No, that was the Cheerleader Effect in full force.
Continue reading How I Met Your Mother: Not a Father's Day
Posted Jul 6th 2008 11:55PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S02E05) For the first 52 minutes (including commercials) of tonight's
Army Wives, I was wondering where it was going, and -- I have to admit -- I was getting a little impatient. It seemed like a lot of little bits weren't adding up for a very cohesive episode.
Then the last act kicked in and I found myself in tears. The memorial service at the end for the MIA soldier whose remains were finally being returned from Vietnam was a knockout. It just took some time to get to that point.
The heart of the show was Trevor's return from Iraq and his difficulties dealing with the aftermath of killing the man who shot and wounded him. He's uncomfortable with being labeled a hero.
Continue reading Army Wives: The Hero Returns