JaymaMays-related stories
Posted Nov 26th 2009 3:06PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: OpEd, Video, The Office, 30 Rock, Dexter, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free, Parks and Recreation, Glee, Community
It's Thanksgiving morning as I'm writing this. I've got five pounds of potatoes boiling for our mashed potatoes, the turkey is in the oven, and the butternut squash is cut up for the risotto I'm making. My baby is playing ball with his dad, and the dog is on the couch trying to sleep and just remaining thankful that said baby isn't trying to pet her eyeball right now. I have a lot of things to be thankful for, but as others have said before, me, this is a TV blog, so let's talk about television-related things I'm thankful for.
As we're getting close to the mid-season point, I feel more and more that this is an exceptionally strong season of television-- even with the whole Leno debacle. There are several new shows that I'm quickly falling in love with, and some returning shows that are better than ever. In no particular order, here are things that I am thankful for.
Continue reading What Kona is thankful for
Posted Nov 19th 2009 2:16AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Glee
(S01E10) "What does a heart attack feel like?" - Finn, in a panicky call to Kurt after facing Quinn's parents at dinner
The subject of this episode of
Glee was ballads. It was learned that the club must perform a ballad at sectionals in a few weeks, and the writers managed to weave the soulful songs into every storyline. The first was "Endless Love," sung by Will and Rachel. It set the tone for one of the storylines -- her crush on the teacher. In fact, the episode was filled with odd-couple pairings, thanks to a hat-draw for ballad partners.
Continue reading Review: Glee - Ballad
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 3:00AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: OpEd, Heroes, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E08) As
promised, this week's episode of
Heroes took us back to the heydays of the first season. Back when this was a world of wonder filled with new and exciting characters and mystery. Their futures lie before them, and it all centered on Charlie, the poor waitress that Hiro failed time and again to save back then.
Now that he's working on his bucket list before he kicks it, the time has come to head back three years and try to undo her death by Sylar's hand. Which means we got to see HRG, Claire, Hiro, Ando, Sylar and even Isaac as they were three years ago.
The question was whether or not he could change the past and save Charlie, when he failed to before. Furthermore, could he do so without changing all the subsequent events that had happened. He'd already had a taste of success with Ando and his sister, but this sojourn had much higher stakes.
Continue reading Review: Heroes - Once Upon a Time in Texas
Posted Oct 27th 2009 4:25PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Heroes, Reality-Free
It's no secret that
Heroes has been slipping in quality and in the ratings since the end of its first season. Things have improved a bit this year thanks to Robert Knepper's fantastic turn as manscara-wearing carnival boss Samuel Sullivan. Watching Sylar torment Matt Parkman with some Tyler Durden-esque head games has been a hoot too.
But, as we TV critics like to bring up every now and then, the current season isn't nearly as good as that great first season. Maybe that's why
Heroes is taking us back to season one, sort of, with the Nov. 2 episode, "Once Upon a time in Texas."
The ep follows Hiro as he travels back in time to try to change the events of season one's episode 8, in which he fell in love with Texas waitress Charlie, played by
Glee's Jayma Mays. Fans of the show know that Hiro was unable to save Charlie from Sylar's clutches even though he tried more than once. Will he be able to change history this time?
Continue reading Masi Oka gushes about Charlie's return to Heroes
Posted Oct 15th 2009 3:12AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Glee
(S01E07) "I don't trust a man with curly hair..." - Sue
I'll just say right off the bat -- I was a little bored by this episode. I think because it centered on the bickering and manipulations of Sue and Will. It was annoying and sort of made me want to turn the channel.
But I stuck with it because, of course, I had this review to write, but also because of the musical numbers scattered throughout the show. It clarified for me what I love about
Glee:
- Musical numbers.
- Kurt. Much more Kurt is needed.
- Any storylines with Jayma Mays (Emma Pillsbury), particularly those involving Matthew Morrison (Will).
After the jump, more about this episode and what I
don't love about
Glee.
Continue reading Glee: Throwdown
Posted Oct 1st 2009 4:44AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Glee
(S01E05) "Oh, Bambi, I cried so hard when they shot your mom." - A drunken Kurt to Emma
Ok, after hitting it out of the park since the debut (for me anyway), this episode sort of flatlined for me. At least, it didn't grab me as much as, say, last week's episode with the Beyonce song and the football team dancing on the field. I couldn't wait to get on here and right about
that episode, but this week? Not so much. Maybe it's because there was not enough Kurt in this episode. Need.More.Kurt. Need more of Kurt saying lines like, "Glee Club has just been rocked with its first scandal..."
Continue reading Glee: The Rhodes Not Taken
Posted Sep 17th 2009 3:12AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Glee
(S01E03) "I'm gay." - Kurt to MercedesWe're three episodes into
Glee, and we continue to learn more about the characters' angst, drama, dreams and passion. Kurt told Mercedes he'd never said those words out loud, but -- like the rest of us (excluding Mercedes) -- he must have realized he was gay. I mean, come on, the kid is clearly gay.
There were a lot of great lines in this episode, but Kurt had some of the best, including this one about his car: "My dad got it for me for my 16th birthday if I swore to stop wearing form-fitting sweaters that stop at the knee. What he doesn't know won't hurt him." (He's wearing a red form-fitting sweater that stops at the knee.)
Continue reading Glee: Acafellas
Posted Aug 28th 2009 9:00AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
This is
Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at
TV Squad where we supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
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This week we have spoilers for:
90210, Bones, Desperate Housewives, Gossip Girl, Greek, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, House, Lost, Numb3rs, Smallville and The Office. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)
Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted Aug 24th 2009 6:30PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Celebrities, Heroes, Casting, Reality-Free
Remember Charlie, the cute and spunky waitress who stole Hiro's heart in the first season of
Heroes? (They even
released a novel about their short-lived relationship.) Well, she's
coming back to the show next season, but reportedly only for one episode.
Glee's Jayma Mays will reprise her role as the Texas waitress with an enhanced memory when a dying Hiro takes a trip back in time to finish off his bucket list.
Fans will remember that Charlie met her end thanks to Sylar only a few eps after she first appeared on the show. Hiro tried to save her, but he was unable to change her fate. It's doubtful he'll be able to save her this time, since Mays is only slated to return for one episode, and the actress will be pretty busy this fall with her role on Fox's
Glee.
Continue reading Glee's Jayma Mays heading back to Heroes
Posted May 19th 2009 9:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Early Looks, Reality-Free
If you heard about Fox's new musical drama/comedy
Glee and thought it's probably going to be something like
Disney's High School Musical, you're wrong. Gleefully wrong.
Glee is one of the best entertainments I've seen on television in a long, long time.
Writer/producer/director Ryan Murphy describes the show as a hybrid, and he's right. It is. For me, I saw elements of the movie
Election, plus
Fame and
Friday Night Lights, with a bit of
The Wonder Years thrown in, only it's not nostalgia.
Glee is all the best parts of all the above, plus music and dancing and great characters and really witty material.
Continue reading Glee -- An early look
Posted Oct 24th 2007 11:40PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Pushing Daisies
(S01E04) Since my co-reviewer Izzy lives in Canada, she gets to see episodes of certain shows before we get to here in the States. One of those shows is
Pushing Daisies, which airs on Tuesdays up there. After she saw "Pigeon" last night, she wrote me asking if this was the first episode that was shot after the now-infamous budget cuts were made. I thought last week's episode was the first under those restrictions, but I can see why Izzy might have thought that this one was made on the cheap.
To me, though, the less visual doohickeys there are in a
Pushing Daisies, the better. A little bit of snazziness goes a long way with this show, and it leaves more room to actually tell the story. And this week's story was pretty good.
Continue reading Pushing Daisies: Pigeon
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