Posts with tag MIA
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
Posted Sep 21st 2006 1:04PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, ABC, Industry, OpEd, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals

Those of you who watched
Charmed solely because you had an unyielding crush on
Alyssa Milano can come back off the ledge. Your favorite gal
has signed on to do a new comedy pilot for ABC, tentatively titled
Me and Everyone Else. In the multi-camera comedy, she'll play what producer Dan Bucatinsky (who last worked on Lisa Kudrow's
The Comeback) calls "
Rhoda with a sex life." In other words, she'll play a strong thirty-something woman trying to make her way in the world. But unlike Valerie Harper's classic role from the seventies, Milano's character, Mia, will have a boyfriend. The show will also look at the lives of the two of them as well as Mia's brother and her brother's boyfriend.
Do all these details really matter, though, to most Alyssa fans? Not particularly. As long as she's there and somehow shows off her chest in every episode, most of them will be happy.