explosions-related stories
Posted Sep 29th 2009 2:35AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Sons of Anarchy
(S01E01) The first question I had after watching the new NBC medical drama
Trauma was this: can the show keep this up every week?
You can tell a lot of money was spent on the pilot, because the first 20 minutes is like
Irwin Allen: The Movie. Helicopters crash, cars explode, children are endangered. It's like those big episodes of
ER where something massive happened, only this is going to be a regular thing with this show (if, as I said above, they can spend a lot of money on future episodes).
But what about the rest of the show? It's one thing to have big accidents and pyrotechnics (which are actually very impressive) but what about the cast, the writing, the stories?
Continue reading Trauma: Pilot (series premiere)
Posted Jun 14th 2009 11:02AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Celebrities, Children, Game Show
Contrary to what his album covers may suggest, Andrew WK is adorable. No, really.
Adorable. I first learned this when I saw him on on MTV's
Crashing With Andrew WK, a program in which the frontman hung out with some girls at a North Carolina Central University sorority (I found the
first installment here, by the way). It's taken the rest of the world a little more time to catch on, but since Andrew WK kicked off his motivational speaking/performing career, people are starting to get it. The folks over at Cartoon Network saw something in his personality and evidently thought, "Hey! This guy should
blow things up with kids!" And they're right. They're so right.
Continue reading Andrew WK rocks so hard, cars explode
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