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'American Horror Story: Asylum' Recap: Storm's A-Brewin' | ARTICLE
Is Ryan Murphy some kind of dark meteorologist? Did he know that the real world would experience a cataclysmic storm the same week as the poor souls at Briarcliff? Hopefully he wasn't predicting yet another horrible future...
October 31, 2012 11:05 PM ET -
'American Horror Story: Asylum' Recap: Judy vs. the Devil | ARTICLE
Aaaaaand Adam Levine is dead. We don't know that for sure, but boy, he does not look good, what with the meat-hook wounds in his chest. Tonight's Tricks and Treats picks up right where the season premiere...
October 24, 2012 11:05 PM ET -
'American Horror Story: Asylum' Recap: Productivity, Prayer and Alien Hands | ARTICLE
There might be no way to recapture the effervescent weirdness of American Horror Story's pilot episode. I watched it again last night and the icky fun is in the specific details: a dog-bone mobile tinkling in the...
October 17, 2012 11:05 PM ET -
'Snooki & JWoww' Finale Recap: The Heart Isn't All That Tears in Two | ARTICLE
So that's how the first season of Snooki & JWoww ends: not with a bang, but with a robot baby being forcibly and methodically fed carrot sticks. Seems about right. Seeing as how they have to shoot...
September 14, 2012 10:18 AM ET -
'Snooki & JWoww' Recap: Three Gay Joeys and a Fake Baby | ARTICLE
News that the sixth season of Jersey Shore will be its last has me pondering the nature of reality TV, or at least the kind of reality TV where no competes for anything. What is that sweet...
August 31, 2012 9:45 AM ET -
'Snooki & JWoww' Recap: The Only Thing You're Winning at Is Losing Me | ARTICLE
Last night's episode of Snooki & JWoww was a portrait of hope, love and the ability to forgive your boyfriend for posing for a photo with another woman. We should all be so brave. The way Snooki and...
August 24, 2012 10:50 AM ET -
'Snooki & JWoww' Recap: The Most Insecure Person in the World | ARTICLE
After weeks of bickering, it's nice to be reminded why Snooki and JWoww make such a winning team to begin with. Last night's episode opened on Snooki's nightmare slog through their vacation in Cancun, an endless barrage...
August 17, 2012 12:00 PM ET -
'Snooki & JWoww' Recap: Spring Breakdown in Cancun | ARTICLE
What if Snooki and JWoww frolicked with dolphins in every episode? Maybe they could solve crimes too? Actually, what Snooki & JWoww really needs is a dose of pregnancy talk in every episode: a discussion of surging hormones,...
August 10, 2012 11:35 AM ET -
'Snooki & JWoww' Recap: Roger Dodger | ARTICLE
What do you do with a problem like Roger? Never have I met a reality TV character so vexing, so ever-changing, so unnaturally shiny and red for no readily apparent biological reason. I want to like him....
August 3, 2012 10:55 AM ET -
'Snooki & JWoww' Recap: Remove Stick, Shake Booty | ARTICLE
Tension is running high at the Polizzi-Woww household, and it looks like Snooki's pregnancy hormones are to blame. Well, Snooki's pregnancy hormones, combined with an artificial environment in which she is constantly followed by cameras, spends 90...
July 27, 2012 10:55 AM ET -
'Snooki & JWoww' Recap: Babies, Daddies and Baby Daddies | ARTICLE
Having gathered her Jersey Shore roommates together for dinner, Snooki prepares to tell them that not only is she engaged, she's also with child. Too bad everyone is too busy being a complete dillweed to listen. "Jionni can't...
July 19, 2012 10:35 PM ET -
'Snooki & JWoww' Recap: The Barbie Guidette Dream House Effect | ARTICLE
Snooki and JWoww have so much fabric! Just drowning in fabric! Swimming in yards of leopard print and zebra and glittery pink and black! "You can't make a vase out of fabric," JWoww sniffs one morning. Seeing...
July 13, 2012 10:10 AM ET -
'Snooki & JWoww' Recap: Behold the Child of Snooki | ARTICLE
Snooki described her sonogram as looking like a "little meatball" last night. Are we . . . are we eating the wrong meatballs? I was going to go on a diatribe about how, without the influence of booze...
July 6, 2012 9:20 AM ET -
'Snooki and JWoww' Recap: The Cheap Thrills of Cleaning the Windows | ARTICLE
Last night's episode picked up with the ladies moving into their gigantic new Jersey City apartment and… well, that's basically it. They literally spend the episode moving in and cleaning the window sills. After watching two long, languorous...
June 29, 2012 9:20 AM ET -
'Snooki & JWoww' Recap: You're (Probably) Gonna Make It After All | ARTICLE
Snooki's pregnancy offers an interesting challenge to the producers of Snooki & JWoww. Picking up after the last season of Jersey Shore, the series opens with the ladies excited to be moving into a swinging bachelorette...
June 21, 2012 10:35 PM ET -
Q&A: 'Girls' Star Adam Driver on the Unexpected Appeal of Adam Sackler | ARTICLE
Over the past few months, Adam Driver bicycle-kicked his way into our hearts as the same-named boyfriend you love to hate (hate to love? both?) of Lena Dunham's Hannah on HBO's Girls. Adam eschewed shirts, accidentally fired...
June 20, 2012 12:30 PM ET -
'Girls' Recap: Just Stay Out of My Emotional Way | ARTICLE
Ladles and gentlebeans, I don't know about you but I cried at the end of tonight's Girls season finale. Genuine human tears rolled down these cheeks. I know that says way more about me than it does...
June 17, 2012 10:35 PM ET -
'Girls' Recap: It's All Material | ARTICLE
Marnie and Hannah get into a knock-down, drag-out fight at the end of this week's episode, the crux of which seemed to be which of them is the most psychically damaged. "I am not the Wound," Hannah...
June 10, 2012 11:05 PM ET -
'Girls' Recap: True Romance | ARTICLE
In a plot twist that many of us would get down on our knees and pray will happen to us, Jessa and Marnie almost have a three way with Chris O'Dowd (Bridesmaids, Friends With Kids)....
June 3, 2012 11:05 PM ET -
'Girls' Recap: Enjoy Going Through Life as Yourself | ARTICLE
While scrapping for wood in the middle of the night to build a symbolic boat (I cannot), Adam stops his bike short and Hannah sails off his handlebars like an angry, wisecracking schooner. After she lands in...
May 27, 2012 11:05 PM ET

