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Quite The SUR-prise
Okay, the first time I heard about the reality show Vanderpump Rules, I thought it was a joke. It’s a soap opera surrounding the bed-hopping staff of a restaurant owned by a Real Housewife. I, a connoisSUR of reality TV of the lowest order, refused to lower myself to watch it. So I’m halfway…
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Maybe Charlotte Was The Real Miranda All Along
I’ve recently been re-re-re-rewatching Sex and the City with my reluctant but resigned boyfriend. Yeah, we’ve been using his HBO GO subscription to switch between that, and Entourage. Early-00’s nostalgia is at its absolute PEAK around here, as is our NY-vs-LA struggle for supremacy. And maybe it’s the wisdom of my thirties, actually being closer to…
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ER is on Hulu, and I’ve Never Been Happier
Let me tell you a little story about Teenage Meghan. She was SOOOO OBSESSED with the television show ER, that she dressed up as one of the characters for Halloween in senior year. Every Friday lunch period, she would perform an elaborate one-woman recap of the previous night’s episode of ER — including musical parodies — because she was…
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Fall TV That Is Pulling Me Through
I love television. I just love television. It’s easy to forget every fall, caught up in the excitement for leaves and scarves and Pumpkin Spice Everything™, that FALL is also the season that television gets GOOD again! (I literally almost typed “television gets GREAT again” but then I realized that I had typed 2/4ths of “Make…
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Meet the Top Three Contestants of ‘The Make America’s Bake Off Great Again Bake Off’!!!
We’re just one week away from the exciting finale of The Make America’s Bake Off Great Again Bake Off, the Americanized version of The Great British Bake Off that’s been America-ed for American tastes. America. Because in America, “great” isn’t just in the name of our country — as in “Great Britain” — it’s also…
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I Wasn’t “Counting On” Loving This Duggar Spinoff But, Well, Here We Are
Before you click through, rolling your eyes and scoffing Meghan, come on, what are you thinking?, you should hear me out on this one. And know, too, that I have always found 19 Kids and Counting extremely difficult to watch. The hallmarks of 19KaC didn’t make for very good entertainment, so I thought. Once the initial shock of such a…