TV on DVD

Photo by dailyinvention.
I started watching all my TV shows on DVD back in college, when I didn’t have cable and half my non-cable channels were nothing but snowy reception. Then I started working as a waitress, where I not only worked nights but worked different ones every week. For a while, I tried to schedule [...]

That Party Last Night Was Awfully Crazy; I Wish We Taped It.

Photo by Stephanie Caine.
When I was in college, my friends and I used to occasionally remark that we would make a great reality TV show. We had the boy drama of “The Hills,” the petty friendship squabbles of “Sorority Life,” the airheaded comments of “Rich Girls,” and drank more liquor than several “Real World” casts [...]

Then & Now: Teen Idols My Twelve-Year-Old Self Wanted to Marry

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Then: If you’re a dude born in the early-to-mid 1980s, you probably know Jonathan Taylor Thomas as the middle son on Home Improvement–you know, the one who started out the same height as his on-screen older and younger brothers but ended up being dwarfed by them by the last season. Or maybe you [...]

In Defense of Charlotte York, or Carrie Bradshaw Is a Shrew in Stilettos

A few years ago, Laura’s living room, after watching the final episode of “Sex and the City,” a scene occurred that has occurred in living rooms, dorm rooms and sorority houses across the country. After sighing over Carrie’s clothes and debating whether she should have ended up with Big or not, we all divulged which [...]