This Is Us is back, and it’s weepier than ever. Huzzah! Read the recap, below—I’m not going to keep you waiting. Spoilers ahead, obviously. We start with a flashback: Child Kate’s playing Monopoly with Rebecca. Child Randall—the world’s most perfect child—has new glasses, and he’s afraid the kids at school will call him Urkel. Pre-teens…
Read moreBefore we begin our recap of tonight’s The Bachelor episode, I ask for your patience if my thoughts seem scattered. You see, I just learned that Hot Peter will not be joining The Bachelor Winter Games—even though Mike Fleiss promised he would—and I’m still shook. I’ll rise above it, but barely. But let’s move on…
Read moreThe 2018 Golden Globes ceremony, which aired Sunday night (January 7), was more than just an awards show: It was the start of a movement. On January 1, Reese Witherspoon, America Ferrera, and more than 300 other powerful women in Hollywood launched Time’s Up Now, an action plan aimed at eliminating gender imbalance and sexual…
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If you’re hanging on to every detail that Sheldon and Amy make in advance of their wedding, then tonight’s episode of The Big Bang Theory was the most monumental since their engagement. Although it often feels like Shamy takes one step forward and two steps back, it seems—for now—that their choices for best man/maid of…
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Well, here we are: another season of The Bachelor with a guy nobody asked for. Perhaps I’m being too hard on Arie Luyendyk Jr., but was it not difficult to watch him struggle through the rose ceremony without dreaming of Hot Peter, Eric, or Kenny in his place? Maybe they’ll get their turn in five…
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The Big Bang Theory has never shied away from uncomfortable and necessary topics—take last week’s Raj and Howard fight or Bernadette’s pregnancy concerns, for example—but tonight the writers finally tackled the most annoying holiday tradition ever: the year-in-review letter. You know what I’m talking about: the two-sided note from the friend/old co-worker/cousin you haven’t talked…
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