Co-creator and star Phil Lloyd said that the show Review is “a stab at the absurdity of a person trying to rate a movie or something, because its art. It’s subjective, and yet you allocate 4 stars to it.” But I don’t care! This was one of the few great, original Australian series of the [...]
Fellow nerds – after two weeks adjusting to life without a weekly dose of 30 Rock it’s time to accept that after seven great seasons, the Emmy award-winning sitcom has finally come to a close. Never again will we watch Liz attempt to talk herself out of jury duty in a Princess Leia costume, hear [...]
This episode is in a more melancholic mood than the show normally is, which makes for a fantastically apt ending to the series. It also features a tour de force of direction by C.K, something I haven’t really talked about in these write ups because I was waiting for this episode. If there’s any proof [...]
This, the penultimate episode of the first season of Louie, highlights all the things that makes it good and one of a kind. Nothing major happens in the episode, and the things that do happen have happened many times before (stand-up sections, the love-hate relationship he has towards his kids, incredibly dirty sex talk, and [...]
2 Broke Girls centres on bold, cynical and “street-smart” Max (Kat Dennings) and spoilt, newly bankrupt and business minded Caroline (Beth Behrs). They meet working in a crappy diner in Williamsburg, New York and throughout the series attempt to try and save $250,000 to start a cupcake bakery. Created by Michael Patrick King (Sex and [...]
Hmm. Where to start with this one. The blurb for the episode reads: “While attending Catholic school, the young Louie is subjected to a frightening medical lecture about the gruesome nature of Jesus Christ’s suffering”. Doesn’t really shout “half hour comedy” does it. That’s because this is, of all the Louie episodes up until [...]
This episode serves as a breather, sandwiched between the two tent poles of the first season, the previous episode “Bully” and the next episode “God”. It uses the standard sitcom trope of putting your favourite sitcom character into different situations, and hilarity will ensue. And while it’s a little more sitcommy than the standard Louie, [...]
Up until now, the focus has all been on developing the characters and their backstory, and this has been done so magnificently that as viewers, we tend to forget the engine plot that’s been driving the series – George Snr’s fraudulent actions. Michael is again visiting his father in prison, trying to make sense of the company’s [...]
Here it is; the episode of Louie that ranks up there with ‘The Contest’, ‘Pier Pressure’, ‘Last Exit To Springfield’, ‘Basic Alan’, ‘The Fight’ and ‘Chinatown’. What I’m saying is it belongs in the same group of classic episodes of comedy that when people want to get their friends to watch the show they refer [...]
The problematic thing about having a cast of eight, each with their own individual backstory, is that you can never have an episode featuring the entire Bluth Family. Key Decisions will disappoint Tobias Funke fans, but fear not, for he’s fine tuning his acting skills at a weekend stage fighting workshop with Carl Weathers (for Arrested [...]
