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I just wrote a review for Satisfaction
“Pretty, white folks thrashing about looking for meaning in their pretty, beige lives…
The first episode brings home the good fortune that plagues a handsome, white guy even after he has a public meltdown that goes viral. What’s a fair dude gotta do to chuck it all and be zen like da Buddha? No one will just let him slum like he wants to. By the end of the episode he is saddled with not just more status and respect but also, apparently, more time to spend with his telegenic family in their upscale cage of a home. You just know you’re gonna wanna see what follows because you can feast on all the gloss and fantasize about shopping for the meaning to go with all the prettiness you have to live with.”
The marriage of investment banker Neil Truman and his wife, Grace, has grown stagnant through the years, a fact driven home for Neil when he discovers that his wife is involved with a male escort. After gaining possession of the escorts phone, he learns what his wife thinks of him and what is motivating her to stray while she contemplates whether their marriage is worth saving or if it is time to move on. The drama series looks to answer the question of what to do when having it all is not enough.
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“The writers don’t seem to know how driving a cab to earn a living works. Of course, it’s also possible that Leo is a trust-fund cabbie.”
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I just wrote a review for This Is 40
“Looks like Judd Apatow turned his own earlier work into an ingredient for a Hollywood studio formula. Still, even in the first 10 minutes that I tolerated, there was good stuff, all of it coming out of the two kids’ mouths. May have been a better idea to have made the movie about them or from their POV. Sadly, the movie is about their parents. No amount of scatological, sexual or dark humor could’ve made these parents interesting. Better instead to re-watch “Knocked Up” and not risk diminishing it by watching this supposed sequel.”
Writer/director/producer Judd Apatow (“The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Funny People”) brings audiences “This Is 40,” an original comedy that expands upon the story of Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) from the blockbuster hit “Knocked Up” as we see first-hand how they are dealing with their current state of life.
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I’m watching Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
“Really? Couldn’t find more insight on the Indian election than Fareed Z’s feel-good crap? Would’ve been better to rerun your biting segment from 3 weeks ago.”
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I just wrote a review for Veep
“Selina Meyer and the ethos over which she wants to reign is a farcical clusterfuck. She is singularly deserving of the throne of the emperor with no clothes, yet she and her army must fumble through the indignities of the political slam dancing in order to attain the perch of dubious leadership. It’s an orgy of mutual manipulation that can arouse the voyeur in all of us. It’s possible not to notice that often the scenes seem t. be written to showcase the cleverest lines that the writers came up with.”
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I’m watching The Colbert Report
“The America-hating, bee-hugging liberals had us fooled! They distracted us with their market manipulating Inconvenient Truths about “climate change” and disappearing polar bear habitats and dying frogs and on and on… What they didn’t want us to know while they spread stories about “peak oil” was that we had hit Peak Colbert, Peak TCR to be precise. We are soon going to run out of this national treasure, just as Obamacare is set to let loose rampant health care that includes mental health care. Coincidence? I think not! I’m gonna stock up on all the Prescott Vax* products for when I won’t have Stephen shouting at me anymore.”
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Whether they cover changing tires or burning tires, journalists must be allowed to work freely in Bahrain. #F1 http://thndr.it/1ri7UCk