Leading off the first segment of our video blog this weekend, Lori and I detail the many reasons we hated the pilot Lipstick Jungle (NBC), the mid-season drama from Sex and the City's Candace Bushnell that stars Lindsay Price, Brooke Shields, and Kim Raver as high-powered business women who "aren't looking for Mr. Big, they are Mr. Big" (we wish!).

Then we discuss the latest episodes of Damages (FX), The Closer (TNT), and The Best Years (The N), the South of Nowhere (The N) season premiere, and what we'd do if we had Ashley's $12.5 million inheritance. … continue reading

It's time for another video blog roundup of what my girlfriend Lori and I watched this week! Yes, it's just as riveting as it sounds.

We covered this week's episodes of Army Wives and Hell's Kitchen, the premiere episodes of Burn Notice and The Best Years, and what we thought TV Guide left off their list of The Top 30 Cult TV Shows.

As usual, we ended up wandering way off topic, to things like Birds of Prey, Felicity, Lena Headey, volleyball player Gabrielle Reece, and why you should give Jessica Alba another look. Plus Lori managed to sneak in more Xena references, and I got to make some Arrested Development jokes, which always makes me happy.

But all of these tangents somehow made this episode even longer than last week's video blog, when we were actually trying to make it shorter. Sorry about that — next time, we're going to use an egg timer!

Watch the video here now: … continue reading

Tonight at 8:30, after the premiere of the second half of Degrassi's sixth season, The N is debuting the college drama The Best Years. It's getting pretty good reviews so far.

The New York Times said the show "immerses itself so deeply in the pits of class warfare that its characters might as well be carrying cans of mace." And they mean this in a good way.

"This show’s radical idea," summarizes the Times reviewer, "is to depict a world closer to the one we inhabit than the one we pretend to live in: a place where money and provenance really are untrumpable determinants of the social order."

Class warfare on a college campus? I'm in! Here's a look at the cast:

Here's the description of the show from its official site: … continue reading