Once
Shameless made the decision to have Liam’s stray bullet paralyze rather than kill Terry Milkovich, I knew there had to be a reason.
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Killing Terry at that point would have been perfectly acceptable as a story development. He’s a racist homophobe who was last seen before this season trying to kill his son for having the gall to be gay and get married, so his death would have been welcomed in the grand scheme of things. But the writers clearly believed that there was something else that needed to be accomplished with Terry, and so after he returned from the hospital the story shifted toward Mickey’s sense of family responsibility to the man who made his life a living hell in more ways that I have time to recount right now, which confounded me. What did the show think needed to be resolved in this story that Terry dying wouldn’t have accomplished?
Fresh off of “Snatch Game,” it’s time for another
Drag Race favorite, the makeover challenge. Due to COVID-19 filming restrictions, the show can’t bring people in without a two-week quarantine period, so instead the makeover gets a branding tweak and the queens make over each other. It’s an idea born of necessity, but having to work with a fellow competitor adds an interesting wrinkle to the familiar challenge. Normally the queens struggle for control during the makeovers, trying to coax, coddle, bend, or break down their drag neophyte partners, rebuilding them in their image. This time, their partners are highly motivated to collaborate, but to do so they’ll need to let go of the drag style and persona they’ve honed for years. Easier said than done.
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In the Great Real Housewives War Of the Famous Lisas, Lisa Rinna once told Lisa Vanderpump that she had made more selling baby diapers on QVC than Vanderpump had ever made shilling sugary cocktails to the drunk denizens of West Hollywood. That might not be true, but Vanderpump certainly didn’t make enough to keep her restaurant empire open through a pandemic!
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from the state that show the California Franchise Tax Board “suspended” Vanderpump’s namesake restaurant Pump, which she launched while on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, indefinitely. Because of the nature of how the Franchise Tax Board operates, that suspension is due to the restaurant either failing to file tax returns, failing to pay their taxes, or failure to pay outstanding penalties or interest it isn’t really clear
During the conclusion of
The Sopranos’ fourth-season episode “Watching Too Much Television,” Tony Soprano drives his car and is unexpectedly overcome with emotion as The Chi-Lite’s “Oh Girl” comes on the radio. His face twists, weeping and lost in thought one second, sneering and laughing in the next. He heads to the house where one of his mob-connected political contacts and his ex-mistress live and beats the man with his belt for sleeping with a woman he’s already broken up with. It’s one of James Gandolfini’s best performances in a series filled with them. It’s also now the basis for a Twitter account dedicated to remixing the scene over and over again with different music.
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The Office may have finished its nine-season run on NBC in 2013, but the workplace sitcom has etched its place in TV history and now in the streaming wars as well. The comedy has only grown in popularity over the last few years, drawing in a new generation of fans while on Netflix. But as of January 1, 2021, the high-profile show has moved to NBCUniversal’s new streaming platform, Peacock.
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In a way to lure in viewers, the first two seasons are available to stream for free but just as it gets good (sorry, but season three and four are peak