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Since the Top Chef is in love with her, I think we can all see where this is going (somewhere involving delicious puff pastries).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Edna is already trying to extort Branson by saying: “What if I’m pregnant?” Hey, Edna, you know what my third grade teacher would say if anyone asked a stupid what-if question? “What if your butt fell off?” What if, Edna?? What if your butt fell off?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hundred bucks says she’s already pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The old ladies go for a stroll, also in purple. It’s been brought to my attention that purple is the color you wear when you come out of deep mourning and I think it is working for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A whole trip is getting set up for London. Cora is trying to hook Mary up with the Pirate (okay, yes, I will learn his name if he becomes a regular) and Rose is definitely going to get up to no good with her love interest. At dinner, Tom is about as silent as Anna. 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His dulcet tones are watering the tiny baby shoots of romance between Mary and the Pirate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the kitchen, Top Chef Downton is finally taking the next step in his journey towards being the Best Chef in the World by testing for a cooking school in London. Make them a dill sauce! You’re a shoe-in, Alfred. And while Ivy may not see the forest for the trees, your dreams of acceptable employment are much sexier than Jim Jam’s ambition to be a lothario. Of course, Daisy the Shining Star of the Kitchen \u003cem>sees\u003c/em> you Alfred. Why can’t you see her back?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But out of the muck of the kitchen and back to the jazz dancing party in London! I’m just going to say it: this guy is a terrible singer. He’s cute and I’m glad they are bring even the smallest bit of token diversity to Downton, but, seriously, the singing is atrocious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter because on the dance floor, Rose is getting twirled like a top by her drunken suitor. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/17/what-looking-gets-right-and-wrong-about-san-francisco/looking/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10655\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10655 \" title=\"looking jonathan groff hbo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/looking.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: HBO\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/looking.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/looking-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: HBO\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the past week, you've probably read at least two articles on how San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/san-francisco-exodus/7205/\">changing\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/most-expensive-city_n_2002532.html\">super expensive\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.advocate.com/print-issue/current-issue/2014/01/06/2014s-gayest-cities-america?page=0,5\">not as gay as you'd think\u003c/a>, or just plain \u003ca href=\"http://elitedaily.com/news/world/west-coast-doomed-fukushima-radiation-reportedly-reached-san-francisco-video/\">doomed\u003c/a>. Those pieces have a point: every other weekend is a going-away party for a bestie, every other post on Facebook is asking for housing leads for evicted friends, every other neighborhood spot is being replaced by a fancy wine and cheese place, and every now and then, portions of your favorite bar are cordoned off for the rowdy kids from \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/15/a-list-exes-the-real-world-san-francisco-explosion-should-have-included-in-their-cast-breakup/\">\u003cem>The Real World\u003c/em>\u003c/a> or your commute home is blocked by a premium cable show filming on your block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the sequel of the dot-com boom in full swing, it makes sense that Hollywood has turned its eye onto our once relatively under-the-radar hamlet. When news broke that HBO was coming to town to make a \"real\" portrait of gay men living in San Francisco, the knee-jerk instinct was a guarded one. Would they do our community justice? Or would they pack Esta Noche full of white people, exoticize gay sex as \"titillating,\" and throw in some drag terms for good measure (no T, no shade!).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading up to the series premiere on January 19th, the internet has pretty loudly taken issue with the show without actually having seen it. Some say, it doesn't speak to every 20- or 30-something gay man's experience (an impossible feat). And like the qualms many have with that other Millennial HBO hit \u003cem>Girls\u003c/em>, there has been lots of discussion on who is being left out of this portrait. But let's get beyond preemptive assumptions and find out what \u003cem>Looking\u003c/em> actually gets right about being gay in San Francisco -- and what it gets wrong. After watching the first four episodes, here's my take:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>RIGHT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/17/what-looking-gets-right-and-wrong-about-san-francisco/muni/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10656\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10656 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/muni.jpg\" alt=\"muni looking hbo\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/muni.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/muni-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: HBO\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Most television shows and movies that take place in San Francisco only present the postcard face of the city (the Golden Gate Bridge, the Painted Ladies) or really miss the mark with the way they characterize the people who live here (everyone coming across as country bumpkins with Jersey accents in \u003cem>Blue Jasmine\u003c/em>). The worst offense is when these productions show characters hanging out in Fisherman's Wharf. Locals do sometimes hang out there...if they're \u003cem>really\u003c/em> craving In 'N' Out. Thankfully, the producers behind \u003cem>Looking\u003c/em> actually did their research before filming. The boys mainly walk around the Mission, unless they're going clubbing or scoping out older gays in the Castro. And director Andrew Haigh captures the cinematic beauty of streets that aren't called Lombard and even the inside of Muni buses and BART cars. It's the version of San Francisco that we all know and love, the one that visiting friends are always pleasantly surprised to find.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Looking\u003c/em> doesn't sugarcoat their representation of life in the city; the apartments are realistically sized and the show doesn't overlook the recent tensions of the city. Dom, a 39-year-old waiter at Zuni (Murray Bartlett), becomes frustrated with high-maintenance customers: \"Tech a-holes. It's like 1999 again and I hated them the first time.\" And Agustin, a 31-year-old artist (Frankie J. Alvarez), decides to move to Oakland so he can live with his boyfriend and because he \"really can't afford the city anymore.\" Who isn't crossing the Bay for their shot at a yard and domestic bliss these days?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Even if you don't go to yoga several times a week or go on meditation retreats, most people who live here can probably tell you their rising sign, frequently discuss the \"energy\" of a person or place, and might even be able to read your tarot. The Summer of Love set a tone of vague spirituality and a hippie sensibility that still exists today. \u003cem>Looking\u003c/em> captures this subtle influence when Dom uses this pick-up line on a coworker: \"I'll put my positive energy into your universe.\" Namaste!\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In the series premiere, Patrick, the 29-year-old video game designer protagonist (Jonathan Groff), attends his ex boyfriend's bachelor party at El Rio, a.k.a. the only place for a queer to drunkenly dance during the day. It was refreshing (and a tiny bit distracting) to see all the familiar faces from that scene present as extras playing shuffleboard or just having the times of their lives like they usually do.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>WRONG\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//instagram.com/p/fF40vROq2W/embed/\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"612\" height=\"710\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Speaking of El Rio, there's a scene in which Patrick awkwardly talks to his ex at a urinal in the bar's bathroom, which is presented as a little run-down, but quite spacious (three stalls!). Anyone who has frequented this spot knows all about the pain of holding your bladder for ungodly amounts of time while in line to use the bathroom that only has two urinals and no toilet (that is, unless your strategy is to leave the bar entirely to find a bathroom elsewhere -- which could save at least three hours of your life per year). You might think this is nit-picky, but it's a sensitive topic for grown adults who have almost peed themselves at El Rio (everyone).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>There's been a lot of discussion about the way race is portrayed on the show (nutshell: most of the people of color are supporting characters, there are no gay Asians in a city with a huge Asian population and even an Asian mayor, etc.). It's not surprising that a show that deals in meager 25 minute episodes might have trouble fully representing every facet of the gay community, but it is a little unsettling that all the gay men are fit and straight-acting. It's like an Absolut vodka ad. It's hard to accept Patrick nervously trying to cover his chest with a leather vest during Folsom Street Fair when the actor playing him is an Adonis. Sure, some gays are into the gym, but most gays I know aren't jacked and/or immaculately groomed. Watching the show sometimes feels like the Sunday of Pride weekend (the super commercial City Hall part), with the rest of the weekend (Dyke March, Trans March, anything remotely queer) happening somewhere off screen. This treatment brings up a larger issue within the gay community, one that excludes based on body type and discriminates against femininity (masc 4 masc, anyone?).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>That said, there's definite promise in \u003cem>Looking\u003c/em>. The writers (seven of nine are gay) have done an impressive job in capturing how 20 and 30-something gays talk to each other. I could totally hear one of my friends saying \"Instagram filters have ruined everything and I can't tell if this guy is hot or not\" or expressing their appreciation for my friendship by singing the \u003cem>Golden Girls\u003c/em> theme song or saying \"Can we just stay in and watch \u003cem>The View\u003c/em>?\" And, while the show has its LOL moments (Dom's best gal pal delivers most of these, like when she calls his decision to friend his ex on Facebook \"gross\" and cautions against a potential slippery slope: \"You give them a little inch, they take a mile, then they kill you, then they rob you when you're dead\"), its focus is less on comedy and more on the universal pursuit of connection and intimacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because there's a serious lack of any other high-profile shows out there exclusively about the gay community since \u003cem>The L Word\u003c/em> went off the air in 2009, it's important to hold this show to a high standard but only to a point. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/17/what-looking-gets-right-and-wrong-about-san-francisco/looking/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10655\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10655 \" title=\"looking jonathan groff hbo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/looking.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: HBO\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/looking.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/looking-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: HBO\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the past week, you've probably read at least two articles on how San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/san-francisco-exodus/7205/\">changing\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/most-expensive-city_n_2002532.html\">super expensive\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.advocate.com/print-issue/current-issue/2014/01/06/2014s-gayest-cities-america?page=0,5\">not as gay as you'd think\u003c/a>, or just plain \u003ca href=\"http://elitedaily.com/news/world/west-coast-doomed-fukushima-radiation-reportedly-reached-san-francisco-video/\">doomed\u003c/a>. Those pieces have a point: every other weekend is a going-away party for a bestie, every other post on Facebook is asking for housing leads for evicted friends, every other neighborhood spot is being replaced by a fancy wine and cheese place, and every now and then, portions of your favorite bar are cordoned off for the rowdy kids from \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/15/a-list-exes-the-real-world-san-francisco-explosion-should-have-included-in-their-cast-breakup/\">\u003cem>The Real World\u003c/em>\u003c/a> or your commute home is blocked by a premium cable show filming on your block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the sequel of the dot-com boom in full swing, it makes sense that Hollywood has turned its eye onto our once relatively under-the-radar hamlet. When news broke that HBO was coming to town to make a \"real\" portrait of gay men living in San Francisco, the knee-jerk instinct was a guarded one. Would they do our community justice? Or would they pack Esta Noche full of white people, exoticize gay sex as \"titillating,\" and throw in some drag terms for good measure (no T, no shade!).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading up to the series premiere on January 19th, the internet has pretty loudly taken issue with the show without actually having seen it. Some say, it doesn't speak to every 20- or 30-something gay man's experience (an impossible feat). And like the qualms many have with that other Millennial HBO hit \u003cem>Girls\u003c/em>, there has been lots of discussion on who is being left out of this portrait. But let's get beyond preemptive assumptions and find out what \u003cem>Looking\u003c/em> actually gets right about being gay in San Francisco -- and what it gets wrong. After watching the first four episodes, here's my take:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>RIGHT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/17/what-looking-gets-right-and-wrong-about-san-francisco/muni/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10656\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10656 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/muni.jpg\" alt=\"muni looking hbo\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/muni.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/muni-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: HBO\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Most television shows and movies that take place in San Francisco only present the postcard face of the city (the Golden Gate Bridge, the Painted Ladies) or really miss the mark with the way they characterize the people who live here (everyone coming across as country bumpkins with Jersey accents in \u003cem>Blue Jasmine\u003c/em>). The worst offense is when these productions show characters hanging out in Fisherman's Wharf. Locals do sometimes hang out there...if they're \u003cem>really\u003c/em> craving In 'N' Out. Thankfully, the producers behind \u003cem>Looking\u003c/em> actually did their research before filming. The boys mainly walk around the Mission, unless they're going clubbing or scoping out older gays in the Castro. And director Andrew Haigh captures the cinematic beauty of streets that aren't called Lombard and even the inside of Muni buses and BART cars. It's the version of San Francisco that we all know and love, the one that visiting friends are always pleasantly surprised to find.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Looking\u003c/em> doesn't sugarcoat their representation of life in the city; the apartments are realistically sized and the show doesn't overlook the recent tensions of the city. Dom, a 39-year-old waiter at Zuni (Murray Bartlett), becomes frustrated with high-maintenance customers: \"Tech a-holes. It's like 1999 again and I hated them the first time.\" And Agustin, a 31-year-old artist (Frankie J. Alvarez), decides to move to Oakland so he can live with his boyfriend and because he \"really can't afford the city anymore.\" Who isn't crossing the Bay for their shot at a yard and domestic bliss these days?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Even if you don't go to yoga several times a week or go on meditation retreats, most people who live here can probably tell you their rising sign, frequently discuss the \"energy\" of a person or place, and might even be able to read your tarot. The Summer of Love set a tone of vague spirituality and a hippie sensibility that still exists today. \u003cem>Looking\u003c/em> captures this subtle influence when Dom uses this pick-up line on a coworker: \"I'll put my positive energy into your universe.\" Namaste!\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In the series premiere, Patrick, the 29-year-old video game designer protagonist (Jonathan Groff), attends his ex boyfriend's bachelor party at El Rio, a.k.a. the only place for a queer to drunkenly dance during the day. It was refreshing (and a tiny bit distracting) to see all the familiar faces from that scene present as extras playing shuffleboard or just having the times of their lives like they usually do.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>WRONG\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The smell of tanner and anti-anxiety medication in the air can only mean one thing; it's award show season! Some people have church, some people have football; we have red carpets and acceptance speech mishaps. Last night's Golden Globe Awards (the fun drunk cousin of the Oscars) was best summed up by co-host Tina Fey: it was \"the beautiful mess we hoped it would be.\" Fey and Amy Poehler (a winner herself last night for \u003cem>Parks and Recreation\u003c/em>) were the buoyant and at times brilliant (see: \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/amy-poehler-plays-tina-feys-adult-son-randy-in-golden-globes-sketch-2014-1\">Randy Fey\u003c/a>) returning hosts that kept the Globes afloat. From an extremely over-eager maestro (almost no one finished their speech without the \"get off the stage\" string arrangement sounding like the buzz of a malaria-carrying tsetse fly in the ears of terrified celebrities) to winners that universally did not prepare speeches (is Hollywood suddenly so painfully humble that none of these people thought they could win?), it was an extremely mixed night. Here are some of our favorite moments from the 2014 Golden Globe Awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Amy and Tina's Intro \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/NT3uNSZpK7c\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Let's be honest; ladies, you had me at \"a very good evening to everyone here in the room and all the women and gay men watching at home.\" That pretty much is every award show's demographics. From Jean-Claude Van Damme references to Tina's assessment that nominee \u003cem>Gravity\u003c/em> was a film about \"how George Clooney would rather float off into space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age,\" there was no sophomore slumping. After killing during the opening, Poehler and Fey seemingly disappeared for the duration of the show, popping up sporadically and then vanishing again to the show's detriment. More hosting duties next year please; these ladies were too fleeting a treat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Matt Damon, the Garbage Man\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/13/the-only-golden-globes-moments-worth-talking-about/tumblr_mzbgf044qy1qg3lyco1_500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10547\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzbgf044QY1qg3lyco1_500.png\" alt=\"Photo: Tumblr\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzbgf044QY1qg3lyco1_500.png 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzbgf044QY1qg3lyco1_500-400x250.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://agnesbyrne.tumblr.com/post/73155490097\">Tumblr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First of all, I think it's newsworthy to note that Matt Damon has gained a certain amount of Clooney-esque gravitas with the steely grey low-lights he's currently sporting at the temples (my Will Hunting has become quite the distinguished gentleman). Second, he played off being \"basically, a garbage man\" with all the charm he lent to that speedo in \u003cem>Beneath the Candelabra\u003c/em>. Excuse me, \u003cem>Behind the Candelabra\u003c/em> (that's almost worse).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Calling the Corners\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 496px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/13/the-only-golden-globes-moments-worth-talking-about/elisabeth-moss-middle-finger/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10553\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10553\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/elisabeth-moss-middle-finger.gif\" alt=\"Photo: Perez Hilton\" width=\"496\" height=\"275\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://perezhilton.com/2014-01-12-elisabeth-moss-middle-finger-red-carpet-fingernail-cam-video-crazy#sthash.MBN7F7ri.SdMgdu4L.dpbs\">Perez Hilton\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And Elisabeth Moss was undoubtedly going for the \"Fairuza Balk in \u003cem>The Craft\u003c/em>\" look. And pulling it off, while flipping off the mani cam on the red carpet!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jacqueline Bisset's Anna Nicole Moment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/Vmtd5Chvzrg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Now this is what the Golden Globes are all about: making women in beaded ball gowns hike all the way from the hotel lobby to get their awards! Seriously, Best Actress in a Miniseries or Drama Jacqueline Bisset was seated somewhere near the personal assistants of bigger stars table in outer Siberia. Bisset's complete and utter blank at the podium can probably be attributed to her exhaustion once she reached the stage. Also, remember, they serve \u003cem>booze\u003c/em> at this show!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\"I've Got Nothing\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5KzS24EPE84\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The looks on Jonah Hill and Margot Robbie's faces when their teleprompter loaded the wrong information were priceless. You would have sworn they were facing a firing squad instead of a television screen with the wrong words on it. We think \"Margot Robbie\" will be a thing now because of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Photo Bomb Trumps All\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//instagram.com/p/jFvNd0FWbd/embed/\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"612\" height=\"710\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, J-Law, photo-bombing Taylor Swift makes up for \u003ca href=\"http://style.mtv.com//wp-content/uploads/style/2014/01/jennifer-lawrence-the-little-mermaid.jpg\">that Little Mermaid dress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Small World, Isn't It?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/6_7Gb3qt1I0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Don't you just love it when you're at an award show and the guy presenting the award is someone you partied with in St. Barts? Stars, they're just like us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Confidential to Bono\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/A7ANKr7UBMw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Couldn't you take the sunglasses off inside? Also, \u003cem>of course\u003c/em> U2 would write a song about Nelson Mandela; it makes so much sense. Also, it maybe looks a little lopsided that you wouldn't kiss Diddy, but you full-on macked Amy Poehler upon her big win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Melissa McCarthy Thinks She's Matt Damon\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/iJHi88CBxls\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>It's probably because of that new Clooney-esque gravitas I was mentioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>And The Winner Is...Lorne Michaels\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/BlRcZgLioOo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>With SNL alumni Poehler and Fey hosting, Andy Samberg winning for \u003cem>Brooklyn 99\u003c/em>, future \u003cem>Tonight Show\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Late Night\u003c/em> hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers presenting, the Globes were really a testament to Michaels' ability to pick talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Woody Allen Receives a Mixed Reaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>Missed the Woody Allen tribute - did they put the part where a woman publicly confirmed he molested her at age 7 before or after Annie Hall?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow/statuses/422582684636807168\">January 13, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diane Keaton was loopy and \u003cem>Annie Hall\u003c/em> chic as she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award on behalf of friend Woody Allen. Allen's ex, Mia Farrow (the two separated after Allen had an affair with Farrow's daughter Soon-yi Previn, to whom he is now married, amid other abuse allegations) tweeted that she was \"going for ice cream and switching to \u003cem>Girls\u003c/em>\" before the award was presented. Farrow and Allen's son Ronan Farrow was more explicit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Randy Fey\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 245px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/13/the-only-golden-globes-moments-worth-talking-about/tumblr_mzcvo1fzqw1se04tro1_250/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10548\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10548\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzcvo1fZQw1se04tro1_250.gif\" alt=\"Photo: Tumblr\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzcvo1fZQw1se04tro1_250.gif 245w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzcvo1fZQw1se04tro1_250-32x32.gif 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzcvo1fZQw1se04tro1_250-64x64.gif 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzcvo1fZQw1se04tro1_250-96x96.gif 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzcvo1fZQw1se04tro1_250-128x128.gif 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzcvo1fZQw1se04tro1_250-75x75.gif 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://cebuana75.tumblr.com/post/73229102170/meet-tina-feys-illegitimate-son-father-unknown\">Tumblr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Clearly, Randy was the evening's big winner. Amy Poehler is also first choice for new Justin Bieber biopic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>We Were Waiting for a Shia Joke\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Carrey's quip about \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/12/26/maybe-no-one-will-notice-shia-labeouf-and-other-famous-plagiarizers/\">Shia LaBeouf's plagiarism scandal(s)\u003c/a> is the funniest he's been in years. \"Dying is easy, comedy is hard,\" Carrey beamed to the crowd. \"I believe it was Shia LaBeouf who said that. So young, so wise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Emma Thompson for Best Presenter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/wVOao5qt90U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Shoes off, Carol Channing blond bouffant slightly mussed, fist clenched tightly around her martini, the \u003cem>Saving Mr. Banks\u003c/em> nominee was our favorite presenter of the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Did No One Think They Might Win an Award Tonight?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why wasn't any winner prepared to make a speech this year when they got to the stage? Seriously, none of you thought you might possibly get an award tonight? I've been preparing an award show speech since I was six and carry it with me at all times just in case, but you professional actors who get nominated for awards didn't think to do the same? Someone, take back their fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Is Herpes Ever Funny?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/cfdz1ZR90Oo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Kinda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Seating and Music\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With everyone seemingly having to hike great miles to get their awards and the music cutting every speech a third of the way through, let's think about a change in the seating and music departments for next year, Hollywood Foreign Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Welcome Wagon\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/13/the-only-golden-globes-moments-worth-talking-about/tumblr_mzbssxmpnr1tpia98o1_500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10554\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10554\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzbssxmPnr1tpia98o1_500.gif\" alt=\"Photo: Tumblr\" width=\"500\" height=\"218\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://heroeswalk.tumblr.com/post/73182379177\">Tumblr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Best line of the night goes to whoever wrote the above for Tina Fey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Cate Blanchett for \u003cem>Blue Jasmine\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/hRwum4IJQJg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>A Judy Garland barbiturate joke? San Francisco must have rubbed off on her!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's all, folks! See you at the Oscars!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The smell of tanner and anti-anxiety medication in the air can only mean one thing; it's award show season! Some people have church, some people have football; we have red carpets and acceptance speech mishaps. Last night's Golden Globe Awards (the fun drunk cousin of the Oscars) was best summed up by co-host Tina Fey: it was \"the beautiful mess we hoped it would be.\" Fey and Amy Poehler (a winner herself last night for \u003cem>Parks and Recreation\u003c/em>) were the buoyant and at times brilliant (see: \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/amy-poehler-plays-tina-feys-adult-son-randy-in-golden-globes-sketch-2014-1\">Randy Fey\u003c/a>) returning hosts that kept the Globes afloat. From an extremely over-eager maestro (almost no one finished their speech without the \"get off the stage\" string arrangement sounding like the buzz of a malaria-carrying tsetse fly in the ears of terrified celebrities) to winners that universally did not prepare speeches (is Hollywood suddenly so painfully humble that none of these people thought they could win?), it was an extremely mixed night. Here are some of our favorite moments from the 2014 Golden Globe Awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Amy and Tina's Intro \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/NT3uNSZpK7c\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Let's be honest; ladies, you had me at \"a very good evening to everyone here in the room and all the women and gay men watching at home.\" That pretty much is every award show's demographics. From Jean-Claude Van Damme references to Tina's assessment that nominee \u003cem>Gravity\u003c/em> was a film about \"how George Clooney would rather float off into space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age,\" there was no sophomore slumping. After killing during the opening, Poehler and Fey seemingly disappeared for the duration of the show, popping up sporadically and then vanishing again to the show's detriment. More hosting duties next year please; these ladies were too fleeting a treat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Matt Damon, the Garbage Man\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/13/the-only-golden-globes-moments-worth-talking-about/tumblr_mzbgf044qy1qg3lyco1_500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10547\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzbgf044QY1qg3lyco1_500.png\" alt=\"Photo: Tumblr\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzbgf044QY1qg3lyco1_500.png 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzbgf044QY1qg3lyco1_500-400x250.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://agnesbyrne.tumblr.com/post/73155490097\">Tumblr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First of all, I think it's newsworthy to note that Matt Damon has gained a certain amount of Clooney-esque gravitas with the steely grey low-lights he's currently sporting at the temples (my Will Hunting has become quite the distinguished gentleman). Second, he played off being \"basically, a garbage man\" with all the charm he lent to that speedo in \u003cem>Beneath the Candelabra\u003c/em>. Excuse me, \u003cem>Behind the Candelabra\u003c/em> (that's almost worse).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Calling the Corners\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 496px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/13/the-only-golden-globes-moments-worth-talking-about/elisabeth-moss-middle-finger/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10553\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10553\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/elisabeth-moss-middle-finger.gif\" alt=\"Photo: Perez Hilton\" width=\"496\" height=\"275\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://perezhilton.com/2014-01-12-elisabeth-moss-middle-finger-red-carpet-fingernail-cam-video-crazy#sthash.MBN7F7ri.SdMgdu4L.dpbs\">Perez Hilton\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And Elisabeth Moss was undoubtedly going for the \"Fairuza Balk in \u003cem>The Craft\u003c/em>\" look. And pulling it off, while flipping off the mani cam on the red carpet!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Jacqueline Bisset's Anna Nicole Moment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/Vmtd5Chvzrg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Now this is what the Golden Globes are all about: making women in beaded ball gowns hike all the way from the hotel lobby to get their awards! Seriously, Best Actress in a Miniseries or Drama Jacqueline Bisset was seated somewhere near the personal assistants of bigger stars table in outer Siberia. Bisset's complete and utter blank at the podium can probably be attributed to her exhaustion once she reached the stage. Also, remember, they serve \u003cem>booze\u003c/em> at this show!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\"I've Got Nothing\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/5KzS24EPE84\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The looks on Jonah Hill and Margot Robbie's faces when their teleprompter loaded the wrong information were priceless. You would have sworn they were facing a firing squad instead of a television screen with the wrong words on it. We think \"Margot Robbie\" will be a thing now because of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Photo Bomb Trumps All\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//instagram.com/p/jFvNd0FWbd/embed/\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"612\" height=\"710\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, J-Law, photo-bombing Taylor Swift makes up for \u003ca href=\"http://style.mtv.com//wp-content/uploads/style/2014/01/jennifer-lawrence-the-little-mermaid.jpg\">that Little Mermaid dress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Small World, Isn't It?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/6_7Gb3qt1I0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Don't you just love it when you're at an award show and the guy presenting the award is someone you partied with in St. Barts? Stars, they're just like us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Confidential to Bono\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/A7ANKr7UBMw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Couldn't you take the sunglasses off inside? Also, \u003cem>of course\u003c/em> U2 would write a song about Nelson Mandela; it makes so much sense. Also, it maybe looks a little lopsided that you wouldn't kiss Diddy, but you full-on macked Amy Poehler upon her big win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Melissa McCarthy Thinks She's Matt Damon\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/iJHi88CBxls\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>It's probably because of that new Clooney-esque gravitas I was mentioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>And The Winner Is...Lorne Michaels\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/BlRcZgLioOo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>With SNL alumni Poehler and Fey hosting, Andy Samberg winning for \u003cem>Brooklyn 99\u003c/em>, future \u003cem>Tonight Show\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Late Night\u003c/em> hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers presenting, the Globes were really a testament to Michaels' ability to pick talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Woody Allen Receives a Mixed Reaction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>Missed the Woody Allen tribute - did they put the part where a woman publicly confirmed he molested her at age 7 before or after Annie Hall?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow/statuses/422582684636807168\">January 13, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diane Keaton was loopy and \u003cem>Annie Hall\u003c/em> chic as she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award on behalf of friend Woody Allen. Allen's ex, Mia Farrow (the two separated after Allen had an affair with Farrow's daughter Soon-yi Previn, to whom he is now married, amid other abuse allegations) tweeted that she was \"going for ice cream and switching to \u003cem>Girls\u003c/em>\" before the award was presented. Farrow and Allen's son Ronan Farrow was more explicit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Randy Fey\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 245px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/13/the-only-golden-globes-moments-worth-talking-about/tumblr_mzcvo1fzqw1se04tro1_250/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10548\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10548\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzcvo1fZQw1se04tro1_250.gif\" alt=\"Photo: Tumblr\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzcvo1fZQw1se04tro1_250.gif 245w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzcvo1fZQw1se04tro1_250-32x32.gif 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzcvo1fZQw1se04tro1_250-64x64.gif 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzcvo1fZQw1se04tro1_250-96x96.gif 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzcvo1fZQw1se04tro1_250-128x128.gif 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzcvo1fZQw1se04tro1_250-75x75.gif 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://cebuana75.tumblr.com/post/73229102170/meet-tina-feys-illegitimate-son-father-unknown\">Tumblr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Clearly, Randy was the evening's big winner. Amy Poehler is also first choice for new Justin Bieber biopic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>We Were Waiting for a Shia Joke\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Carrey's quip about \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/12/26/maybe-no-one-will-notice-shia-labeouf-and-other-famous-plagiarizers/\">Shia LaBeouf's plagiarism scandal(s)\u003c/a> is the funniest he's been in years. \"Dying is easy, comedy is hard,\" Carrey beamed to the crowd. \"I believe it was Shia LaBeouf who said that. So young, so wise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Emma Thompson for Best Presenter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/wVOao5qt90U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Shoes off, Carol Channing blond bouffant slightly mussed, fist clenched tightly around her martini, the \u003cem>Saving Mr. Banks\u003c/em> nominee was our favorite presenter of the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Did No One Think They Might Win an Award Tonight?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why wasn't any winner prepared to make a speech this year when they got to the stage? Seriously, none of you thought you might possibly get an award tonight? I've been preparing an award show speech since I was six and carry it with me at all times just in case, but you professional actors who get nominated for awards didn't think to do the same? Someone, take back their fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Is Herpes Ever Funny?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/cfdz1ZR90Oo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Kinda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Seating and Music\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With everyone seemingly having to hike great miles to get their awards and the music cutting every speech a third of the way through, let's think about a change in the seating and music departments for next year, Hollywood Foreign Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Welcome Wagon\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/13/the-only-golden-globes-moments-worth-talking-about/tumblr_mzbssxmpnr1tpia98o1_500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10554\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10554\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tumblr_mzbssxmPnr1tpia98o1_500.gif\" alt=\"Photo: Tumblr\" width=\"500\" height=\"218\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://heroeswalk.tumblr.com/post/73182379177\">Tumblr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Best line of the night goes to whoever wrote the above for Tina Fey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Cate Blanchett for \u003cem>Blue Jasmine\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/hRwum4IJQJg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>A Judy Garland barbiturate joke? San Francisco must have rubbed off on her!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/13/downton-abbey-season-4-episode-2-recap-whos-up-for-a-game-of-cards/downton1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10531\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10531\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/downton1.jpg\" alt=\"downton1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/downton1.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/downton1-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blameless flower Anna.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Welcome home, friends! It’s episode two of \u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em> and finally the dog’s butt is back! As always: \u003cstrong>spoiler alert!\u003c/strong> Now, it’s time for a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A train of fancy automobiles wind their way up to Downton Abbey. Who do they contain? Rich people? Famous people? Love interests?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, right out of the gate, one of them contains a dashing servant with the hot hot hots for Anna. But more on that later, I’m sure, because…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, it’s a party! An awkward milling-about tea party. But the family is in full form. Take for example Robert who says: “Who’s the glamorous pirate?” about a perfectly normal looking gentleman in the corner. What makes him pirate-like, pray tell, Robert? Is he wearing his tie in a particularly uncouth knot? Is his hair unacceptably dark and wavy? Oh Downton, your rules and mores still befuddle me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary tells the Pirate she hates him because he was a mean meanie when she was a little kid. He’s a pirate, Mary! What do you expect??\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the party must go on! “I’m afraid Tom’s small talk is very small indeed,” zings Violet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everyone can be Oscar Wilde,” zangs Robert back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a relief,” zooms Violet. Comedy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Hughes and Carson (Brangelina) reminisce about the days before the war when everyone had a proper number of maids and valets. Edna begins to show her true colors as a lazy layabout Thomas follower by saying she's too busy to lend a hand with the guests. Too busy plotting to bring down Downton!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the stairs, Mary chats up the Pirate and gets the vitals: no kids, no wife, no eye patch. Too bad she’s so grin-y these days. A pirate would have been a perfect husband for Wednesday Addams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Mrs. Patmore appears to be cooking squirrels or else her mouth is full of marbles. Seriously. Is she cooking squirrels?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flirting man is back. Note: he’s much cuter than Bates and doesn’t seem to have any enemies who want to destroy him forever. Also, Anna is clearly flirting back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of flirting, Edna the Home Wrecker ambushes poor simple Tom with her low sexy home wrecker voice. Oh god, Tom, NO. Think of Baby Sybbie! Think of me!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the other house, Isobel is still in black, still palling around with the doctor. Another later-in-life will they/won’t they perhaps? Brangelina is already taken so…Bennifer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, Violet gives old Tommy a little lesson in manners. When he points out how illogical it is that he has to call rich people by different titles now that he too is a rich person, Violet quips: “But if I were to search for logic, I should not look for it among the English upper class.” She smirks as she walks away, much, one assumes, as Julian Fellowes smirked as he wrote the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the party starts to heat up, Mary starts talking dirty to the Pirate: “I haven’t been in the saddle in ages,” she says. “I’ll be stiff as a board the next day.” Oh, \u003cem>will\u003c/em> you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molesley the Sad Panda turns up as a delivery boy. Well, it’s better than shoveling asphalt, right? I’m wondering if he’s working towards a spin-off series about all the crap jobs a drunk can get in the village? Like \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Jobs\" target=\"_blank\">Dirty Work\u003c/a>: Downton Abbey\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the breakfast table, Rose seems to be striking up more than just conversation with Chris O’Donnell circa \u003cem>Circle of Friends\u003c/em>. Tom tries to get work done while Edith, a dream in pink, tries to get her daddy to talk to her boyfriend. Unfortunately, Lord Grantham doesn’t recognize her or maybe was never quite sure who she was in the first place. Oh, Edith. Just go to Germany, where you will be valued for your golden locks and you can work on your daddy issues with your older future husband instead of your real daddy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the servant men discuss how the richy-riches upstairs lost a bunch of money last night playing poker. Thomas says something menacing through a cloud of smoke and nobody even cares anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary and the Pirate ride horses down a sun-dappled lane. At least it’s not a car ride. Too soon!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Bates is getting jealous!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the library, Cora the Queen of Passivity says to Carson: “We’re all going on a tour of the gardens in 10 minutes. When we get back it might be nice to have some coffee.” Hypothetical: what if he \u003cem>didn't\u003c/em> get the coffee and was like, “Hey, you never said, \u003cem>get\u003c/em> coffee. You just mentioned you thought it would \u003cem>maybe\u003c/em> be nice if it was there when you got back! I agreed! How kind of nice if coffee just appeared for you out of the sky!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downer Robert rains on Cora There’s-a-Singer-Coming-to-Our-House parade. Hey, Robert! Stop ruining everything fun in the whole world!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Jimmy Jam shows off for Ivy (\u003ca href=\"http://cdn03.cdnwp.celebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/22/ad-her.gif\" target=\"_blank\">her?\u003c/a>) and breaks a jar of jam. It’s cute because it goes with his name!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dining area, Robert shows what a real Future Man he is by letting Carson let the kitchen staff see the opera singer. Next step, equal rights for women! Just kidding. Not under Lord Grantham’s watch!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the horses, Pirate and Mary commiserate about the sad trouble of land owners forced to pay taxes. You can almost see the #firstworldproblems sign hanging over their heads in the crisp, English air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Jim Jam’s stunt with the jam jar has led to a real wrist injury, which means his old love interest T-Bones is going to have to carry a tray like a common commoner! \"Mr. Carson, must I remind you that I’m the under butler?” asks Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t care if you’re the high cockalorum; you’re a footman tonight,” responds Carson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Note: using the pause button and the internet, I discovered that high cockalorum is a thing! Not just Carson nonsense talk from the vaudeville stage, it's \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Cockalorum\" target=\"_blank\">a game that involves jumping on people\u003c/a>—like extra dangerous Red Rover. Also, it was popular during World War II. So in this case, I think we can definitely call it anachronistic nonsense that could hurt Jimmy's wrist worse than a little jam jar mishap. Moving on.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs and downstairs, the flirting rages on. Rose and Chris, the Pirate and Mary, Anna and the Interloper Servant and the Duchess and Tom. Drama! Romance! Let the dancing begin!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strangely, Mary can’t handle the sight of Matthew’s old gramophone. Oh really? But you are cool with the rest of his house and his baby and so, so many sun-dappled lanes? Just admit it, Mary, you are two seconds away from Pamuk-ing it like crazy with the Pirate and it scares you because the record of people you have slept with who have then perished in strange and premature ways is now 2 for 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Card Shark sharks the men hard in a smoky room for men only. Someone expose this man!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Tom confides in Edna that he feels stupid amongst the rich. Dear Tom: Edna is a tricky, bad lady. She will eat your heart and your soul for breakfast. Please find another woman to tell your sorrows to. I suggest Edith, Baby Sybbie or a pen pal from the future (me).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary lies in bed, fully clothed, and dead pans to Anna: “Sometimes I don’t know who I’m more in mourning for, Matthew or the person I was when I was with him.” Hint: it’s you. You you you. You love you sooo much, Lady Mary. You love you the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Molesley is going to serve tonight at the party. Great, finally some excitement! He’s guaranteed to get wasted and pour mousse all over the most famous guest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Robert lies hard to Cora about the fact that he just lost all their money to the Card Shark who happens to just be a guy he met at his \"club\" and then invited over to his house for a many days long party. What kind of clubs are you going to, Robert?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Molesley is mortally offended by the fact that he must wear gloves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the servants dining area, Bates glowers as Anna basically makes out (plays cards and laughs) with the Other Servant, while somewhere, in a smoky room, Edith’s BF sets the Card Shark up for what I can only hope will be a Molesley-level humiliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, Cora is horrified that the world famous singer isn’t being allowed at the dinner table. She doesn’t get it! Robert is Future Man! He’s letting the kitchen staff watch the singer later! Let him live, Cora! Geez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson and Robert are wearing the exact same outfit. Oh god. Who is the butler and who is the Extreme Master Overlord of Everything?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Patmore is flipping out so hard over Ivy’s terrible spooning skills that she appears to develop a hernia right before dinner. Alfred, who as we all know secretly is the Top Chef of Downton, takes the reins and starts in on the dill sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, all is calm and appropriate (no hernias, no men making sauces). The Opera Singer has the world’s best headdress and the Pirate flirts with Mary in front of her dead husband’s mother. Isobel nearly cries to Tom at the dinner table. So maybe she’s the one he should confide in?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Bates’ rage over Anna’s outrageous flirting (card playing) is about to boil over. Please tell me all the poison is hidden somewhere high up that requires a ladder and jumping to reach?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctor diagnoses Patmore with panic over the guests. He gives her a Xanax and tells her to get over herself, then goes and gets ready for the concert (and maybe a little romance with Isobel?).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson, as usual, is not amused by any of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the library, Thomas and Robert have a man-to-man heart-to-heart, which just involves Robert completely ignoring the words coming out of Tom’s mouth. He might as well be Edith. Poor guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Opera Singer entertains the whole house with her headdress and, well, singing. Carson especially is taken back to his time on the stage (flash back flash back [to be chanted together]). Somehow, Isabelle is in purple now too. Did she change after dinner? Get over her extreme mourning period finally?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the side room, where the men are playing cards, Edith-loving Michael appears to be setting some kind of genius trap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, things take a turn for the very, very dark as the Nameless Servant attempts to rape Anna. Everyone upstairs! Stop smiling! Rescue Anna right now!!! She is a blameless flower! I am sorry I ever said anything bad about her! Rescue her! Stop this ridiculous singing!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the card room, blah blah blah who cares if Michael wins back all the money in the world? Where is Anna and will someone please help her?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you kidding me? More nonsense nothing happens. Edna again tries to insinuate herself with Tom and can we please get to the real business?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Hughes’ office, Anna is sobbing and totally broken. Somehow, raping Anna is by far the worst thing that has ever happened at Downton. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the party must go on! “I’m afraid Tom’s small talk is very small indeed,” zings Violet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everyone can be Oscar Wilde,” zangs Robert back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a relief,” zooms Violet. Comedy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Hughes and Carson (Brangelina) reminisce about the days before the war when everyone had a proper number of maids and valets. Edna begins to show her true colors as a lazy layabout Thomas follower by saying she's too busy to lend a hand with the guests. Too busy plotting to bring down Downton!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the stairs, Mary chats up the Pirate and gets the vitals: no kids, no wife, no eye patch. Too bad she’s so grin-y these days. A pirate would have been a perfect husband for Wednesday Addams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Mrs. Patmore appears to be cooking squirrels or else her mouth is full of marbles. Seriously. Is she cooking squirrels?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flirting man is back. Note: he’s much cuter than Bates and doesn’t seem to have any enemies who want to destroy him forever. Also, Anna is clearly flirting back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of flirting, Edna the Home Wrecker ambushes poor simple Tom with her low sexy home wrecker voice. Oh god, Tom, NO. Think of Baby Sybbie! Think of me!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the other house, Isobel is still in black, still palling around with the doctor. Another later-in-life will they/won’t they perhaps? Brangelina is already taken so…Bennifer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, Violet gives old Tommy a little lesson in manners. When he points out how illogical it is that he has to call rich people by different titles now that he too is a rich person, Violet quips: “But if I were to search for logic, I should not look for it among the English upper class.” She smirks as she walks away, much, one assumes, as Julian Fellowes smirked as he wrote the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the party starts to heat up, Mary starts talking dirty to the Pirate: “I haven’t been in the saddle in ages,” she says. “I’ll be stiff as a board the next day.” Oh, \u003cem>will\u003c/em> you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molesley the Sad Panda turns up as a delivery boy. Well, it’s better than shoveling asphalt, right? I’m wondering if he’s working towards a spin-off series about all the crap jobs a drunk can get in the village? Like \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Jobs\" target=\"_blank\">Dirty Work\u003c/a>: Downton Abbey\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the breakfast table, Rose seems to be striking up more than just conversation with Chris O’Donnell circa \u003cem>Circle of Friends\u003c/em>. Tom tries to get work done while Edith, a dream in pink, tries to get her daddy to talk to her boyfriend. Unfortunately, Lord Grantham doesn’t recognize her or maybe was never quite sure who she was in the first place. Oh, Edith. Just go to Germany, where you will be valued for your golden locks and you can work on your daddy issues with your older future husband instead of your real daddy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the servant men discuss how the richy-riches upstairs lost a bunch of money last night playing poker. Thomas says something menacing through a cloud of smoke and nobody even cares anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary and the Pirate ride horses down a sun-dappled lane. At least it’s not a car ride. Too soon!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Bates is getting jealous!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the library, Cora the Queen of Passivity says to Carson: “We’re all going on a tour of the gardens in 10 minutes. When we get back it might be nice to have some coffee.” Hypothetical: what if he \u003cem>didn't\u003c/em> get the coffee and was like, “Hey, you never said, \u003cem>get\u003c/em> coffee. You just mentioned you thought it would \u003cem>maybe\u003c/em> be nice if it was there when you got back! I agreed! How kind of nice if coffee just appeared for you out of the sky!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downer Robert rains on Cora There’s-a-Singer-Coming-to-Our-House parade. Hey, Robert! Stop ruining everything fun in the whole world!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Jimmy Jam shows off for Ivy (\u003ca href=\"http://cdn03.cdnwp.celebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/22/ad-her.gif\" target=\"_blank\">her?\u003c/a>) and breaks a jar of jam. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/10/golden-globe-predictions-2014-who-will-take-home-the-gold/tina/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10525\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10525\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tina.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: NBC\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tina.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/tina-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NBC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Golden Globes are the best award show. Remember when Michael J. Fox announced \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/lmRhE8xBHpI\">Christine Lahti\u003c/a> as the winner of Best Supporting Actress in a Drama...and she was in the bathroom? What fun! What spontaneity! As Robin Williams jumped on stage to buy time while Lahti was “washing her hands,” the Golden Globes entered a new territory of chaos. Let’s face it: everyone’s asleep at the Emmys, everyone’s pilled up at the Oscars, and everyone’s hella drunk at the Golden Globes. More Moet! More Cliquot! More (at my party) Korbel! If there was a pool table, you \u003cem>know\u003c/em> J-Law would be dancing on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some educated guesses on who will be taking home the gold:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\"> \u003cstrong>MOVIES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 614px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10474 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/american_hustle_ensemble_-_credit_francois_duhamel-1024x597.jpeg\" alt=\"The cast of American Hustle\" width=\"614\" height=\"358\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of \u003cem>American Hustle\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Drama\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>12 Years a Slave / Captain Phillips / Gravity / Philomena / Rush\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: \u003cem>12 Years a Slave\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nCould Win: \u003cem>Gravity\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the what is \u003cem>Rush\u003c/em>?\u003cem> \u003c/em>The true fight is between \u003cem>12 Years \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Gravity. \u003c/em>While the latter took us into the near future, the former showed us a complex and disturbing portrait of the past, with astounding performances to boot. If you didn’t see \u003cem>Gravity \u003c/em>in IMAX, then you didn’t see \u003cem>Gravity. \u003c/em>Chances are some voters got their copy in the mail and watched it on their flat screen, which is like, not cool man. And so \u003cem>12 Years \u003c/em>has the edge. Now seriously, what is \u003cem>Rush\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Comedy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003cem>American Hustle / Her / Inside Llewyn Davis / Nebraska / The Wolf of Wall Street\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: \u003cem>American Hustle\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003c/em>Could Win: \u003cem>Her\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it was up to me, \u003cem>Her \u003c/em>would win it all. The movie has lingered with me even up to this moment. \u003cem>American Hustle \u003c/em>came off to me as more of a cringe-worthy caper than a laugh-out-loud comedy, while \u003cem>Her \u003c/em>had me chuckling to myself at the absurdity and absoluteness of the near future. The buzz is still growing for \u003cem>Her \u003c/em>so maybe a screenplay award or some cool Oscar nods, but this Sunday, the HFPA will vote \u003cem>Hustle.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Director\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfonso Cuaron / Paul Greengrass / Steve McQueen / Alexander Payne / David O’Russell\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: Alfonso Cuaron\u003cbr>\nCould Win: Steve McQueen\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again the race is on between \u003cem>12 Years \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Gravity\u003c/em>. I’m going with Cuaron simply because I’m not sure how the directing could have been any better in a movie so based on physicality. Weirdly, it was as though Cuaron was directing a stage play. Move your arm here. Lift your leg here. Cuaron was and is a master. What a crowded field this year! You know things are tight if Martin Scorsese can’t even get a nod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Actress – Drama\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cate Blanchett / Sandra Bullock / Judie Dench / Emma Thompson / Kate Winslet\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: Cate Blanchett\u003cbr>\nCould Win: No chance, Sandra Bullock\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The performance of Cate Blanchett as the tortured title character in \u003cem>Blue Jasmine\u003c/em> was like no other performance I’ve seen this year or, truthfully, any other year I’ve been alive. To think that Sandra Bullock or any other actress could surpass the astounding Blanchett would be akin to giving the Best Apple award to an orange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Actor – Drama\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiwetel Ejiofor / Idris Elba / Tom Hanks / Matthew McConaughey / Robert Redford\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: Chiwetel Ejifor\u003cbr>\nCould Win: Matthew McConaughey\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, Chiwetel Ejiofor’s performance is groundbreaking and powerful. And yes, he deserves to win every award this year. But what does a world where Matthew McConaughey wins acting awards look like? Don’t you want to find out?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Actress – Comedy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Adams / Julie Delpy / Greta Gerwig / Julia Louis-Dreyfus / Meryl Streep\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: Amy Adams\u003cbr>\nCould Win: Meryl Streep\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smart money is on Amy Adams, whose side boob turned in the second most gravity-defying performance of the year in \u003cem>American Hustle\u003c/em>. But this isn’t the strongest category, as it is totally possible that none of these actresses get an Oscar nomination, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see an old favorite like Meryl Streep pick this one up by default like she did in 2010 for \u003cem>Julie & Julia\u003c/em> (which coincidentally also starred Amy Adams).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Actor – Comedy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christian Bale / Bruce Dern / Leonardo DiCaprio / Oscar Isaac / Joaquin Phoenix\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: Bruce Dern\u003cbr>\nCould Win: Leonardo DiCaprio\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the third year in a row Leo has been nominated for a Golden Globe and the 7\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> time since 2003, but he’s only won once. I wouldn’t be surprised if he snuck past sentimental and early favorite Bruce Dern for his second statuette. My vote, however, would be for Joaquin Phoenix who blew me away in \u003cem>Her\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Screenplay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>12 Years A Slave / American Hustle / Her / Nebraska / Philomena\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: \u003cem>Her\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nCould Win: \u003cem>American Hustle\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three of the last four winners of the screenplay award have been big name writer/directors whose movies did not win a Best Picture Golden Globe (\u003cem>Django Unchained\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Midnight in Paris\u003c/em>, and \u003cem>Up in the Air,\u003c/em> with \u003cem>The Social Network\u003c/em> being the exception). I think that trend continues this year as Spike Jonze’s \u003cem>Her\u003c/em> is a beautifully written screenplay that won’t get serious consideration in its other categories. And come on, Scarlett Johansson’s throaty Samantha deserves an award all to her/itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\"> \u003cstrong>TELEVISION\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 614px\">\u003ca href=\"http://mashable.com/2013/08/12/breaking-bad-itunes-season-pass-complaints/\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10475 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/url-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad\" width=\"614\" height=\"409\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston in \u003cem>Breaking Bad\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Drama Series\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003cem>Breaking Bad / Downton Abbey / The Good Wife / House of Cards / Masters of Sex\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: \u003cem>Breaking Bad\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nCould Win: \u003cem>House of Cards\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who doesn’t love a darling? This year, both \u003cem>Breaking Bad \u003c/em>and \u003cem>House of Cards\u003c/em> became the shows everyone talked about around the next day’s water cooler. Both shows defied and redefined what television can be. I can’t tell you how many times I fell on the floor during \u003cem>BB, \u003c/em>while with \u003cem>HoC \u003c/em>I only made it to the edge of my seat. And that’s why I’m giving this one to \u003cem>BB\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Comedy Series\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003cem>The Big Bang Theory / Brooklyn 99 / Girls / Modern Family / Parks and Recreation\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: \u003cem>Modern Family\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003c/em>Could Win: \u003cem>Parks and Recreation\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d like to think the opposite could seriously happen. The HFPA gave this one to \u003cem>Girls \u003c/em>last year, but I think the buzz has downgraded to a soft hum with that one (plus it’s my least favorite show on television!). While \u003cem>Parks and Recreation \u003c/em>is long overdue for a win, the voters will likely turn to \u003cem>Modern Family\u003c/em>, which I stopped watching two years ago, but which is also, to my weird chagrin, still kind of funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Best Actress – Drama\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julianna Marguiles / Tatiana Maslany / Taylor Schilling / Kerry Washington / Robin Wright\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: Kerry Washington\u003cbr>\nCould Win: Julianna Margulies\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julianna Margulies’ husband is \u003ca href=\"http://www.celebitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/wenn3103519.jpg\">really handsome\u003c/a>. We are always like: “Who is that?” and the answer is always her husband. And she also took home the Emmy last year so I’m thinking voters will chill with her. Now Kerry Washington is a different story. She is going to implode if someone doesn’t hand her something, anything made of gold. It’s too bad \u003cem>Revenge \u003c/em>never got as good as \u003cem>Scandal. \u003c/em>It’s too bad Madeleine Stowe’s eyes never got a nod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Actor – Drama\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan Cranston / Liev Schreiber / Michael Sheen / Kevin Spacey / James Spader\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: Bryan Cranston\u003cbr>\nCould Win: Kevin Spacey\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walter White’s metamorphosis on \u003cem>Breaking Bad \u003c/em>is so pure. Although the hoopla has died down significantly for \u003cem>BB\u003c/em>, the HFPA must acknowledge the depth and unbridled insanity of Walter White; he embodied that character so much I think they should give the Golden Globe to him instead of Bryan Cranston. Oh, and Kevin Spacey was good, but he like, looked at the camera too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Actress – Comedy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zooey Deschanel / Lena Dunham / Edie Falco / Julia Louis-Dreyfus / Amy Poehler\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: Julia Louis-Dreyfus\u003cbr>\nCould Win: Amy Poehler\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JLD almost has this one in the bag—almost. Amy Poehler has played second fiddle to Tina Fey for a large part of her career. It’s time she gets the validity she deserves and, with \u003cem>Parks and Rec\u003c/em>’s\u003cem> \u003c/em>always-shaky future, perhaps voters will finally dole one out to Poehler. It will, of course, be difficult to outshine Elaine Benes whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spBtiS2LFyg\">acceptance speech at last year’s Emmys\u003c/a> was comedy gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Best Actor – Comedy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Bateman / Don Cheadle / Michael J. Fox / Jim Parsons / Andy Samberg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: Michael J. Fox\u003cbr>\nCould Win: Jim Parsons\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Parson is an award show powerhouse, which I don’t really get because \u003cem>The Big Bang Theory \u003c/em>is just such a snooze festival. No one can deny the charm and modesty that Michael J. Fox has brought to television, even when he was a little guy on \u003cem>Family Ties\u003c/em>, which I remember watching snowed in with my siblings. I have fond memories of Fox and even more respect for the guy now and I think the voters will too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Random Relevant Statements:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- Many claim this was the best year for movies in a long time. I’m kind of like meh.\u003cbr>\n- I’m still aboard the J-Law train. Choo, choo for realz.\u003cbr>\n- Jared Leto’s Rayon was captivating.\u003cbr>\n- Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are going to kill it!\u003cbr>\n- Anna Gunn / Laura Dern / Christina Hendricks not getting nominated makes me want to throw my hummus at the television.\u003cbr>\n- \u003cem>Mad Men \u003c/em>ruled this past season.\u003cbr>\n- \u003cem>Enlightened \u003c/em>ruled even more.\u003cbr>\n- \u003cem>Girls \u003c/em>is the worst show on television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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Now seriously, what is \u003cem>Rush\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Comedy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003cem>American Hustle / Her / Inside Llewyn Davis / Nebraska / The Wolf of Wall Street\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: \u003cem>American Hustle\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003c/em>Could Win: \u003cem>Her\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it was up to me, \u003cem>Her \u003c/em>would win it all. The movie has lingered with me even up to this moment. \u003cem>American Hustle \u003c/em>came off to me as more of a cringe-worthy caper than a laugh-out-loud comedy, while \u003cem>Her \u003c/em>had me chuckling to myself at the absurdity and absoluteness of the near future. The buzz is still growing for \u003cem>Her \u003c/em>so maybe a screenplay award or some cool Oscar nods, but this Sunday, the HFPA will vote \u003cem>Hustle.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Director\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfonso Cuaron / Paul Greengrass / Steve McQueen / Alexander Payne / David O’Russell\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: Alfonso Cuaron\u003cbr>\nCould Win: Steve McQueen\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again the race is on between \u003cem>12 Years \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Gravity\u003c/em>. I’m going with Cuaron simply because I’m not sure how the directing could have been any better in a movie so based on physicality. Weirdly, it was as though Cuaron was directing a stage play. Move your arm here. Lift your leg here. Cuaron was and is a master. What a crowded field this year! You know things are tight if Martin Scorsese can’t even get a nod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Actress – Drama\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cate Blanchett / Sandra Bullock / Judie Dench / Emma Thompson / Kate Winslet\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: Cate Blanchett\u003cbr>\nCould Win: No chance, Sandra Bullock\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The performance of Cate Blanchett as the tortured title character in \u003cem>Blue Jasmine\u003c/em> was like no other performance I’ve seen this year or, truthfully, any other year I’ve been alive. To think that Sandra Bullock or any other actress could surpass the astounding Blanchett would be akin to giving the Best Apple award to an orange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Actor – Drama\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiwetel Ejiofor / Idris Elba / Tom Hanks / Matthew McConaughey / Robert Redford\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: Chiwetel Ejifor\u003cbr>\nCould Win: Matthew McConaughey\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, Chiwetel Ejiofor’s performance is groundbreaking and powerful. And yes, he deserves to win every award this year. But what does a world where Matthew McConaughey wins acting awards look like? Don’t you want to find out?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Actress – Comedy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Adams / Julie Delpy / Greta Gerwig / Julia Louis-Dreyfus / Meryl Streep\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: Amy Adams\u003cbr>\nCould Win: Meryl Streep\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smart money is on Amy Adams, whose side boob turned in the second most gravity-defying performance of the year in \u003cem>American Hustle\u003c/em>. But this isn’t the strongest category, as it is totally possible that none of these actresses get an Oscar nomination, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see an old favorite like Meryl Streep pick this one up by default like she did in 2010 for \u003cem>Julie & Julia\u003c/em> (which coincidentally also starred Amy Adams).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best Actor – Comedy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christian Bale / Bruce Dern / Leonardo DiCaprio / Oscar Isaac / Joaquin Phoenix\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Win: Bruce Dern\u003cbr>\nCould Win: Leonardo DiCaprio\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the third year in a row Leo has been nominated for a Golden Globe and the 7\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> time since 2003, but he’s only won once. I wouldn’t be surprised if he snuck past sentimental and early favorite Bruce Dern for his second statuette. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10438\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/01/08/5-ways-dharma-and-greg-was-more-about-san-francisco-than-full-house/dng/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10438\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10438\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/dng.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: ABC\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/dng.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/01/dng-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: ABC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"size-full wp-image-10436\">There's a lot of \u003cem>Full House\u003c/em> nostalgia going on right now (the '90s are hot!), especially in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/\">We embrace it at this blog too\u003c/a>. I'm not down on the show by any means. I watched as a kid and remember how neat it was to see \u003cem>my city\u003c/em> portrayed on the small screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon limited rewatching of the Tanner family's antics in five minute bursts (it's not the attention holder it was when I was six), I was disappointed to find the show's San Francisco setting was mostly inconsequential. In addition to shooting in studio (although the opening credits were famously shot in Alamo Square and at other local landmarks), the references to the cultural life of the city are few and far between. Yes, this is a show centered around three men living together in a nationally recognized gay Mecca, so occasionally a very benign reference to the city's gay culture will pop up (see \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/Xd8LK0W8-OU\">Uncle Jesse serenading Joey with \"Love Me Tender\" in the tub for a more general example\u003c/a>), but the show could have just as easily been set in another city without a drastic change in tone. Two years after \u003cem>Full House\u003c/em> left the airwaves in 1995, ABC again set another sitcom in the City by the Bay, only this time much of the humor and premise were very dependent on the San Francisco locale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dharma and Greg\u003c/em> was centered around a classic formula: uptight man meets free spirited woman, they fall in love and hilarity ensues. It's a premise that's worked before: see most of the screwball comedies of the 1930s (Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn perfectly embody this dynamic) and most of the fantasy/domestic sitcom hybrids of the 1960s (\u003cem>I Dream of Genie\u003c/em> is sort of a magical version of \u003cem>Dharma and Greg,\u003c/em> if you squint). Handsome college Republican Thomas Gibson played Pacific Heights-bred Greg Montgomery (his main job on the show was to have Darren Stevenseque reactions to his wife's antics), while Jenna Elfman portrayed Dharma \"Freedom\" Finkelstein, the bohemian daughter of Summer-of-Loving Marin-ites (Dharma's raison d'etre was to give Greg something outside his culturally conservative comfort zone to react to). The couple meet on the Muni Metro in the first episode, take an impetuous first date to Reno and are impulsively married by the second commercial break. The minute you meet Dharma and Greg's families, the show shifts from sitcom to San Francisco specific social satire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg's parents, Kitty and Edward, are high society stereotypes played by Susan Sullivan and Mitchell Ryan. Both are permanently sucking martinis, talk without ever once unclenching their jaws and are prone to \"let them eat cake\" social statements. Dharma's parents, Abbey and Larry, are the Montgomerys old hippie polar opposites. Abbey sees auras and midwives, Larry drives a VW bus and doesn't trust the government. It's a culture clash that's been happening since 1966. Your typical episode went something like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dharma and Greg spend 30-45% of most episodes making out, in bed or sitting on each others' laps because this conservative lawyer and liberal yoga teacher have mad sexual chemistry! What else could be keeping such wildly different people together? Dharma wants the couple to do something whimsical and risk-taking like paint themselves with vegetable dye and illegally bungee jump off Coit Tower or put on a piece of political theater on a burning barge. Greg objects, he prefers to play it safe. Larry and Abbey side with Dharma. Larry shares a conspiracy theory, is probably stoned. Abbey thinks everything can be cured through vegetarianism and communion with your spirit animal. Edward and Kitty side with Greg. Edward name drops George Shultz, furrows his brow and is probably drunk. Kitty wears Chanel and doesn't care for Dharma's taste in furniture. Through misadventure, Greg learns to loosen up and Dharma learns to respect the norms of mainstream society. Dharma and Greg hop back into bed and forget everything they learned about compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all D & G's broad comedy, there are a lot of culturally specific notes the sitcom got right when it came to certain San Francisco types and nuances. Here are five qualities \u003cem>Dharma and Greg\u003c/em> totally captured about San Francisco in ways \u003cem>Full House\u003c/em> never could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parenting Styles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/oLQYDb4s9Zo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The drastically different parenting styles the Finkelsteins and Montgomerys employed are frequently cause for disagreement between Dharma and Greg early in the show. Greg went to a private day school (we've always guessed Town among my friends) and then onto Exeter and Harvard (not unpopular choices in \"society\" circles). Dharma was home schooled on alternative histories and organic craft making. Greg's parents were slightly neglectful gala hoppers who forgot to supervise him (although Greg never took the liberties absentee parenting afforded him). Dharma's parents were touchy feely, \"talk about it\" types who had elaborate ceremonies for her rites of passage and allowed their daughter to call them by their first names. Most people who grew up or went to school in San Francisco probably knew a handful of kids who were the products of both types of parenting. At my neighborhood Whole Foods, I could probably round up a dozen of each on any given day. The episode where Dharma's parents reenact her birth in front of a roomful of party guests is especially poignant for me after having sat through a two and a half hour \"coming of age ceremony\" that ended in much the same way. When cultures clash, the laughs keep coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hippie Health\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What were probably big laughs in other parts of the world about the strangeness of the hippie food and health values on the show were knowing \"ah, I know what wheat grass is!\" understanding laughs from kids who grew up with typically health-minded Bay Area parents. Granola, tofu, vegetarianism, locavorism and community farming were all the butts of jokes on the sitcom (as was yoga, meditation, alternative fuels, composting and even recycling), but as these things have been mainstreamed into supermarkets and everyday life, it looks like the organic parents are having the last laugh. It's quaint now to go back and watch the characters on the show get gently mocked for asking who grew their produce or argue about pesticide in urban gardening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Over-sharing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/dIrldRdWYXs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In a city (and post new age culture) where talking about feelings and sharing were a significant part of most childhoods, there was a constant danger of too few boundaries in regular conversation (\"how are you?\" potentially had many long answers growing up) and the dreaded over-sharing. Dharma was the 200% percent embodiment of the San Francisco over-share as is evidenced by the above discourse to her parents about Greg and her sex life. I don't think anyone I knew made an over-share that profound, but such are the dangers of starting children on preventative talk therapy from the age of birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Multiculturalism, Inclusivity and \"Villages\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/3T1GySFDoUM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The show's cast of supporting characters was incredibly specific to different San Francisco types. Dharma's best friend Jane was a Burner meets riot grrl type (this is the late '90s, remember?) and, in the later seasons, Dharma's work life teaching yoga at a co-op brings in a cast of alternative lifestyle practitioners including acupuncturists, nutrition consultants and past last regression specialists. There were also some memorable reoccurring guest stars. Dharma's backingpacking early freegan boyfriend makes an appearance in the first season, and in one episode the couple befriend a Native American who wants to die on his ancestral homestead in the Montgomerys' SOMA apartment (doesn't that just sound like a plausible headline?). When Dharma and Greg accidentally almost adopt a baby (as one does), Dharma calls on her \"village\" to help care for their bundle of joy. Since this is \u003cem>Dharma and Greg\u003c/em>, the village is a very San Francisco multicultural mix including a mute performance artist who has taken a vow of silence, a butch lesbian lactation expert, and an African high priest. \"Village\" is just another way of saying \"community,\" which remains the buzz word of choice for San Francisco alternative schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Larry's \"Memory Problems\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the longest running jokes of the series was Larry Finkelstein's \"memory problem,\" \"oregano plants\" and \"medication.\" Let's just say it: Larry was the dad that was always stoned. I think most San Franciscans of the dot com boom twilight of the 20th century years knew at least one or two holdouts from the Woodstock era that spent the days more baked than present. If you grew up here, maybe it was even the parents of one of your friends. You know exactly what I'm talking about: so-and-so's dad had \"back issues\" and was always off in the back den listening to Pink Floyd and never minded if you had a party so long as you didn't get into his stash.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I'm not down on the show by any means. I watched as a kid and remember how neat it was to see \u003cem>my city\u003c/em> portrayed on the small screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon limited rewatching of the Tanner family's antics in five minute bursts (it's not the attention holder it was when I was six), I was disappointed to find the show's San Francisco setting was mostly inconsequential. In addition to shooting in studio (although the opening credits were famously shot in Alamo Square and at other local landmarks), the references to the cultural life of the city are few and far between. 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Dharma was home schooled on alternative histories and organic craft making. Greg's parents were slightly neglectful gala hoppers who forgot to supervise him (although Greg never took the liberties absentee parenting afforded him). Dharma's parents were touchy feely, \"talk about it\" types who had elaborate ceremonies for her rites of passage and allowed their daughter to call them by their first names. Most people who grew up or went to school in San Francisco probably knew a handful of kids who were the products of both types of parenting. At my neighborhood Whole Foods, I could probably round up a dozen of each on any given day. The episode where Dharma's parents reenact her birth in front of a roomful of party guests is especially poignant for me after having sat through a two and a half hour \"coming of age ceremony\" that ended in much the same way. When cultures clash, the laughs keep coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hippie Health\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What were probably big laughs in other parts of the world about the strangeness of the hippie food and health values on the show were knowing \"ah, I know what wheat grass is!\" understanding laughs from kids who grew up with typically health-minded Bay Area parents. Granola, tofu, vegetarianism, locavorism and community farming were all the butts of jokes on the sitcom (as was yoga, meditation, alternative fuels, composting and even recycling), but as these things have been mainstreamed into supermarkets and everyday life, it looks like the organic parents are having the last laugh. It's quaint now to go back and watch the characters on the show get gently mocked for asking who grew their produce or argue about pesticide in urban gardening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Over-sharing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/dIrldRdWYXs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In a city (and post new age culture) where talking about feelings and sharing were a significant part of most childhoods, there was a constant danger of too few boundaries in regular conversation (\"how are you?\" potentially had many long answers growing up) and the dreaded over-sharing. Dharma was the 200% percent embodiment of the San Francisco over-share as is evidenced by the above discourse to her parents about Greg and her sex life. 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The cast included college students, young professionals trying to start careers, a Republican and a gay man named Pedro who humanized HIV and AIDS for whole generations of Americans. Most people who care about TV would \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2013/03/ranking-the-real-world-all-27-seasons.html#photo=27x00021\" target=\"_blank\">call it the best season\u003c/a> from the series' 28 season run. It was transformative and thought-provoking, as well as incredibly entertaining and heart-breaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/15/a-list-exes-the-real-world-san-francisco-explosion-should-have-included-in-their-cast-breakup/\">\u003cem>The Real World San Francisco:\u003c/em> \u003cem>Ex-Plosion\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which starts this \u003ca href=\"http://www.mtv.com/shows/real_world/san_francisco/series.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday on MTV\u003c/a>,\u003cem> \u003c/em>is not that show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/tio5fNLFJGU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>It's funny to think that the well-endowed babes and super yoked bros who spent some time in a plush apartment off Polk Street a few months ago were in diapers when Pedro, Puck, Rachel and all their buddies discussed politics and activism over the breakfast table. The cast on this season of the show, as well as the cast on any reality show that gets made at this point, grew up steeped in reality TV culture. Unless someone travels to a deep forest and finds some untouched tribe to film for a few weeks, every new reality show is a post-modern homage to the idea that people act \"real\" in front of cameras in perfectly appointed houses and apartments while chugging very unhealthy amounts of alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids of \u003cem>Ex-Plosion\u003c/em> might as well have majored in Reality Star in college. There's Ashley, the terrifyingly skinny sloppy pretty girl, who is \"from San Francisco,\" but speaks with a Southern accent and has a very Marina-girl-stereotype Barbie thing going on. If you pull the cord on her back she says, \"My boyfriend is a trainer for the Oracle sailors\" completely un-ironically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a guy named Jay who is a poor man's Paulie D, a girl named Jamie who apparently didn't make the cut on \u003cem>Miami\u003c/em> \u003cem>Ink\u003c/em>, a guy named Cory who I think has been on the last 17 seasons of \u003cem>The Real World \u003c/em>already (maybe he's a warlock that never ages?) and a girl named Jenny who is actually just Anna Nicole Smith, risen. The last guy is someone named Thomas whose main skill appears to be being mega-rich (in the first episode, he says: \"I don't know who her family is, but my family will buy and sell her family\"). The final girl is named Arielle and she's from Oakland, African American, a lesbian, great on screen and clearly the star of the show. Not a super hard feat amongst a cast of wait-what's-that-one's-name-again's but still, she's cute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the cast includes all of those peoples' exes, who all appear to just be re-runs of people already in the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the first episode and the trailers and behind-the-scenes stuff I have seen, I can pretty much guarantee you that this show is going to be a drunken mess with almost no real relationship to San Francisco except for the rooms, each of which is designed with a neighborhood as a theme (eyes peeled for the vaguely racist Chinatown confessional!). Once the exes show up, it will probably just get messier and messier and drunker and drunker and the hot tub is so small. How will it hold all the drama?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, I'm definitely going to watch. 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Are you still having those \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/popculture/article.jsp?essid=116589\" target=\"_blank\">harrowing flashbacks\u003c/a> every time you drive smiling down a sun-dappled country road? When your friends are even a little sick, do you immediately yell, “Take her to the hospital! \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/popculture/article.jsp?essid=115174\" target=\"_blank\">Her ankles are usually so slender!\u003c/a>” Well, it’s time to move on. We’re in this together. Another season starts now. \u003cstrong>SPOILER ALERT. \u003c/strong>Cue the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We return to Downton ominously. Did all the inhabitants of the Abbey become vampires so they could live eternally together? Are Sybil and Matthew back from the dead in a \u003cem>True Blood\u003c/em> Tara-style twist? Michelle Dockery was born to play a vampire queen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, it looks like the vampire hypothesis is proven false as Lady Mary allows the cool light to brush her pale cheeks. It’s 1922 and the downstairs team is all aflutter. Someone is gone. Who is it? So much for suspense: it’s O’Brien! What will we do without her conniving sideburns?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Token American Mom Cora can’t believe O’Brien would do something as cruel as leave her without a lady’s maid. Well, I guess we just won’t mention the whole baby-murder thing. Water under the bridge. Soapy water. We’ve got enough babies now to keep this series going for 30 more years! And they’re half orphan babies too! What drama (pronounced in the Canadian way please: “draaama”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the breakfast table, where the actual family members have been replaced by a Dreamy Irish Chauffeur, I mean, Grounds Keeper or \"Agent\" or something, and a Modern Trouble Maker. Just look at her youth! She’s harboring a few plot points up those chic sleeves, you can be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another note, good old Edith looks happy. We all know she doesn’t deserve it, what with being unmarried and all, but good for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know who’s not looking happy? Mary. Woo boy. That girl is a downer.\u003cem> \u003c/em>“Orphan” is not an appropriate pet name for your son, Lady. And would it kill you to smile once or get some color into your outfit? You’re like Wednesday Addams at summer camp but 100 limes less fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no matter! Here’s a fun mourner! The Dowager Countess is on the scene! Any good graveyard jokes for us, Violet? No? Moving on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Abbey, the head nanny is either a homophobe or just a jerk and Thomas may be a good guy now? I hope so because he’s d-r-e-a-m-y and now that Matthew has shuffled off his mortal coil, I’m going to need more men to objectify (sexism, I’m working on it).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the love birds Bates and Mrs. Bates adorably call Mary’s baby “Master George,” even amongst themselves (oppression, nobody’s really working on it).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Irishman and Lord Grantham do a little political exposition as they walk along the grounds, explaining for those of us not in 1922 why Mary is really in mourning: she now is basically penniless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Town Drunk Molesley seems sober but is as pathetic as always. Carson loves babies so I’m surprised he isn’t more tender with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, it is clear Edith is a common tramp. She’s going to a party?! Thrown by a man? With literary people?? Robert would disown her, if he wasn’t so busy not caring she existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not buying that Matthew the Lawyer had no will. How is that possible? He’s the kind of goody goody who gets a will drawn up the second his wife gets pregnant because he’s so responsible, and everyone rolls their eyes at him, but he has a 401K so who’s laughing now, guys? But maybe he wasn’t as responsible as we all thought. No will. Terrible at driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truth is finally revealed: Robert is trying to push his own daughter out of Downton. I hope Cora doesn’t stand for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the Hughes/Carson will they/won’t they romance is heating up again!! Which is good because this Anna/Bates thing is getting oooold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday Addams comes downstairs, perfecting her rain cloud impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major plot point, meddling, appears as Hughes begins interfering in Carson’s affairs. No no no, Hughesy! This is not the way to his heart! Ignore this guy! He’s bad news! He was in vaudeville for crying out loud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But! To London! Where Edith finally has a man so is therefore complete. Sure, he’s married, but he clearly wants to drop the zero (insane person) and get with the hero (star of the hit show \u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back home, Wednesday Addams hates babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a meeting of the Older Wisecracking Ladies of Downton Abbey Club, Violet tells Isobel: “It’s the job of grandmothers to interfere.” Odd, I haven’t seen her around her grandkids lately (in the last however long this episode has been on so I'm gonna say hour). Maybe this is foreshadowing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molesley the Sad Panda cannot catch a break. He’s going to be drunk on the streets in no time. First Matthew, his pity employer, dies and now no one wants him as a butler because let's be honest he is a horrible butler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the literary party, Edith looks entrancing in red. Her boyfriend Michael can’t handle her hotness and wants to take her to Germany where he can properly ravish her, get a legal divorce from his lunatic wife, marry her and ravish her some more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Hughes and Carson have so much sexual tension you could cut it with a knife. Put down that candle holder and rip her dress off, Cars0n. If they drag this out for the next 5 seasons, I’m going to be pissed/super emotional when he runs after her at the airport, right before she boards her plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Mrs. Patmore is feeling threatened by electric beaters. As the kitchen staff occasionally does, she anachronistically predicts the future saying, “Before too long, her ladyship could run the kitchen with a woman from the village. With these toasters and mixers and suchlike, we’ll be out of a job!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(I got a mixer for Christmas so I am now officially a ladyship who runs her own kitchen. I still don’t have a toaster though so I use two village women.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The footmen or whatever are fighting over Ivy again. Baffling. Can they not see the dream that is Daisy? Cutest Person in the House, 4 years running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle between Thomas and the Nanny is heating up. I can’t wait till Sybbie takes sides. She’s going to be all Thomas, all the time, and Nanny’s going to be sorry she ever messed with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, Tom Branson tries to get Christina Ricci to take an interest in something besides her disembodied hand friend. She tries to fake being a human for a minute, but Gomez Addams likes to encourage her to be as sad and morbid as possible so he shuts the whole conversation down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, let's not forget: he’s trying to steal her money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wonder if Jessica Brown Findlay and Dan Stevens understood that their wanting to do other projects would mean all of the TV watching world would be subject to so much extreme mourning. Should we write them letters? It just seems like everyone in black, 2 deaths of important characters and 2 half orphan babies is 2 much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Branson the Upstart Irishman shows he wasn’t just putting it on for Sybil: he’s a real feminist! He wants Mary to be part of running the estate. And he’s engaging a well-known Mary-lover in his campaign for gender equality at Downton: Carson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Jimmy is trying hard to corrupt Ivy. Is he trying to make Daisy jealous or something? I’m still very confused by his motives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, it’s high noon and there’s gonna be a showdown. Upstairs v. Downstairs. Nanny v. Thomas. Evil v. Evil. Unfortunately for her, no one notified Nanny about Thomas and his nefarious ways. Oh, well. Maybe they’ll replace her with a hot male nanny love interest for Thomas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson approaches Wednesday Addams in her chambers. A little glimmer of the old Mary shines through when she dresses down Carson like an impudent child. Honestly, I like the dead eyes more. At least she’s quieter and less mean to the people who like her. Spoiler alert: Mary is my least favorite character on this show. O’Brien is better. Molesley is better. Pamuk is way, way, way better. Luckily, Carson knows how to deal with Lady Baby Mary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At dinner, Baby Mary throws a baby tantrum. I bet it’s cuter when her actual baby throws a tantrum (hint to the writers: more baby screen time please). But later, on the lawn, whiny Molesley gives her a run for her money for most downer character of this episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the theme of meddling is back and it looks like Violet is going to fix all the sad sacks this episode. Including Gomez, I hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the kitchen, Jimmy the Bad Guy got Ivy drunk at the pub. Surprise surprise. Alfred the Good Guy continues to suffer the fate of good guys throughout history. Too predictable. Too boring. Always there to help you when the bad guy gets you wasted and then leaves you in some random parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Bates and Anna flirt disgustingly. Get a room, guys, so we don't have to sit through your boring romance. Ugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose and Cora interview a new and mysterious lady’s maid. Yes, she seems great, but does she throw soap on the floor when soap needs throwing on the floor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molesley, the Saddest Man in the World, looks foolish at his covert job interview because, well, he’s the Saddest Man in the World. Seriously. Would it kill the writers to give him one day that doesn’t involve total humiliation? I know the actor's face sort of begs for it but really!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, Edith is wearing aqua now. Being the good sister suits her. I’m a bit distressed, however, to find out that her beau’s crazy wife’s name is Lizzy. Just to be clear: I’m no one’s institutionalized wife. That isn’t a twist at the end of all this. Oh, wait! Michael, the love interest is going to move himself and Edith to Germany?! Just in time for WWII? Don’t do it, Mike! Pick Greece!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Hughes doesn’t like this new lady’s maid, there must be something wonderfully sinister about her. I cannot wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truth: the fact that Mrs. Patmore sent Daisy a Valentine made me tear up a little. Those two just melt my cold, Lady Mary-esque heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, Edna the Lady’s Maid was the girl trying to hit on Branson? More draaaama! Stay strong, Branson!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, it looks like Nanny West actually was a horrible person. How can you call Sybbie a wicked half-breed? She’s the most perfect baby in the world. For the second time: I demand more baby Sybbie screen time!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez and Wednesday have a passive-aggressive off in the drawing room that ends with Wednesday apologizing to Carson for her bad behavior. One gets the feeling this isn’t the first time she’s abused and then apologized to old Carson. He’s clearly her spirit dad, since her biological dad is trying to force her into life-long mourning in order to steal her fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lady Mary arrives at a luncheon with the men and the Addams family disappears in a puff of a purple sweater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, there’s a letter from Gwen! I love Gwen! Bring Gwen back!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone commits mail fraud by opening Mary’s package of Matthew's belongings. Obviously it contains a will because like I said, he was really responsible. Lord Grantham continues to pretend he isn’t trying to steal money from his own child, but even his mother can see through him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Isobel’s house, the ladies continue to save Carson’s acting buddy, even though Carson won’t see him. What underlying issue is this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In town, Molesley is doing something very demeaning that looks like shoveling asphalt. This is what happens when you die, Matthew. Are you happy now?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his own drawing room, Robert tells all his family that he is a horrible person and will not honor his dead son-in-law’s wishes. Court procedural time! Later, they go to dinner, and he continues to alienate his entire family. It’s as if he doesn’t realize that he is always surrounded by women and the one man in the family is his former chauffeur who he has never been really nice to. Mary’s moving up in the rankings. Sadly, Robert is moving down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna goes room to room helping everyone get their lives in order, while the next morning the music is a bit cheerful-ominous and it appears Edna is going to be just as tricky and underhanded a maid for Cora as O’Brien was. Somehow, Cora seems to deserve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson gets nostalgic about a girl named Alice. Hey, Carson: talking about old girlfriends in front of the girl you are trying to woo is not a good tactic. I don’t care what Mystery said about \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=negging\" target=\"_blank\">negging\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meddling meddlers keep meddling. This time it’s Bates meddling for the Sad Panda’s benefit and Thomas meddling to Perfect Anna’s detriment and the Dowager Countess meddling on behalf of the whole world. “There can be too much truth in any relationship,” the Dowager says to Tom and Mary. Preach. Robert has shown us that he’s not capable of handling the truth. Maybe you should have been a better mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top-class meddler Isobel meets with some resistance to her Carson-based meddling and oh my god is this show still going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhere in London, Edith is amazed by a man who can boil water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary takes a car ride down a sun-dappled lane. She must be terrified!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some sort of den of sin that serves special tea and plays the one step, Trouble and Perfect have their first adventure. Jimmy Jam shows up, up to no good probably, and takes Anna for a twirl around the dance floor. Anna, how could you?! Bates can barely walk, let alone dance. He will be overcome with jealousy. He may poison your pie. JK, he’s been cleared of all charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the dance, things get violent because Rose is the prettiest flower in the whole garden and the farm boys \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/IyYnnUcgeMc\" target=\"_blank\">can’t handle her jelly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because they are a couple of perfect human beings, Bates gives Molesley money to make Anna happy. Oh, Bates, Mosley needs more than just money. He needs a lobotomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Abbey, Gomez Addams gives Bates the best line of the episode: “Look, I didn’t want to make a thing of it.” Neither do I, Robert, neither do I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stranger with great cheek bones approaches Downtown. Oh, it’s one of those farm boys Rose entranced at the dance. Rose is going to do a little slumming, maybe? As a disguise, she dresses up as an absolutely stunning maid. I’m kind of surprised she and Jimmy don’t start up a beautiful people thing, like a make-out club or something. Isn’t that what pretty people do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the episode ends, Mary takes the reins of the estate, the Bates have a new enemy in Edna and the music swells. Carson appears through the steam of a train, friendships are mended and the Hughes/Carson romance gets ready to ignite as they walk home together from the station. Romance! Season 4, here we come!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As always, I think it's important to think of everything as a competition. To that end, I will rank the top five characters every episode and we will total it up at the end and see who really won this season. Last year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/popculture/article.jsp?essid=116589\" target=\"_blank\">Edith won\u003c/a>. Can she do it again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Character Ranking:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Mary:\u003c/strong> I am LOATHE to include Mary/Wednesday in the rankings, but she comes in this time for standing up to \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/everything-on-downton-is-lord-granthams-fault.html\" target=\"_blank\">her no-good father\u003c/a> and getting way into the color purple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Daisy:\u003c/strong> Okay, I know I have a thing for Daisy. But everything in this episode -- her strange love for Alfred (\u003ca href=\"http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/15/article-2048303-0E53C80E00000578-448_634x700.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">a dead ringer for her dead husband, by the way\u003c/a>), the graceful way in which she received the news that Patmore was her actual Valentine, her ability with the electric beaters -- proves she more than deserves this spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Hughes:\u003c/strong> Oh, Hughes. As much as I disagree with your behind-Carson's-back tactics, somehow they worked. Also, I continue to love your relationship with Patmore and I am so hoping you and Carson have a late fall romance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Patmore:\u003c/strong> Here are some reasons Patmore is almost the winner of this episode: her Valentine to Daisy, her inability to use electric beaters, her red hair, the way she holds the kitchen together, her friendship with Hughes and, of course, her attitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Branson: \u003c/strong>Branson takes home the gold this week for standing up for the cause, even when the cause isn't his cause and it means going against the ever-worse Lord Grantham. Also, he's Sybbie's dad. That alone will probably get him extra points forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good work, team. See you next week!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another note, good old Edith looks happy. We all know she doesn’t deserve it, what with being unmarried and all, but good for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know who’s not looking happy? Mary. Woo boy. That girl is a downer.\u003cem> \u003c/em>“Orphan” is not an appropriate pet name for your son, Lady. And would it kill you to smile once or get some color into your outfit? You’re like Wednesday Addams at summer camp but 100 limes less fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no matter! Here’s a fun mourner! The Dowager Countess is on the scene! Any good graveyard jokes for us, Violet? No? Moving on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Abbey, the head nanny is either a homophobe or just a jerk and Thomas may be a good guy now? I hope so because he’s d-r-e-a-m-y and now that Matthew has shuffled off his mortal coil, I’m going to need more men to objectify (sexism, I’m working on it).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the love birds Bates and Mrs. Bates adorably call Mary’s baby “Master George,” even amongst themselves (oppression, nobody’s really working on it).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Irishman and Lord Grantham do a little political exposition as they walk along the grounds, explaining for those of us not in 1922 why Mary is really in mourning: she now is basically penniless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Town Drunk Molesley seems sober but is as pathetic as always. Carson loves babies so I’m surprised he isn’t more tender with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, it is clear Edith is a common tramp. She’s going to a party?! Thrown by a man? With literary people?? Robert would disown her, if he wasn’t so busy not caring she existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not buying that Matthew the Lawyer had no will. How is that possible? He’s the kind of goody goody who gets a will drawn up the second his wife gets pregnant because he’s so responsible, and everyone rolls their eyes at him, but he has a 401K so who’s laughing now, guys? But maybe he wasn’t as responsible as we all thought. No will. Terrible at driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truth is finally revealed: Robert is trying to push his own daughter out of Downton. I hope Cora doesn’t stand for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, the Hughes/Carson will they/won’t they romance is heating up again!! Which is good because this Anna/Bates thing is getting oooold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday Addams comes downstairs, perfecting her rain cloud impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major plot point, meddling, appears as Hughes begins interfering in Carson’s affairs. No no no, Hughesy! This is not the way to his heart! Ignore this guy! He’s bad news! He was in vaudeville for crying out loud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But! To London! Where Edith finally has a man so is therefore complete. Sure, he’s married, but he clearly wants to drop the zero (insane person) and get with the hero (star of the hit show \u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back home, Wednesday Addams hates babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a meeting of the Older Wisecracking Ladies of Downton Abbey Club, Violet tells Isobel: “It’s the job of grandmothers to interfere.” Odd, I haven’t seen her around her grandkids lately (in the last however long this episode has been on so I'm gonna say hour). Maybe this is foreshadowing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molesley the Sad Panda cannot catch a break. He’s going to be drunk on the streets in no time. First Matthew, his pity employer, dies and now no one wants him as a butler because let's be honest he is a horrible butler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the literary party, Edith looks entrancing in red. Her boyfriend Michael can’t handle her hotness and wants to take her to Germany where he can properly ravish her, get a legal divorce from his lunatic wife, marry her and ravish her some more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Hughes and Carson have so much sexual tension you could cut it with a knife. Put down that candle holder and rip her dress off, Cars0n. If they drag this out for the next 5 seasons, I’m going to be pissed/super emotional when he runs after her at the airport, right before she boards her plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Mrs. Patmore is feeling threatened by electric beaters. As the kitchen staff occasionally does, she anachronistically predicts the future saying, “Before too long, her ladyship could run the kitchen with a woman from the village. With these toasters and mixers and suchlike, we’ll be out of a job!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(I got a mixer for Christmas so I am now officially a ladyship who runs her own kitchen. I still don’t have a toaster though so I use two village women.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The footmen or whatever are fighting over Ivy again. Baffling. Can they not see the dream that is Daisy? Cutest Person in the House, 4 years running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle between Thomas and the Nanny is heating up. I can’t wait till Sybbie takes sides. She’s going to be all Thomas, all the time, and Nanny’s going to be sorry she ever messed with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, Tom Branson tries to get Christina Ricci to take an interest in something besides her disembodied hand friend. She tries to fake being a human for a minute, but Gomez Addams likes to encourage her to be as sad and morbid as possible so he shuts the whole conversation down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, let's not forget: he’s trying to steal her money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wonder if Jessica Brown Findlay and Dan Stevens understood that their wanting to do other projects would mean all of the TV watching world would be subject to so much extreme mourning. Should we write them letters? It just seems like everyone in black, 2 deaths of important characters and 2 half orphan babies is 2 much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Branson the Upstart Irishman shows he wasn’t just putting it on for Sybil: he’s a real feminist! He wants Mary to be part of running the estate. And he’s engaging a well-known Mary-lover in his campaign for gender equality at Downton: Carson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Jimmy is trying hard to corrupt Ivy. Is he trying to make Daisy jealous or something? I’m still very confused by his motives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drawing room, it’s high noon and there’s gonna be a showdown. Upstairs v. Downstairs. Nanny v. Thomas. Evil v. Evil. Unfortunately for her, no one notified Nanny about Thomas and his nefarious ways. Oh, well. Maybe they’ll replace her with a hot male nanny love interest for Thomas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson approaches Wednesday Addams in her chambers. A little glimmer of the old Mary shines through when she dresses down Carson like an impudent child. Honestly, I like the dead eyes more. At least she’s quieter and less mean to the people who like her. Spoiler alert: Mary is my least favorite character on this show. O’Brien is better. Molesley is better. Pamuk is way, way, way better. Luckily, Carson knows how to deal with Lady Baby Mary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At dinner, Baby Mary throws a baby tantrum. I bet it’s cuter when her actual baby throws a tantrum (hint to the writers: more baby screen time please). But later, on the lawn, whiny Molesley gives her a run for her money for most downer character of this episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the theme of meddling is back and it looks like Violet is going to fix all the sad sacks this episode. Including Gomez, I hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the kitchen, Jimmy the Bad Guy got Ivy drunk at the pub. Surprise surprise. Alfred the Good Guy continues to suffer the fate of good guys throughout history. Too predictable. Too boring. Always there to help you when the bad guy gets you wasted and then leaves you in some random parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Bates and Anna flirt disgustingly. Get a room, guys, so we don't have to sit through your boring romance. Ugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose and Cora interview a new and mysterious lady’s maid. Yes, she seems great, but does she throw soap on the floor when soap needs throwing on the floor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molesley, the Saddest Man in the World, looks foolish at his covert job interview because, well, he’s the Saddest Man in the World. Seriously. Would it kill the writers to give him one day that doesn’t involve total humiliation? I know the actor's face sort of begs for it but really!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, Edith is wearing aqua now. Being the good sister suits her. I’m a bit distressed, however, to find out that her beau’s crazy wife’s name is Lizzy. Just to be clear: I’m no one’s institutionalized wife. That isn’t a twist at the end of all this. Oh, wait! Michael, the love interest is going to move himself and Edith to Germany?! Just in time for WWII? Don’t do it, Mike! Pick Greece!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Hughes doesn’t like this new lady’s maid, there must be something wonderfully sinister about her. I cannot wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truth: the fact that Mrs. Patmore sent Daisy a Valentine made me tear up a little. Those two just melt my cold, Lady Mary-esque heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, Edna the Lady’s Maid was the girl trying to hit on Branson? More draaaama! Stay strong, Branson!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, it looks like Nanny West actually was a horrible person. How can you call Sybbie a wicked half-breed? She’s the most perfect baby in the world. For the second time: I demand more baby Sybbie screen time!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez and Wednesday have a passive-aggressive off in the drawing room that ends with Wednesday apologizing to Carson for her bad behavior. One gets the feeling this isn’t the first time she’s abused and then apologized to old Carson. He’s clearly her spirit dad, since her biological dad is trying to force her into life-long mourning in order to steal her fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lady Mary arrives at a luncheon with the men and the Addams family disappears in a puff of a purple sweater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, there’s a letter from Gwen! I love Gwen! Bring Gwen back!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone commits mail fraud by opening Mary’s package of Matthew's belongings. Obviously it contains a will because like I said, he was really responsible. Lord Grantham continues to pretend he isn’t trying to steal money from his own child, but even his mother can see through him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Isobel’s house, the ladies continue to save Carson’s acting buddy, even though Carson won’t see him. What underlying issue is this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In town, Molesley is doing something very demeaning that looks like shoveling asphalt. This is what happens when you die, Matthew. Are you happy now?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his own drawing room, Robert tells all his family that he is a horrible person and will not honor his dead son-in-law’s wishes. Court procedural time! Later, they go to dinner, and he continues to alienate his entire family. It’s as if he doesn’t realize that he is always surrounded by women and the one man in the family is his former chauffeur who he has never been really nice to. Mary’s moving up in the rankings. Sadly, Robert is moving down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna goes room to room helping everyone get their lives in order, while the next morning the music is a bit cheerful-ominous and it appears Edna is going to be just as tricky and underhanded a maid for Cora as O’Brien was. Somehow, Cora seems to deserve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carson gets nostalgic about a girl named Alice. Hey, Carson: talking about old girlfriends in front of the girl you are trying to woo is not a good tactic. I don’t care what Mystery said about \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=negging\" target=\"_blank\">negging\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meddling meddlers keep meddling. This time it’s Bates meddling for the Sad Panda’s benefit and Thomas meddling to Perfect Anna’s detriment and the Dowager Countess meddling on behalf of the whole world. “There can be too much truth in any relationship,” the Dowager says to Tom and Mary. Preach. Robert has shown us that he’s not capable of handling the truth. Maybe you should have been a better mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top-class meddler Isobel meets with some resistance to her Carson-based meddling and oh my god is this show still going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhere in London, Edith is amazed by a man who can boil water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary takes a car ride down a sun-dappled lane. She must be terrified!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some sort of den of sin that serves special tea and plays the one step, Trouble and Perfect have their first adventure. Jimmy Jam shows up, up to no good probably, and takes Anna for a twirl around the dance floor. Anna, how could you?! Bates can barely walk, let alone dance. He will be overcome with jealousy. He may poison your pie. JK, he’s been cleared of all charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the dance, things get violent because Rose is the prettiest flower in the whole garden and the farm boys \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/IyYnnUcgeMc\" target=\"_blank\">can’t handle her jelly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because they are a couple of perfect human beings, Bates gives Molesley money to make Anna happy. Oh, Bates, Mosley needs more than just money. He needs a lobotomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Abbey, Gomez Addams gives Bates the best line of the episode: “Look, I didn’t want to make a thing of it.” Neither do I, Robert, neither do I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stranger with great cheek bones approaches Downtown. Oh, it’s one of those farm boys Rose entranced at the dance. Rose is going to do a little slumming, maybe? As a disguise, she dresses up as an absolutely stunning maid. I’m kind of surprised she and Jimmy don’t start up a beautiful people thing, like a make-out club or something. Isn’t that what pretty people do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the episode ends, Mary takes the reins of the estate, the Bates have a new enemy in Edna and the music swells. Carson appears through the steam of a train, friendships are mended and the Hughes/Carson romance gets ready to ignite as they walk home together from the station. Romance! Season 4, here we come!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As always, I think it's important to think of everything as a competition. To that end, I will rank the top five characters every episode and we will total it up at the end and see who really won this season. Last year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/popculture/article.jsp?essid=116589\" target=\"_blank\">Edith won\u003c/a>. Can she do it again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Character Ranking:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Mary:\u003c/strong> I am LOATHE to include Mary/Wednesday in the rankings, but she comes in this time for standing up to \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/everything-on-downton-is-lord-granthams-fault.html\" target=\"_blank\">her no-good father\u003c/a> and getting way into the color purple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Daisy:\u003c/strong> Okay, I know I have a thing for Daisy. But everything in this episode -- her strange love for Alfred (\u003ca href=\"http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/15/article-2048303-0E53C80E00000578-448_634x700.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">a dead ringer for her dead husband, by the way\u003c/a>), the graceful way in which she received the news that Patmore was her actual Valentine, her ability with the electric beaters -- proves she more than deserves this spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Hughes:\u003c/strong> Oh, Hughes. As much as I disagree with your behind-Carson's-back tactics, somehow they worked. Also, I continue to love your relationship with Patmore and I am so hoping you and Carson have a late fall romance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Patmore:\u003c/strong> Here are some reasons Patmore is almost the winner of this episode: her Valentine to Daisy, her inability to use electric beaters, her red hair, the way she holds the kitchen together, her friendship with Hughes and, of course, her attitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Branson: \u003c/strong>Branson takes home the gold this week for standing up for the cause, even when the cause isn't his cause and it means going against the ever-worse Lord Grantham. Also, he's Sybbie's dad. That alone will probably get him extra points forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good work, team. See you next week!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?attachment_id=10284\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10284\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10284\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/Untitled-1.png\" alt=\"TV\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/Untitled-1.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/Untitled-1-400x225.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love making New Year's resolutions. My list is usually long and filled with poetic abstractions like \"LOVE & LIGHT\" (I totally stuck to that resolution last year, by the way) or things that are whimsically easy to honor like wearing red lipstick more. So, it's mid-December and time to start deciding what kind of mood I'm aiming for in 2014. While I'm going to stick with LOVE & LIGHT and red lipstick, of course, I'll be adding new intentions as well. I'm thinking about using Instagram less \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/is-facebook-making-us-forget-study-shows-that-taking-pictures-ruin-memories-8994917.html\">so I remember more\u003c/a>. But the one resolution that keeps insisting itself took me slightly by surprise: I need to watch less television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandmother used to say that if you're at a party where talk turns to TV, then the party is over. I appreciate the spirit of her advice, and I'm inclined to agree. And yet lately, everywhere I am, at dinner, at parties, at any gathering of more than one person, TV comes up, and it comes up at length. Almost 100% of the time. And it's starting to make me feel like the party is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, I'm definitely as guilty of this as the next person. I want to discuss \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2013/11/05/tvs_unlikely_feminist_role_model_juliette_barnes/\">Juliette Barnes\u003c/a>, and the sociological factors that made \u003cem>Breaking Bad\u003c/em> such a cultural phenomenon. I want to rhapsodize about how \u003cem>New Girl\u003c/em> captures the humor of my generation, or how \u003cem>Scandal \u003c/em>is, well, scandalous. I want to jokingly yell, \"Spoiler alert,\" when \u003cem>Pretty Little Liars\u003c/em> comes up (the prevalence of that phrase is interesting too) and I love the live-texting updates I'm getting from my friend who is speed watching \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/01/29/rip-gossip-girl-attempts-at-reconciling-guilt-pleasure/\">\u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. When \u003cem>The Bachelor/ette\u003c/em> is airing, you're lucky if you can get me to talk about anything other than my psychological theories about it. I crush anyone in \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em> trivia, I get a lot of my news from \u003cem>The Daily Show\u003c/em> and, as a writer, I think some of the narrative elements, characterization, and arcs that certain shows utilize are instructive and intriguing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10220\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://bitch23things.tumblr.com/page/18\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10220\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10220 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/apt-23.jpg\" alt=\"apt 23\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/apt-23.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/apt-23-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The now-cancelled show, \u003cem>Don't Trust the B**** in Apt 23\u003c/em>. No one has seen it so I can't talk about it with anyone.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There's much to be said for TV these days. It definitely seems like it's the smartest it has ever been, with good writing and an interesting range of subject matter. The medium is certainly being explored and utilized well. And our desire to discuss our shows with each other is a way to bond over this shared experience we're collectively having as viewers, which is understandable. I recently tried to convince my friends to watch the flawed, dark, already-cancelled \u003cem>The B**** in Apartment 23\u003c/em> because I'm convinced of its subversive cleverness and James Van Der Beek playing himself is deliciously perfect (\u003ca href=\"http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/2fbe5df820/vandermemes\">who knew he was so funny?\u003c/a>). I wanted someone to discuss this with me! That sharing and discussion felt like part of the viewing process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, lately, I just feel a little disconcerted about all of it. What in small doses is just good old fashioned escapism can become quite detrimental in larger doses. The nature of streaming television shows demands a type of excess. Next thing we know, hours of our life are gone, and no wonder we can't think of anything else to talk about. Nothing else has happened! David Foster Wallace says it well in \u003ca href=\"http://www.thefreelibrary.com/E+unibus+pluram:+television+and+U.S.+fiction.-a013952319\">this awesome essay\u003c/a>: \"the 'special treat' of TV begins to substitute for something nourishing and needed, and the original hunger subsides to a strange objectless unease.” Lest some of this seems too dramatic, studies suggest that TV is related to people feeling \u003ca href=\"http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/headcase/201008/the-cases-against-television\">more irritable\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.bsfrey.ch/articles/C_497_08.pdf\">less happy\u003c/a> (while listening to the radio and reading the newspaper actually increases life satisfaction).\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/dM0AI5T4wYo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Recently, it was getting harder and harder to even sit through a movie and it was troubling that I couldn't concentrate on a self-contained, two hour story as I once easily could. My new-found attention deficit emphasized for me that the nature of TV stories versus movie stories is vastly different on many levels. The familiarity of the TV story has an appeal. I know what to expect with Olivia Pope and Associates. Even as there are twists and turns, I still know the story, the characters, the basic premise and mood of what I'm getting myself into. When I sit down to watch a movie, there's more mystery. I might like it, I might be bored, I might have my mind blown. I'd forgotten how to appreciate that uncertainty, how to wait for the story to unfold, and determine how I felt. So between my dwindling party-talk abilities, and the fact that by the time I'm 80, it's possible I'll have watched \u003ca href=\"http://longevity.about.com/od/lifelongrelationships/tp/Turn_Off_TV.htm\">116, 800 hours\u003c/a> of television, I decided it was time to make some resolutions!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My relationship to television was different when I was a teenager catching up on \u003cem>Days of Our Lives\u003c/em> on my sick days, and begging my parents to let me to watch \u003cem>90210\u003c/em>. \u003cstrong>Kill Your Television\u003c/strong> bumper stickers were popular, \u003ca href=\"https://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/digitaldetox\">Adbusters\u003c/a> was all the rage, it was considered \"cool\" if you didn't have a television, or had one you didn't watch. The quality of TV was lower then, and anti-TV sentiment was high. While we might have spent time discussing Jordan Catalano, for the most part we were watching \u003cem>Pump up the Volume\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em>,\u003cem> \u003c/em>and discovering masterpieces like \u003cem>Breathless\u003c/em> and\u003cem> \u003c/em>Kieślowski's \u003cem>Three Colors\u003c/em> trilogy. TV didn't hold a candle to any of that. Movies have always been one of my favorite forms of entertainment, storytelling and art. So it makes me nervous that when I sit down to pick something to watch, I'm more likely to choose a TV show over a movie these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10219\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 276px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?attachment_id=10219\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10219\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10219 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/tvvv.png\" alt=\"tvvv\" width=\"276\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/tvvv.png 345w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/tvvv-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/tvvv-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/tvvv-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/tvvv-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/tvvv-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Laura Schadler\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It seems the discussion has shifted over the years from how television makes us \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100111161927.htm\">dangerously sedentary\u003c/a>, saps our creativity, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14959-its-black-and-white-tv-influences-your-dreams.html#.UqzCImRDtgL\">affects our dreams\u003c/a>, to how smart TV writing is now. From \u003cem>The Sopranos\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Six Feet Under\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>onward, I feel like I've heard this logic repeated over and over (and repeated it myself), as a way to assuage our guilt over our hours of passivity. But at the end of the day, even smart TV is, well, TV. And I know it's old school, but I keep thinking of \u003ca href=\"http://www.openculture.com/2012/04/the_medium_is_the_message.html\">Marshall McLuhan\u003c/a> and his famous sentiment of, \"The medium is the message.\" It does seem worth considering that the impact of a medium is perhaps at least just as worthy of analysis as the content within it. That's kind of where I am with TV these days. The content is pretty good, but the medium is Netflix starting the next episode while the credits of the former episode are still running. The medium is ubiquitous, consuming, constant. Its addictive presence is begging us all to be a little more careful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to watch TV like I used to, sparingly, only one episode at a time, with minimal discussion afterward. I want to look forward to it, not use it as a way to fill up my time. And, more importantly, I want to read entire articles from beginning to end, and bring up \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/16/131216fa_fact_lizza\">the NSA\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.theshortform.com/interview/claire-vaye-watkins\">short fiction\u003c/a> over dinner instead. I want to read \u003ca href=\"http://www.peacheschrist.com/?p=11052\">\u003cem>The House of Psychotic Women\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. I want to support \u003ca href=\"http://colpapress.wordpress.com/gazzetta/\">cool, local, artsy endeavors\u003c/a>. I want to watch \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.room237movie.com/\">Room 237\u003c/a> \u003c/em>and discuss theories about \u003cem>The Shining\u003c/em>. I want to \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2013/12/see-a-supercut-of-some-of-the-years-best-films.html\">see movies\u003c/a> and talk about them. I'll even take a bad movie that has some \u003ca href=\"http://www.miaminewtimes.com/specialReports/pain-and-gain-from-new-times-story-to-michael-bay-film-1890864/\">unexpectedly weird aspect to it\u003c/a>. I want to be able to focus for as long as it takes to finish something, and enjoy the challenging, slow paced and difficult. I want to regularly demonstrate my patience, critical thinking, immersion, uncertainty, and focus. I even want to watch all those \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/arts/music/beyonces-new-album-is-steamy-and-sleek.html?_r=0\">crazy videos for Beyonce's new album\u003c/a>. I don't want to kill my TV entirely, but I want to ignore it a little bit better. I want to be more conscious and mindful about what I watch. After all, that's what fills up my brain and what I dream about. I want to fight off this \"objectless unease.\" I'll let you know if I stick with it.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?attachment_id=10284\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10284\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10284\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/Untitled-1.png\" alt=\"TV\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/Untitled-1.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/Untitled-1-400x225.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love making New Year's resolutions. My list is usually long and filled with poetic abstractions like \"LOVE & LIGHT\" (I totally stuck to that resolution last year, by the way) or things that are whimsically easy to honor like wearing red lipstick more. So, it's mid-December and time to start deciding what kind of mood I'm aiming for in 2014. While I'm going to stick with LOVE & LIGHT and red lipstick, of course, I'll be adding new intentions as well. I'm thinking about using Instagram less \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/is-facebook-making-us-forget-study-shows-that-taking-pictures-ruin-memories-8994917.html\">so I remember more\u003c/a>. But the one resolution that keeps insisting itself took me slightly by surprise: I need to watch less television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandmother used to say that if you're at a party where talk turns to TV, then the party is over. I appreciate the spirit of her advice, and I'm inclined to agree. And yet lately, everywhere I am, at dinner, at parties, at any gathering of more than one person, TV comes up, and it comes up at length. Almost 100% of the time. And it's starting to make me feel like the party is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, I'm definitely as guilty of this as the next person. I want to discuss \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2013/11/05/tvs_unlikely_feminist_role_model_juliette_barnes/\">Juliette Barnes\u003c/a>, and the sociological factors that made \u003cem>Breaking Bad\u003c/em> such a cultural phenomenon. I want to rhapsodize about how \u003cem>New Girl\u003c/em> captures the humor of my generation, or how \u003cem>Scandal \u003c/em>is, well, scandalous. I want to jokingly yell, \"Spoiler alert,\" when \u003cem>Pretty Little Liars\u003c/em> comes up (the prevalence of that phrase is interesting too) and I love the live-texting updates I'm getting from my friend who is speed watching \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/01/29/rip-gossip-girl-attempts-at-reconciling-guilt-pleasure/\">\u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. When \u003cem>The Bachelor/ette\u003c/em> is airing, you're lucky if you can get me to talk about anything other than my psychological theories about it. I crush anyone in \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em> trivia, I get a lot of my news from \u003cem>The Daily Show\u003c/em> and, as a writer, I think some of the narrative elements, characterization, and arcs that certain shows utilize are instructive and intriguing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10220\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://bitch23things.tumblr.com/page/18\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10220\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10220 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/apt-23.jpg\" alt=\"apt 23\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/apt-23.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/apt-23-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The now-cancelled show, \u003cem>Don't Trust the B**** in Apt 23\u003c/em>. No one has seen it so I can't talk about it with anyone.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There's much to be said for TV these days. It definitely seems like it's the smartest it has ever been, with good writing and an interesting range of subject matter. The medium is certainly being explored and utilized well. And our desire to discuss our shows with each other is a way to bond over this shared experience we're collectively having as viewers, which is understandable. I recently tried to convince my friends to watch the flawed, dark, already-cancelled \u003cem>The B**** in Apartment 23\u003c/em> because I'm convinced of its subversive cleverness and James Van Der Beek playing himself is deliciously perfect (\u003ca href=\"http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/2fbe5df820/vandermemes\">who knew he was so funny?\u003c/a>). I wanted someone to discuss this with me! That sharing and discussion felt like part of the viewing process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, lately, I just feel a little disconcerted about all of it. What in small doses is just good old fashioned escapism can become quite detrimental in larger doses. The nature of streaming television shows demands a type of excess. Next thing we know, hours of our life are gone, and no wonder we can't think of anything else to talk about. Nothing else has happened! David Foster Wallace says it well in \u003ca href=\"http://www.thefreelibrary.com/E+unibus+pluram:+television+and+U.S.+fiction.-a013952319\">this awesome essay\u003c/a>: \"the 'special treat' of TV begins to substitute for something nourishing and needed, and the original hunger subsides to a strange objectless unease.” Lest some of this seems too dramatic, studies suggest that TV is related to people feeling \u003ca href=\"http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/headcase/201008/the-cases-against-television\">more irritable\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.bsfrey.ch/articles/C_497_08.pdf\">less happy\u003c/a> (while listening to the radio and reading the newspaper actually increases life satisfaction).\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/dM0AI5T4wYo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Recently, it was getting harder and harder to even sit through a movie and it was troubling that I couldn't concentrate on a self-contained, two hour story as I once easily could. My new-found attention deficit emphasized for me that the nature of TV stories versus movie stories is vastly different on many levels. The familiarity of the TV story has an appeal. I know what to expect with Olivia Pope and Associates. Even as there are twists and turns, I still know the story, the characters, the basic premise and mood of what I'm getting myself into. When I sit down to watch a movie, there's more mystery. I might like it, I might be bored, I might have my mind blown. I'd forgotten how to appreciate that uncertainty, how to wait for the story to unfold, and determine how I felt. So between my dwindling party-talk abilities, and the fact that by the time I'm 80, it's possible I'll have watched \u003ca href=\"http://longevity.about.com/od/lifelongrelationships/tp/Turn_Off_TV.htm\">116, 800 hours\u003c/a> of television, I decided it was time to make some resolutions!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My relationship to television was different when I was a teenager catching up on \u003cem>Days of Our Lives\u003c/em> on my sick days, and begging my parents to let me to watch \u003cem>90210\u003c/em>. \u003cstrong>Kill Your Television\u003c/strong> bumper stickers were popular, \u003ca href=\"https://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/digitaldetox\">Adbusters\u003c/a> was all the rage, it was considered \"cool\" if you didn't have a television, or had one you didn't watch. The quality of TV was lower then, and anti-TV sentiment was high. While we might have spent time discussing Jordan Catalano, for the most part we were watching \u003cem>Pump up the Volume\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em>,\u003cem> \u003c/em>and discovering masterpieces like \u003cem>Breathless\u003c/em> and\u003cem> \u003c/em>Kieślowski's \u003cem>Three Colors\u003c/em> trilogy. TV didn't hold a candle to any of that. Movies have always been one of my favorite forms of entertainment, storytelling and art. So it makes me nervous that when I sit down to pick something to watch, I'm more likely to choose a TV show over a movie these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10219\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 276px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?attachment_id=10219\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10219\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10219 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/tvvv.png\" alt=\"tvvv\" width=\"276\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/tvvv.png 345w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/tvvv-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/tvvv-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/tvvv-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/tvvv-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/tvvv-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Laura Schadler\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It seems the discussion has shifted over the years from how television makes us \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100111161927.htm\">dangerously sedentary\u003c/a>, saps our creativity, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14959-its-black-and-white-tv-influences-your-dreams.html#.UqzCImRDtgL\">affects our dreams\u003c/a>, to how smart TV writing is now. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/12/12/a-guide-to-made-for-tv-christmas-carols-past-present-and-future/christmas-carol/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10185\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10185\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/christmas-carol.png\" alt=\"christmas-carol\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/christmas-carol.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/christmas-carol-400x225.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carson Kressley and Carrie Fisher in \u003cem>It's Christmas, Carol!\u003c/em> Photo: The Hallmark Channel\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some people love Charles Dickens' immortal holiday classic \u003cem>A Christmas Carol.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of us aim a little lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every December, KQED, TCM, BBC and all the other dignified networks air the most beloved adaptations of the celebrated novel for the holidays, including the Joseph L. Mankiewicz scripted 1938 American adaptation, 1951's \u003cem>Scrooge\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/1194835382819/critics-picks-a-christmas-carol.html\">(a film \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> film critic A.O. Scott names as one of the best adaptations)\u003c/a>, the 1970 Albert Finney musical, not to mention \u003cem>Mickey's Christmas Carol\u003c/em> from 1983 (with Scrooge McDuck, obviously) and the 1992 Muppet adaptation with Michael Caine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there's the fare on Lifetime, WE, Hallmark, ABC Family and every other non-Masterpiece channel you can think of. An entire sub-industry in the made-for-TV-movie genre apparently exists solely to make updated versions of \u003cem>A Christmas Carol\u003c/em> but, you know, starring a woman and entirely shot in Canada for under $100,000. For those of you that are tired of Victorian quaintness, overly-cherubic Tiny Tims and adaptations that stick too close to the source material, enjoy these not-so-traditional takes on Scrooge starring actresses of range and dramatic depth from Tori Spelling to Barbie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A Diva's Christmas Carol \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>(\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>2000)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRmGEP6UHV8]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Starring Vanessa Williams as \"Ebony\" Scrooge, a demanding pop diva that seems to be a little based on Diana Ross. Ebony's story: she was once part of a girl trio back home (ahem) and abandoned the other two girls for fame and fortune. Insert plot of \u003cem>Dreamgirls\u003c/em> as the fate of the other two. While climbing the show business ladder, Ebony becomes a cliche of a mean person, and holiday antics ensue. In a nice contemporary touch, Bob Cratchit is played as Ebony's much abused personal assistant because apparently PAs are the new go-to for representing class struggle. It's kind of fun to see Wilhelmina being exactly like she was on \u003cem>Ugly Betty\u003c/em> but in a holiday context. Drawbacks? Anytime anyone else is on screen. Oh wait, strike that: Kathy Griffin is the Ghost of Christmas past. A Kathy Griffin made-for-TV-cameo is always a indicator that the gays behind the scenes at whatever family-friendly network this was made for were having some fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Ebbie\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> (1994)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTgmKmGWEAU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starring Susan Lucci as Elizabeth \"Ebbie\" Scrooge. To my findings, this is the first made-for-TV gender reversal of Scrooge on record! 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10061\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 512px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/12/06/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-a-gay-christmas-allegory/rudolph/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10061\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10061 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/rudolph.png\" alt=\"rudolph\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/rudolph.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/12/rudolph-400x225.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohlSF_TNrBo\">YouTube\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, I know what you're thinking: Tony Bravo, you think everything is a gay allegory. In the past, I've pointed to the \u003cem>X-Men\u003c/em> (mutant powers manifesting at puberty that require a coming out process and results in discrimination), \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>'s gym queen werewolf, Morrissey-looking vampire and sulky girl in flannel (technically, the books are a Mormon allegory for waiting until marriage, but the movies are totally a gay allegory), Maria von Trapp (the musical version, not the historical one), and \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/06/03/gay-subtext-in-the-little-mermaid-stories-with-a-secret-message-for-queer-youth/\">even the Little Mermaid\u003c/a>. But Rudolph is special. Not only is our red-nosed friend a \u003cem>seasonal\u003c/em> gay allegory, but he's one that generations of children have grown up with, through the song (gay) and the stop-motion Rank and Bass special that plays every year on an ABC Family loop (extremely gay). For our purposes, let's dissect the 1964 television special; it is, after all, a classic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- Folk Singer Burl Ives opens and closes \u003cem>Rudolph\u003c/em> and occasionally interjects a song as narrator \"Sam the Snowman.\" Sam the Snowman wears a very Commes Des Garcons-looking plaid vest (hmmmm) and sounds exactly like Burl Ives as Big Daddy in \u003cem>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof\u003c/em>. The fact that I can immediately tie this special to a Tennessee Williams masterwork already lets you know just how gay this is going to get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- Reindeer Donner's wife (she doesn't get a name so we'll just call her Mrs. Donner) starts the story properly by giving birth to a pretty, slightly feminine fawn (voiced by actress Billie Mae Richards) that the Donners name Rudolph. Mr. Donner struts proudly with the thought that his masculine legacy of pulling Santa's sleigh will live on, when suddenly, little Rudolph's nose starts to glow bright red. Donner recoils in horror like so many fathers when their sons first express an interest in fashion design or musical theater, but Mrs. Donner shrugs and says, \"I guess we'll just have to overlook it.\" Not exactly a declaration of love and acceptance, but she's one of the few members of Santa's conformity village that are nice to the poor kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- Just when he could do the most good, Santa enters the scene and does the most harm. Observing that Rudolph is smart (he's a newborn fawn that properly identifies everyone by name), Santa too recoils when Rudolph's red nose starts to glow. \"I'm sure he'll grow out of it, Santa,\" Donner immediately apologizes, ashamed that his fey and different little fawn embarrassed him in front of the boss. \"He'll have to, if he wants to join the sleigh team!\" And with that, Santa goes on his merry way, now that he's basically given Donner and all the other reindeer carte blanche to torment our little red-nosed LGBT youth allegory. Every time I watch the special, it occurs to me that Santa could have sent this story in an entirely different direction if he said, \"Donner, don't apologize for the kid. The nose is part of who he is\" and then pulled a stop-motion Lady Gaga out of his sack to sing \"Born This Way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- Deeply ashamed of his red-nosed son, Donner covers his nose with some convenient dirt so he can be \"a normal little buck.\" That's sort of like when fathers of gay sons insist on giving them a football for Christmas instead of the One Direction calendar they asked for so they \"will have something in common with the boys on the playground.\" Rudolph's shameful nose hidden, Donner can finally hug his son -- but it's a false love. When Mrs. Donner gives her son a kiss, his nose happily blinks bright red and you get the feeling things haven't entirely been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- Welcome to Rudolph's (and almost every little gay boy's) worst nightmare: gym class. As if Rudolph isn't nervous enough about the reindeer equivalent of the rope climb, Donner has made some kind of basic black nose condom for his son to wear. Rudolph senses his father's shame. To make matters worse, said nose condom makes him talk like someone from Schenectady with a sinus infection. Rudolph meets future closet case Fireball (that tuft of red hair didn't style itself) who, in his eagerness to prove how straight he is, befriends Rudolph at the Reindeer Games and tells him it's \"a great place to impress the does!\" Right, Fireball, and the locker room is a great place to bond with other bros. Not surprisingly, the prettiest of all the does, a fashion forward chick with false eyelashes and a hair bow named Clarice, picks up the sensitive Rudolph right away, sensing he's different (and somehow better) than the other reindeer. All right, Clarice; I know Rudolph listens to you and protects you from the unwanted glances of other bucks and gossips with you at the salt lick, but you're barking up the wrong tree. Thrilled that someone is being nice to him, Rudolph flits and flies better than all the other Reindeer to the amazement of his peers and the coach. When Rudolph starts to playfully rut with Fireball after Clarice calls him \"cute,\" his nose starts to glow under its condom and is revealed. Self-hating Fireball tells him to get away, as if he might contract the gay gene through nasal contact. The other bucks start calling poor Rudolph names and just when the adults could make it better, they don't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa:\u003c/strong> Donner, you should be ashamed of yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reindeer Coach:\u003c/strong> Alright bucks, we won't let Rudolph join in any of our reindeer games, isn't that right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bucks:\u003c/strong> Right!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- While Rudolph is struggling not to get gay bashed, a blond sprig of an elf (who looks and sounds like Carson Kressley) named Hermey is getting a verbal beat down from the head of the toy department because he wants to be a dentist. \"You're an elf, make toys!\" Hermey decides to run away (it's never exactly made clear if Santa \u003cem>owns\u003c/em> the elves and the reindeer) and meets up with Rudolph and arctic prospector Yukon Cornelius. Together, the three escape the Abominable Snowman on an ice float that brings them to the Island of Misfit Toys. Where to begin... Basically, the Island of Misfit Toys is a gay bar where slightly \"off\" but totally cool-looking toys (stuffed elephants with polka dots, lions with wings, talking trains) all live together in exile hoping Santa will take them to good little girls and boys for Christmas one day. Best toy on the island? \"Charlie-in-the-box\" because \"who wants a toy in a box if it isn't Jack?\" Fearing his red nose will attract the Abominable Snowman to Gay Bar Island (by the way, if I ever open a gay bar, I'm calling it \"Island of Misfit Toys\"), Rudolph leaves and wanders alone, eventually returning home to find out that his terrible, guilt-ridden parents and Clarice went missing looking for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- To conclude our allegory, Rudolph, dentist apprentice Hermey and Yukon Cornelius all rescue the Donner party (see what I did there?) plus Clarice from the Snowman's icy cave. 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"content": "\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/04/29/bobs-burgers-live-a-dream-come-true/bobs-burgers-img/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4245\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-4245 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/bobs-burgers-img.jpg\" alt=\"bobs-burgers-img\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/bobs-burgers-img.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/04/bobs-burgers-img-400x226.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>Bob's Burgers\u003c/em> is a hilarious cartoon on FOX Sunday nights that has recently become one of my favorite things. The show was created by Loren Bouchard, one of the creators of the great cult show \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUPqUL4TdpU\">Home Movies\u003c/a>\u003c/em> and a writer on standup-disguised-as-series-of-animated-therapy-sessions \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSCkcKPDma8\">\u003cem>Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. The cast includes alt-comedy heroes H. Jon Benjamin, Andy Kindler, Eugene Mirman, and Kristen Schaal. It is sweet without being sentimental, vulgar without being obnoxious, dark without ever coming off as trying to be \"edgy.\" We caught up with Lizzie and Wendy Molyneux, sisters who write on the show as a team, and they talked about their favorite jokes and their writing process, but mostly about how much they love each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Could you walk me through how you got to where you are now? 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I really thought we’d just sell that first script and I’d be a writer no problem, so I was pretty dumb back then. But hey, it was fun!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wendy:\u003c/strong> Yeah, that first one didn’t really work out, which is pretty standard. I think that script is buried in a backyard somewhere, and some future civilization will probably dig it up and be like – huh, act two is underdeveloped and there’s no real B story. Future civilizations will be AMAZING at giving script notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d been out in the world working, first as a terrible waitress, then as a terrible temp, then as a terrible group salesperson in the basement of the Pantages Theater, where I started trying to write. When Lizzie and I started working together, I was staffed on the short-lived Megan Mullally talk show. It bit the dust, but I got to know Megan and her husband Nick Offerman while working on that, which was great, and they’ve both been on Bob’s. After that, Lizzie and I enjoyed a prolonged period of being unemployed and eating snacks at my house, then we got an interview for Bob’s and by some miracle got staffed. We loved the pilot presentation so much and were so sure we didn’t get the job that, when our manager called us about it, we didn’t understand what he was saying. We thought he was playing a joke on us. Maybe he still is, five years later. It’s the long con.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Were you two, on some level, comedy partners before you began writing, when you were kids? What were you like when you were younger?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lizzie:\u003c/strong> Growing up, I think we had a very close bond. I was younger than Wendy, so hanging out with her always meant getting to do cool older kid stuff, which I enjoyed a lot. We both really liked movies and joking around, so we were always really good friends. 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