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Welcome to the  TV Roundtable, where some of TV Club’s writers tackle episodes that all deal with a central theme.…

If you’re reading this, I probably don’t need to tell you that “The Trip Back” takes its name from the 1970…

I’m going to begin tonight’s recap with a confession: I friggin’ love the Olympics. There are few things I care…

Over the course of nine episodes of Strangers With Candy, Jerri’s social status at Flatpoint has fluctuated more…

1. The Bangles, Gilmore Girls
When a TV character suddenly expresses extreme devotion to a singer or band he or she…

It’s no secret that Alaska is a place blessed with natural resources, but as tonight’s Frontline illustrates, when…

From episode to episode of Strangers With Candy, Jerri Blank’s hopes and dreams tend to shift rather dramatically.…

Welcome to the TV Roundtable, where some of TV Club’s writers tackle episodes that all deal with a central theme.…

If you reached the end of tonight’s finale of Inside Men and thought to yourself, “Uh…what?” then rest assured…

From To Sir With Love  to that movie a couple years ago with Hillary Swank, Hollywood just can’t seem to resist a…

During its original run on Comedy Central, the crude, politically incorrect Strangers With Candy drew comparisons to …

1-2. Sylvester Stallone, F.I.S.T. (1978); First Blood (1982)
Sylvester Stallone is the actor’s equivalent of a…

Welcome to the TV Roundtable, where some of TV Club’s writers tackle episodes that all deal with a central theme.…

Inside Men is odd, especially for a show about a bank heist, in that it’s more about motive than action. With the…

As we all know by now, Jerri Blank is a woman of contradictions: A social misfit who rejects the few people who…

Writing about Strangers With Candy is fun, but it also presents something of an intellectual challenge. It’s such a…

Welcome to the TV Roundtable, where some of TV Club’s writers tackle episodes that all deal with a central theme.…

As the first episode of Inside Men ended last week, it became clear that John Coniston, the series’ milquetoast…

For decades, Americans have enjoyed cracking smugly self-satisfied jokes about British teeth, those crooked,…

Strangers With Candy is often described as a “high school satire” or a “parody of after-school specials,” but as…