October 25, 2016

'The Walking Dead' Isn't Too Gory Because, Um, It's a Horror Show Duh

October 25, 2016/ Eve Vawter

'The Walking Dead' has been breaking our hearts and making us cover our eyes for the last seven years. It's why we watch horror shows!

Everything I Learned About Being a Mom I Learned From Clair Huxtable

September 15, 2016/ Jen Selk

Clair Huxtable is the TV mom that raised me best.

September 08, 2016

Make Your Cat Watch This TV Show for Cats, Please

September 08, 2016/ Eve Vawter

I'm making everyone I know have their cats watch this TV show because the results are hilarious. My cat basically tried to eat my computer.

August 23, 2016

Why I Love the Bachelor Even Though I'm Old Enough to Be Everyone's Mother

August 23, 2016/ Guest author

But at my age, what I adore about the show is that it confirms — no, is a paean to — my hard-won cynicism about love and marriage, my sense that however gooey a romance seems in that moment on the beach, reality — real reality — is bound to rush in like a wave and sweep away everything false and chimerical.

August 09, 2016

What I Learned About Life, Love, and Money From Watching '80s TV Mysteries

August 09, 2016/ Lauren Jonik

Some lessons are better learned after school. Here are seven important take-aways about life,
love, and money that I learned from watching '80s TV mysteries.

August 08, 2016

'Slow TV' Is the Next Netflix Obsession for Anyone Into Trains Going Into Tunnels & Knitting

August 08, 2016/ Eve Vawter

The train goes into the tunnel. The train goes through the tunnel. The train comes out of the tunnel. You see a little village with some little houses and the train goes back into the tunnel. It's the best.

July 26, 2016

Rewatching 'My So-Called Life' Was Actually Really Hard

July 26, 2016/ Jen Selk

22 years ago feels like a long time, and I think I’ve changed since my teen heart broke over Angela and Jordan Catalano. Could the show hold up to yet another viewing?

July 20, 2016

Kurt Loder, MTV News, and Us: A Retrospective

July 20, 2016/ Danielle Vintschger

We salute you, Kurt Loder. MTV might be a cesspool of empty reality shows and not much else now, but we will not forget the impact you and MTV News had on our blossoming young lives.

July 08, 2016

I Made My Millennial Watch the Kids' TV I Grew up With & Here's What Happened

July 08, 2016/ Eve Vawter

"Oh man, I feel weird about him kissing that girl and maybe I have some weird old-fashioned values but the whole interspecies thing is weird to me. "

June 29, 2016

Where the Hell Are All the Happy Child-Free Couples on TV?

June 29, 2016/ Francesca Lewis

My partner and I have agreed — we don't want kids. We don't like kids. And we aren't the only ones. So why aren't we represented on TV?

June 27, 2016 June 27, 2016/ Karen Miner

by Karen Miner
Murder, She Wrote is must-see TV. Always has been, always will be. Why else would I lull myself to sleep every single night (yes, really) to the goings on of Cabot Cove, Maine, in which Angela Lansbury plays murder mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (and also just happens to solve every murder ever)?  When you watch as much Murder, She Wrote as I do, you begin to feel a deep appreciation for Jessica Fletcher and all her bad-assery. While I couldn't possibly capture everything that makes her so hardcore, this should be plenty to resurrect your love for a damn good show and a damn awesome lady.  1. She became a best-selling mystery author on a lark. via GIPHY Admit it — you've had J.B. Fletcher fantasies in which you are a retired English teacher from a quaint East Coast town and strike it rich with your first-ever murder mystery,  The Corpse Danced at Midnight.  That calls for a mic drop, my friends. But that's not her style — she just keeps cranking out best-seller after best-seller like it ain't no thang, while solving all the murders. 2. She is unequivocally smarter than every single policeman ever. EVER .  You simply do not pull the wool over Jessica Fletcher's eyes. You can try, but it doesn't behoove you. She sees all. She knows all. And she usually solves murders while sipping coffee or doing some similar inane activity. It just COMES to her. And then those policemen that were all annoyed with her meddling are forced to give her a pat on the back and eat a hearty helping of crow.  3. She has witnessed more deaths than most coroners. (This isn't necessarily a good thing, but it certainly makes her a BAMF.) via GIPHY We suspend reality enough to believe that Mrs. F just happens to be in the right place at the right time ALL THE TIME . And by right place, I mean wrong place for the other guy. Because the other guy has always been murdered. Always. Let's just say that if I happened to be walking down the street and crossed paths with her, I'd be worried that I might end up dead in a ditch in the very near future. 4. She NEVER has to be the DD. This is an ingenious move. Jess doesn't drive. She doesn't KNOW HOW to drive. She cycles. Therefore, you pick her up. You drop her off. There is never a question as to whether or not she will be the designated driver. Hats off to you, J.B. Not only do you save money in gas and car maintenance, you also save money in potential DUI penalties. 5. She is unapologetically old school.  via GIPHY She will not trade in her typewriter for a computer.  Don't even ask — you will get scoffed at. Maybe it messes with her creative process. Maybe she likes the click-clack of the keys. Maybe she doesn't trust the evil cloud (who does?). Whatever her reason, she steadfastly refuses to make the switch to futuristic technologies like Sheriff Mort Metzger (or Metz-gah, depending on who's talking) keeps proposing. (Not that a computer helps him solve any murders without Jessica's help… just saying.) 6. She gets to hang out with an incredible cast of small-town characters on the reg. Exhibit A: Tom Bosley as bumbling Sheriff Amos Tupper. Oh, that accent. He is full-on New Englander and it is glorious. Sure, he takes credit for the murders that Jessica solves, but everyone knows the truth. It was a sad day in Cabot Cove when he retired and Metz-gah took over. Exhibit B: Dr. Seth Hazlitt. If Doc Hazlitt was my real-life doc, I would invent reasons to see him. He is amazingly chauvinistic and misogynistic, but in that really lovable way, you know? Oh, you know. He can call you "WOMAN!" and make it all seem perfectly fine. Exhibit C: The beauty parlor ladies. Don't try to get away with any funny business in Cabot Cove. Loretta and her shop full of busy bodies will have even the most mundane gossip spread all over town before your hair is done setting. But on occasion, they provide invaluable intel to Jess when she's hot on the trail of a suspect. Exhibit D: The super suave Dennis Stanton. Former jewel thief turned insurance fraud investigator, Dennis is one smooth operator. His umbrella doubles as a weapon and a lock pick, and if that wasn't enough, he's got a British accent, so… 7. She does not give a damn when someone says they didn't like her books. via GIPHY One mean comment from some unknown internet troll and I'm in bed finding comfort in a pint of ice cream and a glass (OK, a bottle) of wine. Jess? Nah. Haters gonna hate — that's her jam. This stuff slides off her like water off a duck's back. It's an enviable trait, to be sure. In conclusion: Life goal #1 is obviously to become Jessica Fletcher. Somehow. Some way.

Calling all Murder, She Wrote fans... as if you needed MORE reasons to think Jessica Fletcher was badass.

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