Tag: comedy
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Halloween 2024
Every year I put together a horror movie binge list for Halloween but I never end up watching more than a couple of movies on the list. I live with someone who doesn’t like horror movies so it’s always a negotiation choosing what to watch. It’s like putting together a playlist. You need the right…
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Psych
Psych was a long-running show on the USA cable network about a fake psychic detective, just like The Mentalist only funnier (Psych came first and they often made jokes comparing the two shows). I wasn’t onboard from the beginning because I’d seen the ads for the show and it looked dumb. But I was wrong. …
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Twitch City
This one is a little obscure, outside of Canada anyway. It deserves to be more widely known. Twitch City only had two brief seasons, in 1998 and 2000. The show centers around Curtis (Don McKellar), a couch potato whose favorite tv show is a sleazy daytime talk show called The Rex Reilly Show. Rex Reilly…
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We Are Lady Parts
We Are Lady Parts is a British sitcom about a punk band. The members of the band are all Muslim women of various ethnicities. Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey) is the lead singer and plays rhythm guitar. She’s tough, standoffish, and the only member of the group who doesn’t wear a headscarf. Her day job is…
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Resident Alien
Resident Alien is a science fiction comedy series that currently airs on SyFy but is moving to USA for its 4th season (in 2025? no date has yet been announced). I’ve been evangelizing about this show since it first debuted in 2021 but it seems to still exist under the radar, which is why NBC…