Mary Beth Ellis Like many people who consider going all the way over there to plug in my phone as the apex of manual physical labor, I enjoy sitting on my butt watching others be useful. The most sublime form of this is home improvement shows on HGTV, which always begin with people waving their arms accusingly at
The repeating theme of the third episode of Disney Gallery’s exploration of The Mandalorian is the importance of stillness. Once again, the series distinguishes itself from the Star Wars sequel films, which helped to send the franchise to the small screen. This third episode focuses on its cast, which was best when not barnacled down
The second chapter of Disney Gallery: Star Wars: The Mandalorian seems to begin like a weary lap dance for George Lucas, but ends in a brain-rewiring EMP bomb for even the hardcoriest of hardcore Star Wars fans. While its first few moments spotlight Lucas in a dog-eared, corporate line-towing fashion, viewers should hang in there
When last we met, this merry group of neuroses and unnecessary vocalization, recovered from their whole fourteen seconds of devastation after Julie and Brandon departed, hopped on separate tour busses and drove to Vegas. The highlight of this was Rudi and Chris stopping for no apparent reason at a motel featuring an exciting series of
Last week, The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart was most exciting. Julia and Sheridan and Brandon and Savannah all left, and after the moment of silence for the lack of concern we had for how that whole thing shook out, we rode along on tour busses to Vegas. Everyone kind of laid around for
Now we get right down to it, children. With the Lust Pentagon… gone, we’re already to the semifinals of The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart. Rather than fast-forward to the way we all know this is exactly going to end (a choice between Bri/Chris’ insta-serious relationship vs Natascha’s power ballading and Ryan’s shananananas), we
I’m assuming you were not so unwise as to miss the liveblog, but if you were involved in such less-important activities as hauling small children out of burning buildings or tending to nuclear power plant cores, this should fill you in. Who left The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart? You’re not going to believe
The only thing worse than a rowdy, beer-stinking, mud-freezing Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May is one without any of these things at all. That is what we experienced in America in 2020. The weather was spectacular all across Kentucky, and the paddock was empty, the trackside bars shut. It is these moments
How are you doing? Is your city open? Mine is still all clampty-clamp, but today, I drove my mother to the foot doctor. It was her first time out of the house in seven weeks. It was my first visit to anywhere other than the grocery or a drive-thru. At first, we were excited, but
Whatever you have to say about Disney, “neglects to pump the fan base like the ATM machine that it is” can’t be one of them. With the too-fast, too-disjointed schedule of the movies halted and the much-anticipated “Kenobi” on coronavirus and script doctoring hold, Disney has the following in its arsenal: Clone Wars (which is