Blogcritics Category: Video: Soaps

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "There Might Be Blood"

Brad Laidman — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:11:15 EST

Jenny is a punk rocker!
Perhaps if I've reached the proper level of outrage in the audition below, the Parents Television Council will see fit to let me lead their future assaults on this outlandish television show. Last week on Gossip Girl: Some seriously messed up stuff happened. Gossip Girl is a show about a judgmental boy named Dan. In this episode, he judges...

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "Pret-A-Poor-J"

Brad Laidman — Sun, 2 Nov 2008 13:22:42 EST

Yes, folks, Taylor Momsen is 15!
Well, this week on Gossip Girl we clearly need to discuss Dan and Serena’s latest effort to become friends. Uh, yeah, not so much -- the main couple on this show could get hit by a bus right now, and I’m not really sure that anyone who watches would care. New Levels of Inappropriateness: What’s happening in this country? John...

TV Review: Degrassi, The Next Generation - "Uptown Girl"

Matthew Milam — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:15:54 EDT

The one-hour eighth season opener shows that the series can revitalize itself while still keeping the traditional issue-of-the-week format.
Degrassi: The Next Generation is back, and apparently the writers and producers mean to bring it back fresh. The Canadian-based teen drama set largely in the fictional Degrassi Community School has been largely chasing its own shadow in the last couple of seasons with cast members getting old and characters getting stale. “Uptown Girl”,...

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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:15:54 EDT

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TV Recap: Gossip Girl - "The Serena Also Rises"

Brad Laidman — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:28:13 EDT

Chuck killed his mother, but uh ... not like it sounds.
Look, I know it’s been a tough week nationally. I know that you suddenly find rich people and their greedy outlandish behavior abhorrent, and that you want to find the CEO of Lehman Brothers and string him up outside of your local church and watch him perish in agony. At a time like this, I think we need to turn to the immortal words of...

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "The Ex-Files"

Brad Laidman — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:53:02 EDT

The single most evil, Machiavellian, low down ugly episode of a teen soap in the history of the genre!
I haven’t written about Gossip Girl for a while, but how could I help but comment on last Monday’s episode? Without a doubt I’ve spent way too much time gathering evidence, but ...“The Ex-Files” was the single most evil, Machiavellian, low-down ugly episode of a teen soap in the history of the genre. What comes in...

Movie Review: Nights in Rodanthe

Michael Bialas — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:13:32 EDT

The third time is a charmer for Richard Gere and Diane Lane, but why did they have to play it so safe?
Talk about Safe Sex.Maybe Richard Gere and Diane Lane would rather be safe than sorry as two wayward souls who try to save each other in Nights in Rodanthe, a weeper for the Middle Age Crazy set (and you know who you are).This is the third pairing of Gere and Lane. They fought like immature newlyweds while dealing with danger and 1930s gangsters in...

DVD Review: Dirty Sexy Money - Season One

Garon Cockrell — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:49:28 EDT

Is Dirty Sexy Money all of the above? Read to find out.
Dirty. Sexy. Money. These three words are really all you need to know to prepare yourself for this show. Each word exists in harmony with the others throughout the first season's ten episodes. Dirty secrets, sexy situations (not to mention cast members), and money. Lots and lots of it. The family at the center of the show, the Darlings,...

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Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:49:28 EDT

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Making the Rounds at General Hospital: Waiting for the Verdict, The Clinic Burns

Connie Phillips — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:53:25 EDT

The jury deliberates Johnny's fate; another family learns a painful truth.
Johnny's trial may not be feasible on any level whatsoever, but despite the absurdity it has been not only entertaining but engaging. Maxie was scared to death she would flub up on the cover story on the stand, only to be completely humiliated by Scott when he only asked about the sex deal she had struck up with Logan to get even with Lulu. When...

DVD Review: Ugly Betty - The Complete Second Season

Josh Lasser — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:16:20 EDT

Ugly Betty's second season has some hits, some misses, and a lot of Wilhelmina.
Usually, television comedies focus on either the workplace or the home. There is always a little bit of crossover, but a show tends to stick to one or the other. There are of course some notable exceptions to this rule, and one of them, Ugly Betty, just released its second season to DVD this week. The show focuses on Betty Suarez (America...

Making the Rounds at General Hospital : Carly and Sonny's Secret Revealed

Connie Phillips — Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:44:15 EDT

Jax and Kate learn the truth about Sonny and Carly.
Is this the end of Car/Jax? After months of ups and downs, most fans guessed the end was near. Just moments after learning about Carly and Sonny's sexcapade in the back of his limo from Clarice, Kate spilled her guts to Jax, and both went to their respective homes to confront their partners. Let the excuses begin… Sonny blamed it on...