by Jeffrey Davies | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog, Pop Culture, TV |
On September 22, 1994, NBC aired the pilot of a new television sitcom called Friends. It began just as simply as the title suggests, with five twentysomething friends lounging at a coffeehouse, discussing mundane details about their personal lives. These people don’t...
by Jeffrey Davies | Jan 14, 2019 | Blog, Books, Movies, TV |
“I’m rolling my eyes right now, but that’s who I was. It’s who I am. I have a hard time just existing. I always think that if only I could be somewhere else, with someone else, doing something else, then I would be happy, finally. The hole...
by Jeffrey Davies | Jan 4, 2019 | Blog, Movies, Music, Pop Culture, TV |
When I started university, I started watching The Lizzie McGuire Movie at the end of every semester as a way to relax. It may be cliché, full of plot holes, and targeted towards millennial preteens, but very few movies have the power that the film’s most famous song...
by Jeffrey Davies | Oct 28, 2018 | Blog, Books, Movies, TV |
“I was the one who had kept me safe. All of me, including the parts I found unlovable: They had protected me, had steered me outside of my fears, pushing me towards things I didn’t feel capable of doing.” In Pieces is the powerful new memoir by the...
by Jeffrey Davies | Oct 17, 2018 | Blog, Pop Culture, TV |
May the record reflect that I stand corrected. Ever since the abrupt cancellation of the Roseanne reboot earlier this year, whose premiere drew the most ratings on network television in four years, the topic of the cast continuing the revival in the form of a spin-off...
by Jeffrey Davies | Sep 12, 2018 | Blog, Pop Culture, TV |
In the 1970s and 1980s, CBS was home to some of the best remembered and most groundbreaking programs on television—All in the Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, Maude, Designing Women, Murder, She Wrote, Murphy Brown and countless others, many of which were...
