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...
by Jeffrey Davies | Jul 27, 2018 | Blog, Books, Movies, Pop Culture, TV |
I feel like a better title for Penny Marshall’s memoir would have been Shit Happens, but I’m sure her publisher would have said no. I wanted to read My Mother Was Nuts because I grew up watching Penny Marshall on Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley as...
by Jeffrey Davies | Jul 4, 2018 | Blog, Books, TV |
“Parents do tend to judge each other. I don’t know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we’re doing? And I guess that can sometimes lead to conflict. Just not normally on this sort of scale.” Here’s the thing, chicken wing. For the...
by Jeffrey Davies | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog, Pop Culture, TV |
Late last year, when it was confirmed that Roseanne, the iconic ‘90s sitcom that broke down walls during its nine-season run on ABC, would be returning to the network for a new season (the latest in a series of major network revivals of previously successful series),...
