this irreverent sitcom's pilot episode introduces viewers to the hilariously dysfunctional bundy family, who turn traditional tv tropes on their heads with their crude humor and unapologetic antics. the show's fearless approach to comedy set it apart from other family sitcoms of the time – ...
Featuring memorable performances from Tim Daly and Colm Feore, this suspenseful miniseries expertly balances horror tropes with thought-provoking questions about human nature and moral choices when faced with unthinkable horrors. Premiered: February 14, 1999 Also ranks #3 on The Best Television ...
Loaded: With Jim Howick, Samuel Anderson, Nick Helm, Jonny Sweet. Four friends become multi-millionaires when they sell their video-game company for a clean £246 million, and overnight the four friends are transformed from "people who play games" to "
however instead of using the unique designs and outlandish characters from inman's wide range of card games he falls on a formulistic story mocking common sit com tropes. The creator has brief Easter eggs and references to his games and comics but it doesn't actually seem to relate to the...
Season 3 cemented the series as a masterwork that should not be doubted, so we can't wait to find out what else the kids (and their folks) get into when Stranger Things 4 comes along to reimagine some more time-honored tropes from your favorite '80s movies. –Amanda Bell...
Review our list of pet peeves and tired tropes below, then sound off with those that driveyoumost batty — maybe we’ll add yours in a future update! OBVIOUSLY EMPTY COFFEE CUPS Photo:Courtesy of CBS In case you couldn’t tell from them being whipped around as if filled to the rim wit...
she's gotta be more interesting than the slut I'm looking at right now." Truly a marriage made in TV heaven. This sex-and-money blockbuster chronicled the spectacularly evil Ewings and their Texas oil empire, led by Larry Hagman's J.R.Dallasinvented the prime-time soap tropes for family...
A good rom-com has to nod to, and play with, the tropes of the genre, and “Nobody Wants This” has good fun with them all (misunderstandings, meeting the parents, mistaken identities). By skewing slightly older than Gen Z, it was also a refreshing change of pace for what the genre...
parallel to America’s slide from the relative peace of the Obama era to the chaos of Trump. Funny in a kind of “Jesus Christ, this is literally what we’re dealing with here” kind of way,Veepcaptures the landscape of the last decade in American politics unlike any other film or ...
Live Feed ‘Black Mirror’ Star Rosy McEwen Reveals What Charlie Brooker Told Her to Help Make Sense of Her Episode: “It Released Everything” Live Feed Melanie Lynskey Unravels Her ‘Yellowjackets’ Epiphany and Mourns Her Co-Stars Bali May Be a Victim of Its Own Success, as Luxury Hotels...