I’m finally getting around to watching Behind the Candelabra, the Steven Soderbergh HBO biopic about Liberace and his young “friend,” and OMG! Rob Lowe’s face! Michael Douglas without his wig! Matt Damon’s shorts! This just might be the greatest made-for-TV movie ever. If you get a chance, give it a peek. It’s fabulous!
HGTV Design Star, Episode 2: Lofty Designs

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Another week of HGTV Star, another challenge and another chance for the designers to display their taste, grace, and style. For this challenge, David Bromstad divides the contestants into four teams and gives them two days to turn a huge empty space into a livable loft with distinct areas for living, eating, sleeping, and working. Continue reading
RHNJ Episode 3: Gym Rats
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Caroline
Caroline’s sister, Fran, who is mooching off of Caroline along with Caroline’s deadbeat daughter, brings a pig to the house. Like, an actual pig and not one of her son’s dates. Continue reading
Mad Men Season 6, Episode 12: The Quality Of Mercy
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Okay let’s just get right to the weird stuff. Ken Cosgrove is on a hunting trip in Detroit with two people from Chevy and… Continue reading
XOX Betsey Johnson, Episode 4: More Party, More Bigger, More Sexy
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We’re back, I guess. It’s been a tumultuous week, but it looks like XOX Betsey Johnson will be on the Style Network Thursday at 8:30 p.m., at least for now. This is good, because Betsey is ramping up for her first show under the Madden brand—a retrospective that spans her entire ninety-year career. Continue reading
MasterChef Season 4, Episodes 7 & 8

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Episode 7
The sixteen remaining cooks are in Pasedena, California for their Team Challenge—cook for 101 firefighters. Continue reading
Real Housewives of New Jersey, Episode 2: A Manzo of Her Word

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Caroline
Caroline’s daughter, Lauren, calls herself “a grown-ass woman,” but her father reminds her that she is a grown-ass woman mooching off of her parents. Caroline’s sister, Fran, is also living in Caroline’s house and is considerate enough of a houseguest to take in a three-legged foster dog. Continue reading
Mad Men Season 6, Episode 11: Favors
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Pete’s mother comes for a visit, with her new nurse, Manolo. Pete pawns her off on Peggy, who Pete’s mother mistakes for Trudy. In her fog, she says that it’s good that they reconciled for their child, which leaves Peggy shaken. Pete then tries to bribe Manolo to…I don’t know what, but I’m hoping it’s not what I’m thinking. Continue reading
HGTV Star Season 8 Premiere

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It’s David Bromstad! And another season of HGTV Star! The ten new designers, in no particular order, are Abby, Brooks, Cris, Tylor, Jeribai, Jessie, Anne, Tiffany, Tobin, and Boris, or as I call them, ABCTJJATT&B. Continue reading
It’s Baaack!
Just when you shovel the last mound of dirt onto a television and send a show into the great beyond, the Style Network rushes in with a defibrillator and zaps the life back into XOX Betsey Johnson. Per the brains of the operation:
So tune into the Style Network Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. for the second coming of XOX Betsey Johnson. Or, just read my recaps.



