and there are lots of pictures of the beach,
which is great when you are in dark gloomy Manhattan in February. Best
episode:
when Pamela Anderson Lee got kidnapped by that
half-man/half-beast, who after plastic surgery became a professor at
UCLA. Worst episode: anytime Mitch adopts a son.
Powerpuff
Girls
Lilly: Best show on television.
Mia:
Ditto. Nuffsaid.
Roswell
High
Lilly: An intriguing look at
the possibility that aliens live among us. The fact that they might be
teenagers, and extraordinarily attractive ones at that, stretches the
show's credibility somewhat.
Mia: Hot guys with alien
powers. What
more can you ask? High point Future Max; any time anybody made out in
the eraser
room. Low point: when that skanky Tess showed up.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Lilly: Feminist empowerment at
its peak, entertainment at its best. The heroine is a lean, mean,
vampire-killing machine, who worries as much about her immortal soul as
she does messing up her hair. A strong role model for
young women -
nay, people of all sexes and ages will benefit from the viewing of this
show. All of television should
be this good. The fact that this show
has, for so long, been ignored by the Emmys is a travesty.
Mia: If only the
Buffster
could just find a boyfriend who doesn't need to drink platelets to
survive. High point
any time there's kissing. Low point none.
Gilmore
Girls
Lilly: Thoughtful portrayal of
single mother struggling to raise teenage daughter in a small,
northeastern town.
Mia: Many, many,
many, many,
many, many cute boys. Plus it is nice to see single moms who sleep with
their kid's teacher getting respect instead of lectures from the Moral
Majority.
Charmed
Lilly: While this show at
least accurately portrays historical Wiccan practices, the spells these
girls routinely cast are completely unrealistic. You cannot, for
instance, travel through time or between dimensions without creating
rifts in the space-time continuum. Were these girls really to transport
themselves to seventeenth-century Puritan America, they would arrive
there with their oesophaguses ripped inside out, not neatly stuffed
into a corset, as no one can
travel through a wormhole and maintain
their mass integrity. It is a simple matter of physics. Albert Einstein
must
be spinning in his grave.
Mia: Hello, witches in
hot
clothes. Like Sabrina, only better because the boys are cuter, and
sometimes they are
in danger and the girls have to save them.
Thursday; January 21.
Gifted
and Talented
Tina is so mad at Jane Eyre. She
says Jane Eyre ruined her life.