Blogcritics Author: Brad Laidman

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "O Brother, Where Bart Thou"

Brad Laidman — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:28:04 EST

Chuck! Blair! Tears!
The worst thing you've ever done, the worst thought you've ever had, I will stand by you...I was expecting to go on and on about Chuck Bass’s continued rapid descent into Darth Vader territory, but instead I can’t stop crying about the heartbreaking impossibility that is Chuck and Blair. Who would have ever thought after...

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "It's a Wonderful Lie"

Brad Laidman — Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:34:02 EST

Friends, Gossip Girls, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Bart Bass, not to praise him
Friends, Gossip Girls, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Bart Bass, not to praise himYes, apparently bad, old Bart Bass is dead. It wasn’t confirmed on air, but someone was slated to die, he had an accident, and Josh Schwartz killed off the exact same character when he was running The OC.How exactly it is possible to have a life...

Goodbye, The Shield - Get Some Rest, Detective Mackey

Brad Laidman — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:46:16 EST

Vic Mackey might not be a role model, but you certainly can't fault his work ethic!
Tony Soprano escaped judgment with a blank screen, and now it’s Vic Mackey’s turn. The Shield's creator, Shawn Ryan, has kept mum on whether or not his devil will get his due, but he has promised (if not on a bible than at least on one of those huge telephone books Vic was constantly pummelling his suspects with) that his ugly baby...

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "The Magnificent Archibalds"

Brad Laidman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:29:22 EST

Vanessa -- you skank!
Well, for 58 minutes I was pretty bored by this week’s episode of Gossip Girl.One week of zero Chuck/Blair interaction is a felony. Two straight weeks is a capital offense. If I’m supposed to get my weekly sexual sizzle from Serena and Aaron, this show is in serious trouble. If the next Gossip Girl is to have no Chuck and Blair, tell me...

Rolling Stone Lists the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time

Brad Laidman — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:41:20 EST

Where in tarnation is Levi Stubbs?
Lists are an inane waste of time and perhaps the most obvious piece of evidence that someone doesn’t have anything new to say, but I can’t help it -- I love them. Rolling Stone, having recently downsized its format to better look exactly like Blender, just named their “100 Greatest Singers of All Time” and in response,...

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "Bonfire of the Vanity"

Brad Laidman — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:24:59 EST

Jenny is one cold woman!
Wow, am I psychic or what? Just a few weeks ago, I quoted Wallace Shawn in this column, and now here he is dating Blair’s mother. Is that too weird or what? Surprisingly, well not really, Blair isn’t a big fan of the little hugging schnook. Strange, I would have thought Blair to be a big fan of Shawn’s movie Clueless.Who’s...

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "There Might Be Blood"

Brad Laidman — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:11:15 EST

Jenny is a punk rocker!
Perhaps if I've reached the proper level of outrage in the audition below, the Parents Television Council will see fit to let me lead their future assaults on this outlandish television show. Last week on Gossip Girl: Some seriously messed up stuff happened. Gossip Girl is a show about a judgmental boy named Dan. In this episode, he judges...

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "Pret-A-Poor-J"

Brad Laidman — Sun, 2 Nov 2008 13:22:42 EST

Yes, folks, Taylor Momsen is 15!
Well, this week on Gossip Girl we clearly need to discuss Dan and Serena’s latest effort to become friends. Uh, yeah, not so much -- the main couple on this show could get hit by a bus right now, and I’m not really sure that anyone who watches would care. New Levels of Inappropriateness: What’s happening in this country? John...

My New Best Commander-in-Chief

Brad Laidman — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:37:09 EDT

Barack Obama - you're up for discussion
Lately, I’ve found myself bombarded with two television spectacles that seem to on my television set nearly every second of every day. One is Paris Hilton’s My New BFF and the other is the Presidential election. Who knew that there was this much gossiping, pandering, and backstabbing going on in the world? And by that, of course,...

TV Recap: Gossip Girl - "Chuck in Real Life"

Brad Laidman — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:44:28 EDT

Vanessa takes on Blair and the winner is ... Chuck of course.
Vizzini in The Princess Bride: "You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!"Now we can add another to the list -- if you are Vanessa, what in the world...