Scandal Season 3, Episode 10: “A Door Marked Exit” Posted by Sage I hope you were sufficiently Poped last week, readers. Because "A Door Marked Exit" was this season's winter finale and we won't be reunited with our associates until FEBRUARY. … [Read more...]
“YOLO, Quinn.” – Scandal Gif-Cap
Scandal 3 x 09 "YOLO" Posted by Kim As soon as The Sound of Music LIVE! ended and I sent Sage and Steven on their (slightly tipsy) way, I fired up ye olde DVR for that night's episode of Scandal. Whoo boy. If I had been the least bit … [Read more...]
Pages Read: 386. Regrets: Thousands. – Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy Review
Posted by Sage There's that special kind of resentment that's bred by the neglect or outright destruction of something you once loved by its own creator. And, in the case of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the unfortunate added blow of proving … [Read more...]
“We are in a damn haunted house.” – Sleepy Hollow Recap
Sleepy Hollow Season 1, Episode 9: “Sanctuary” Posted by Sage Holy revelation, Sleepy Heads! The breakneck pace of Sleepy's first season continued in "Sanctuary" with a twist that deepened the show's mythology and showed us another new side … [Read more...]
Day of the Doctor: A Comprehensive List of All the Times We Overreacted
Posted by Sage It's been a beautiful week to be a Whovian. Not that it isn't always. But it's not every week that we get to celebrate the five-decade history of our most precious show. The plans have been in motion and anticipation building in … [Read more...]
This Is All Your Fault, Vermont – Scandal Gif-Cap
Scandal Season 3, Episode 8: “Vermont is for Lovers Too" Posted by Sage I'm too infuriated to even write an introduction for this post, so let's just get to it. "Our daughter's been asking about you." Why is Olivia's mother locked up? Why … [Read more...]
“Death Will Not Be Silenced” – Sleepy Hollow Recap
Posted by Kim Apologies, Sleepy Heads. Sage and I were both slammed with real life events and the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary fandom events this past week, which has kept us from blogging. But never fear, we still watched Sleepy Hollow and … [Read more...]
“I’m his WIFE” – Scandal Gif-Cap
Posted by Kim Scandal Season 3, Episode 7 "Everything's Coming Up Mellie" Welcome back to another crazy week in the world of Scandal! This week we took a MUCH NEEDED closer look at our sad queen, the woefully misunderstood First Lady Mellie … [Read more...]
“You Headless Son of a Bitch!” – Sleepy Hollow Recap
Sleepy Hollow Season 1, Episode 7 - "The Midnight Ride" Posted by Kim This episode was NOT messing around, fellow SleepyHeads. With episode 7, we are officially in the back half of Sleepy Hollow's inaugural season and the action is now … [Read more...]
“Stupid super-spies…” – Scandal Gif-Cap
Scandal Season 3, Episode 5: “Icarus” Posted by Sage I'm listening to Bastille's "Icarus" to get into the mood to recap this week's Scandal. It's a great record and an evocative episode title, but who exactly is flying too close to the sun in … [Read more...]
“Order from chaos.” – Sleepy Hollow Recap
Sleepy Hollow Season 1, Episode 6: “The Sin Eater” Posted by Sage What up, Sleepy Heads? Welcome to the very first Head Over Feels recap of the most awesomely bananas new series of the 2013-2014 TV season! It only took a handful of episodes to get … [Read more...]
“We Got Poped, Sir!” – Scandal Gif-Cap
Posted by Kim Another week, another breathless and bananas episode of Scandal. I feel like the pace of the season is really building up now as the re-election campaign and the emergence of a true rival for Fitz in the form of Lisa Kudrow's … [Read more...]
Sexting for Dummies – Scandal Gif-Cap
Scandal Season 3, Episode 4: “Say Hello to My Little Friend" Posted by Sage Season 3 is heating up, Gladiators! This episode saw Jake and Olivia rekindling their romance (which is Head Over Feels approved, by the way); some hints of Fitz's … [Read more...]
“This is NOT a Fairy Tale.” – Scandal Gif-cap
Posted by Kim Forgive me, Gladiators, for I am SUPER LATE with this recap. It won't happen again. And in my defense I only watched the most recent episode of Scandal last night...so REALLY the turn-around on this post is SUPER fast. For … [Read more...]
“#BossBitch” – Parks and Recreation Recap
Parks and Recreation Season 6, Episode 4: Doppelgängers Season 6, Episode 5: Gin It Up - Posted by Sage To keep you up to date on all the cosplay chaos of New York Comic Con, last week's Parks recap was preempted. But my fellow Pawneans, lest … [Read more...]
“Presidential Balls” – Scandal Gif-Cap
Scandal Season 3, Episode 2: "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" Posted by Sage I know, I know. It's my debut Scandal gif-cap, and I'm incredibly late. Buuuuuuut... So you forgive me, yes, Gladiators? On to the episode! "You want a doggy bag?" … [Read more...]
“Well, well, well.” – Parks and Recreation Recap
Parks and Recreation Season 6, Episodes 3: The Pawnee-Eagleton Tip-Off Classic - Posted by Sage I grew up in Western Pennsylvania. My school district was a mix of middle-class suburbs and rural neighborhoods, with an economically-depressed … [Read more...]
“Gladiators or Bitches?” – Scandal Gif-cap
Posted by Kim With the departure of Smash (RIP), we were looking for another show to bring the (patent pending) Head Over Feels gif-cap to. Really, there was only one choice: Scandal. I wrote about my obsession with the show when I discovered it … [Read more...]
“Say Goodbye to the Bad Things” – HIMYM Recap
Posted by Kim “You wrote down all these things to say goodbye to, but so many of them are good things. Why not just say goodbye to the bad things? Say goodbye to all the times you felt lost, to all the times it was a ‘no’ instead of a ‘yes,’ to … [Read more...]
“You have to be the grown-up.” – Parks and Recreation Recap
Parks and Recreation Season 6, Episodes 1 and 2: London - Posted by Sage In order to get through this recap, I must focus on how thrilled I am that Parks is back from hiatus and not how much this season premiere felt like the beginning of a farewell … [Read more...]
“I’ll Be Right Here.” – How I Met Your Mother Recap
Posted by Kim The final countdown begins. T-Minus 55 hours till the legen-you-no-longer-need-to-wait-for it-dary wedding of Barney Stinson and Robin Scherbatsky. T-Minus what I am guessing is 58 hours (or so) till Ted Mosby finally meets the … [Read more...]
“Gary King and the Enablers.” – The World’s End Review
Posted by Sage It's been a borderline unbearable summer here in New York and I can't be alone in anxiously anticipating the fall. Bring on new boots, comfy sweaters, pumpkin-spiced EVERYTHING, college football, and purposely going out of my way to … [Read more...]
“The one who broke the promise.” – Doctor Who Recap
Doctor Who Season 7, Episode 14: The Name of The Doctor - Posted by Sage Soooo, that happened. At least some aspects of the leaked 50th Anniversary details were accurate, as the seventh series finale of Doctor Who introduced John Hurt as the … [Read more...]
The Loneliest Job in the Universe – Doctor Who Recap
Doctor Who 7x12 "Nightmare in Silver" Posted by Kim To say that Neil Gaiman's second episode of Doctor Who was highly anticipated is an understatement, especially when it was released that he was penning an episode for the Cybermen. While … [Read more...]
The Norma Jean/Marilyn Complex – A #SmashBash Gif-Cap
Smash Season 2, Episode 15: The Transfer - Posted by Sage Our worst nightmare is coming true. Smash has been officially canceled. Despite our organized campaign to send "Save Our Show" self-throwing, Eileen Rand martinis to NBC execs, this little … [Read more...]
“We’re in the 20th Century.” – A What Would Ryan Lochte Do? Recap
Guest Post by Jaime Few things in the world have caused me serious emotional trauma, from which I will likely never recover. The Lost season three finale. Jim and Pam’s wedding. And, on Sunday, I experienced another event that will haunt me … [Read more...]
No Day But Today – A #SmashBash Gif-Cap
Posted by Kim "The Phenomenon" #SmashBash 2x14 I am a RentHead through and through. So this episode MAY have caused me to slip into a rage induced coma. I took this shit PERSONALLY. Let's get right to it, shall we? I count three … [Read more...]
“Business as usual, then?” – Doctor Who Recap
Doctor Who Season 7, Episode 12: The Crimson Horror - Posted by Sage If I had lived in Victorian Yorkshire, I'm sure I would have exulted in the “deplorable excesses of the penny dreadful,” so count me as a fan of the twisted gothic fun of … [Read more...]
“This case just remained interesting.” – Parks and Recreation Recap
Parks and Recreation Season 5, Episode 22: Are You Better Off? - Posted by Sage TWIST!! Baby talk, new relationships, fertility doctors, unstable girlfriends - little did we know that Mike Schur & co. had been setting us up for MONTHS for a … [Read more...]
“She’s Always Been There For Me” – Doctor Who Recap
"Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" Doctor Who 7x10 Posted by Kim No matter what your shipping choices are (Ten x Rose, Eleven x Amy, Eleven x River, Eleven x Rory, Captain Jack Harkness x Every Living Thing in the Universe), everyone … [Read more...]
“You’re the worst.” – Parks and Recreation Recap
Parks and Recreation Season 5, Episode 21: Swing Vote - Posted by Sage Ron and Leslie, you guys. If Leslie/Ann is the lady friendship against to measure all other TV lady friendships, Ron/Leslie set a similarly high bar for friendships between … [Read more...]
Drug Ballad – A #SmashBash Gif-Cap
Smash Season 2, Episode 13: The Producers - Posted by Sage I want to dedicate this week's #SmashBash to each and every beautiful soul who shares this weekly tradition with us. This would truly be no fun without you. A third season is looking more … [Read more...]
“It does tend to haunt you.” – Doctor Who Recap
Doctor Who Season 7, Episode 10: Hide - Posted by Sage To be perfectly honest, the convoluted plotting of Series 6 left me exhausted and more than a little frustrated with Doctor Who. I was missing the standalone episodes that pluck the Doctor and … [Read more...]