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Maher's statement can be destroyed with two words: Ann Coulter. Maher is responsible for her having a career thanks to booking her endlessly on Politically Incorrect. If that's what he considers 'exposing', then maybe he should just call up HBO right now and recommend Milo for his own show. Unless Maher already has a

This season was the point when TBBT should have been trotting out those photos of the cast in formal wear, walking down an alley outside the soundstage. Sometimes they have champagne flutes, maybe one of the women has playfully removed their shoes. The snarkiest male member of the cast's bowtie is untied. It's that

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So Andy Cohen turns Bravo from an arts network into a bitchy queen channel, and then steps down to become its resident star bitchy queen. In come the corporate synergists, trying to make the brand appeal to a broader audience because it's the Trump era and they're afraid to cater to those 'coastal elites' anymore.

I got this:

Sometimes the perfect antidote for a bad day is the abject silliness of "Cow Days".

I'm fine with this. The show has always been better when it hides its topicality in stories dealing with the boys and the townspeople. The more they start naming names and going national in episodes, the less I want to watch. Think global, write local.

I was just watching Top Chef's All Stars season, with the episode filmed at Rao's with Frank and the whole crew. Best moments were the stories told about filming Goodfellas, Italian chef Mike Isabella tanking his pasta, and Dale presenting his subpar dish with a story about cooking for his girlfriend, which prompted

I would aka this "Monica and Chandler: The Later Years"

You would think that they would have given him a new outfit after Anthony Hopkins wore the same thing in his custom prison cage in The Silence Of The Lambs.

Every reality show should have an All-Star season as good as Top Chef had. They did it right.

I was half-watching the episode while working, and all of a sudden I hear Padma tell Jim to pack his knives…and it's only 9:30! That hurt. I hate Sudden Death Quickfires.

Answer to Serious Question: No, because Isabella became someone you could actually root for in All-Stars. (He's Antonia's 'cousin'! Couldn't you just die!?) Katsuji is still a professional reality douche.

Fair point, but I linked Katsuji to Phi Phi mostly because the episodes showed that no matter what Phi Phi was claiming, she really was up to her old tricks the entire time. Katsuji has no such disconnect — he knows what he's doing and is proud of it — but there really wasn't any other villain in that Drag Race cast.

The "Alexa, stop!" video wins Vine anyway, so there's no point going on.

I think the closest we got was that mini-challenge where they had to be hand models with vegetables in S6, and maybe the Sugar Ball with its candy couture in S5. Oh yeah, and the "Chicken or What" challenge in S2 where a few of them gagged…literally.

I am resigned to having to sit through Roxxxy John Andrews' redemption story for more weeks to come, but I was really hoping that this was Katsuji O'Hara's week to get the boot. Instead, Sylvia Tatiana was sacrificed. And I was really hoping to see Sylvia make it deep into the season. Here's hoping she takes LCK as

I don't get how they do these edits now, where the bait and switch reveals an outcome that nobody was rooting for. What do they imagine the reaction will be? There is a real cognitive dissonance involved in reality TV production. Why do they assume we want to be let down like that?

When they announced the cast, I had to rewatch season 7 to refresh my memory of Amanda. She was fairly scatter-brained then too, one of those chefs that fate decided should stay longer than they needed to, like Robyn/S6. She kept sneaking through while the alphas were fighting over stolen pea purees.

It's worth checking out until the finale. It ends much like this year's election did.