Honestly if you love Center Stage as much as I do, you should be watching Dance Academy. It's essentially Center Stage+ Australia as a TV show, and it is MAGNIFICENT. (The end of the second season is SUPER SAD though, so be prepared. I was not. At all.)

I'm most intrigued by the fact that Leann Rimes and Eddie Cibrian have $50 MILLION to squabble over. I mean, I'm sure she's got a lot of "How Can I Live" money, but I had no idea she was THAT wealthy. (I'm assuming it's bullshit, but if it isn't, DANG).

It's a new director who has confirmed he won't be using the shaky cam much (if at all). Which is a relief.

Oh god that is awful. That would be so traumatizing. (On the plus side, Amy IS a pretty name. And she did marry Laurie, so...silver lining for you?)

I don't care who they cast so long as they rectify the ending, because my 11 year old self has never gotten over Laurie marrying fucking AMY of all people. I might have been able to cope with Jo turning Laurie down, but then he marries AMY? SHE BURNED JO'S BOOK, LAURIE. SOME THINGS ARE UNFORGIVABLE.

Roughly 3/4 of my female friends are named Jessica, Sarah, or some form of Katherine that can be shortened to Katie. (I was born in '85, for reference). And in my grade school class of 40 kids, 8 of the boys were named Daniel. EIGHT. One Dan, one Daniel, and six Danny+Last Initial.

I think when we talk about parents monitoring their children's social media, we should encourage parents to focus on what their kids are using it FOR, as well as for keeping an eye out for predators and bullying of their child. I was bullied pretty relentlessly in middle school (before the advent of social media…

That does not sound like a TV episode. That sounds like a circus-themed Mad Libs. (I love this dumb show).

...that would have been an amazing twist.

My favorite SVU episodes are the ones that have 3-4 different MAJOR plot twists. It just reeks of "we got bored/stuck with plot resolution on these so we're just going to make them into one episode, okay?" It's about a homeless man attacking women! No wait, it's about neglect at a mental institution! ACTUALLY,…

I felt the same way. "WHAT! NO! COLIN FIRTH CAN'T BE DEAD! Oh— he isn't. It's just a character he played. Never mind then."

I swear, the most dangerous place in New York is clearly the SVU precinct, because SO. MANY. PEOPLE. get killed there by distraught victims/relatives of victims. I haven't seen this episode, but it's definitely happened 5-6 times before now. You'd think they'd install metal detectors for visitors or SOMETHING. (Also,…

When Mr. Parkerandwoolf and I were first dating, he went on a guys' trip to Vegas. While there, a bunch of them wanted too go to a strip club and he declined, citing me as an excuse (because as he told me later, he finds strip clubs a little depressing and he'd rather spend his money elsewhere). So his friends stole…

I was on a Lufthansa flight that served "Mexican Pizza" as the meal. As far as I could tell, it was a piece of halfway-between-bread-and-crust with maybe ketchup/maybe tomato sauce, olives and corn. No cheese, no other toppings. It was...odd, and neither "Mexican" nor "pizza" like in any way.

Oh, no doubt. I didn't mean that Britain *isn't* racist, just that the sort of thing that as an American I assume will cause an uproar (like a black man and white woman) didn't do so in Britain and I found that interesting.

In general I don't buy the whole "Americans are racist and Europeans are beyond that" arguments (just because racism has a different character and different history doesn't mean it doesn't exist), but I was in London this summer and I was struck by two different cases of black man-white woman pairings on TV: first on…

My brain refuses to acknowledge that Emmy Rossum and Emma Roberts are two separate people. I don't know why, but they've merged into one shiny haired robot with the initials E.R. in my head.

She was on CSI once. It was super disconcerting.

Let's be real: I can pretend I won't watch 50 Shades, but I will totally end up getting it on netflix and heckling the shit out of it with the help of my girl friends and a box of wine.

No. I was preemptively calling out commenters who reflexively dismiss these sorts of studies by ascribing blame to women rather than actually realize that this is a real problem (hence my second clause after the slash.)