In the news this week: a Real Housewife was fired, Joe Exotic was resentenced, and Amy Schneider finishes a historic run on Jeopardy! Join me on a wild ride of complaining about reality TV this week as I hate on this season of Vanderpump Rules, which was truly terrible and should have never existed, and the most recent episodes of Queer Eye, which I typically love but am struggling to connect with this season. Am I dead inside?! Probably. And then for my recommendation, it's the absurd Netflix comedy that just came out and pokes fun at the "white women in trouble" story that's so popular right now: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (I love that title so much).

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This week I'm talking about the sh*t show happening behind the scenes of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City with Jennie Nguyen's unearthed Facebook posts about the vaccine and the BLM movement; the deaths of Meat Load and Louie Anderson; and more. Then I recap what's been happening on Below Deck and address the vile, racist response to Rayna (the only female Black deckhand in the franchise's history) and her reaction to a fellow castmate's use of the N word. Then I'm talking about Cheer on Netflix and the struggles I had with getting into season two, with its depictions of egos, homophobia, and toxic masculinity. So yeah, it's not a light episode, sorry!

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More sad news this week as we mourn Bob Saget's untimely passing so close to that of Betty White. But for a bit of a silver lining to the week, there's a TV sequel to the Tim Allen film franchise The Santa Clause in development, and Justified is returning to FX with Emmy-nominated star Timothy Olyphant. For this week's recaps, I'm covering the very silly premiere of 9-1-1: Lone Star, which has fully embraced its own absurdity, for better or worse; and the somewhat frustrating finale of Yellowjackets, which left me with too many questions and not enough resolutions. And to cap it off, my recommendation is the newly-streaming Golden Girls spin-off, The Golden Palace, which is available now on Hulu!

Also make sure to check out the blog, where I reviewed the pilot of the new CW superhero (?) show Naomi. Link below!

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Y'all! You get to hear TWO voices on this episode! My best friend was back in dirty Jerz, so we got together to watch the first episode of RuPaul's Drag Race and reminisce about the good ol' days of the show while tackling what we liked and (mostly) didn't like about the premiere of season 14. If you are not a Drag Race fan, sorry, you'll be lost on this one; we went deep on past winners, viewers expectations of queens, what kinds of talent we need to see from queens to fall in love with them, and whether or not anyone from the show will ever reach the levels of stardom and pop culture prominence of the show's most memorable queens from years past. I'm also diving into the story of the The CW going up for sale, and my recommendation is an ongoing series that I discussed briefly in my favorites of 2021.

Listen to Ande's one-season wonder podcast Unveiled by clicking here (I was their guest on the finale episode).

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It's a bonus episode! 2021 was a dumpster fire, but it gave us some good TV shows, so that's something. My full list of my favorite shows of the year: Yellowjackets, Hightown, Resident Alien, Them, Cruel Summer, Pen15, Drag Race UK (season 2), Mare of Easttown, The Other Two, The White Lotus, The Chair, It's a Sin, Pose, Midnight Mass, Dr. Death, Only Murders in the Building, Chucky, Evil.

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Happy holidays! This week I'm talking about my favorite Christmas movies and where you can find them on streaming, because Christmas just isn't Christmas without Kevin McCallister's scream, Will Ferrell in yellow tights, and Arnold Schwarzenegger flying through Minneapolis on a jet pack. But before we can get to the joy of the holidays, the news this week was unhinged as Mr. Big is accused of multiple sexual assaults and the dad on The Goldbergs was fired for multiple HR infractions, so now he's being replaced by his own superimposed face on a body double - nope, not a joke.

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This week's news is all about men being awful: Chris Cuomo got fired, Josh Duggar (of 19 Kids and Counting) was convicted on child pornography charges, and Jussie Smollett was found guilty of five felonies for his fake 2019 hate crime. Jeez. And things are only mildly looking up in the recaps as I cover the first two episodes of The Real Housewives of Orange County and the idiocy of pretending these women would ever be friends with each other, and then it's on to Marvel's Hawkeyei, which is my favorite of the Disney+ Marvel series so far but is still managing to somehow not be entirely enjoyable. Is that the show's fault, or the franchise's? Let's talk about it!

Christmas is coming! Holiday programming is reaching levels of insanity this year, and I'm recapping some of it this week: Annie Live! on NBC, its latest televised musical, which was somehow not a trainwreck; and 12 Dates of Christmas, an unhinged and queer AF dating show on HBO Max about people trying to find a hot fitness instructor to take home to meet their families for the holidays. Also, Hallmark Channel aired 8 movies in 4 days over Thanksgiving weekend, and I watched them all so I could give you an unbiased recommendation for which one is the best to waste your time on!

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I had a lazy week, like many of us, so I'm only reviewing one show this week: The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, which is (I'M TELLING YOU!) the most unreal, utterly engrossing thing currently airing on television. No, I'm not being facetious. Yes, you must watch it. Also, more actors are forfeiting paychecks in the name of "personal freedom."

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More actors are leaving work on the table because they don't want the vaccine, and a Buffy star testified about her allegations of sexual harassment in front of Congress this week. It's getting colder around here, so I'm taking a vacation to Turks & Caicos with the ladies of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, which is a surprisingly honest and very fun "all stars" edition of the franchise. And then, because it's a holiday week, I'm celebrating by ranting about why Thanksgiving is awful and recapping the episode of Taste the Nation on Hulu exploring the myth of unity in the New England settlements through the perspective of the Wompanoag tribe. Question everything!

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