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TV Review: AMERICAN HORROR STORY – Season 1 – “Halloween Pt. 1”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 10/28/2011

Dylan McDermott in AMERICAN HORROR STORY - Season 1 - "Halloween Pt. 1" | ©2011 FX/Ray Mickshaw

Stars: Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton, Jessica Lange, Taissa Farmiga, Evan Peters, Denis O’Hare, Frances Conroy, Jamie Brewer, Kate Mara, Lily Rabe, Zachary Quinto, Teddy Sears, Morris Chestnut, Christine Estabrook Writer: James Wong, series created by Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk Director: David Semel Network: FX, Wednesdays @ 10 PM Original Telecast: October 24, 2011 According to lore, Halloween is when the wall between the worlds of the living and the dead become thin, allowing the two to mingle. Gee, like the Harmon house needs any help in that department. All sorts of entities turn up and things get even spookier […]Read On »

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TV Review: AMERICAN HORROR STORY – Season 1 – “Home Invasion”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 10/19/2011

Jessica Lange in AMERICAN HORROR STORY - Season 1 - "Home Invasion" | ©2011 FX/Ray Mickshaw

Stars: Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton, Jessica Lange, Taissa Farmiga, Evan Peters, Denis O’Hare, Frances Conroy, Alexandra Breckenridge, Jamie Brewer, Kate Mara, Shelby Young, Azura Skye Writers: Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk, series created by Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Network: FX, Wednesdays @ 10 PM Original Telecast: October 12, 2011 AMERICAN HORROR STORY shows that it can sustain the tone of its original episode, expanding its mythology while delivering an episode that has closed-ended aspects. “Home Invasion” takes a cue from FUNNY GAMES/THE STRANGERS, turning those films on their heads as a trio of profoundly annoying young […]Read On »

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TV Review: AMERICAN HORROR STORY – Season 1 – “Pilot” – Series Premiere

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 10/06/2011

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Stars: Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton, Jessica Lange, Taissa Farmiga, Evan Peters, Frances Conroy, Denis O’Hare, Alexandra Breckenridge, Jamie Brewer Writers: Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk, series created by Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk Director: Ryan Murphy Network: FX, Wednesdays @ 10 PM Original Telecast: October 5, 2011 It’s difficult to do serialized straight-up horror on a weekly television series, which is probably why almost no one ever tries it. Before anyone cites, for example, THE X-FILES and BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, let us remember that the former had as one of its mottos “I Want to Believe” and “Trust No […]Read On »

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TV Review: GLEE – Season 3 – “Asian F”

By CARL CORTEZ 10/05/2011

Harry Shum Jr. in GLEE - Season 3 - "Asian F" | ©2011 Fox/Mike Yarish

Stars: Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, Mark Salling, Harry Shum Jr., Jenna Ushkowitz Writer: Ian Brennan Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Network: Fox, airs Tuesday nights Original Telecast: October 4, 2011 Is this what rehabilitation looks like? If so, GLEE – Season 3 may have officially started. “Asian F” is one of those startlingly good episodes of GLEE – one that sneaks up from behind and reminds you why the show can be so good and focused when it wants to be. Many […]Read On »

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TV Review: GLEE – Season 3 – “I Am Unicorn”

By CARL CORTEZ 09/28/2011

Chris Colfer in GLEE - Season 3 - "I Am Unicorn" | ©2011 Fox/Mike Yarish

Stars: Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, Mark Salling, Harry Shum Jr., Jenna Ushkowitz Writer: Ryan Murphy Director: Brad Fulchak Network: Fox, airs Tuesday nights Original Telecast: September 27, 2011 Watching GLEE during Season 2 made you feel like you were on a heavy-dose of anti-depressants. One week, you’re feeling lousy about what the show just did, the next week you’re surprised it pulled itself out of the muck and delivered a good episode. That trend seems to already be in place […]Read On »

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10 Themes (and Songs) That GLEE Needs to Do for Season 3

By Special Contributor 09/26/2011

Cory Monteith, Darren Criss, Chris Colfer, Jenna Ushkowitz, Kevin McHale, Harry Shum Jr., Amber Riley, Lea Michele, Mark Salling, Dianna Agron, Heather Morris, Naya Rivera, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays and Matthew Morrison in GLEE - Season 3 | ©2011 Fox/Brian Bowen Smith

Guest Column by JOSIE CAMPBELL for TV.com GLEE just began its third season on Fox (airing Tuesday nights), and even though the show tackles complex themes like teen pregnancy, gay rights, disability, and alienation through show stopping numbers and Top 40 hits, sometimes the music selection can be a bit hit and miss at times. While the showrunners of GLEE obviously don’t need our help in coming up with new themes and songs to tackle, we still felt it would be fun to come up with a list of our own Top 10 songs that we would like to see […]Read On »

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TV Review: GLEE – Season 3 premiere – “The Purple Piano Project”

By CARL CORTEZ 09/21/2011

Riley and the New Directions sing on GLEE - Season 3 - "The Purple Piano Project" | ©2011 Fox/Adam Rose

Stars: Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, Mark Salling, Harry Shum Jr., Jenna Ushkowitz Writer: Brad Falchuk Director: Eric Stoltz Network: Fox, airs Tuesday nights Original Telecast: September 20, 2011 Sorry to say this, but I think GLEE is officially over. Some may even say it jumped the shark, but I think that already happened last year. The season three premiere “The Purple Piano Project” already feels like the show has “been there, done that” hitting some of the same beats as […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: GLEE and THE GLEE PROJECT Executive Producer Dante Di Loreto puts on a show

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/21/2011

Alex, Damian, Samuel, Lindsay on THE GLEE PROJECT - Season 1 | ©2011 Oxygen/Matt Sersion

Dante Di Loreto is an executive producer on both Fox’s musical comedy/drama GLEE, returning for its third season on September 20, and its reality competition spinoff THE GLEE PROJECT, which has its season finale tonight on Oxygen. (He’s also one of the executive producers, along with GLEE/GLEE PROJECT colleagues Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, on FX’s upcoming AN AMERICAN HORROR STORY.) The winner of THE GLEE PROJECT gets a role on the GLEE series. Di Loreto talks with ASSIGNMENT X about both musical series’ – and time management. ASSIGNMENT X: Everybody who works on GLEE talks about how brutal the […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: GLEE & THE GLEE PROJECT choreographer Zach Woodlee puts on the moves

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/20/2011

The glee club performs in GLEE - Season 2 - "Blame It On the Alcohol" | ©2011 Fox/Adam Rose

GLEE is an undeniable phenomenon. It’s a hit musical comedy-drama series on Fox, now going into its third year; it’s a series of original cast worldwide live concert tours; it’s GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE, now in theaters. All of these are choreographed by Zach Woodlee, who also serves as an on-camera mentor on Oxygen’s reality competition show THE GLEE PROJECT, which has its season finale this Sunday, with the winner getting a role on GLEE the series. Woodlee talks with ASSIGNMENT X about his GLEE-full life. ASSIGNMENT X: On the original GLEE, was there a minimal level of dance […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: The scoop on AMERICAN HORROR STORY and TERRA NOVA

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/16/2011

Stephen Lang in TERRA NOVA - Season 1 - "Pilot" | ©2011 Fox/Brook Rushton

Tim Minear is an incredibly busy writer/producer and recently wrapped executive producing the Fox series THE CHICAGO CODE. He talked to us in this exclusive interview about what he’s been doing lately, including joining the staff on FX’s upcoming AMERICAN HORROR STORY, created by GLEE’s Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. ASSIGNMENT X: You said you were working on TERRA NOVA during the last days of the writers room at your previous project, THE CHICAGO CODE. Are you still involved with TERRA NOVA? TIM MINEAR: I am finishing up now. AX: How is that going? MINEAR: That went great. I came […]Read On »

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