- Aaron
- Likes
- Film, Pop-Tarts, films about Pop-Tarts, and girls who are mean to him. Really.
- DisLikes
- Non-smoking sections, his job, and temperatures over 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Favourite Shows
- Farscape, Picket Fences, Crossing Jordan, Mysterious Ways
- Bio
- When not recapping hoity-toity shows on HBO, Aaron spends most of his time thanking various deities that his job in customer service no longer requires him to speak with actual customers. He also enjoys reading, going to the movies, long moon-lit walks on the beach, and occasionally stalking both Lauren Ambrose and Mike Binder (for entirely different reasons). He reviews all marriage proposals fairly and equitably, and plans to accept as many as possible.
- Recaps
- Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Mind of the Married Man, Oz, Carnivale
- AB Chao
- a.k.a
- Anna Beth
- Likes
- Shrimp po-boys, sunflower seeds, drinking, cussing, singing, cute shoes, iced coffee, foolishness, NBA basketball, semicolons, bleach, good hair, moist soil, funny tricks, expensive jeans, taking pictures, Red Bull, The South, and her mama
- DisLikes
- Food noises, people named "Kobe," subdural hematomas, the word "moist" except when applied to soil, horseflies, mayonnaise, expired antibiotics, eggs, washing dishes, leftovers, dirty counters, and your mama
- Favourite Shows
- Buffy, Angel, Everwood, Seinfeld, Law & Order, Grey's Anatomy, House, Lost, Inhale, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Prison Break, Blow Out, The Golden Girls, Nip/Tuck, Veronica Mars, The Daily Show
- Bio
- AB Chao grew up in Louisiana, met a hot Chinese boy, got schooled by him, married him, and had one perfect child. AB lives in a fine house with a turquoise porch, and pays the bills as a web designer. She cannot fix your web site. AB posts lots of pictures and says funny things, on the rare occasion she updates, over at Hashai.
- Recaps
- Everwood, The Night Stalker, Grey's Anatomy
- Ace
- a.k.a
- Miss Hansen, if you're nasty
- Likes
- Stuff.
- DisLikes
- Other stuff. And people. Most people, in fact.
- Favourite Shows
- Buffy, Designing for the Sexes, Grosse Pointe, NYPD Blue
- Bio
- Ace is an employee of a large university and thus considers herself particularly well-suited to recap Buffy's college adventures. She is currently obsessed with completing a large collection of tacky tiki shaped mugs. Anyone wishing to buy Ace's affections should start by sending her a portable Panasonic DVD player.
- Recaps
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Others
- Ashley Chervinski
- Angel Cohn
- Ariel Kay
- Al Lowe
- a.k.a
- Allison
- Likes
- Cheese. Music of all kinds. Crazy people. Crazy dogs. Brick houses. The Internet. British comic novels. Southern gothic. Good mysteries. Non-stop rocking. Sex. Pretty dresses. No Depression Magazine.
- DisLikes
- The decline and fall of R&B. Morning radio shows full of dumb people. TRL. Reality TV. Working my real world job.
- Favourite Shows
- Deadwood, Arrested Development, CSI, West Wing, Lost, Gilmore Girls, all that stuff on BBC America
- Bio
- Al Lowe lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She doesn't like rude people, and suffers no fools. With her husband Chris, and their dog The Deuce, she stands firm on a foundation of love and cheese, eternally in search of the perfect biscuit recipe. She can often be found staring at an empty template page, not updating The Damn Millionaires.
- Recaps
- Deadwood, Gilmore Girls
- Alanna Slepitsky
- Alex Richmond
- a.k.a
- That's her real name, nitwits
- Likes
- Nice dogs, funny jokes, thrift shopping, rock, modesty, dark chocolate, cashmere sweaters (thrifted ones count double), sushi, Jack Daniels, and sweet, sweet lovin'
- DisLikes
- Rules, having to get up and be anywhere before 1 PM, vain braggarts, bossy bessies, excessive cigarette smoke, disrespect, people that chew open-mouthed
- Favourite Shows
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Simpsons, Nigella Bites
- Bio
- Alex Richmond became a woman only after successfully completing many years as a girl. She is a full-time freelance features writer for several Philadelphia newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Daily News, and City Paper, and is the weekly bold-faced names (the polite way to say gossip) columnist for The Philadelphia Metro. She was born in New York City and lives in South Philly. She loves to say, "HowyaDOON."
- Recaps
- Now and Again, NYPD Blue, The Lone Gunmen, The Real World: Miami, Sex and the City, Lost, Ally McBeal, Bands on the Run, Dead Last, The Anna Nicole Show, Are You Hot?, Jake 2.0
- Amber M.
- Amorgan
- Recaps
- Popular, Dark Angel
- Andrea Cheng
- Aly Semigran
- Athaullah Khan
- Baby Jebus
- Benzoate
- a.k.a
- David Wiebe
- Likes
- Canadian McChickens (trust me thereï¿Â_s a difference), Vince Carter, DishNetwork, 1970s Progressive Rock, Crispy Crunch bars
- DisLikes
- Republicans, People magazine, Swiss Chalet, Democrats, Michael Eisner, people who donï¿Â_t consume caffeine in any form
- Favourite Shows
- Meet the Press, The Simpsons, The West Wing, The Daily Show, Late Night with David Letterman, SpongeBob SquarePants
- Bio
- Benzoate is a Canadian ex-pat who is currently scheming to return to his home and native land. But first he plans on leaving a wake of destruction and mayhem that nobody has seen since Bugs Bunny went nuts after he found out that the bounty on rabbits was only five cents. Remember that? Bugs is the bomb!
- Recaps
- Titans
- Bernard Rodriguez
- Camper
- a.k.a
- Elizabeth; Liz; "That loud woman in the corner with all the hair"
- Likes
- Woodchuck Cider, Red Vines, Chinese food, Dollar-Bud Night at the Lucky Bar, and Robert B. Parker novels -- often enjoyed at the same time
- DisLikes
- Waiting in line. That's the only one I can think of that won't make me sound like a complete raving freak.
- Favourite Shows
- The West Wing, Queer as Folk, Buffy, Angel, and anything else that isn't on CBS
- Bio
- Raised in L.A., Camper lives in D.C. and refuses to leave despite fairly cold weather and a Republican presidency. Professionally, she's just another internet industry gun for hire.
- Recaps
- Queer as Folk U.S.
- Cate
- a.k.a
- Cate Poua
- Likes
- Maine, Roxy Music, vintage SPY magazine, Louis Armstrong's Mack the Knife, meerkats, beach rocks, the rooftop pool at the Monteleone, the all-night liquor store by the Monteleone, those awesome plastic sushi displays in the windows of Japanese restaurants, the icing on the cake, fiction with a knife
- DisLikes
- Slumlords, tent caterpillars, 900-degree weather, people who dis Miss Manners, pink hairbands on babies who have no hair
- Favourite Shows
- King of the Hill, Broken House Chronicles, Son of the Beach, CODCO, The Love Boat, rhythmic-gymnastics recitals on cable access
- Bio
- When not immersed in the fantasyland of television, Cate resides in the fantasyland of the past, with which she has a love/hate relationship. She writes about it at Cate's Garage Sale Finds.
- Recaps
- Freaks & Geeks, 7th Heaven, Revelations, Point Pleasant
- Cheryl Burke
- Celia Herrera
- Chris
- Chuck
- a.k.a
- David
- Likes
- Eating, sleeping, drinking, swimming, skiing, music, the Yuba River, judging others, fast cars, black sweaters, the smell of grapefruit and clean laundry, puppies.
- DisLikes
- Stupid people who think they're smart, the always cheerful, mandals, suspenders, mushy apples, alarm clocks, loud motorcycles, guilt.
- Favourite Shows
- 30 Rock, Six Feet Under, The Colbert Report, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Frontline, 60 Minutes, Strangers with Candy, Buffy, Martha Stewart
- Bio
- After college, David stumbled into a career in public relations. He's still not sure what he wants to do when he grows up, but he is quite certain that he does not want to grow up.
- Recaps
- Top Chef, Wonderland, Oz
- Cindy McLennan
- a.k.a
- Cynthia, Cyn, Mom (but only if I gave birth to you)
- Likes
- Her family, her dog, sleep, pasta, comma abuse, Disney World, and the words mollycoddle, defenestration, chiaroscuro, and backpfeifengesicht.
- DisLikes
- Your family, your dog, your snoring, okra, apostrophe abuse (especially when she perpetrates it), the U.S. Congress, and the words phlegm, pus, bucolic, and homunculus.
- Favourite Shows
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars, Joan of Arcadia, Freaks and Geeks, Friday Night Lights, Lost, Downton Abbey, The Office (UK), The Office (US), Scrubs, Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Grimm, Days of Our Lives (hush), General Hospital (I said hush).
- Bio
- Cindy grew up north of Boston and likes it so well, she's lived in about a 20 mile radius, her whole life, even the college years. She and her husband have 3 teenagers. Pray for them.
- Recaps
- Once Upon A Time, The Vampire Diaries, The Tomorrow People, Lost, Ringer, How I Met Your Mother, Supernatural, No Ordinary Family, Cupid (the reboot), Eureka, Pushing Daisies
- Mahesh Chellappan
- Edward Copeland
- Couch Baron
- a.k.a
- John Ramos
- Likes
- Tennis (both playing and watching), film, Los Angeles weather, writing, puerile humor he should be too old for, and bridge (yes, the card game; he's a national champion!)
- DisLikes
- Whiners, people who don't know how to steer themselves on the sidewalk, people who don't know how to steer themselves on the sidewalk WITH UMBRELLAS, people who take up two parking spaces when they only need one
- Favourite Shows
- Justified, Breaking Bad, Borgen, American Horror Story, Archer, Rectify, Downton Abbey, Sherlock, The Hour, House Of Cards, Frisky Dingo
- Bio
- John lived most of his life in New York, but after getting into the film industry he moved to LA; he stayed for the weather and the ability to play lots of tennis without having to mortgage his life. He recently produced an important documentary about online privacy called Terms And Conditions May Apply; he also has a blog that he hasn't updated since the first Obama administration but still has some fun stuff to it.
- Recaps
- Justified, Downton Abbey, Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Mad Men, Dexter, Veronica Mars, Dollhouse, Lights Out, Heroes, Eli Stone, Dirty Sexy Money, Brothers And Sisters, Everwood, Farscape, Oz, Buffy The Vampire Slayer (he's been at this for a while)
- Carla Sparks
- Daniel
- a.k.a
- Daniel MacEachern
- Likes
- His wife and daughter
- DisLikes
- Just about everyone not related to him, or playing for the Edmonton Oilers or the Boston Celtics
- Favourite Shows
- The Office (both versions), My Name Is Earl, Hockey Night In Canada, 24
- Bio
- Daniel is a newspaper editor in Fort McMurray, which is where oil companies are mortgaging his daughter’s future so people can leave their Hummers running in the parking lot while they go grocery shopping
- Recaps
- The Bachelor, So You Think You Can Dance, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- Anthony Diego
- DeAnn Welker
- a.k.a
- TWoP Mars, TV Goddess, DeAnn
- Likes
- reading, writing, punctuation, unsweetened iced tea, theatre,TV, movies, text messaging, instant messaging, cheese, good food, the web, my dogs, math, coffee, and doing taxes (yes, really)
- DisLikes
- tomatoes (I want to like them, I just can't), people who don't read (even though I'm marrying one), cola, bad grammar, the inability to identify a guilty pleasure.
- Favourite Shows
- The Amazing Race, Arrested Development, Big Brother, Buffy, Farscape, Firefly, Freaks and Geeks, Oz, Queer as Folk (U.K.and U.S.), The Wire, anything from Ricky Gervais; and, lately, Greek
- Bio
- DeAnn is an editor, writer, and obsessive who lives in Portland, Oregon, with her fiancee and their two dogs. She sometimes blogs at her site, TV Goddess about one of of her many obsessions.
- Recaps
- Movies We Haven't Seen Yet, DVDs Unwrapped, Moviefile
- Deborah
- a.k.a
- Deborah. But never Deb or Debbie or any other irritating variations thereof, unless you're angling for a free ride on the Size Nine Express (tm Sars).
- Likes
- Words, books, language, reading, writing...um, wait! Other stuff too: the 70s, meat, shopping for antiques, Sylvia Plath, boating, water, music (especially funk), obscure films, the colours purple and black, silver-coloured metals, Cary Grant, Keanu Reeves, confessional comics, lilies, orchids, cats, yoga, her Aeron chair, and sweet, sweet solitude.
- DisLikes
- Millions of things, but here's a short list: incompetence, quasi-literacy, mistakes in print, bad architecture and design, the '80s, tobacco, winter, carnations, roses, fur, perfumed and scented things, canned pork and beans, allergies, the colour orange, noise, wimpy shoes, crowds, gold-coloured metals, people who don't signal, air travel, rodents/vermin, and misogyny.
- Favourite Shows
- Joan of Arcadia, 24, The Simpsons, Canadian House and Home, Designer Guys, Seasons 1-3 of Oz, A Makeover Story, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, All in the Family, Rhoda, The Dick van Dyke Show, Northern Exposure, Antiques Roadshow, and back-to-the-past reality shows, such as The 1900 House and Pioneer Quest.
- Bio
- Deborah recently moved from the Middle of Nowhere to the Outskirts of Somewhere with her husband, Professor Frink. She is a freelance writer and editor; her company is Words to that Effect. Deborah spends every "spare" minute working on her website, Chicklit, assisting her husband with his computer consulting business, or renovating/redecorating/maintaining her house. Overcommitted as she is, she can always find time to complain about the climate. She harbours a deep and abiding distrust of anyone who does not like funk music. Deborah vaguely remembers what it was like to have a life, and she'll thank you not to remind her.
- Recaps
- The West Wing, The Practice, Trading Spaces, Joan of Arcadia
- Della Femina
- Demian
- a.k.a
- Jon Neville
- Likes
- Smoking.
- DisLikes
- Children and pets.
- Favourite Shows
- Law & Order: Famous Ray's Original and L&O: SUV, but not L&O: CI because Vincent D'Onofrio fills me with a seething rage. C.S.I., but not C.S.I.: Miami, because David Caruso fills me with a seething rage so extreme, it makes me want to beat up old ladies at the Jewel. Also: Nip/Tuck; Enterprise; HBO Sunday nights, especially Six Feet Under; Queer Eye for the Straight Guy; and non-fiction shows on VH1, A&E, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and E! My horrifying addiction to various shows on the WB has no explanation, aside from the fact that the guys on the WB tend to be on the scorching side of hot. Pity so few of them can act.
- Bio
- For four years, Demian studied diligently at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, in order to receive an entirely useless Bachelor of Science degree in Theatre. After spending five years flogging cigarettes and booze to the under-six set from the comfortable confines of one of Chicago's tonier ad agencies, Demian moved on to flog love to the under-eighteens. No, not like that, you disgusting, vile, foul excuse for a human being -- he works for a dating website. And he's here to tell you that everything you've heard about kids today from that movie Thirteen? Is true. Wretched, wretched things.
- Recaps
- Charmed, Supernatural
- Diane Werts
- Djb
- a.k.a
- Daniel J. Blau
- Likes
- Hot chicks, fast cars, the continuing cultural relevance of professional a cappella music and its rabid and vocal fan base, and the year that I was old enough to really remember and greatly enjoy the Mets winning the World Series. Oh, wait.
- DisLikes
- The public perception perpetrated by people who didn't grow up on Long Island that Billy Joel is, in fact, a big ol' cheeseball. And ugly chicks.
- Favourite Shows
- The Daily Show, animated series recommended by Wing Chun and Glark, anything not produced by Mike Fleiss
- Bio
- Djb hasn't come up with original thought that hasn't been set to music or published somewhere on the internet since the Fall of 1999. He has co-written a musical (Monica! The Musical), and if you haven't heard of it, you're either not paying attention or you're not his extremely supportive mom. He was just kidding about the "hot chicks" part from above, but he's flattered that he gets asked about it so often.
- Recaps
- Roswell, Twin Peaks, Making the Band, The Real World: Boston, Oz, Push Nevada, The Bachelor(ette), Skin, America's Next Top Model, My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, Six Feet Under, and The O.C.
- David Lesue
- Daniel Manu
- Doppelganger
- dphillips
- Drunken Bee
- a.k.a
- Sarah B., The Other Sarah B.
- Likes
- Traveling, staying home, Emily Dickinson, the United States National Park Service, manchego cheese and a nice Rioja, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Delman shoes, Marcella Hazan, nasturtiums, the convenience of Motel 6, that scene in Rocky III where Rocky is wearing short-shorts and racing Apollo Creed on the beach in slow motion, Jersey corn and tomatoes, planning things and making lists, saying "cram it," pistachio gelato. Oh, and Peter "Tall Freaking Drink of Water" Berg. And, wait! Also Peter "Eyelids of Lust" Sarsgaard. I think that's it.
- DisLikes
- When juice wears tights, movies that mix live action and animation (I am much like China in this way), accomplishing an errand that I forgot to put on my to-do list and thereby preventing the opportunity to cross that errand off said list, sandwich shops that send your sandwich under a conveyer belt toaster.
- Favourite Shows
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Golden Girls, The Cosby Show, Deadwood, Mr. Show, The Amazing Race, Project Runway, The Real World/Road Rules Challenge (really, and from the bottom of my heart), Veronica Mars
- Bio
- Sarah forms like voltron. This sometimes confuses the committee overseeing her "work" on a Ph.D. in American literature. A resident of Chicago's Ukrainian Village, Sarah often receives the evil eye on the street by mean old ladies. She kills those old ladies with kindness, and her long-suffering, blue-eyed husband Special Ed cleans up the mess. Sarah would like you to help distract her from the glacial pace of her academic career over at Drunken Bee.
- Recaps
- Head Cases, Supernatural, Friday Night Lights
- Ethan Alter
- Einstein
- Erin
- a.k.a
- Paprika; Red; Erin Erin Erin the Red Baron (shut up)
- Likes
- Caffeine, Payless Shoe Source, my PS2, movies, alcohol of any kind, and little pink umbrellas that come in funny drinks
- DisLikes
- Taxes, the CTA, my neighbor Crazy Marie, the wet spot, and your hair. No. YOUR hair. Seriously, dude. Get that shit cut.
- Favourite Shows
- Anything on BBC America or FoodTV, Will & Grace, Smack the Pony, Project Greenlight, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, CSI, and Friends - oh, shut up. You know you watch it too.
- Bio
- Erin used to go by the alias "Regina," but as she's no longer wanted by the NSA for impersonating a secret agent, she decided that going by her real name would be okay. Erin currently earns a well-deserved paycheck as the premiere web bitch for Skirt! Magazine. When she has a free moment, she pens something for her website, The Redhead Papers, and designs other people's websites for beer money. Other than that, she's perfectly content to park it in front of her big-ass TV and stare at BBC America for hours on end.
- Recaps
- American High, Grosse Pointe, The Agency, Alias, Heroes
- Evany
- a.k.a
- Evany Thomas
- Likes
- Sugargliders, baby hippos, yellow cakes with chocolate frosting, Yosemite, Las Vegas, weddings, pedometers, snackademics, public transportation, private baths, perfect naps, and the sun shining on my face
- DisLikes
- Swans, junkies, tailgaters, bunions, tomatoes, patchouli, chicken-themed gifts, too many carp in too-small spaces, and the sun shining on my face
- Favourite Shows
- Veronica Mars, Grey's Anatomy, Project Runway, America's Next Top Model, Gilmore Girls, Six Feet Under, What Not to Wear (BBC or TLC), Sports Night, Freaks and Geeks
- Bio
- Evany is most famous for walking around for five days with a burst appendix, living through both the Los Angeles and San Francisco earthquakes, getting unforgivably drunk at her ten-year high-school reunion, and her impossibly thick hair. When she isn't busy crocheting laptop cozies or thumb-typing into her Sidekick, she can be found roaming the streets of San Francisco or over at Evany.com. Her book, The Secret Language of Sleep: A Couple's Guide to the Thirty-Nine Positions, reveals the hidden meanings behind each of the major sleeping poses.
- Recaps
- Desperate Housewives
- Felicity
- F. John Rickert
- a.k.a
- fjohn
- Glark
- a.k.a
- David T. Cole
- Bio
- Glark runs Glark Industries, an interactive agency specializing in web solutions for entertainment and community-minded properties as well as producing TWoP, Videogamey, Who In The What Now and Fametracker. Glark waits for the day he'll have enough time to take a serious vegetarian cooking course. Glark also runs Glarkware, a t-shirt online store which rocks your world.
- Gomez
- Gustave
- a.k.a
- Matthew P. Ehrlich
- Likes
- The Barcelona chair and ottoman designed by Mies van der Rohe (1929), Philosophy Hair Gel, Home Depot, what Kate Betts did to Harperï¿Â_s Bazaar, and chicken-with-cheese sandwiches from White Castle
- DisLikes
- Paparazzi, the Miller Sisters, pollen, and laundry detergent with fragrance
- Favourite Shows
- The Sopranos, Buffy, 90210, That's My Bush, and Full Frontal Fashion
- Bio
- Gustave is going through some stuff right now. His family fortune was invested in Enron and United Airlines, and his accountant has subsequently put him on a strict allowance. His Tribeca loft is unlivable thanks to 9/11, and he has also been forced to sell his fabulous collection of mid-century furniture over eBay. Still, Gustave stays cool by reading crime novels, doing crazy things to porn with Photoshop, studying Pilates, and drinking green tea.
- Recaps
- Popular, 24, The Others, The Real World: London
- Gwen
- a.k.a
- Gwendolyn Zepeda
- Likes
- Cute Japanese merchandise, crazy old needlework books, singing merry tunes on the way to work
- DisLikes
- Liars, brown-nosers, imitation mashed potatoes
- Favourite Shows
- Antiques Roadshow, VIP, Sewing With Nancy
- Bio
- Gwen is a scandalous career girl living in glamorous Houston on a shoestring budget. Oh, except for the fact that she never actually gets to do anything scandalous. Read all about it at Gwen Town.
- Recaps
- Ally McBeal, 7th Heaven
- Heathen
- a.k.a
- Heather
- Likes
- Anything Notre Dame, college football, the Airplane! movies, the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?," margaritas, Las Vegas, peanut butter, and my Al Snow action figure.
- DisLikes
- Jewel, sharks, those thong-style sandals, TV shows that name themselves after specific decades, most vegetables, Tara Reid's pelvis, and Celine Dion.
- Favourite Shows
- The West Wing, Undeclared, Buffy, Gilmore Girls, the second, third and fourth seasons of Blackadder, almost anything airing on E! Entertainment Television, The Simpsons, and of course Iron Chef.
- Bio
- Heathen gave up a stable tech-reporting job in Austin, Texas, for the less noble and more unstable entertainment industry. She lives in Los Angeles now, embroiled in the daily struggle against going broke. Her old employers are laughing. Her hobbies include swearing, and swearing loudly. One day, she hopes to stop shouting at the television; failing that, she'd settle for a Diet Coke and some cheesecake.
- Recaps
- Making the Band, Wolf Lake, ER, Undeclared, Band of Brothers, Deadline
- Hillary Goldsmith
- Heather Marulli
- Jack Coleman
- Jacob Clifton
- a.k.a
- Jacob Clifton
- Likes
- Stoli, Marlboro Red 100s, comics, efficiency, Biggy Shortie.
- DisLikes
- Sartorial apathy, waking up late, poor customer service, stalkers
- Favourite Shows
- Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night Lights, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The O.C., Big Brother, Laguna Beach, Weeds, Gossip Girl, Nighty Night, Nathan Barley, Farscape, Mad Men, The Riches
- Bio
- Jacob Clifton lives in Austin, TX. You can find him online at jacobclifton.com and on Facebook and Twitter.
- Recaps
- Masters Of Sex, Homeland, True Blood, Bates Motel, The Good Wife, Defiance and Pretty Little Liars
- Jeff Long
- Likes
- Julia Roberts, Julia Child cookbooks, urban planning, salt, Dolly Parton songs, St. Augustine grass, Rick Moody novels, seeing kids drop their ice cream, and hyperbole
- DisLikes
- Katie Couric, people getting on to the subway before people have gotten off of the subway, Alex Garland's The Beach, Star Jones, the terrorists, and raw cauliflower
- Bio
- Born and raised in Alabama, schooled in Texas, Jeff is now an actor/writer living in New York City. When he's not staring up at those tall buildings, Jeff spends his time either telling the biker guy to "take your hands off of that nice lady" or asking what that extra fork is for.
- Recaps
- Just Legal, Viva Laughlin, Project Runway
- Jeremiah Wells
- Jessica
- a.k.a
- Jessica Morgan
- Likes
- Glossy fashion magazines, Diet Coke, trashy tabloids, iTunes, The New Yorker, true crime novels, Rosemaryï¿Â_s Baby, college football, cocktails, poker, gossip, etiquette books, architecture, the selected works of Judith Krantz, singing in the car, handbags, clever packaging, Las Vegas, cookbooks, eBay, reading, Mexican food, Chinatown, and young Paul Newman.
- DisLikes
- Pet birds, cigarettes, cotton balls, sweat pants in public, Pina Coladas, math, pumpkin pie, black licorice, clowns, and the fact that MTV never shows videos anymore.
- Favourite Shows
- 24, The Amazing Race, America's Next Top Model, Grey's Anatomy, Nip/Tuck, Project Runway, I Wanna Be A Soap Star, The Closer, Battlestar Galactica, reruns of Seinfeld, Melrose Place, Dynasty, 90210: The Brenda Years, and a selection of very bad movies on Lifetime, especially ones featuring Tori Spelling.
- Bio
- When she’s not sequestered in the lab working on a synthetic version of human skin that can be used by spies to impersonate other people but which is also very easy to rip off dramatically, Jessica teaches CPR to blind children. In 1997, she won the Academy Award for best editing in a short subject for her film, Tastes Like Burning. In 1995, she earned a dual Ph.D. in Renaissance Literature and Astrophysics from UCLA. She makes her home in Los Angeles, California, where she is surrounded by thousands of other big fat liars. She and fellow recapper Heathen also spend a lot of time making fun of ugly celebrities.
- Recaps
- Jack & Bobby, The X-Files, Dawson's Creek, Kingpin, Line of Fire, Big Brother, Judging Amy, The Real World: Miami, Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty
- Jeff Falcon
- Jordan Hess
- Jeff Jolley
- jlosee
- Joanna
- a.k.a
- Joanna Hughes
- Likes
- Mashed potatoes; In Style; cheese; more cheese; William Hurt; Stockard Channing; pluots (a hybrid fruit combination of the plum and the apricot); American Fliers; introverts; movie theatre popcorn; lefties; girly drinks, preferably with parasols; duck confit; Leonard Cohen; New York City, and more specifically, Canal Street; latin dancing; ranunculi; Loehmann's; twinkle lights; men who are hirsute and/or baby-faced and/or slightly androgynous; the quiet; wedding pictures; fried things
- DisLikes
- White socks; nude pantyhose; ice -- chewing on, in drinks, etc.; grapes with seeds and most other fruits, too, except for pluots (see above); answering the telephone; co-workers in general; the drive from New Jersey to Connecticut; being told she'll "love" something or someone; people all up in her business; silverfish; Colin Farrell; gum
- Favourite Shows
- 90210, Buffy, A Year in the Life
- Bio
- Joanna braves the mean streets of Baltimore every day with her faithful dog Piglet at her side. Oh yeah, Pandora's there too.
- Recaps
- Survivor, The O.C.
- Joe R
- a.k.a
- joseph.reid21@gmail.com
- Likes
- Sleep. Sexy dames and plenty of 'em. Maaatlock! Also: pro football, college basketball, female vocalists, Sahlen's hot dogs, an obscure Canadian rock band you've probably never heard of, Oscar-bait movies of the Focus Features variety, flavored cream cheese, red bell pepper in salads, Labatt Blue, and three-foot pina coladas.
- DisLikes
- Crappy "Buffalo" wings, calling them "Buffalo" wings to begin with, Sox of any color, Coors Light, Braveheart, local news coverage, Notre Dame, Curt Schilling, The Practice after the Fonz started squishing bugs for sex, and that time his high school principal told him "stigma" wasn't a word.
- Favourite Shows
- Friday Night Lights, Project Runway, The Office, Weeds, Big Love, Battlestar Galactica, 30 Rock, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Alias, Survivor, Arrested Development, The Critic, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Bands on the Run, My So-Called Life
- Bio
- Joe R had worked in some sort of library setting ever since he was sixteen, enmeshing himself in a blood feud with Joyce Carol Oates that every day threatened to evolve into Stockholm Syndrome. Joe grew up next to a Great Lake, so that flat "a" you heard is how he actually talks. His current ambitions include making more money and seeing the Buffalo Bills one day win the Super Bowl. The resulting loss of composure and dignity will no doubt be memorialized at Low Resolution, his charmingly inept attempt at a blog.
- Recaps
- American Idol, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Big Brother, Weeds, Hidden Palms, Brothers & Sisters, The Real World/Road Rules Challenge
- Karim Zreik
- Kasey McDonald
- a.k.a
- Kasey, Slip
- Likes
- Golf, red wine, bubble wrap, the Great Lakes, American muscle cars, wedding magazines, French cooking, horse racing, WASPy dinner parties, the idea of fine china, clothes that I can’t afford, dogs that weigh over 60 pounds, Hefeweizens, Michigan State sports and Back to the Future
- DisLikes
- Golf, olives, automatic toilets that flush when you’re on them, snakes, bad drivers, usage of the word ‘irregardless,’ when people say “Wow, you’re tallâ€ù as if I wasn’t aware of it, and Back to the Future Part II
- Favourite Shows
- Cash Cab, Battlestar Galactica, America’s Test Kitchen, The Office, Dead Like Me, The X-Files, The West Wing, Top Chef, My Name is Earl, Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters, and almost anything on the Food Network.
- Bio
- Kasey was raised on the shores of Lake Michigan, but currently lives in Los Angeles, where they don’t quite get the concept of “lake that you can’t see across.â€ù When she’s not comparing celebrity sightings with her friends, she’s usually commuting and can get anywhere in the city without having to make a left-hand turn. She enjoys drinking wine with friends, pissing off the moral majority and endeavors to always call soda, “pop.â€ù
- Recaps
- Moviefile
- Kate Dailey
- Katharine Trendacosta
- Keckler
- a.k.a
- Stephanie Vander Weide
- Likes
- Peking ravioli, port, P.G. Wodehouse, Bonny Doon Vineyards, and p-adic numbers
- DisLikes
- Zucchini, infomercials, socks, dust mice, Semi-Homemade Sandra Lee (a.k.a. Wal-Martha Stewart), and loud noises
- Favourite Shows
- Blackadder, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Psych, Eureka, Jericho, Jeeves and Wooster, Deadliest Catch, Good Eats, Reliable Sources, The Office, Arrested Development, Supernatural, Futurama, Battlestar Galactica, and Star Treks.
- Bio
- After getting laid off by the Nefarious Media Conglomerate -- where she spent three semi-conscious years as a fine arts and photography book editor -- Keckler bought some clogs and a pair of really unflattering black-and-white checked pants, and graduated amid showers of awards and honors from culinary school. Currently ensconed (oh, shut up -- that was funny!) in San Francisco, she's a freelance writer, food magazine and cookbook editor, culinary consultant, cheesemonger, and test kitchen chef. She can make you a cream puff model of the Enterprise if you're deemed worthy. If you're hungry, go on over to her website The Grub Report, and order something off the menu.
- Recaps
- Time of Your Life, D.C., The Fugitive, First Years, Century City, Enterprise, Apprentice: Martha Stewart, Top Chef, Farscape, Hell's Kitchen, Jericho, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Numb3rs.
- Keckler And Sara M
- Key Grip
- a.k.a
- Keytholomew Gripstein
- Likes
- Writing, smooching
- DisLikes
- Not making any money, psoriasis
- Favourite Shows
- The Simpsons, Buffy The Vampire Slayer
- Bio
- Key Grip lives in Manhattan, where he writes plays, screenplays, sketch comedy, TV spec scripts, fiction, and recaps for TWoP. Guess which of these pays the best thus far? You can also catch him performing around the city with his comedy troupe, Key Grip and the Best Boys.
- Recaps
- Boston Public, My So-Called Life
- Kim
- a.k.a
- Kim Reed
- Likes
- Diet Pepsi, redheads, cheesy teen movies, little kids with British accents, off-brand reality shows, feminism, being an aunt, the late much-lamented Might magazine, and kicking it old school
- DisLikes
- People who think they are superior because they don't watch television, people who think they are superior because they don't watch reality television, people who think they are superior in general, blisters, getting up early, and people who are mean to animals
- Favourite Shows
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Felicity, My So-Called Life, Alias, Sports Night, Homicide, NewsRadio, The Amazing Race, Little House on the Prairie, and Celebrity Poker Showdown.
- Bio
- When she's not working on her website, Fresh Hell, or working as a college instructor, Kim enjoys watching Endurance on Saturday mornings, plotting world domination one domain at a time, and playing "Name That TV Theme Song." It is her goal to someday record an answering machine message that will rival George Costanza's Greatest American Hero theme: "Believe it or not, George isn't at home...."
- Recaps
- The Bachelor, Bones, The Book Of Daniel, Boot Camp, Dark Angel, The Dead Zone, Ed, ER, Fastlane, Felicity, Freakylinks, Gideon's Crossing, Invasion, Joe Millionaire, John Doe, Karen Sisco, Life As We Know It, Love Cruise, The Lyon's Den, The Mole, The Nine, Oz, Party of Five, The Real World, Rescue Me, The Real World/Road Rules Challenge, The Simple Life, The Sopranos, Summerland, Tough Enough, Trading Spaces, WWF Smackdown
- Kaitlin Reilly
- Kate Rogan
- Kelsea Stahler
- Lady Lola
- a.k.a
- Lanford Beard
- Likes
- bakery smell, pillowtop mattresses, wandering with a purpose, comfort food, sleeping through the rain, pastel clothing, prosecco, black squirrels, British Isles accents
- DisLikes
- brand whoring, slow walkers, low talkers, pretentious hipsters (is there any other kind?), driving, skinny jeans and Ugg boots, suburban living
- Favourite Shows
- Sex & the City, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, The Office (both), My So-Called Life, America's Next Top Model, So You Think You Can Dance, Ugly Betty, The Girls Next Door; I'm a reality TV hag, I admit it, move on...
- Bio
- Lady Lola sprung from the suburbs of Alabama, had a brush with the wilds of Vermont, and made a home in New York City. She is an avid traveler of foreign lands, consumer of fine cuisine, and imbiber of delicious wines. She wrote a book, and has been described as "a mistress of a strong and attractive personal style" and a writer with "justified authority on matters of popular culture."
- Recaps
- Fat March, Reaper
- Lauren S
- a.k.a
- Lauren Shotwell
- Likes
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, monkeys, pumpkin lattes, UCLA athletics, British television, Mexican food, wholpins
- DisLikes
- USC, dolls, the fact that teleportation hasn't been invented yet
- Favourite Shows
- Mad Men, Doctor Who, Lost, Dynasty, Footballers' Wives, basically anything on BBC America
- Bio
- Lauren is a Southern California native currently living Georgia who loves college football and seeing how she can now work grits into every meal. While storylines involving ghost sex make her apoplectic, most of the time she is a mild-mannered and lovely human being who enjoys British mystery novels, good food and wine, and mentally planning exotic and lavish vacations she intends to take one day.
- Recaps
- Commander-In-Chief, The West Wing, Six Degrees, Law & Order, Shear Genius, Grey's Anatomy, So You Think You Can Dance
- Lauren Gitlin
- a.k.a
- Tender Gittles, LG, Lo, LaLa, Young Geezle, The Gitz
- Likes
- Pizza, marine mammals and cephalopods, pirates, the socio-cultural underpinnings of the breakfast meal, daffodils, Pippi Longstocking, Ethiopian jazz, AJ Leibling, porn 'staches, Bloody Marys, Finland
- DisLikes
- Pretentious assholes (you know who you are), B.O.
- Favourite Shows
- Arrested Development, Strangers With Candy, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Law and Order: SVU, ANTM, Project Runway, Flight of the Conchords
- Bio
- Lauren is an assitant editor at TWOP. She hails from Indiana. She's considering getting a tattoo on her forearm.
- Recaps
- Going Through Channels, The Telefile, The Moviefile
- Miss Alli
- LTG
- a.k.a
- LTG
- Likes
- Cats, New York System hot wieners (all the way), frozen lemonade, Providence, Amtrak, Paris, biking, D.C. United, and ultra-campy queer movies.
- DisLikes
- People who criticize regional accents and phrases, gay Republicans, the D.C. Metro, most sports, pollen, raw tomatoes, and the constant sounds of construction in his neighborhood.
- Favourite Shows
- Ugly Betty, The Simpsons, Heroes, Creature Comforts, Xena: Warrior Princess, and NewsRadio.
- Bio
- LTG is, shockingly enough, a lawyer. He spends most of his time practicing pension and benefits law in D.C. The rest of his time he spends watching way too much television, hanging out with his friends, traveling to visit his family in Rhode Island, or contemplating his next trip to Paris.
- Recaps
- Samantha Who?, Grey's Anatomy, The West Wing, and Lost.
- LuluBates
- a.k.a
- Melissa Locker
- Likes
- candy, chickens, soy lattes, writing, and sometimes babies
- DisLikes
- Milk
- Favourite Shows
- Harvey Birdman, Friday Night Lights, Meerkat Manor, Gilmore Girls, Home Movies, Veronica Mars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 30 Rock, The Barefoot Contessa, Wonderfalls, Firefly, Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica, The Wire
- Bio
- Lulu recently gave up all aspirations other than housewifery. She now spends all her time at home and spends all her disposable income on cleaning supplies, bonbons and Mary Kay Satin Hands. She parks her pink El Dorado on the mean streets of Brooklyn.
- Recaps
- The Sopranos, Dark Angel, Lost
- M. Giant
- a.k.a
- Jeff
- Likes
- My wife Trash, my son M. Tiny, my three cats, my house, my life
- DisLikes
- Low-carb" notices everywhere, tuning guitars, drivers who have no respect for the fact that I'm stuck behind their slow asses, things that don't stay fixed after I fix them (which may explain the tuning guitars thing)
- Favourite Shows
- The Daily Show, Battlestar Galactica, The Office, Arrested Development, early seasons of countless shows that later turned to shit
- Bio
- M. Giant looks forward to a time when he stays home all day and makes a living as a freelance writer. He also looks backward to that time, as well as to a season as the Staff Writer for Minnesota Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. At the moment he's doing something else. A published playwright, doting husband, new father, bumbling homeowner, and caretaker to three cats, his life is chronicled in punishing detail at Velcrometer.
- Recaps
- 24, Six Feet Under, Rome, Windfall, Rock Star, Runaway
- Sivaram Kommana
- Maggie
- a.k.a
- Maggie G.
- Likes
- Doin' it right on the wrong side of town.
- DisLikes
- People who feel the need to inform her that Noel isn't spelled Knoll; people who ignore the Felicity FAQ; organ meats
- Favourite Shows
- The Sopranos, Felicity, Grosse Pointe, Teen Talent Time
- Bio
- Maggie is in the process of stickin' it to The Man once and for all and will soon be self-employed, possibly as a stilt-walker. Or in small engine repair.
- Recaps
- Felicity, Freaks & Geeks
- Maksim Chmerkovskiy
- Manimal
- a.k.a
- Karen
- Likes
- Prince, E.M. Forster, Polaroid cameras, jazz hands, and movies that feature big song-and-dance routines
- DisLikes
- People who carry large purses and spillable drinks onto a dance floor, SUVs
- Favourite Shows
- Felicity, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, Antiques Roadshow, and that freaky show Crossing Over on the Sci-Fi channel
- Bio
- Manimal works as a web writer, but cherishes a secret dream of becoming a Vegas dancer.
- Recaps
- Jack & Jill, The Real World: New York, The Fugitive, Alias
- Mark Blankenship
- Matt Zoller Seitz
- Michael Bailey
- Meghan Ross
- Megyn
- a.k.a
- The dark empress of caffeine
- Likes
- Sugared cereals and running with scissors
- DisLikes
- Anything involving a time frame or snakes
- Favourite Shows
- Inside the Actors Studio, Sex & The City, Will & Grace, Oz, The Simpsons, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and any Real World season
- Bio
- Megyn is an Irish-Southern minx shrouded in mystery and intrigue. She currently resides in Los Angeles and enjoys stalking David Duchovny in her spare time. By day, she works for an entertainment public relations agency which has, in exchange for her toils, taken her mortal soul. By night, she procrastinates. In addition to writing for TWoP, Megyn is an accomplished martial arts expert and aspires to one day head up an elite crime-fighting force so she can wear a cool costume.
- Recaps
- Oz
- Michael Neal
- Likes
- New York City, Woody Allen movies, The Best Show on WFMU, punk music, Brooklyn, blogging, Rap: 1985-1999, comic books, the Marvel universe, French thrillers, Morehouse college, dispassionate science, pets
- DisLikes
- Los Angeles, Gary Marshall movies, Howard Stern, house music, the Bronx, hand written letters, Jazz: 1985-1999, gear head magazines, the DC universe, American thrillers, Bob Jones University, fanatical religion, wildlife
- Favourite Shows
- 30 Rock, Californication, The Office, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Lost, Fringe, Flight of the Conchords, Battlestar Galactica, The Shield, Dirty Sexy Money, SNL, Dog Whisperer, The Wire, et al.
- Bio
- Michael was raised in a small Indiana town not unlike John Cougar Mellencamp. Unlike John Cougar Mellencamp he went on to attend an all black, all male university in Atlanta then moved to New York City to sleep on his friends couch and look for work. He found it, first in book publishing then in television the in magazine publishing. Now he is a bona fide freelancer with not a lot of bona fides. To know more go to his blog at SlapClap.com
- Recaps
- 30 Rock
- Miss Alli
- a.k.a
- Linda
- Likes
- The Frames, Java Chip Light Frappuccinos, Mike Krzyzewski, Little Miss Sunshine, Stila, the Zen Vision:M, the Sprint commercial where the guy throws his phone at the other guy, good judges, The Wal-Mart Effect, Peking chicken, Wait Wait! Don't Tell Me, things that are on sale, boys who make her laugh, the soup they serve on Tuesdays at the café downstairs from her office, WordPress, BlueHost, and the "hey la" section at the end of the New Pornographers' "The Bleeding Heart Show."
- DisLikes
- Broccoli, bands with "hilarious" names, everyone who comes in second on American Idol plus Constantine, when her computer overheats, long meetings, reading the words "the reason is because," the columnist who used to write about Wisconsin for the St. Paul paper, Wisconsin, people who spell her handle with one L, reality-television snobs, people who hold their children's birthday parties at the gym, men who use the word "ladies," and the shoe store that made her four-year-old nephew cry.
- Favourite Shows
- The Amazing Race, The Office, Project Runway, The People's Court (shut up), old episodes of Moonlighting
- Bio
- Miss Alli hangs out in the balmy paradise of Minnesota, where she is a part-time writer and a part-time attorney. No, really. She can usually be found watching DVD audio commentaries, defending reality television, reading about ways to make her apartment look bigger, and having long, meandering arguments with the people she really likes. She airs her id at Frolic and Detour, and she talks about what she's listening to, reading, and watching at Listen Read Watch. She also recently wrote a dating book, and assures you that she is as surprised as you are.
- Recaps
- The Amazing Race, Big Brother, Married By America, Survivor, The Apprentice, The West Wing
- Miss Parker
- a.k.a
- Heather Nesbitt
- Likes
- Watching the DVD of Fight Club in French, bumblebees
- DisLikes
- The words "salve" and "juxtaposed," math
- Favourite Shows
- Watching the DVD of Fight Club in French, bumblebees
- Bio
- After completing a near decade of higher education in time for the true millennium, miss parker has become a high school teacher. That way, she can shamelessly watch Dawson's Creek and call it research.
- Recaps
- The Sopranos
- Mindy Monez
- a.k.a
- Min Diesel, MC Min Ladin, Snowflake
- Likes
- Robots, Explosions, Liza Minnelli, Kurt Russell, fictional characters named "Jack", Russia, banjos, Jackie Collins novels, Stratego and Rosie O'Donnell's opus, Riding the Bus With My Sister
- DisLikes
- Slow walkers, people who play O.A.R. songs on jukeboxes, dairy products, teetotalers, Perez Hilton, Matthew Modine, and people who've never seen Die Hard, have Netflix subscriptions, and dont get around to manning up and watching it already.
- Favourite Shows
- The X-Files, Star Trek, Alias, Lost, 30 Rock, Sports Night, The West Wing, Reno! 911, Strangers With Candy, Doctor Who, Nip/Tuck and Gilmore Girls.
- Bio
- Mindy is a Napa Valley ex-patriot and flagrant alcoholic who somehow knows absolutely nothing about wine and way more about Conan O'Brien than anyone ever should.
- Recaps
- Going Through Channels, Telefile, Moviefile
- Mollie
- a.k.a
- Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
- Likes
- George Eliot, George Cukor, George Harrison, musical theater, nonmusical theater, Homestar Runner, hoodies, jack o'lanterns, postcards, corduroy, coffee (as a beverage and as a social event)
- DisLikes
- Bikers who ignore traffic signals, tea, the James Bond franchise, Comedy Central commercials, the bass riffs between scenes on Seinfeld, Woody Allen movies, saxophones, four-leaf clovers used in place of shamrocks, chemotherapy
- Favourite Shows
- The Office, The Colbert Report, The Riches, Supernanny, Arrested Development, Mad About You
- Bio
- Mollie is a proud native of Scranton, PA, home of Dunder Mifflin, Inc. She now resides in New York City with her box turtle and her husband. Mollie offers unsolicited opinions about the arts and bitter complaints about the subway system at her blog, Restricted View.
- Recaps
- Private Practice, Lipstick Jungle
- Monica A. Reyhani
- Monty Ashley
- a.k.a
- Monty Ashley, TWoP Dietrich
- Likes
- Sleeping, Disneyland, Reading books several times, text adventures
- DisLikes
- Shows that keep going years after the sell-by date. Shut it down already, The Simpsons!
- Favourite Shows
- 30 Rock, MST3K, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Barney Miller
- Bio
- Montykins has led a fascinating life, full of ups and downs and space ninjas. However, there's not enough space here to really go into it. He lives in Seattle and works for a game company.
- Recaps
- Hell's Kitchen
- Mr. Sobell
- a.k.a
- Philip Michaels
- Likes
- The Oakland Athletics, the occasional adult beverage, jaunty Broadway showtunes, and hot Internet bloggers.
- DisLikes
- There is not enough bandwidth in the western world to provide a complete list, but we can probably boil it down to those who oppose the Oakland Athletics, people who fail to uphold their end of the social contract, and, more often than not, myself.
- Favourite Shows
- The Wire, Good Eats, The Office, The Colbert Report, Cheap Seats, and any Major League Baseball game not broadcast on Fox or featuring the commentary of Joe Morgan
- Bio
- When not reporting on the dealings of a Cupertino, Calif.-based computer company for a popular Mac Web site, Philip toils for the greater good of humanity by writing about television, a baseball team of some repute, and his childlike fascination with sports.
- Recaps
- Kidnapped
- Mr. Stupidhead
- a.k.a
- Dave "Bear" Bunting
- Likes
- Guyz Nite and beers. His wife and his sister are pretty okay, too.
- DisLikes
- Brooklyn drivers.
- Favourite Shows
- Nip/Tuck, 30 Days, The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, House, Project Runway
- Bio
- Mr. S was raised by bears in the woods of the Watchung Reservation in New Jersey.
- Recaps
- 7th Heaven, Bands on the Run, Bridezillas
- mtadmin
- Mathew Witherow
- Nathaniel
- NBCUNIadmin
- Nic Dris
- Nicole
- a.k.a
- Nicole
- Likes
- Collecting various animals as pets, travelling, changing jobs, wine, ice cream
- DisLikes
- Jerry Falwell, people who come to her front door and ask if her parents are home, large flowers used as fashion, USAir
- Favourite Shows
- The Simpsons, Sex and the City, all those shows on TLC daytime -- A Baby Story, A Dating Story, A Makeover Story, Trading Spaces
- Bio
- Nicole grew up in New Jersey but now lives in the buckle of the Bible Belt. She is not happy about this, and that is why she spends money she doesn't have to visit people all over the US and Canada. She has also never seen a full episode of The Sopranos because her husband always asks her if she is homesick and misses her Mob neighbors if he catches her watching the show.
- Recaps
- Third Watch, Sex and the City
- Niki
- a.k.a
- Niki Walker
- Likes
- Her cat Wiley, road trips, gin and tonics, antique markets, sailing, reading, Trivial Pursuit, penguins, documentaries, Mr. Burns, the 'snooze' button, and Terry's Chocolate Orange
- DisLikes
- Cilantro, rank subway stations, slush, doing dishes, getting woken up, Michael Douglas and anyone associated with him
- Favourite Shows
- Law & Order, Sex & The City, Once and Again, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Trading Spaces, and Northern Exposure
- Bio
- Niki lives in Toronto, where she somehow manages to pay her bills as a freelance writer and editor. In her free time, she enjoys riding shotgun, reading, fantasizing about writing fiction, and – brace yourself – watching TV.
- Recaps
- Once and Again, MDs
- Nelson Tai
- Odie Henderson
- Omar G
- a.k.a
- Omar L. Gallaga
- Likes
- Video games of all creeds and colors, writing, reading, reading about writing, reading too many web journals, stadium-seating theaters, fine comedic stylings, a child's laughter.
- DisLikes
- A child who isn't laughing.
- Favourite Shows
- Mr. Show, The Sopranos, The Larry Sanders Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Twin Peaks, Arrested Development, The Office, Frisky Dingo, How I Met Your Mother, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Archer, Louie, Axe Cop, The Wire, Eastbound & Down, The Venture Bros., The Eric Andre Show.
- Bio
- Omar G. lives in New Braunels, Texas, with his wife, two daughter and two disaffected cats. He owns Terribly Happy, a personal Web site and writes for newspapers, magazines, Web sites and was a founding member of the Latino Comedy Project sketch comedy troupe. He writes about technology for The Austin American-Statesman and has also written for CNN.com, MSNBC and others. He helped launch NPR's "All Tech Considered" segments, where he was an on-air contributor and blogger for a few years. For TWOP, he and his brother Pablo G. did more than 80 Trailers Without Pity videos. He and Pablo G. now work hard on the relaunched website of the comic Space Monkeys!, which posts new strips every week.
- Recaps
- City of Angels, Third Watch, Smallville, Survivor, How I Met Your Mother, Californication, Last Comic Standing, The West Wing
- OTS Support
- Owen
- Bio
- Owen calls Atlanta, The City Too Hateful To Be Busy, home. He sometimes stops whining long enough to enjoy really bad TV movies such as Nightmare in Badham County and Why Me? His other activities include trying to get paid what he's worth, finding a man who can truly appreciate him, and terrorizing service people.
- Recaps
- Charmed, Sex and the City
- Pablo G
- Pamie
- a.k.a
- Pamela Ribon; a.k.a. Pop Culture Princess
- Likes
- Johnny Depp, John Travolta, John Cusack, John Henson, Jon Stewart, Johnny Rotten and John Waters
- DisLikes
- Jonathan Taylor-Thomas, John Stamos, Johnny Mathis, Johnson and Johnson, John Q. Public, Johnny DrinksTooMuch and John Tesh
- Favourite Shows
- Gilmore Girls, The Sopranos, Mr. Show with Bob and David, Seinfeld, 21 Jump Street, NewsRadio, The Kids in the Hall, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bravo's reality programming, and anything where Nigella's cooking
- Bio
- You can find more about pamie at pamie.com, where she dishes out the gossip of her daily life. Pamie has written and performed one-woman shows (Austin, TX misses her so), is an award-winning screenwriter and a non-award-winning playwright, sometimes lands in gossip columns concerning Anne Heche, and is a graduate of The Second City. That's right: she's officially funny. Her debut novel, Why Girls Are Weird, is currently on sale wherever books are sold. You can find her and her cats arguing over the TiVo just about any day of the week. She lives and works in Los Angeles, where she sometimes wears pigtails.
- Recaps
- Get Real, Ally McBeal, Young Americans, Real World: San Francisco, Popstars, Making the Band, The Sopranos, Gilmore Girls, Queer As Folk U.S., Mondo Extras, Boomtown, Tarzan, The Osbournes, Wonderfalls
- Pooh
- a.k.a
- Winnie the Pooh, Pooh Bear, Grammar Girl, Spelling Nazi
- Likes
- Diet Coke, gum, chocolate, cookies, ice cream, classic rock, sleeping, babies, dogs, baseball, tag-team people watching (it's not just a spectator sport), Noah Hunt, Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Goran Visnjic, Jeff Hardy, Chris Jericho, Lip Medex, people who think I'm funny, and shopping in Canada with U.S. dollars
- DisLikes
- Bad grammar, bad spelling, a myriad of fashion faux pas, forever being ten minutes late, coffee, mushrooms, mustard, John Travolta, Gwyneth Paltrow, two-footed drivers, willful ignorance, corporate lingo, mandatory business attire, and the ever-present evil co-worker
- Favourite Shows
- Buffy, The West Wing, The Sopranos, Oz, WWF Raw, The Real World, Law & Order, Survivor, Gilmore Girls, ER
- Bio
- Rock star by night, financial-industry goddess by day, Pooh spends her free time cruising around New Jersey in her SUV, preaching the proper spelling of "definitely" and "separate." She firmly believes she'll be rich and famous one day, but doesn't really want to work for it.
- Recaps
- Law & Order: SVU
- Potes
- a.k.a
- Tracie Potochnik
- Likes
- Cher, the Pittsburgh Steelers, summer, Lucinda Williams, high heels, sparkly things, sleeping in, tennis, ginger ale, chocolate, Loretta Lynn, tequila, girls
- DisLikes
- Winter, walnuts, Daylight Savings Time, Gwyneth Paltrow, being on time, mustard, jerks, people asking if she is Polish
- Favourite Shows
- The Amazing Race, America's Next Top Model, Laverne and Shirley, any Top 20/40/100 countdown shows on VH1 or E!, CMT Crossroads (oh shush, CMT rules), Freaks and Geeks, The Golden Girls
- Bio
- Potes lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she works hard to bring a sense of humor to the non-profit sector. She co-wrote a full-scale musical extravaganza (Monica! The Musical) that, quite tragically, keeps being downsized. Despite evidence to the contrary, Potes still clings to the hope that she was given up for adoption by her secret biological mother, Cher.
- Recaps
- America's Next Top Model, The Road to Stardom with Missy Elliott, There & Back, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, Rock of Love, The Biggest Loser
- Ragdoll
- a.k.a
- Deanna McFadden
- Likes
- peppermint tea, Bob Marley, Sarah Harmer, Ang Lee movies, and an extra-large helping of Tobey Maguire
- DisLikes
- slush, people who stand in the middle of the dance floor without moving, and patchouli incense
- Favourite Shows
- That '70s Show, Frasier, Gilmore Girls, The West Wing, and Once & Again
- Bio
- Ragdoll has sold her soul to the devil. By day, she is a small part of a large company who produces specialty television channels. By night, she slaves away in her writing room, trying to finish a novel.
- Recaps
- The Practice, One Tree Hill
- Rebecca Bellotto
- Rachel Stein
- Steve Apple
- Sara Brady
- Likes
- Soccer, bourbon, flip-flops, sleeping weather, the Olympics, feeding a crowd, Oxford commas, Britpop, romance novels, '60s movie musicals, the Dixie Chicks, driving fast, tomatoes her dad grows, other people's chubby babies, crab Rangoon, and getting expensive face cream for free.
- DisLikes
- Licorice, slow walkers, waking up early, typos in published books, clients who don't pay their damn bills, the American Taliban, real estate in New York City, texters in movie theaters, mixed-up homonyms, and car horns.
- Favourite Shows
- Friday Night Lights, Justified, Parks & Recreation, Party Down, Alias, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, the first four seasons of Friends, Coupling (U.K.), Saturday Night Live, British singing competition shows hosted by Graham Norton, the first three seasons of M*A*S*H, and Shameless (U.S. and U.K.).
- Bio
- Sara used to work for a magazine, and now works for herself. When she's not recapping TV shows or correcting other people's work, she's trying to keep some plants alive, messing around with an America's Test Kitchen cookbook, obsessively buying picture books for her two adorable nephews, and stubbornly resisting technology upgrades. You can find more of her work at sarabrady.com.
- Recaps
- Revolution, Reign, Breaking Pointe, Smash, The Following, 666 Park Avenue, Graceland
- Sara M
- a.k.a
- Sara Morrison
- Likes
- Mexican food, clothing stores with fashionable petite lines, my car, moody instrumental music, sleeping, when a plan comes together
- DisLikes
- Fake British accents, "vintage" t-shirts, excessive use of emoticons, when my hair does that thing, people who try to get by traffic by driving on the shoulder, when I stop for pedestrians at crosswalks and they deliberately walk as slowly as possible
- Favourite Shows
- All My Children, Arrested Development, The Avengers, Dallas, House, Reno 911!, South Park, Wonder Woman, Body of Evidence: from the Case Files of Dayle Hinman and Futurama
- Bio
- Sara used to live on the East Coast. Now she lives in Los Angeles, where she's discovering a new world of affordable avocadoes, sushi, flip-flops as acceptable office wear, weekend trips to Vegas and Mexico, mandatory valet parking, low-flying police helicopters armed with searchlights, and traffic. Read more about it at L.A.me.
- Recaps
- 7th Heaven, Gilmore Girls, House, The O.C., Men in Trees and Survivor
- Sarah Hoyoon Lee
- Sars
- a.k.a
- Sarah D. Bunting
- Likes
- Baseball, black boot-cut pants, Diet Coke, Aimee Mann, William Fichtner, true crime, famous original Chapstick, Mexican food, almond-scented beauty products, replacing parts of movie titles with the word "poo," and coffee 'n' smokes on a crisp autumn morning in Manhattan.
- DisLikes
- Raisins, lazy English usage, people who wear sweatshirts over turtlenecks, David Spade, Harry Knowles, John Updike, That Guy, failure to signal, spiders, sexism, humor at the expense of the fine state of New Jersey, and when Mr. Stupidhead tells that story about how she broke her ankle while pretending to be a horse
- Favourite Shows
- Degrassis old and new, Dinner For Five, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Law & Order: The Mothership, Project Runway, Samurai Jack, The Sopranos, and a bunch of nerdy PBS programming like American Masters
- Bio
- Prior to helping found Television Without Pity, Sars worked as a church secretary, a file clerk, a pool tester, a CD-ROM producer, an antiquarian book dealer, and a Penthouse proofreader. Read more about the resulting ulcer at Tomato Nation. And "Sars" rhymes with "scares.".
- Recaps
- Dawson's Creek, ER, My So-Called Life, The Sopranos
- Sars
- Sep
- a.k.a
- The Impudent Guttersnipe
- Likes
- Sandwiches, ancient Chinese piercing weapons, long walks on the beach
- DisLikes
- Rudeness, salad-in-a-bag, buffalo-head nickels.
- Favourite Shows
- Chico and the Man, Q-Bert
- Bio
- Sep was born in a bustling bazaar just west of East Bangladesh, which I guess puts it somewhere in Central Bangladesh, on 131st Street and Main. Left to fend for herself, she got by on her wits, selling naughty hood ornaments whittled from old fence posts and stealing the odd plantain for breakfast. Enticed by the steel-blue eyes of a passing carnival barker, Sep hit the road, getting by on her wits and selling naughty hood ornaments whittled from petrified elephant dung and stealing the odd honeydew for lunch. Eventually her travels brought her to Austria, where in an effort to get the carnival top billing in the annual Strudel Parade she turned the Von Trapp children over to local authorities. Impressed, the German Intelligence Agency enlisted Sep's help in international espionage operations, until finally, on assignment in sunny California, where she was secretly getting by on her wits and selling naughty hood ornaments whittled from endangered redwoods and stealing the odd sushi roll for dinner, she decided to hang up her cloak and spork and live the recapper's life.
- Recaps
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Real World: San Francisco
- Shack
- a.k.a
- Scott
- Likes
- Chinese dumplings, Zingers (both the snack food and the snappy comeback), Dr. Pepper, P.M. Dawn, mailing boxes of raw hamburger to David E. Kelley
- DisLikes
- Mayonnaise, pundits, people who use "dialogue" as a verb or "signage" in any context
- Favourite Shows
- the Vampire Slayer, Iron Chef, The Simpsons, Futurama, Farscape
- Bio
- Shack claims to be a journalist and editor, but if you look at all the errors on Bitch Panic, you'll just shake your head in wonder about the sad state of today's media.
- Recaps
- Pasadena, American Idol, Firefly, The Bachelor, Tru Calling
- Spencer Hall
- Shayna Makaron
- Sobell
- a.k.a
- Lisa Schmeiser
- Likes
- Scharffenberger bittersweet chocolate, comic books, structuralism and poststructuralism, the cyberpunk genre, the late great Stephen Jay Gould, Title IX, In 'n' Out Burger, shoes that have a hard "C" sound in the brand name (Camper, Keen, Kenneth Cole), furtively reading at work, swimming, any wine with "pinot" on the label, and the Oakland A's
- DisLikes
- Many, many things. A random excerpt from the OED-sized catalog includes: pipes flooding the house when you're on vacation, misogyny, pollution, milk chocolate, the Emmys, non-diet colas, creationism, and commuting
- Favourite Shows
- Nearly every HBO drama produced (but none of the comedies), much of the Cartoon Networks' Adult Swim, Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee (for heckling purposes), Good Eats (for actual cooking purposes), The Colbert Report, My Name Is Earl, Arrested Development, and Cheap Seats
- Bio
- Lisa Schmeiser would be Sally Floyd if she lived in the Marvelverse. Here, she's merely a reporter by day, bilious television critic by night and Rage Diarist the rest of the time.
- Recaps
- C.S.I., C.S.I. Miami, Las Vegas, Prison Break, Big Love, Farscape
- Samantha Rullo
- Sam Stroman
- Stee
- a.k.a
- Stee, a.k.a. The Pit Boss (I'm trying to make it catch on, people)
- Likes
- bars, dogs, baseball, Thanksgiving, the moment the lights go down at the movies, snack chips of all kinds, Paul Auster novels, gum, Jeff Bridges, staying up late, coffee, funny girls, and laughing so hard you feel like you're going to throw up but you actually don't, and your mom
- DisLikes
- cleaning, cooking, most vegetables, people who are mean to animals, movie trailers that tell you the whole story, Good Charlotte, and people who don't use their turn signals
- Favourite Shows
- The Sopranos, Friends, Seinfeld, Monty Python's Flying Circus, It's Your Move, Cheers, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, The A-Team, The Office, Lost, Rescue Me, House Hunters, South Park, House
- Bio
- Stee is a busy actor/writer living in Los Angeles. When he's not searching for dive bars with pool tables, stee acts in films, on stage, and with his comedy troupe Film Pigs. He also writes screenplays, plays, and is writing for television. He recently completed his first novel. Stee also directs short films, writes for the web, and dances on Solid Gold: The New Season. He has been married to national treasure Carol Channing now for fourteen glorious years.
- Recaps
- Road Rules, Chains of Love, The $treet, Temptation Island, The Osbournes, Sorority Life, Britney & Kevin: Chaotic, The Real World
- Steptacular
- 247
- Strega
- a.k.a
- Just don't call me Sue
- Likes
- Petty grudges, good books, bad television, her chinchilla, playing devil's advocate, complaining about her many dislikes
- DisLikes
- Centipedes, laugh tracks, 95% of fandom, peanuts, Oliver Stone, and too many other things to name
- Favourite Shows
- Farscape, Babylon 5, The Singing Detective, Fawlty Towers, The Prisoner, Aeon Flux? whoa, I'm such a geek. Yikes.
- Bio
- Strega grew up watching Star Trek, Monty Python, and David Letterman, which probably explains a great deal. She was born in California, went to college in Illinois, and now lives in suburban Maryland, where she works in a gray, suburban office building. Strega spends far too much time thinking about cookies. Every so often, she remembers to update her website.
- Recaps
- Angel, The West Wing, Carnivale, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape
- Sugar Larry
- Sophia Wetlaufer
- Wing Chun
- Tippi Blevins
- Likes
- Good bad movies, veggie burgers, dogs, pangolins, the ocean, winter, Nine Inch Nails, knitting, diet root beer, insightful insults, dark chocolate, weird words.
- DisLikes
- Bad bad movies, cutesy misspellings, irresponsible pet owners, waiting around, apostrophe abuse, public spitting, eating with people who refuse to hang up.
- Favourite Shows
- Red Dwarf, Futurama, Pushing Daisies, 30 Rock, Alien Nation, Reno 911!, Chuck, Supernatural
- Bio
- Tippi co-wrote a comic book miniseries a few years back for Top Cow and her short stories have been published in many magazines and anthologies. When not writing, she divides her time between contemplating the nature of the universe and trying out new curse words.
- Recaps
- The Moviefile, whatever else is needed
- The Editors
- The Man From F.U.N.K.L.E.
- The TWoP Readership
- The TWoP Staff
- Tiffany
- TWoP
- a.k.a
- toptwopper
- Tubey
- a.k.a
- Tubeelzebub
- Likes
- Boxy ladies with good reception. Prefer newer Japanese models but will settle for American made in a pinch
- DisLikes
- Sense of Entitlement, The Swedish
- Favourite Shows
- Riptide, The Prisoner
- Bio
- Well we all have a face
That we hide away forever
And we take them out and
Show ourselves
When everyone has gone
Some are satin some are steel
Some are silk and some are leather
They're the faces of the stranger
But we love to try them on
Well we all fall in love
But we disregard the danger
Though we share so many secrets
There are some we never tell
Why were you so surprised
That you never saw the stranger
Did you ever let your lover see
The stranger in yourself?
Don't be afraid to try again
Everone goes south
Every now and then
You've done it, why can't
Someone else?
You should know by now
You've been there yourself
Once I used to believe
I was such a great romancer
Then I came home to a woman
That I could not recognize
When I pressed her for a reason
She refused to even answer
It was then I felt the stranger
Kick me right between the eyes
Well we all fall in love
But we disregard the danger
Though we share so many secrets
There are some we never tell
Why were you so surprised
That you never saw the stranger
Did you ever let your lover see
The stranger in yourself?
Don't be afraid to try again
Everyone goes south
Every now and then
You've done it why can't
Someone else?
You should know by now
You've been there yourself
You may never understand
How the stranger is inspired
But he isn't always evil
And he isn't always wrong
Though you drown in good intentions
You will never quench the fire
You'll give in to your desire
When the stranger comes along.
I am Tubey.
Please love me. - Recaps
- Nothing
- Tumbleweed
- TWoP Staff
- A TWoP Masthead
- Bio
- In addition to all of the snarktastic TWoP recappers, moderators and bloggers, here's who works behind the scenes to get the site up every day.
- Uncle Bob
- a.k.a
- Jimmy D
- Likes
- Midnight strolls through the 'hood; humming Ramones songs as loud as humanly possible; tight underwear (my own); people named "Dick"; taunting the elderly; yelling "Get a job, hippies" at Grateful Dead/Phish/Widespread Panic concerts; dancing naked in my front window and waving at the kids walking to school; and puppies.
- DisLikes
- TGI Fridays; uppity people who act like they don't like being called "dirty shitlicker"; jock itch; people with emphesema; Hello Kitty merchandise; tequila hangovers; hastily planned golden showers; judges who can't take a joke; and those damned radishes.
- Favourite Shows
- The Wiggles, Strangers With Candy, Survivor, Ed, The Mole, Oz, Mr. Show, Twin Peaks
- Bio
- When Uncle Bob isn't thinking up new curse words with which to describe Corey Feldman, he works dilligently in the tourism industry. He's the father to the world's most handsome little boy Andrew, the husband to the long-suffering Susie and, when he steps away from the computer, is generally regarded as a valuable member of his community. Or so he says. Uncle Bob is the oldest recapper on the site, having just celebrated his seventy-first birthday in June. He spends his free time cleaning his colostomy bag and giving Jack Nicholson pointers on how to pick up women young enough to be his granddaughter. He curses a lot because he can.
- Recaps
- Ed, The Surreal Life, Fraternity Life
- Wendola
- a.k.a
- Wendy McClure
- Likes
- Chewing gum, really old music videos, shiny things.
- DisLikes
- Tapeworms, mustard, step aerobics, having her cake left out in the rain, Lenny Kravitz, blunt trauma.
- Favourite Shows
- Felicity, Gilmore Girls, Survivor, The Dukes of Hazzard, My So-Called Life. Also, sometimes Trading Spaces appears on her television and she just can't look away.
- Bio
- Wendola lives in Chicago and edits really short books for a living. Her writing has appeared in BUST magazine, Australian Style (no, she doesn't really know how that happened, either), and a few little journals nobody's ever heard of. She has a website called Pound and wonders if it makes her look fat or something.
- Recaps
- Glory Days, Wasteland, Law & Order: SVU, High School Reunion
- Wing Chun
- a.k.a
- Tara Ariano
- Likes
- Cereal, naps, Ballistic, talking shit, candy, new books, Elliott Smith, Coca-Cola Classic, Jerry Orbach, the Beatles 1965-68, and Bring It On
- DisLikes
- Alarm clocks, migraines, people who think Heather in The Blair Witch Project was a bitch, Salon.com, and The Man
- Favourite Shows
- The Daily Show, Felicity, Gilmore Girls, The King of Queens, Futurama, Newsradio reruns, Will & Grace, Once & Again, Kids in the Hall, Alias, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, C.S.I., The Amazing Race, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, and Mr. Show
- Bio
- Wing Chun wrote this bio at 4:28 AM on a weekday, which tells you nearly everything you need to know about her. Wing Chun also rides tall in the saddle at Hissyfit and Fametracker. She lives, laughs, and loves in Toronto.
- Recaps
- Dawson's Creek, ER, My So-Called Life
- Zach Oat
- a.k.a
- Zachariah, or Zoatimus Prime, if you're not into the whole brevity thing
- Likes
- Action figures, comic books, Britcoms, superhero movies that don't suck, Coen Brothers films, seeing my name in print.
- DisLikes
- Unnecessary use of quotation marks in signage (We are "open!"), commuters who sit in the aisle seat of an otherwise empty row.
- Favourite Shows
- Better Off Ted, Community, Parks & Rec, Dollhouse, Lost, 30 Rock, The Office, Castle, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Project Runway, America's Next Top Model, Law & Order (SVU, Criminal Intent and Original Recipe), How I Met Your Mother. R.I.P.: Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, The Tick, Black Books, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The IT Crowd, The Young Ones, Life, Flight of the Conchords, Little Britain, Scrubs: The Not-Lame Years.
- Bio
- Zach Oat is editor of TelevisionWithoutPity.com and MoviesWithoutPity.com. He was formerly the editor of ToyFare magazine, and he runs a craft company, Hobocamp Crafts, with his wife, Melissa.
- Recaps
- Movie reviews, Photo Galleries, Moviefiles, Mondo Extras of The Mentalist, Lie to Me, Do Not Disturb, others.