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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
New York, Mexican food, tennis, inside jokes, weightlifting, puerile humor that he should really be too old for, writing, bridge (yes, the card game, and no, he's not an octogenarian)
DisLikes
Network TV, UK "customer service," whiners, people who don't know how to steer themselves on the sidewalk, and people who don't know how to steer themselves on the sidewalk WITH UMBRELLAS
Favourite Shows
Veronica Mars, The Amazing Race, The Daily Show, Everwood, Nip/Tuck, Arrested Development, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Absolutely Fabulous, My So-Called Life, Clone High
Bio
John worked in the financial markets for ten years, but no one understood what he did, so he's kind of happy that that chapter in his life is over. After a two-year stint in London, he returned last year to his hometown of New York, where he's happily enjoying living in Brooklyn and covering first-run shows for TWoP.
Recaps
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Classic), Oz (Classic), Everwood (Classic), Charmed (Classic), The Mountain, Veronica Mars, Farscape
Ahi poke, Boggle, sweet tea, the Green Bay Packers, the card game Oh Hell, shooting for ball
DisLikes
Babies with pierced ears, drivers who ask if he's going out, basketball-playing kids who call him "Kurt Rambis," misused apostrophes
Favourite Shows
Pardon the Interruption, Buffy, The Simpsons, Angel, The Office, Freaks & Geeks, Futurama, The Sopranos, SportsCenter
Bio
Dan worked as a literary agent for years and years. Then he quit. He lives in New York with his attractive lawyer wife and their poi dog. Eventually, they will all move back to Hawai'i.
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
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. 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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The Barcelona chair and ottoman designed by Mies van der Rohe (1929), Philosophy Hair Gel, Home Depot, what Kate Betts did to Harper�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.
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.
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
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 lives and writes in Austin, TX
Recaps
The Casino, Entourage, American Idol, The Apprentice, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Farscape
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.
Glossy fashion magazines, Diet Coke, trashy tabloids, iTunes, The New Yorker, true crime novels, Rosemary�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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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."
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
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, monkeys, dirty martinis with extra olives, UCLA athletics, really tall shoes, Henry VIII (both the actual one and the Jonathan Rhys-Meyers version) Mexican food, wholpins
DisLikes
USC, dolls, Los Angeles traffic
Favourite Shows
Lost, Project Runway, How I Met Your Mother, Arrested Development, Dynasty, Footballers Wives
Bio
Lauren S. is a Southern California native who loves college football and swears way too much. But when she's not screaming at the television during various sporting events, she is a mild-mannered and lovely human being who enjoys British mystery novels, recreational shopping, watching any number of Aaron Spelling shows on SoapNet, and planning all of the fabulous travel she'll do if she comes into a large sum of money.
Recaps
Commander-In-Chief, The West Wing, Six Degrees, Grey's Anatomy, Law & Order
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Video games of all creeds and colors, writing, reading, reading about writing, reading too many web journals, stadium-seating theaters, fine comedic stylings, traveling, Radiohead, Glarkware, 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, Pardon the Interruption, Arrested Development, The Office (both versions), My Name is Earl, 24, Frisky Dingo, Lost, How I Met Your Mother, Project Runway.
Bio
Omar G. lives in New Braunels, Texas, with his wife, daughter and three disaffected cats. He owns Terribly Happy, a personal Web site and writes for newspapers, magazines, Web sites and Austin's Latino Comedy Project sketch comedy troupe. He currently runs Videogamey.com with TWoP founder Glark and has a comic strip called Space Monkeys! with his brother Pablo.
Recaps
City of Angels, Third Watch, Smallville, Survivor, How I Met Your Mother, Californication, Last Comic Standing
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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