When I originally saw Smash’s premiere episode, I went nuts. I thought it was so cool, I gave it 3 1/2 Mittens, almost one for each kitten paw! (Get it? Cool = cold = needing more mittens? Ha!) However, now that I’ve seen all five episodes, I’m a bit less enthralled. First of all, I really don’t care about Julia’s adoption. I know they are trying to give her family heft so her dalliance with Michael feels more transgressive, but I’m not feeling it. Her husband seems like a bore, her teenaged son care about the new baby more than he does (also, weird, yes?), and it fails to make the tension between her work life and her home life about more than her vagina’s desires. Vagina desires are great and all, but it’s not what I thought the show would focus on. Silly, I know…
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Snap Decision: Smash
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If you own a television, you probably know that NBC’s Smash is set to be the “next big thing” this season. Starring Debra Messing of Will and Grace fame, the always amazing Anjelica Huston (though I still hold an irrational grudge against her for being at Roman Polanski’s the night he raped that girl), some other people who seem familiar but I don’t know by name, and former American Idol Katherine McPhee. Since I spend and arm and a leg and a kidney on cable, I was able to catch a “sneak peek” of Smash On Demand, and let me tell you, if you have even an iota of interest in the arts, you are gonna love this show.
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Snap Decision: New Girl, Revisted
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I may be a lot of things, but I’m certainly not too proud to admit when I was wrong. Well, maybe not wrong… but perhaps too quick to judge? Of what am I referring to? Why, Zooey Deschanel’s New Girl, which I was pretty harsh on after I saw the first episode. However, I was too lazy to change my DVR settings and kept watching new episodes when making lunch or waiting for The Boy to get home or, soon, right after an episode aired because the truth is, the show is pretty adorable. So, I’m upping my rating my an entire mitten! Just in time for winter 
Snap Decision: Hart of Dixie
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Hart of Dixie, despite some truly horrible Southern accents and trite culture-clash clichés, is exactly the sort of show that sucks me in. Sweet, adorable intelligent woman (played by the always infectious Rachel Bilson) attempting to make her mark on the world, while also surrounded by sweet, adorable intelligent men? Yes, please! Add in interpersonal family drama, plus love shenanigans, not to mention medical mysteries and crazy townfolk, and I have myself a possible Gilmore Girls replacement, albeit with less wit and substance. Actually, maybe it’s more like a Felicity replacement…
Anyhow, though I’m admittedly a few episodes behind, I will definitely not be doing dishes or paying bills while catching up (*cough cough* The Ringer). No, I’ll be giggling and smiling and hoping that Zoe Hart not only saves the day and wins her new townsfolk over, but also gets some smooches on the side.
Snap Decision: The Ringer
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This review has taken me a long time to write, because the truth is, I’m not sure what to say about The Ringer. I mean, I’m still watching it, for some reason. I’m just not sure what that reason is. Love of Buffy transferred to anything Sarah Michelle Geller does? Pretty NY scenery and fashion? The fact that I’m too lazy to change the DVR ‘record’ settings? These are all much more plausible than the show actually entertaining me. I mean, honestly, I could give a crap about Bridget. She’s a former junkie who was too afraid of being killed to testify at a trial that she ran away from police custody? Because going out into the world and pretending to be your twin sister Siobhan is somehow safer? Just because Siobhan didn’t tell anyone in NYC society about you doesn’t mean there isn’t a birth certificate or family information or a newspaper announcement somewhere, Bridget! Plus, you clearly were in each other’s lives pre-Siobhan’s current husband so it’s not like there’s no one who knows both of you out there. I know it’s the premise of the show, but it’s just too illogical for me.
