Category Archive: Bea on TV

House of Cards is an overhyped, overrated, patriarchal nightmare of a show (and I’m obsessed with it)

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DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! This post contains spoilers. Enter at your own risk. Before I watched it, it seemed like everything I saw and heard about the Netflix remake of House of Cards came… Read More

TV Style Icons: Mad Men

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Rather than pick one person out, lets just have a round of applause for every single person who has ever set foot on the Mad Men set. They have managed to make all… Read More

The Closer and The Killing: Two different female detectives, two different disappointing downfalls

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Caveat reader: Contains huge spoilers for the last season of The Closer and the whole of Forbrydelsen/The Killing. As I’ve written before, from the first moment I saw Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson… Read More

TV Style Icons: Dot Cotton

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Eastenders is home to many memorable characters, and few so well loved as Dot Cotton. Poor old Dot has been through it all over the years, but that’s for the TV section of… Read More

TV Style Icons: Diane Chambers

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Thanks to the magical little box I have connected to my TV and some hocus pocus, I’ve been rewatching every single episode of Cheers, the American comedy set in a bar of the… Read More

Undateable? No

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The Undateables is back on Channel 4. I refused point blank to watch the first series because I thought it would annoy me. Then I kept seeing the advert for the second series… Read More

Bitches Be Cray: The Good, The Bad, and The Pretty Little Liars of Mental Health on TV. (Or: why I thought everyone had it wrong about Carrie on Homeland but now I’m not so sure)

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Danger, Will Robinson: this post contains spoilers for season one/early season two of Homeland, plus mild spoilers for season three of Pretty Little Liars and season two of Revenge. Good news, fellow crazies!… Read More

Mindy Kaling’s new show, what I love and hate about rom-coms, and why single —> married isn’t a redemption story

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Not that Mindy Kaling needs my approval, but I’ve seen the pilot episode of the new sitcom she created and stars in, The Mindy Project, which premieres in the US tonight, and I… Read More

The other side of summer

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Not the catchy Elvis Costello number, sadly – just the wrong side of the August bank holiday weekend.  I must apologise for the lack of a post last week!  I completely forgot to… Read More

Frankie v. Debra, Roe v. Wade: Patricia Heaton’s two famous moms, and can you still be a feminist if you’re anti-abortion?

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For some reason (boredom, chronic illness, and an under-appreciation of how short life is) I’ve seen every episode of Everybody Loves Raymond at least once. Contrary to the title, I was not a… Read More

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