Melissa’s Musings

In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re publishing a series of features about women in history whose lives we think would make for amazing television. Read more in the series here. In 1872, the Equal Rights Party nominated Victoria Woodhull for President, with abolitionist Frederick Douglass as her running mate, but her radical views and personal scandal proved too difficult …

BBC America announced today that Jodie Comer has been cast as a co-lead in the upcoming thriller series Killing Eve. Her co-star? Sandra Oh. Based on the novellas by Luke Jennings, Killing Eve centers on two women: Eve (Oh) is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade security services operative whose desk-bound job doesn’t fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle (Comer) is …

The first time I heard about NBC’s new series, The Good Place, I couldn’t wrap my head around the premise, but with Kristen Bell in the lead, of course I was going to check it out. When I watched the first two episodes (premiering Monday, September 19 at 10/9c), I alternated between laughing out loud and wondering what in the …

Ah, spring, when a young woman’s fancy turns to…finals and graduation and what comes next. It’s been a while since I graduated from anything, and my three graduation ceremonies (high school, undergrad, grad school) were actually pretty dull, but I still get a little misty-eyed whenever I hear the opening strains of “Pomp and Circumstance“. All that potential, those bright …

I’ve been a Marshmallow since the very first episode of Veronica Mars aired on UPN back in 2004, immediately taken in by the sharp writing and excellent portrayals of the characters populating Neptune, CA. Since the series ended in 2007, I’ve rewatched the first two seasons several times, but it was just last month that I fired up season 3 …

I’ve been hanging in there with CBS’ shrill comedy 2 Broke Girls because I like the dynamic between leads Beth Behrs and Kat Dennings, but the show’s steadfast refusal to ditch the poorly acted, in poor taste supporting characters at the diner has made it increasingly difficult to keep watching. Enter Ryan Hansen as “Candy Andy”. Now, men rescuing damsels in …

Nikita moves to Fridays this Fall on the CW, paired with Supernatural instead of The Vampire Diaries. At first this seemed like a mismatch, splitting up two shows with strong female leads and placing one with a series about two guys. But the similarities between the two shows are actually pretty strong once you look closer. Both are series about …

Nikita season 1 lands on DVD and Blue-ray August 30, and we’re in the middle of editing interviews with the cast from Comic Con in advance of the new season, so I’ve been thinking about the show lately. One of the things that struck me last season was how people – allies, enemies, and everyone in between – underestimated Nikita …

We’ve just come off the Fourth of July weekend here in the U.S., with umpteen TV marathons airing all over cable, but where were all the special holiday episodes from our favorite shows? Oh, that’s right, almost every show is on hiatus right now. Even the original summer content like True Blood and The Good Guys are taking this weekend …

Do you have a television show that reminds you of something in real life? Or vice versa? I do. When you watch as much TV as the Nice Girls do, it’s inevitable that some odd mental connections develop. Here are a couple of mine: Law & Order: SVU & Bejeweled Blitz: A couple of months ago, I watched an SVU …