Melissa’s Musings

I was in Boston most of last week, attending a conference for my day job and enjoying being in one of my favorite cities. As I was planning my evenings, I realized that although it might flash in my mind that “oh, The Vampire Diaries is finally back tonight”, by no means was I going to skip shopping downtown or …

I opted not to got to the Paley Festival this year, despite yearning for California sunshine after a snowier than usual Kansas winter. While saving up my vacation time and budget was wise, I sure did miss the excitement of going to the various events and talking TV with other bloggers and fans. Fortunately, the Nice Girls were well represented …

Recently I was chatting with a fellow fan of a certain hour-long show which boasts a segment of the fanbase who are incredibly disgruntled. Thousands and thousands of words have been written expressing their displeasure about a certain plot development, extending to constant negativity about the show as a whole. Other fans, like the two of us who are admittedly …

Between the Olympics hogging all my DVR space and handling the fallout from the last episode of Chuck, I feel like the last couple of weeks have been time warp. Now comes the run up to the crazy mad season finales in just a couple of weeks. Oh, and PaleyFest is going on right now – Nice Girls Louise, Tiffany …

I don’t talk about my TV boyfriends much (Mick St. John! Sayid Jarrah! Damon Salvatore! Bo Duke!) because ours is a private romance. Also, totally fictional. My Olympic boyfriends are a different story. Okay, they’re still fictional romances, but they only come around every couple of years, so why not celebrate them with glee? Boyfriend: Evan Lysacek Sport: Figure Skating …

Dear The Olympics, Please stop being so awesome so I can get to bed at a reasonable hour. Sincerely, Melissa The XXI Winter Olympic Games kicked off Friday night, and not coincidentally so did my reluctance to leave the couch. The Opening Ceremony was a joyful celebration of all things Canadian, so good that even I, a person who avoids …

So Life Unexpected is better than I, you know, expected. Good cast with interesting chemistry; not too schmaltzy but still endearing; a fresh take on the family drama; etc. I watch it while on the treadmill and it makes my workout fly by, for which I’m always grateful. But something has been nagging at me since the pilot: I cannot …

Say you’re a showrunner and you’ve set up your leading man or lady with a love interest, just to mix things up. Say their on-screen love affair is going along pretty well with a few bumps thrown in to “keep it real”. Then say you decide it’s time to dump the love interest. Maybe they were just a temporary relationship …

The holiday hiatus is over, and how! I spent the weekend catching up on shows as far back as last Wednesday’s ABC lineup, so I thought a little grab bag of comments would be appropriate. Modern Family – I love how this show has set up various stereotypes, then proceeds to break them down little by little. The Claire vs. …

During my lovely 10-day Christmas break, all the illnesses I avoided during the autumn attacked me at once. Fevers, chills, headaches, sore throat, back aches. I even lost my voice for 3 days, which, let me tell you, made traveling to Chicago for a brief vacay super fun. My mom and my 10-year-old niece were with me, both novices at …