Stephanie Klein's Greek Tragedy

lady blazers & emmys

I love our girl Tina Fey. No question. So when she mentions that a kissing scene with Don Draper makes her sweat through her "lady blazer," I take her for her word. She busted a pit. But then I…

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i don’t like Kiptyn: will Jillian marry Mr. Ed?

Jillian & Ed Jillian, I love you. I do. Whenever anyone begins with proclamations of love, they’re about to go somewhere ugly. And I am. I’m about to get ugly. But first, I’m going to be pretty: I love…

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real housewives of the lone star state: bantam babes won’t you come out tonight?

"Ma, you can’t feed the chicken chicken!" "What, I should make separate meals?" They’re coming. The real housewives of The Lone Star State. They’re really coming. Growing up, I’d always heard my mother refer to the women at our…

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lost season finale: trading places

  The season finale of Lost begins very much like the setup to a punchline joke: a priest and rabbi walk into a bar. Except it’s a tiki bar, and we’re about to realize that this is a total…

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my very educated mother just served us noodle pudding

  It’s why I love Lost. Yes, go ahead, skip the post if you don’t watch Lost. But let me say this, I love TV that makes us feel. Lost, I will say, never makes me feel. It makes…

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lost: that douche is my dad OR how do you feel about polar bear feces?

  It’s like reading Monarch Notes before you read the actual book: you know all about the author’s personal history, the influences in his life, the literature to which he was exposed, the constraints of his society, and then…

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dead is dead: LOST

  This dude looks like Kevin Spacey’s brother, and I KNEW he’d have an accent. And then there’s Richard Alpert, who speaks to the English Dude (Charles Widmore?), reminding him that the island decides…

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playing the part

When I was a little girl–and perhaps it’s because I’m a redhead–all I wanted to be when I grew up was Annie. I used to sing songs from the musical on my front lawn, at 7am–belted "Maybe"…

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he’s our you, LOST live blogging

A young Sayid being forced to kill, learning about the circle of life. I bet that friend who just walked up and killed the chicken is Sayid, not the other timid child. This reminds me of the episode with…

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laFleur lost

Oh how I do love this LOST theory, from Entertainment Weekly: John Locke is no longer alive — not in the traditional, off-Island sense of being ”alive.” The new Locke who washed up in last week’s episode is an…

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