I am a cliche you’ve seen before (Friends With Benefits, 2011)

In plenty of shows, characters traits are obvious and expected. So I won’t complain because in Friends With Benefits you get: as main character, the nice but sometimes dumb guy (yes, you just got Mosbied); the über-clever but childish nerd (hum, Bosoms would not have said “howdy” in the Fifteenth Century. If anything, they would have said “Huzzah!”); the detached and witty good friend with an unorthodox background (black guy with lesbian mother, Why don’t you just try being nice to her? People like it when you’re nice to them. Remember five years ago at the pet store when you … Continue reading I am a cliche you’ve seen before (Friends With Benefits, 2011)

Robots FTW (The Big Bang Theory, 2007-2012)

The Big Bang Theory reminds me of The IT Crowd. Even if the main point is making fun of nerds, it won’t be really hilarious to the ones lacking decent geek culture references. Not for jocks. But, indeniably, this isn’t enough to make a great show over years and I feel the late seasons of The Big Bang Theory kind of lost it. Albeit the main story feeling aimless, the show still succeeds however to finely portrait geeks, especially physicists. Watch the following scenes (from episodes: S03E16 The Excelsior Acquisition; S05E16 The Vacation Solution; S03E03 The Gothowitz Deviation) Then, compares … Continue reading Robots FTW (The Big Bang Theory, 2007-2012)