Still from "The Bear"

What happened to long TV seasons?

Some of the most classic and timeless TV shows like Friends, Parks and Recreation, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine regularly had seasons of 20-25 episodes with a new episode airing each week for about half a year. Viewers got to enjoy drawn out storylines, stand-alone episodes, and even crossovers with this long-lasting season setup. So why is […]

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Random Movie Monday — My Three Sons

This week’s random movie is actually a random tv show — DVD 14387, My Three Sons. Here’s our summary: Steve is a newly widowed father of three boys who tries raising them with the help of Grandpa Bub. With one boy in college, one in high school, and the third in grade school, things are […]

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New Acquisitions!

We have a bunch of new home use DVDs this week! They’re all tv shows, and they’re all tv shows with women in the starring roles. You can now check out: The Handmaid’s Tale: Season Two (DVD 16241) Janet King (Series 1): The Enemy Within (DVD 16243 The Patty Duke Show: The Complete First Season […]

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A Spongebob Musical?

So…I guess they’ve made a SpongeBob SquarePants musical? That’s a thing? It’s a weird choice. But not too weird. After all, we have Mean Girls, Groundhog Day, and in a shocking insult to a movie I truly adore, Dirty Rotten Scoundels. What else? Legally Blonde, Catch Me If You Can, Amelie, and like literally every […]

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Muppets Take the Museum

As highlighted on Hyperallergic, The Jim Henson Exhibition is now a permanent feature of the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, NY. I find muppets incredibly strange, but was interested to learn about the Anything Muppets, which can become a variety of different characters. Read the article here to find about more about this […]

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Feud: Bette and Joan

Feud: Bette and Joan premieres TONIGHT on FX. For anyone who will be waiting to binge watch this series on DVD, may we suggest the below titles to tide you over? What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (HU DVD 610): This film was the notorious battleground of Davis and Crawford. An aging ex-vaudeville child star […]

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New Acquisitions – December 2016

The library is closing up for winter in about three hours, and much like a student submitting a paper on Blackboard at 11:59, we’re going to publish our final new acquisitions for the year! You might notice a ton of new television shows this month. We’ve been catching up on television shows – recent (like […]

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