Contributor: Bob Hoose

After spending more than two decades touring, directing, writing and producing for Christian theater and radio (most recently for Adventures in Odyssey, which he still contributes to), Bob joined the Plugged In staff to help us focus more heavily on video games. He is also one of our primary movie reviewers.

Graduation

Album debuted at No. 1 with 957,000 sold in a week. “Stronger” and “Good Life” became pop hits.

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Hawaii Five-0

UPDATED REVIEW: It’s been well more than THREE-0 years now since the original, but it’s nowhere near time for another tropical crime spree.

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Smash

UPDATED REVIEW: As much as NBC might want you to believe otherwise, Smash is not Glee. So why is it we aren’t feeling good about that?

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CSI: Miami

UPDATED REVIEW: Like its franchise siblings, this sunglasses-loving crime drama lives and (mostly) dies by the evidence.

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Good Luck Charlie

UPDATED REVIEW: The Disney machine cranks out another same-old-same-old sitcom that’s tween-centric and family-oriented, then uses it to break new ground when it comes to what those families look like.

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Blue Mountain State

Booze, drugs and lewd, twisted sexuality get far more game time than football in this so-called sports comedy.

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Life on Mars

ABC’s new drama adds a 1970s time-warp twist to modern TV police procedurals.

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Bones

UPDATED REVIEW: While the show may feel in some ways “lighter” than some of its procedural pals over on CBS, the camera’s certainly not shy about showing us all things dead.

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The Hard Times of RJ Berger

MTV says this show is a “smart, refreshingly candid … nuanced and multilayered portrayal of [viewers’] lives.” In Plugged In’s history, we’ve never disagreed more.

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Shark

James Woods injects lots of fire into his man-eater attorney. The rest of the cast—along with the show’s morals—tend to lay there like beached flounder.

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True Blood

UPDATED REVIEW: HBO’s take on the undead features raw sex, gory death and fangs-bared vampire intrigue in the deep South. Toto, we’re not in Twilight anymore.

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Friends With Benefits

Believe it or not, this NBC series isn’t actually a spin-off of the 1990s hit that also used Friends as a title. Neither is it a continuation of the 2011 film sharing the same name. What is it, then? We were afraid you’d ask that.

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Mad Men

Thin ties and thick smoke. Strong martinis and weak hearts. It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world where men are men and women are secretaries.

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The Voice

A whole new batch of singing star wannabes go head-to-head in the spotlight. But nobody’s talking about Idols on this stage.

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The Big Bang Theory

How long a sitcom squirms around on TV screens doesn’t necessarily change how many of its sleazy jokes bomb.

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