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.
Fifty percent American Idol. Fifty percent The Gong Show. One hundred percent spectacle.
Girls just wanna have fame. And it doesn’t seem to matter much to some of them how stupid you have to act in order to achieve it.
The generation gap of love takes center stage in yet another ABC “family” sitcom. And just look at how fast wow! can turn into yawn.
UPDATED REVIEW: Austin & Ally is a standard-issue Disney sitcom … with a Nickelodeon twist.
USA’s newest “characters”-based soap/drama places Dr. Dani right in the path of teenage train wrecks and sports star meltdowns.
UPDATED REVIEW: It’s tough to be a parent—and sometimes parents themselves make the work even tougher. This NBC dramedy, based on the 1989 movie, unearths a whole lot of those sometimes.
UPDATED REVIEW: Even the “world’s best boss” can’t stick around forever. And now Michael is no more. But, of course, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
It’s been an eventful few years since Hannah Montana launched Miley Cyrus’ career. But while Cyrus herself may have altered her image a bit—some might say more than a bit—her flagship show is still pure Disney.
UPDATED REVIEW: Yet another knock-off effect of our culture’s vampire craze, this supernatural CW soap idolizes two angsty blood-sucking brothers, both now in their 160s.
UPDATED REVIEW: Yet another New York City cop show on CBS … that somehow manages to focus on family just as much as felons.
Rookie Blue may have outlived its title, but it’s still trying to walk that thin line between good guys and bad guys (not to mention good TV and bad TV).
