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.

Press Play

Disc debuted at No. 1

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The Sweet Escape

Album hit No. 3 and contains the Top-10 single “Wind It Up”

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Insomniatic

Disc reached No. 15. “Potential Breakup Song” became a hit single.

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Call Me Irresponsible

This million-selling slow-burner made it to No. 1.

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Konvicted

Top-5 disc includes the hits “Smack That” and “I Wanna Love You”

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Dangerous Man

This chart-topping country disc sold more than 500,000 copies.

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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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