Margaret Eby's posts

Stuart Pritchard isn’t just bad at talking to women. As this week’s Hello Ladies proves, Stuart Pritchard is…

As with the end of every season of Food Network Star, tonight’s finale forces us to contemplate many of life’s key…

Restaurant Wars is one of the classic challenges on Top Chef: It winnows out the real challengers from the hapless…

Every season of Top Chef needs a villain, and in Seattle, it has to be smug Stefan. Or wait, is it over-exuberant…

The season four finale of The League included more vocabulary lessons than an episode of Sesame Street. MLA? That’s…

Christmas is nigh, which means that The League season is drawing to a close. This week was another double-header.…

Taco as therapist, Andre as impotent masturbator, and Ruxin singing a little ditty to his macaroni: “Anchor Baby”…

The League can do as good a send-up on the perils of political correctness as any of the rest of them, but tonight’s…

If there’s one thing that Top Chef: Seattle can teach us about Thanksgiving dinner, it’s this: Just use a whole lot…

Any dedicated America’s Next Top Model watcher can tell you: The finale is not about the models. You may have…

It’s a testament to just how good this season of The League has been so far that this episode—a completely fine…

Up All Night has had a sad, slow death this season. From the promising show with an overwhelmingly likeable cast…

A bad case of lice, a punch thrown at a star quarterback, and an ice sculpture at the morgue: The League keeps…

We’ve come to the end of the first season of our scrappy U.S. remake of The Inbetweeners, and it’s easier to assess…

Thank God that Rafi’s back. If there’s anyone who can bring the filth, it’s him. And he certainly managed to in “The…

Things settled down a bit on this week’s Inbetweeners but the show still hasn’t quite found its groove yet. It…

The League is on a hot streak, and “The Hoodie,” the best episode of the show since somewhere in season two,…

One of the throughlines on Up All Night is that the Brinkleys are a couple that is trying to hold on to its cool.…

In sitcoms, the overbearing mother figure has a lot of uses. There are blustering men who become dribbling cowards…

“Fire!” was an exquisitely bizarre episode of The Inbetweeners. Was it a misstep along the way of a relatively solid…