Articles Written by:    ALLISON WILLIAMS     

TV recap: Mad Men wants to destroy everything beautiful

Mad Men (Season three, episode two) Don Draper and Co. continued their long, solemn march toward Emmy Awards this week. Don was lusty (again), but things are really getting humming on the business end of things at Sterling Cooper. Our five most ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  24 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Stephon Marbury,  BBC

TV recap: Mad Men is back with more of the same

Mad Men: Season three, episode one Who’s sick of Mad Men already? The show’s third season has been covered, promoted and talked about incessantly for the past month, but last night we finally got…exactly what we expected. The men drank, the women were ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  17 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Jimmy Hoffa

Mad Men’s big return

How ready are you for the big Mad Men premiere on Sunday? Check out our exclusive coverage: • Vincent “Pete” Kartheiser in the Hot Seat: “Our audience might think of [Pete] as slimy and squirmy and kind of weaselly—and he can be all of those things.” • ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  14 Aug 2009

On TV this weekend: It’s a Mad Men world, and we don’t live in it

While we (in the present day) are dealing with job insecurity, so too are those at Sterling Cooper as Mad Men kicks off its third season. When our well-groomed, boozy friends left us, they were mid-merger with British advertising company PP&L. And, as ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  13 Aug 2009

On TV tonight: NYC Prep gives way to reality

Bravo’s attempt at making The Real Houseteens of Manhattan was, at best, a rip-off of prime-time dramas to tide us over until fall. But there was something sad about watching real adolescents, rich as they might be, emulating the soap-opera mannerisms ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  11 Aug 2009

On TV this weekend: Labor Pains rebirths a career

It’s hard not to feel a little perverse glee in seeing party girl Lindsay Lohan fall to the level of cable made-for-TV movie. But while this comedy, originally intended for theaters, definitely belongs on the small screen, it’s one of the network’s ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  17 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Lindsay Lohan,  Chris Parnell,  Cheryl Hines,  Janeane Garofalo

On TV tonight: No Reservations, no shame, no problem

Crusty Anthony Bourdain is the classic local NYC celebrity: He’s smart, arrogant and creatively credentialed; his Kitchen Confidential launched the badass chef memoir genre and has been copied mercilessly ever since. In the first episode of his ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  13 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Anthony Bourdain

On TV this weekend: A Meteor is coming, but it’s no Armageddon

In the grand tradition of made-for-TV miniseries, this one wrapping up next weekend, a motley crew of estranged family members and plucky scientists band together to stop the “extinction-level event” of the meteor hitting Earth. You know, like they did ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  10 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Ben Affleck,  Jason Alexander,  Billy Campbell,  Christopher LLoyd

On TV Tonight: The Pitchmen have something to sell you

It’s not every country in which salesmen are celebrities, but when Billy Mays passed away last week, his life was being mentioned alongside Michael Jackson’s and Farrah Fawcett’s. Today, an all-day marathon of his Discovery channel show about pitching ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  1 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Michael Jackson,  Farrah Fawcett,  Discovery Channel

On TV tonight: You’ll Dance Your Ass Off, and you’ll like it

Dance has been a ritualized, sexualized and demonized human activity since the days of the cavemen, who used to do the Robot around the campfire to pass the time. And now it’s a workout scheme, in a reality show hosted by that chick from Hairspray ...

From ALLISON WILLIAMS, Time Out New York,  29 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Marissa Jaret Winokur

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