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Bunheads
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Bunheads: “It’s Not A Mint”
(For the next several days, some of our writers will be swapping duties on some of our most popular shows. Some of them…
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Bunheads: “There’s Nothing Worse Than A Pantsuit”
It’s easy for a television show about the performing arts to lose itself up its own ass. Because whether they’re…
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Bunheads: “Take The Vicuna”
Even within the heightened reality of Bunheads, this “Sasha’s emancipation” storyline is totally bonkers. The viewer…
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Bunheads: “The Astronaut And The Ballerina”
Nobody means to end up in Las Vegas. It’s the ultimate “nice place—wouldn’t want to live there,” the kind of city that…
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Bunheads: “I’ll Be Your Meyer Lansky”
“This would be a lot easier if I could offer you a drink.”—Michelle Sims
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Bunheads: “Channing Tatum Is A Fine Actor”
Television portrayals of high school tend to aim for the realistic because, ostensibly, a show should want its viewers…
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Bunheads: “You Wanna See Something?”
Michelle has to come back. If she stays in Las Vegas and Fanny tries to pull the Paradise Dance Academy back together…
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Bunheads: “A Nutcracker In Paradise”
A good dream sequence is hard to find—especially on television. Scenes set in a character’s mind tend toward the…
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Bunheads: “No One Takes Khaleesi’s Dragons”
Ostensibly, Bunheads extols the virtues of small-town American life. The quirky characters it fosters, the ingrained…
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Bunheads: “Blank Up, It’s Time”
To devote your life to the performing arts is to live a life of constant endings and new beginnings. Plays close, movie…
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Bunheads: “What’s Your Damage, Heather?”
There’s a sinister subtext to Target’s current ad campaign, where Top 40 hits of the 1980s (or the late ’70s, if you…
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Bunheads: “Movie Truck”
Part of the fun in watching an ensemble television series come together is in seeing seemingly disparate characters…
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Bunheads: “Money For Nothing”
There seems to be this weird spate of TV shows that start roughly a season before the story really begins. On Luck, the…
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Bunheads: “Better Luck Next Year!”
Auditions aren’t just a fact of life for performers—no matter what you do for a living, you’ll pass and fail (more…
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Bunheads: “Inherit The Wind”
The home that Michelle inherited at the end of last week’s Bunheads stretches over seven acres. We learned this tonight…
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Bunheads: “For Fanny”
If there’s one reason to recommend Bunheads at this early stage in its existence, it’s this: Amy Sherman-Palladino is…
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