Bunheads

Please don’t let it end this way.

(For the next several days, some of our writers will be swapping duties on some of our most popular shows. Some of…

It’s easy for a television show about the performing arts to lose itself up its own ass. Because whether they’re…

Even within the heightened reality of Bunheads, this “Sasha’s emancipation” storyline is totally bonkers. The viewer…

Nobody means to end up in Las Vegas. It’s the ultimate “nice place—wouldn’t want to live there,” the kind of city…

“This would be a lot easier if I could offer you a drink.”—Michelle Sims

Television portrayals of high school tend to aim for the realistic because, ostensibly, a show should want its…

Michelle has to come back. If she stays in Las Vegas and Fanny tries to pull the Paradise Dance Academy back…

A good dream sequence is hard to find—especially on television. Scenes set in a character’s mind tend toward the…

Ostensibly, Bunheads extols the virtues of small-town American life. The quirky characters it fosters, the ingrained…

To devote your life to the performing arts is to live a life of constant endings and new beginnings. Plays close,…

There’s a sinister subtext to Target’s current ad campaign, where Top 40 hits of the 1980s (or the late ’70s, if you…

Part of the fun in watching an ensemble television series come together is in seeing seemingly disparate characters…

There seems to be this weird spate of TV shows that start roughly a season before the story really begins. On Luck,…

Auditions aren’t just a fact of life for performers—no matter what you do for a living, you’ll pass and fail (more…

The home that Michelle inherited at the end of last week’s Bunheads stretches over seven acres. We learned this…

If there’s one reason to recommend Bunheads at this early stage in its existence, it’s this: Amy Sherman-Palladino…

Bunheads debuts tonight on ABC Family at 9 p.m. Eastern.