Raising Hope

In an age of ambitious, sometimes pretentious TV, Raising Hope never made any grand promises, but over the course of…

Well-worn sitcom tropes being what they are, it’s sort of amazing that it’s taken this long for Raising Hope to do…

“Para-Natesville Activity” benefits from appearances by two friends of the show: Mike O’Malley as Jimmy, the guy who…

With a month to go before it ambles off the air for good, Raising Hope may never again produce an episode as…

“Seeing what a good father you are is what made me fall in love with you,” Sabrina tells Jimmy toward the end of…

The commercials for the new Cosmos that thread through this episode tend to put a viewer in a cosmic state of mind,…

If ever there was a half hour of TV comedy that I wish I could disqualify myself from rating, it’s this episode.…

Raising Hope has pretty much lost any grounding it had in real life and anything else connected to actual human…

Tonight, Molly Shannon returns as the passive-aggressive entrepreneur Maxine, and Barney steps up to court her. I…

Stephen Root was on this show once, remember? He played Sabrina’s father, which you might think of as a role that…

This episode is  distinguished by the welcome return of Amy Sedaris as Virginia’s hated cousin Delilah. Delilah…

“The Chance That Stole Christmas”

“Murder, She Hoped”

I’ve always liked this show, and I’m rooting for it to continue to prosper in the absence of creator Greg Garcia.…

“Ship Happens”

The question hanging over the heads of Raising Hope fans all summer has been, how will the show—in what many…

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I suppose it’s just a coincidence, but when circumstances resulted in these two episodes—the first of them the…