Raising Hope - Season 2

Much of last week’s episode, the set-up to tonight’s season finale, was devoted to special guest Nancy Grace,…

Raising Hope has a terrific cast of regulars, and it’s brought in a steady stream of talented actors and comedians…

Some nights, Raising Hope manages to trip over its own feet when it’s clearly trying to make a point. (I would refer…

Tonight, Fox aired the latest episode of Raising Hope back-to-back with a rerun of "Jimmy's Fake Girlfriend," one of…

Last week, Slate ran an article by June Thomas analyzing Raising Hope through the prism of Martha…

One thing I admire about this show, though I don’t think I’ve ever really addressed it before, is how much restraint…

How political a show is Raising Hope? It's certainly not as explicitly confrontational as Roseanne, which was the…

Now that Raising Hope has fixed Jimmy up with Sabrina, it is faced with the problem of what to do with them as a…

Because everyone knows that Fox is the Love Network—Who doesn’t look forward to those annual Valentine’s Day bumpers…

The fact that I allowed seven episodes of Raising Hope to pile up on my DVR at the end of last year says something.…

Devoted fans of this show while recall that Burt once had a gambling problem. Tonight, in a development that will…

No subject that Raising Hope repeatedly taps into for humor is more fraught with peril than the Chances'…

Parodies of It's a Wonderful Life tend to come in two basic flavors: those that go to outlandish lengths to show how…

This one just made me unreasonably happy. It achieved a level of unapologetic, open-hearted silliness buoyant enough…

After a couple of fairly vigorous workouts in recent weeks, Raising Hope returned from its Thanksgiving break with…

Thanksgiving—still more than a week away, I know, but on a TV series, it's whenever the network happens to schedule…

Remember how, last season, Jimmy's heartfelt but doomed crush on Sabrina was one of Raising Hope's key elements and…

This was Raising Hope's first episode back after a couple of weeks away due to the World Series, and it felt as if…

Tonight’s special bonus episode brings back Amy Sedaris, boiling over with malicious glee, as Virginia’s self-made…

Do you spend a lot of time wondering what was going on with Burt and Virginia back in the early '90s, when they were…