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Raising Hope: "I Want My Baby Back, Baby Back, Baby Back"
Much of last week’s episode, the set-up to tonight’s season finale, was devoted to special guest Nancy Grace, playing…
Raising Hope - Season 2
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Raising Hope: “Inside Probe”
Raising Hope has a terrific cast of regulars, and it’s brought in a steady stream of talented actors and comedians to…
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Raising Hope: “Sabrina’s New Jimmy”
Some nights, Raising Hope manages to trip over its own feet when it’s clearly trying to make a point. (I would refer…
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Raising Hope: “Hogging All The Glory”
Tonight, Fox aired the latest episode of Raising Hope back-to-back with a rerun of "Jimmy's Fake Girlfriend," one of my…
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Raising Hope: “Poking Holes In The Story”
Last week, Slate ran an article by June Thomas analyzing Raising Hope through the prism of Martha Plimpton’s politics…
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Raising Hope: “Spanks Butt, No Spanks”
One thing I admire about this show, though I don’t think I’ve ever really addressed it before, is how much restraint it…
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Raising Hope: “Single White Female Role Model”
How political a show is Raising Hope? It's certainly not as explicitly confrontational as Roseanne, which was the last…
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Raising Hope: “Sheer Madness”
Now that Raising Hope has fixed Jimmy up with Sabrina, it is faced with the problem of what to do with them as a…
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Raising Hope: “Jimmy’s Fake Girlfriend”
Because everyone knows that Fox is the Love Network—Who doesn’t look forward to those annual Valentine’s Day bumpers…
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Raising Hope: “Tarot Cards”
The fact that I allowed seven episodes of Raising Hope to pile up on my DVR at the end of last year says something. Of…
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Raising Hope: “Gambling Again”
Devoted fans of this show while recall that Burt once had a gambling problem. Tonight, in a development that will not…
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Raising Hope: “Mrs. Smartypants”
No subject that Raising Hope repeatedly taps into for humor is more fraught with peril than the Chances' intelligence.…
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Raising Hope: “It’s A Hopeful Life”
Parodies of It's a Wonderful Life tend to come in two basic flavors: those that go to outlandish lengths to show how…
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Raising Hope: “The Men Of New Natesville”
This one just made me unreasonably happy. It achieved a level of unapologetic, open-hearted silliness buoyant enough to…
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Raising Hope: “Bro-gurt”
After a couple of fairly vigorous workouts in recent weeks, Raising Hope returned from its Thanksgiving break with its…
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Raising Hope: “Burt’s Parents”
Thanksgiving—still more than a week away, I know, but on a TV series, it's whenever the network happens to schedule the…
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Raising Hope: “Jimmy And The Kid”
Remember how, last season, Jimmy's heartfelt but doomed crush on Sabrina was one of Raising Hope's key elements and one…
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Raising Hope: “Killer Hope”
This was Raising Hope's first episode back after a couple of weeks away due to the World Series, and it felt as if the…
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Raising Hope: “Killer Hope”
Tonight’s special bonus episode brings back Amy Sedaris, boiling over with malicious glee, as Virginia’s self-made…
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Raising Hope: “Kidnapped”
Do you spend a lot of time wondering what was going on with Burt and Virginia back in the early '90s, when they were…