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Reviews - Bunheads
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(For the next several days, some of our writers will be swapping duties on some of our most popular shows. Some of…
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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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Even within the heightened reality of Bunheads, this “Sasha’s emancipation” storyline is totally bonkers. The viewer…
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Nobody means to end up in Las Vegas. It’s the ultimate “nice place—wouldn’t want to live there,” the kind of city…
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“This would be a lot easier if I could offer you a drink.”—Michelle Sims
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Television portrayals of high school tend to aim for the realistic because, ostensibly, a show should want its…
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Michelle has to come back. If she stays in Las Vegas and Fanny tries to pull the Paradise Dance Academy back…
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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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Ostensibly, Bunheads extols the virtues of small-town American life. The quirky characters it fosters, the ingrained…
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To devote your life to the performing arts is to live a life of constant endings and new beginnings. Plays close,…
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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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Part of the fun in watching an ensemble television series come together is in seeing seemingly disparate characters…
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There seems to be this weird spate of TV shows that start roughly a season before the story really begins. On Luck,…
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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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The home that Michelle inherited at the end of last week’s Bunheads stretches over seven acres. We learned this…
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If there’s one reason to recommend Bunheads at this early stage in its existence, it’s this: Amy Sherman-Palladino…
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Bunheads debuts tonight on ABC Family at 9 p.m. Eastern.
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