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"Game of Thrones" Season 3, Episode 8: An Imp-ulsive wedding

Eric Rezsnyak — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:54:00 -0400

The final act of Season 3 kicked off with several major plot points and some wonderful dialogue, making for another terrific episode in - I think - the strongest season of the show yet.

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"American Idol" 2013 Finale: And the winner is...

Eric Rezsnyak — Thu, 16 May 2013 22:08:00 -0400

And finally, the finale. The show opened with the Top 10 all dressed in white, lipsynching to “Glad You Came” by The Wanted.…

"American Idol" 2013: Final 2, Candice vs. Kree Sing-Off!

Eric Rezsnyak — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:13:00 -0400

Finally, the Final 2! Candice Glover vs. Kree Harrison.…

"American Idol" 2013: Results (Final 2 Revealed!)

Eric Rezsnyak — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:17:00 -0400

Ryan Seacrest started off the show by making a veiled insulted reference to the news that Randy Jackson announced today that he’s leaving the show. We can only hope that is the truth -- he has teased that many times before, and reportedly was only asked back for this season at the absolute last minute.…

"American Idol" 2013: Top 3 Perform

Eric Rezsnyak — Wed, 08 May 2013 22:03:00 -0400

Ryan Seacrest started off the show by making a back-handed compliment to Mariah Carey about “not eating any carbs this week.” What an asshole.

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"RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 5 Reunion: The winner revealed!

Eric Rezsnyak — Tue, 07 May 2013 00:15:00 -0400

After two weeks of (mostly) filler we finally got to what we’ve been waiting for. The 90-minute reunion finale was filled with all the S5 queens lazily performing some basic glee-club choreography, some brief one-on-one interviews with Ru, a few clip packages, the blatant promotion of not one but two new RuPaul songs, a LaToya Jackson sighting, the sashing of this year’s Miss Congeniality, and finally the crowning of Season 5’s champion, the queen destined to become America’s Next Drag Superstar.…

“Game of Thrones” Season 3, Episode 6: Pinky swear

Eric Rezsnyak — Mon, 06 May 2013 10:36:00 -0400

This week's episode closed the second act and prepared us for the third, and in doing so made some fairly significant departures from the book. First, the stuff that stayed largely consistent with the books:

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"American Idol" 2013: Results (Top 4 to Top 3)

Eric Rezsnyak — Fri, 03 May 2013 00:45:00 -0400

The opening group number was to Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love.” I love that song, but it was a terrible choice for this scenario, and none of the Final 4 girls came off particularly well in it. Angie and Kree sounded the worst, I think.…

"American Idol" 2013: Top 4 Performances (AGAIN: 2013/Standards Week)

Eric Rezsnyak — Wed, 01 May 2013 22:31:00 -0400

We’re back to Final 4, Part Deux. Amber, Angie, Candice, and Kree -- a very talented group of contestants, regardless of the alleged producer manipulation.…

“Doctor Who” Season 7: “Journey to the Center of the TARDIS”

Eric Rezsnyak — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:07:00 -0400

Confession: I'm not sure what the hell happened in this weekend's episode. The time and space woo-woo going on was to be expected for an episode that centered on the TARDIS, I guess, but I'm still not certain on how the whole problem worked itself out.…

“Game of Thrones” Season 3, Episode 5: Hot Tub Time Machine

Eric Rezsnyak — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:50:00 -0400

Although last week's episode was awesome, I bemoaned its almost total lack of sexy times. This episode made up for it with not one but two hot-tub scenes, at least two cases of Grade-A man ass, and some equal-opportunity nudity for the lady lovers.…

"American Idol" 2013: Results (Top 4 to...Top 4)

Eric Rezsnyak — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:28:00 -0400

So, OK. There was no blog of Wednesday night’s Top 4 performance episode because my machine did not tape a single second of it. I don’t know.…

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 5: Courtroom drama

Eric Rezsnyak — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:34:00 -0400

We were down to the big finale. Kind of.Sort of.If you accept the fact that we won’t find out the winner for two freaking weeks.…

"Doctor Who" Season 7: "Hide"

Eric Rezsnyak — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:58:00 -0400

First, I did not blog on last week's episode, "Cold War." I just didn't have much to say about it.…

“Game of Thrones” Season 3, Episode 4: That’s a pretty deep burn, Daenerys

Eric Rezsnyak — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:43:00 -0400

Welcome back to "Game of Thrones," or as I alternately call it, "Who Are We Burning Today?" I thought this week's episode rocked, including all of the best elements of the show (minus sex, boo).…

"American Idol" 2013: Results (Top 5 to Top 4)

Eric Rezsnyak — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:07:00 -0400

The first 8 minutes of the show did not tape. So I’m going to assume that the judges wasted time by walking to their seats, Ryan Secrest wasted time by giving us a bunch of useless information, the Top 5 did a group song, and, oh, I don’t know, Lazaro galloped across the stage on a sparkling, glitter-covered unicorn while making excuses for why he was unfairly eliminated last week.…

"American Idol" 2013: Songs from the Year they Were Born/Diva Songs

Eric Rezsnyak — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:20:00 -0400

Well, we're definitely going to have a female winner for the first time in six seasons. For the first time in show history the Final 5 is entirely one gender, and it is also entirely female.…

"RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 5: Bitter, sweet symphony

Eric Rezsnyak — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:29:00 -0400

Confession: I spoiled myself on the results of tonight’s episode earlier this afternoon after some idiot posted the first 10 minutes of NEXT week’s episode right on the Logo website. I watched it and knew who won tonight’s challenge, who was in the Bottom 2, and who went home.…

"Game of Thrones" Season 3, Episode 3: Let's give the boy a hand

Eric Rezsnyak — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:01:00 -0400

Welcome back to Westeros! In this week's episode a boy became a man (several times over), a queen haggled for slaves, and Jaime Lannister's personal Applause-o-Meter took a permanent hit.…

"American Idol" 2013: Results (Top 6 to Top 5)

Eric Rezsnyak — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:27:00 -0400

And finally, our long national nightmare is over.

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"American Idol" 2013: Burt Bacharach/Songs the Idols Wish They'd Written

Eric Rezsnyak — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:17:00 -0400

Last night's "Idol" featured the highs and the lows of competition. Literally, we had some of the best singing of the season, but also the worst of possibly ANY season.…

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 5: Veteran affairs

Eric Rezsnyak — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:17:00 -0400

With just five queens remaining it was time for the annual makeover challenge. This time the task was to turn gay veterans of the United States military into drag queens for a day.…

“Doctor Who” Season 7: “The Rings of Akhaten”

Eric Rezsnyak — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:39:00 -0400

Allons-y, Alonso! The City Entertainment Blog is going to take a crack at reviewing non-reality shows, starting with “Doctor Who.” Before we jump into this week’s new episode, a bit about your humble blogger.…

"American Idol" 2013: Results (Top 7 to Top 6)

Eric Rezsnyak — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:14:00 -0400

The “Rock Week” results episode kicked off with the Top 7 group sing to “Somebody to Love” by Queen. Lot of Queen this week.…

"American Idol" 2013: Top 7 Perform (Rock Week)

Eric Rezsnyak — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:10:00 -0400

The theme was rock night, but the actual theme of the show as fashion trends. Seriously, I think the judges spent more time talking about the contestants’ clothes and styling than they did about the singing.…