The only thing we like better than an episode of Greek is an episode of Greek featuring EW. Granted, in Greek world, that’s Engineering Weekly, which is interviewing Rusty—and featuring him on the cover—about his grant-winning project that we still don’t really understand. Mainly because we work at Entertainment Weekly. But we appreciate the clever gesture, Greek, and we will return the favor right here, right now, by telling all of our readers: Watch Greek tonight on ABC Family! (The ep also features some heavy discussions about the future for Casey and Cappie and a very long turtle race.) Meanwhile, enjoy this preview clip:
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This season of ABC Family’s Secret Life of the American Teenager has been a lesson not so much in safe sex, like the first season, but a lesson in permutations: At the rate things are going, it seems nearly every guy in the cast will have dated every girl possible by season’s end. Despite surprise couplings like Grace and Ben and Jack and That One Friend of Amy’s, the big shocker came last week when Amy kissed — gasp — her baby-daddy, Ricky. Sure, they were just “practicing,” but could there be more romance in store for the young accidental parents? Amy herself, Shailene Woodley, stopped by EW.com to dish on the rest of the season.
I spent my Valentine’s Eve watching a Hallmark movie called Elevator Girl, which is, well, better than spending Valentine’s Day watching a Hallmark movie called Elevator Girl. It was no Lifetime Original Movie — nor could it hold a candle to most of the ABC Family oeuvre, especially those in the epic Bring It On and Cutting Edge franchises. But it was the kind of vaguely engaging diversion that’s great to pay your bills to. (I know, I’m a romantic.) The setup was classic TV movie: a free-spirited receptionist/waitress who never quite finished culinary school — named, quite pointedly, Liberty (Lacey Chabert) — meets a corporate lawyer in a stuck elevator named Jonathan. They hit it off, the elevator got unstuck, and then — gasp — it turned out she was the server at the dinner celebrating his partnership. It got kinda mushy from there, though, vacillating between a fairly run-of-the-mill romance (when hummus is made not once, but twice, onscreen, things need to be moving a little faster) and melodramatic speeches about how crazy and unconscionable it is for male law firm partners to date women with less income and ambition than themselves.
This week, I caught ABC’s re-airing of A Charlie Brown Valentine, the 2002 sequel to 1978′s Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown. This was the first original special aired after Peanuts creator Charles Schulz’s death. It draws a lot from the old comic strips, but as a result, it’s really disjointed and hard to follow. Still, there’s nothing like a half-hour dose of Charlie Brown-iness to put things in perspective. Take a look, and let us know if you have adorable/tragic Chuck tendencies yourself. Happy holidays.
