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My Boys (Season 1, 2006)

When I first heard about My Boys on TBS, I didn’t really think twice about it.  Don’t get me wrong – it seemed interesting…a girl with a bunch of male friends.  But then my dad suggested I watch a couple episodes.  So here I am, five years later just having watched the first season…and I want more.

I don’t know what happened…an unexpected surprise.  Pretty blonde Chicago Cubs baseball beat writer Pj (Jordana Spiro) who stays surrounded by her brother Andy (Jim Gaffigan), her best girl friend Stephanie (Kellie Stewart), and her four best friends: Brendan (Reid Scott), Bobby (Kyle Howard), Mike (Jamie Kaler), and Kenny (Michael Bunin). Continue Reading…

Considering this is my first “TV TimeOut” article – the first of many, I hope, I decided it would only be fitting to start it off right.  Thus, we begin with the 1999 pilot episode of The Sopranos.  It only took me 10 plus years, but I have finally been exposed to my first episode of this critically acclaimed show.

Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) framed between the legs of a carved statue of a woman holding her hands above her head.  Tony sits there, staring quizzically at this statue – almost as if he’s praying to a God he doesn’t know exists or not.  And this is where our journey begins, between the legs of a cold, carved out woman in the waiting room of his new therapist (Lorraine Bracco).

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