PLAYING HOUSE Season 3, Episodes 1 & 2 “Cookie Jar” / “None of Your Business” AIR DATE: June 23, 2017 GRADES: B+ / B+ How does the third season of the story of the ins and outs of the bond between two of the greatest female friends since Lucy andContinue Reading
PLAYING HOUSE Season 2, Episode 8 “Celebrate Me Scones” AIR DATE: September 8, 2015 GRADE: A- Having already tackled the Emma/Mark/Rabbi Dan love triangle in “Officer of the Year” and putting us through the emotional wringer, Playing House rewards us with one of the best episodes of the series’ runContinue Reading
PLAYING HOUSE Season 2, Episode 7: “Officer of the Year” AIR DATE: September 8, 2015 GRADE: B+ If USA’s Playing House is aiming for a third season, the last two episodes of the season did a bang-up job making a good case for renewal which is a relief. The show’sContinue Reading
PLAYING HOUSE Season 2, Episode 6: “Kimmewah Kup” AIR DATE: September 1, 2015 RATING: C+ I’ve expressed my displeasure with Kyle Bornheimer’s character, Rabbi Dan. I’ve said that he’s boring as hell and might as well be invisible what with the lack of character development paid to him. In thisContinue Reading
PLAYING HOUSE Season 2, Episode 5: “Employee of the Month” AIR DATE: August 25, 2015 RATING: B- Mark is a wounded man — but not in the way you’d expect. His foot is bandaged and elevated, resting on top of a pillow provided by Emma and Maggie after he fellContinue Reading
PLAYING HOUSE Season 2, Episode 4: “Knotty Pine” AIR DATE: August 18, 2015 RATING: B- “Oh my god, I feel terrible…do you think they’re OK?” “Mark and Bird Bones, they’re never ‘OK’!” We are halfway through the second season of USA’s Playing House and, while the show’s been as comfyContinue Reading
PLAYING HOUSE Season 2, Episode 3: “Cashmere Burka” AIR DATE: August 11, 2015 RATING: B- In last season’s episode, “Unfinished Business”, we learned that Emma and her mother, Gwen (Jane Kaczmarek), have a very precarious relationship. They don’t see eye-to-eye and Emma has chosen to keep away from her MomContinue Reading
PLAYING HOUSE Season 2, Episode 2: “Sleepless in Pinebrook” AIR DATE: August 4, 2015 RATING: A Maggie has a sex dream about HGTV’s “Property Brothers”. Emma surmises that it’s Maggie’s brain telling her that she needs to get “that body worked”. Maggie, however, is hesitant because she’s stuck in MommyContinue Reading
PLAYING HOUSE Season 2, Episode 1: “Hello, Old Friend” AIR DATE: August 4, 2015 RATINGS: B+ “You asked us to renew Playing House for a second season!” declared the commercials on USA. “We listened to you!” “Well…yeah,” I thought. “The show is hilarious. What was this ‘movement’ made of? SixContinue Reading
Maggie (Lennon Parham) holds her infant daughter, Charlotte. Emma (Jessica St. Clair) holds a giant banana. She has no idea why a giant banana is needed for a family photo with her, Maggie and the baby and declares the photographer to be “clinically insane”. Maggie’s feelings are hurt. She justContinue Reading