These are the people who make TWoP possible!
There are two types of Staff pages. The Show Staff pages list the recappers for an individual show. The Show Staff page for any particular show can be accessed from that show's section. A complete list of all shows, past and present can be found on the Shows page.
The other type of staff page is the Master Staff page which lists every staff member who's worked for TWoP since the gold rush days.
Aaron
| a.k.a. | Aaron |
| aaron@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Film, Pop-Tarts, films about Pop-Tarts, and girls who are mean to him. Really. |
| Dislikes | Non-smoking sections, his job, and temperatures over 65 degrees Fahrenheit. |
| Favourite Shows | The West Wing, The Sopranos, and all things hockey-related |
| Bio | Aaron has chosen to buck TWoP tradition and become a struggling writer/director from Pittsburgh instead of an struggling actor from Austin. If you scour iFilm long enough, you might actually see one of his movies. When he's not envying the talents and glamorous Hollywood lifestyle of Aaron Sorkin and Darren Aronofsky, he works as an analyst at one of the largest banks in the U.S. He's probably embezzling money from your account right now. |
| Recaps | Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Mind of the Married Man |
Ace
| a.k.a. | Miss Hansen, if you're nasty |
| ace@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Stuff. |
| Dislikes | Other stuff. And people. Most people, in fact. |
| Favourite Shows | Buffy, Designing for the Sexes, Grosse Pointe, NYPD Blue |
| Bio | Ace is an employee of a large university and thus considers herself particularly well-suited to recap Buffy's college adventures. She is currently obsessed with completing a large collection of tacky tiki shaped mugs. Anyone wishing to buy Ace's affections should start by sending her a portable Panasonic DVD player. |
| Recaps | Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Others |
Alex Richmond
| a.k.a. | That's her real name, nitwits |
| alexrichmond@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Nice dogs, funny jokes, thrift shopping, rock, modesty, dark chocolate, cashmere sweaters (thrifted ones count double), sushi, Jack Daniels, and sweet, sweet lovin' |
| Dislikes | Rules, having to get up and be anywhere before 1 PM, vain braggarts, bossy bessies, excessive cigarette smoke, disrespect, people that chew open-mouthed |
| Favourite Shows | Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the original Star Trek, The Simpsons, The A-Team, Fashion File, The Today Show |
| Bio | Alex Richmond became a woman only after successfully completing many years as a girl. Besides writing book reviews for the Philadelphia City Paper and covering nightlife for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Alex Richmond is a full time copywriter at a -- shudder -- advertising agency. She swears to god she'll never write a screenplay about how working for the man sucks her soul into the void, though. That's been done to death. |
| Recaps | Now and Again, NYPD Blue, The Lone Gunmen, The Real World: Miami, Sex and the City, Lost, Ally McBeal, Bands on the Run, Dead Last |
Amorgan
| a.k.a. | |
| amorgan@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
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| Recaps | Popular, Dark Angel |
Benzoate
| a.k.a. | David Wiebe |
| benzoate@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Canadian McChickens (trust me there�s a difference), Vince Carter, DishNetwork, 1970s Progressive Rock, Crispy Crunch bars |
| Dislikes | Republicans, People magazine, Swiss Chalet, Democrats, Michael Eisner, people who don�t consume caffeine in any form |
| Favourite Shows | Meet the Press, The Simpsons, The West Wing, The Daily Show, Late Night with David Letterman, SpongeBob SquarePants |
| Bio | Benzoate is a Canadian ex-pat who is currently scheming to return to his home and native land. But first he plans on leaving a wake of destruction and mayhem that nobody has seen since Bugs Bunny went nuts after he found out that the bounty on rabbits was only five cents. Remember that? Bugs is the bomb! |
| Recaps | Titans |
Camper
| a.k.a. | Elizabeth; Liz; "That loud woman in the corner with all the hair" |
| camper@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Woodchuck Cider, Red Vines, Chinese food, Dollar-Bud Night at the Lucky Bar, and Robert B. Parker novels -- often enjoyed at the same time |
| Dislikes | Waiting in line. That's the only one I can think of that won't make me sound like a complete raving freak. |
| Favourite Shows | The West Wing, Queer as Folk, Buffy, Angel, and anything else that isn't on CBS |
| Bio | Raised in L.A., Camper lives in D.C. and refuses to leave despite fairly cold weather and a Republican presidency. Professionally, she's just another internet industry gun for hire. |
| Recaps | Queer as Folk U.S. |
Cate
| a.k.a. | Cate Poua (rhymes with "boa") |
| cate@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | '50s furniture, glossy magazines, Japanese food, Diet Pepsi, complaining about Toronto's weather |
| Dislikes | Pigeons on her balcony, people who dis Miss Manners, Celine Dion |
| Favourite Shows | Grosse Pointe, Iron Chef, dance recitals on cable access |
| Bio | When not immersed in the fantasyland of television, Cate resides in the fantasyland of the past, with which she has a love/hate relationship. She writes about that sometimes at Cate's Garage Sale Finds. |
| Recaps | Freaks & Geeks, 7th Heaven |
Chuck
| a.k.a. | David |
| chuck@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Bitching, moaning, sleeping, drinking, pointing out the flaws of others, puppies. |
| Dislikes | Stupid people who think they�re smart, boat shoes, suspenders, mushy apples, alarm clocks, guilt. |
| Favourite Shows | Strangers with Candy, Buffy, Undressed, Kids in the Hall, MTV Cribs |
| Bio | A disgruntled denizen of the imploding Internet economy, David sits and spins for a living in San Francisco. |
| Recaps | Wonderland, Oz |
Daniel
| a.k.a. | Daniel MacEachern |
| daniel@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Playing '80s power ballads on his guitar like "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" because he thinks it impresses women when he strums chords all slow and shit. |
| Dislikes | You know how sometimes you'll try to open a bottle of beer with your teeth and the neck shatters in your mouth? He hates that. |
| Favourite Shows | Hockey games, The Simpsons, Law & Order |
| Bio | Daniel is an editor at a newspaper in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. No, really, it's a real place. Look it up. His goal is to one day be as cranky as J. Jonah Jameson from Spider-Man comic books. |
| Recaps | Sports Night |
Deborah
| a.k.a. | Deborah |
| deborah@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | words, books, language, reading, writing...um, wait! Other stuff too: the '70s, meat, shopping for antiques, Sylvia Plath, boating, water, music (especially funk), obscure films, the colours purple and black, silver-coloured metals, Cary Grant, Keanu Reeves, confessional comics, lilies, orchids, cats, and solitude |
| Dislikes | millions of things, but here's a short list: incompetence, quasi-literacy, mistakes in print, the '80s, tobacco, winter, carnations, roses, fur, canned pork and beans, allergies, the colour orange, wimpy shoes, crowds, noise, gold-coloured metals, people who don't signal, air travel, rodents/vermin, and misogyny |
| Favourite Shows | 24, Canadian House and Home, Trading Spaces, A Makeover Story, Seasons 1-3 of Oz, The Simpsons, Northern Exposure, All in the Family, The Dick van Dyke Show, Rhoda, Antiques Roadshow, and any back-to-the-past reality shows, such as The 1900 House and Pioneer Quest |
| Bio | Deborah and her husband fled the crowds, pollution, noise, and expense of Toronto for the solitude, fresh air, peace, and expense of their first house, a huge Victorian home in a very small lakefront town. She is a freelance writer and editor, and her company is called Words to that Effect. She spends as much time as possible on her website, Chicklit. She spends every "spare" minute helping to manage her husband's consulting business, and renovating/ redecorating/ maintaining her house. She can always find time to complain about the climate. She harbours a deep and abiding distrust of anyone who does not like funk music. She vaguely remembers what it was like to have a life, and she'll thank you not to remind her. |
| Recaps | The West Wing, The Practice |
Della Femina
| a.k.a. | Jackie Danicki |
| della_femina@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
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| Recaps | Queer as Folk U.K. |
Demian
| a.k.a. | Jon Neville |
| demian@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Smoking. |
| Dislikes | Children and pets. |
| Favourite Shows | Law & Order, but only the original series. SVU and Criminal Intent chafe my ass. My recent, horrifying addiction to shows on the WB has no explanation. Well, aside from the fact that some of the guys on the WB tend to be on the scorching side of hot. I mean, have you seen Tom Welling? It's inhuman. |
| Bio | Demian sells booze, cigarettes, and Pop-Tarts to the under-six set as part of his job as a low-level "suit" at an advertising agency in Chicago. How he managed to land a job in advertising, he'll never know. |
| Recaps | Charmed |
Djb
| a.k.a. | Daniel J. Blau |
| djb@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Hot chicks, fast cars, the continuing cultural relevance of professional a cappella music and its rabid and vocal fan base, and the year that I was old enough to really remember and greatly enjoy the Mets winning the World Series. Oh, wait. |
| Dislikes | The public perception perpetrated by people who didn't grow up on Long Island that Billy Joel is, in fact, a big ol' cheeseball. And ugly chicks. |
| Favourite Shows | Whatever. I'm not a WB whore. Stop looking at me like that. |
| Bio | Djb is super-keen on forgotten bands from the eighties and movies based on popular children's board games. He secretly wants to find fame and fortune by writing a full-scale musical extravaganza about the Clinton scandal and calling it Monica! As you can see, he has already procured the website in reckless pursuit of this goal. He is sad Jerome Robbins will not be available to choreograph. If Sars or Wing has anything to do with it, Djb has probably begged to write for it. |
| Recaps | Roswell, Twin Peaks, Making the Band, The Real World: Boston, Oz, Charmed |
Glark
| a.k.a. | David T. Cole |
| glark@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Playing Counter-Strike until 4am |
| Dislikes | Things involving tools and nails |
| Favourite Shows | The Simpsons, Futurama, Malcolm in the Middle, West Wing, The Prisoner |
| Bio | Glark runs �ber Interactive, an interactive agency specializing in web solutions for entertainment and community-minded properties as well as producing TWoP, Hissyfit and Fametracker. Glark waits for the day he'll have enough time to take a serious vegetarian cooking course. |
| Recaps | Recaps your ass if you don't watch it bub. |
Gustave
| a.k.a. | Matthew P. Ehrlich |
| gustave@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | The Barcelona chair and ottoman designed by Mies van der Rohe (1929), Philosophy Hair Gel, Home Depot, what Kate Betts did to Harper�s Bazaar, and chicken-with-cheese sandwiches from White Castle |
| Dislikes | Paparazzi, the Miller Sisters, pollen, and laundry detergent with fragrance |
| Favourite Shows | The Sopranos, Buffy, 90210, That�s My Bush, and Full Frontal Fashion |
| Bio | Gustave lives in New York City, enduring the superstardom he never asked for with grace, humility and humor. |
| Recaps | Popular, 24, The Others, The Real World: London |
Gwen
| a.k.a. | Gwendolyn Zepeda |
| gwen@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Cute Japanese merchandise, crazy old needlework books, singing merry tunes on the way to work |
| Dislikes | Liars, brown-nosers, imitation mashed potatoes |
| Favourite Shows | Antiques Roadshow, VIP, Sewing With Nancy |
| Bio | Gwen is a scandalous career girl living in glamorous Houston on a shoestring budget. Oh, except for the fact that she never actually gets to do anything scandalous. Read all about it at Gwen Town. |
| Recaps | Ally McBeal, 7th Heaven |
Heathen
| a.k.a. | Heather |
| heathen@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Anything Notre Dame, college football, the Airplane! movies, the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?," margaritas, Las Vegas, peanut butter, and my Al Snow action figure. |
| Dislikes | Jewel, sharks, those thong-style sandals, TV shows that name themselves after specific decades, most vegetables, Tara Reid's pelvis, and Céline Dion. |
| Favourite Shows | The West Wing, Undeclared, Buffy, Gilmore Girls, the second, third and fourth seasons of Blackadder, almost anything airing on E! Entertainment Television, The Simpsons, and of course Iron Chef. |
| Bio | Heathen gave up a stable tech-reporting job in Austin, Texas, for the less noble and more unstable entertainment industry. She lives in Los Angeles now, embroiled in the daily struggle against going broke. Her old employers are laughing. Her hobbies include swearing, and swearing loudly. One day, she hopes to stop shouting at the television; failing that, she'd settle for a Diet Coke and some cheesecake. |
| Recaps | Making the Band, Wolf Lake, ER, Undeclared, Band of Brothers |
Jessica
| a.k.a. | Jessica Morgan |
| jessica@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Glossy fashion magazines, Diet Coke, politics, James Ellroy, pop music, The New Yorker, true crime novels, A Room With a View, college football, gossip, etiquette books, architecture, singing in the car, handbags, clever packaging, Las Vegas, cookbooks, eBay, reading, Mexican food, Chinatown, and young Paul Newman. |
| Dislikes | Pet birds, cigarettes, that chick on The Weakest Link, The Weakest Link, Kid Rock, sweat pants in public, Pina Coladas, math, pumpkin pie, George W. Bush, Jim Mullen's Hot Sheet, and the fact that MTV never shows videos anymore. |
| Favourite Shows | Passions, Buffy, The West Wing, Bands on the Run, Blind Date, The X-Files, The Sopranos, reruns of Friends, Beverly Hills, 90210: The Brenda Years, Once and Again and Survivor. |
| Bio | Jessica is a freelance writer in Santa Monica, California. She has twenty-seven imaginary boyfriends and two action figures. She wants to be White House Press Secretary when she grows up. |
| Recaps | Judging Amy, The X-Files, Big Brother, Dawson's Creek, The Real World: Los Angeles |
Joanna
| a.k.a. | Joanna Hughes |
| joanna@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Mashed potatoes, In Style magazine, William Hurt, movie theatre popcorn, Leonard Cohen, New York City, and fried things |
| Dislikes | White socks, nude pantyhose, ice, grapes with seeds, and most other fruits too |
| Favourite Shows | 90210, Buffy, A Year in the Life (a show that was on for like ten minutes in the mid-eighties that starred "It Girl" of the time Amanda Peterson, Sarah Jessica Parker, and a billion other people) |
| Bio | Joanna braves the mean streets of Baltimore every day with her faithful dog Piglet at her side. Oh yeah, Pandora's there too. |
| Recaps | Survivor |
Keckler
| a.k.a. | Stephanie Vander Weide |
| keckler@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Peking ravioli, port, P.G. Wodehouse, and turkey loaves |
| Dislikes | Zucchini, infomercials, socks, dust mice, and loud noises |
| Favourite Shows | Blackadder, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cooking with Jacques and Julia, and various Treks |
| Bio | In the world of natural and unfiltered light, keckler is a fine arts and photography book editor (read: big, expensive, coffee-table books) by day, and watches too much TV and drinks too much Post Road Pumpkin Ale by night. |
| Recaps | Time of Your Life, D.C., The Fugitive, Enterprise, First Years |
Key Grip
| a.k.a. | Keytholomew Gripstein |
| keygrip@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Writing, smooching |
| Dislikes | Not making any money, psoriasis |
| Favourite Shows | The Simpsons, Buffy The Vampire Slayer |
| Bio | Key Grip lives in Manhattan, where he writes plays, screenplays, sketch comedy, TV spec scripts, fiction, and recaps for TWoP. Guess which of these pays the best thus far? You can also catch him performing around the city with his comedy troupe, Key Grip and the Best Boys. |
| Recaps | Boston Public, My So-Called Life |
Kim
| a.k.a. | Kim Reed |
| kim@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Pepsi One, redheads, cheesy teen movies, little kids with British accents, information architecture, feminism, the late much-lamented Might magazine, and kicking it old school |
| Dislikes | People who think they are superior because they don't watch television, people who think they are superior because they've never "surfed the web," the phrase "surfing the web," Craig Kilborn, most of what Jakob Nielsen has to say, and the U.S. healthcare "system" |
| Favourite Shows | Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Felicity, The West Wing, Room by Room on HGTV, My So-Called Life, Homicide, Newsradio, and Northern Exposure |
| Bio | When she's not working on her website, Fresh Hell, Kim enjoys watching Total Request Live on MTV, plotting world domination one domain at a time, and playing "Name That TV Theme Song." It is her goal to someday record an answering machine message that will rival George Costanza's Greatest American Hero theme: "Believe it or not, George isn't at home.... " |
| Recaps | Party of Five, The Real World, Felicity, Dark Angel, Gideon's Crossing, WWF Smackdown, Oz, Boot Camp, Love Cruise, Freakylinks, The Mole, RW/RR Challenge, Tough Enough |
LuluBates
| a.k.a. | Number One Chicken |
| lulubates@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Monkeys, chickens, soy lattes, and Furry porn |
| Dislikes | Cucumbers, Tommy Lee Jones, local news, the FTAA, and rock-star complexes |
| Favourite Shows | The Iron Chef, Emergency Vets, The New Detectives, and anything involving parasites, forensics, or epidemiology |
| Bio | Recently having relocated to the Big Apple, Lulu has already seen Pierce Brosnan, Jon Stewart, and three former high-school classmates. She really hopes to run into Tommy Stinson, Vincent Perez, and no one else from high school. |
| Recaps | Dark Angel, The Sopranos |
Maggie
| a.k.a. | Maggie G. |
| maggie@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Doin' it right on the wrong side of town. |
| Dislikes | People who feel the need to inform her that Noel isn't spelled Knoll; people who ignore the Felicity FAQ; organ meats |
| Favourite Shows | The Sopranos, Felicity, Grosse Pointe, Teen Talent Time |
| Bio | Maggie is in the process of stickin' it to The Man once and for all and will soon be self-employed, possibly as a stilt-walker. Or in small engine repair. |
| Recaps | Felicity, Freaks & Geeks |
Manimal
| a.k.a. | Karen |
| manimal@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Prince, E.M. Forster, Polaroid cameras, jazz hands, and movies that feature big song-and-dance routines |
| Dislikes | People who carry large purses and spillable drinks onto a dance floor, SUVs |
| Favourite Shows | Felicity, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, Antiques Roadshow, and that freaky show Crossing Over on the Sci-Fi channel |
| Bio | Manimal works as a web writer, but cherishes a secret dream of becoming a Vegas dancer. |
| Recaps | Jack & Jill, The Real World: New York, The Fugitive, Alias |
Megyn
| a.k.a. | The dark empress of caffeine |
| megyn@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Sugared cereals and running with scissors |
| Dislikes | Anything involving a time frame or snakes |
| Favourite Shows | Inside the Actors Studio, Sex & The City, Will & Grace, Oz, The Simpsons, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and any Real World season |
| Bio | Megyn is an Irish-Southern minx shrouded in mystery and intrigue. She currently resides in Los Angeles and enjoys stalking David Duchovny in her spare time. By day, she works for an entertainment public relations agency which has, in exchange for her toils, taken her mortal soul. By night, she procrastinates. In addition to writing for TWoP, Megyn is an accomplished martial arts expert and aspires to one day head up an elite crime-fighting force so she can wear a cool costume. |
| Recaps | Oz |
Miss Alli
| a.k.a. | Linda |
| missalli@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Baseball, Ella Fitzgerald, chick movies, Shane Battier, the French horns in "God Only Knows," strawberry margaritas with red sugar rims, Jon Stewart, the National Aquarium in Baltimore, piano players, noninterpretivism, laughing until her stomach hurts, the Phillies, the Twins, the Vikings, the Blue Devils, and Elpidio Guzman |
| Dislikes | Domed stadiums, thinking outside the box, boxing, chain letters, junk e-mail, flying, Mariah Carey, movies where somebody pointlessly dies at the end, being patient, the dentist, the Braves, the Yankees, the Cowboys, the Tar Heels, and J.R. Rider |
| Favourite Shows | Sports Night, The West Wing, World's Wildest Police Videos, Friends, old episodes of Moonlighting |
| Bio | Miss Alli survives year after year in the frozen tundra of the upper Midwest, despite the pull exerted by her East Coast upbringing. By day, she's sort of a policy wonk type, and in her free time she dabbles in photography and writing and movies and basically a heck of a lot of things she can barely keep track of. |
| Recaps | The Amazing Race |
Miss Parker
| a.k.a. | Heather Nesbitt |
| missparker@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Watching the DVD of Fight Club in French, bumblebees |
| Dislikes | The words "salve" and "juxtaposed," math |
| Favourite Shows | The Sopranos, The West Wing, Sports Night, Gilmore Girls |
| Bio | After completing a near decade of higher education in time for the true millennium, miss parker has become a high school teacher. That way, she can shamelessly watch Dawson's Creek and call it research. |
| Recaps | The Sopranos |
Mr. Stupidhead
| a.k.a. | David G. Bunting, Jr. |
| mrstupidhead@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | BBQing, runt attacks, cheese, driving around, samples of Edie McClurg, waving at people he doesn't know |
| Dislikes | People who walk too slowly, olives, unbalanced stereo sound, and when Sars tells that story about when he ran into a tree while talking |
| Favourite Shows | Degrassi, Boston Public |
| Bio | Mr. Stupidhead is a scholar and DJ who lives underground. |
| Recaps | 7th Heaven, Bands on the Run |
Nicole
| a.k.a. | Nicole |
| nicole@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Collecting various animals as pets, travelling, changing jobs, wine, ice cream |
| Dislikes | Jerry Falwell, people who come to her front door and ask if her parents are home, large flowers used as fashion, USAir |
| Favourite Shows | The Simpsons, Sex and the City, all those shows on TLC daytime -- A Baby Story, A Dating Story, A Makeover Story, Trading Spaces |
| Bio | Nicole grew up in New Jersey but now lives in the buckle of the Bible Belt. She is not happy about this, and that is why she spends money she doesn't have to visit people all over the US and Canada. She has also never seen a full episode of The Sopranos because her husband always asks her if she is homesick and misses her Mob neighbors if he catches her watching the show. |
| Recaps | Third Watch, Sex and the City |
Niki
| a.k.a. | Niki Walker |
| niki@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Her cat Wiley, road trips, gin and tonics, antique markets, sailing, reading, Trivial Pursuit, penguins, documentaries, Mr. Burns, the 'snooze' button, and Terry's Chocolate Orange |
| Dislikes | Cilantro, rank subway stations, slush, doing dishes, getting woken up, Michael Douglas and anyone associated with him |
| Favourite Shows | Law & Order, Sex & The City, Beggars and Choosers, Once and Again, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Blind Date, and Northern Exposure |
| Bio | Niki lives and works in Toronto, where she spends her days toiling under the mercilessly cracking whips of Wing Chun and Glark at �ber Interactive. In her free time, she enjoys pilfering clothes from her boyfriend's vintage clothing business, riding shotgun, reading, fantasizing about writing fiction, and � brace yourself � watching TV. |
| Recaps | Once and Again |
Omar G
| a.k.a. | Omar L. Gallaga |
| omarg@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | DVD extras, video games of all creeds and colors, writing, reading, reading about writing, reading too many Web journals, stadium-seating theaters, fine comedic stylings, traveling, Radiohead |
| Dislikes | Anything to do with Creed, dial-up modems, jet lag, Anne Rice's prose, most channels that aren't HBO |
| Favourite Shows | Mr. Show, The Sopranos, The Larry Sanders Show, The West Wing, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Twin Peaks, Will & Grace, The Chris Rock Show |
| Bio | Omar G. used to think he was alone in the pop culture wasteland, and then he met the Television Without Pity posse. He started a site, Terribly Happy, and has contributed to some of his favorite places on the Web, including Hissyfit and Fametracker. He lives in Austin where he works at a newspaper and performs and writes with the Latino Comedy Project. |
| Recaps | City of Angels, Third Watch, Smallville |
Owen
| a.k.a. | |
| owen@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
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| Bio | Owen calls Atlanta, The City Too Hateful To Be Busy, home. He sometimes stops whining long enough to enjoy really bad TV movies such as Nightmare in Badham County and Why Me? His other activities include trying to get paid what he's worth, finding a man who can truly appreciate him, and terrorizing service people. |
| Recaps | Charmed, Sex and the City |
Pamie
| a.k.a. | Pamela Ribon; a.k.a. Pop Culture Princess |
| pamie@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Johnny Depp, John Travolta, John Cusack, John Henson, Jon Stewart, Johnny Rotten and John Waters |
| Dislikes | Jonathan Taylor-Thomas, John Stamos, Johnny Mathis, Johnson and Johnson, John Q. Public, Johnny DrinksTooMuch and John Tesh |
| Favourite Shows | Gilmore Girls, Sex and the City, The Sopranos, Mr. Show with Bob and David, Friends, Seinfeld, Behind the Music, Queer as Folk U.S., Will and Grace, 21 Jump Street, Newsradio, The Kids in the Hall |
| Bio | Pamie has recapped Get Real, Young Americans, Ally McBeal (with Gwen), Gilmore Girls, Making the Band, The Real World San Francisco (that one took a team), season two of The Sopranos (with a different team), and Popstars. When Pamie isn't getting stuck recapping some of the worst shows on television (Gilmore Girls and The Sopranos excepted), she used to update her site Squishy at pamie.com, where she dished out the gossip of her daily life. But that's gone now, so she would have been working on her weekly article for The Austin American-Statesman when most of her other freelance work was cancelled with this whole dot-com bust thing you hear about so much these days, but then they went ahead and laid her off at the Statesman, too. Please send Pamie cash. She's got two cats to raise, you know. Pamie has written and performed One Woman Shows (Austin, TX misses her so) and is a graduate of The Second City. That's right: she's officially funny. You can find her and her cats arguing over the TiVo just about any day of the week. She lives and works in Los Angeles, where she sometimes wears pigtails. |
| Recaps | Get Real, Ally McBeal, Young Americans, The Real World: San Francisco, Popstars, Making the Band, The Sopranos, Gilmore Girls, Queer As Folk U.S. |
Pooh
| a.k.a. | Winnie the Pooh, Pooh Bear, Grammar Girl, Spelling Nazi |
| pooh@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Diet Coke, gum, chocolate, cookies, ice cream, classic rock, sleeping, babies, dogs, baseball, tag-team people watching (it's not just a spectator sport), Noah Hunt, Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Goran Visnjic, Jeff Hardy, Chris Jericho, Lip Medex, people who think I'm funny, and shopping in Canada with U.S. dollars |
| Dislikes | Bad grammar, bad spelling, a myriad of fashion faux pas, forever being ten minutes late, coffee, mushrooms, mustard, John Travolta, Gwyneth Paltrow, two-footed drivers, willful ignorance, corporate lingo, mandatory business attire, and the ever-present evil co-worker |
| Favourite Shows | Buffy, The West Wing, The Sopranos, Oz, WWF Raw, The Real World, Law & Order, Survivor, Gilmore Girls, ER |
| Bio | Rock star by night, financial-industry goddess by day, Pooh spends her free time cruising around New Jersey in her SUV, preaching the proper spelling of "definitely" and "separate." She firmly believes she'll be rich and famous one day, but doesn't really want to work for it. |
| Recaps | Law & Order: SVU |
Ragdoll
| a.k.a. | Deanna McFadden |
| ragdoll@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | peppermint tea, Bob Marley, Sarah Harmer, Ang Lee movies, and an extra-large helping of Tobey Maguire |
| Dislikes | slush, people who stand in the middle of the dance floor without moving, and patchouli incense |
| Favourite Shows | That '70s Show, Frasier, Gilmore Girls, The West Wing, and Once & Again |
| Bio | Ragdoll has sold her soul to the devil. By day, she is a small part of a large company who produces specialty television channels. By night, she slaves away in her writing room, trying to finish a novel. |
| Recaps | The Practice |
Regina
| a.k.a. | Paprika; Red (don't ask -- just assume it's in reference to my hair) |
| regina@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Diet Coke, American Spirit cigarettes, Sandman's new Playstation2, my new DVD player, and, of course, world peace |
| Dislikes | Taxes, mental rejects, exploratory surgery, cellulite, and, of course, world peace |
| Favourite Shows | Sex and the City, Will & Grace, Cold Feet, Smack the Pony and any Behind the Music that DOESN'T involve Britney Spears |
| Bio | Regina spends her days kicking and spitting her way up the Internet start-up ladder. Which pretty much means she surfs the Web in search of high-quality porn and gets paid to do so. Other than bitching on a regular basis, she has no idea what she does at night. Probably because most of her evenings involve healthy amounts of Absolut and soda. |
| Recaps | American High, Grosse Pointe, The Agency, Alias |
Sars
| a.k.a. | Sarah D. Bunting |
| sars@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Guacamole, baseball, smoking sections, when Wonder Mic says "guess what, America, we love you" in "Rapper's Delight," William Fichtner, true crime, making fun of the cats, and the fine musical product of the '80s |
| Dislikes | Raisins, bad grammar, people who wear sweatshirts over turtlenecks, David Spade, traffic, spiders, and when Mr. Stupidhead tells that story about how she broke her ankle while pretending to be a horse |
| Favourite Shows | Degrassi High, Double Trouble, Behind The Music, Unsolved Mysteries, and Law & Order: The Noth Years |
| Bio | Big ol' sunglasses allow Sars to move around New York City unmolested by her many Tomato Nation fans. In her spare time, she enjoys growling at slow-moving tourists, shopping for shoes, and sporadically answering the Not! Line. (And actually, it rhymes with "scares.") She has not cleaned her bathroom since W. took office. |
| Recaps | Dawson's Creek, ER, My So-Called Life, The Sopranos |
Sep
| a.k.a. | The Impudent Guttersnipe |
| sep@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Sandwiches, ancient Chinese piercing weapons, long walks on the beach |
| Dislikes | Rudeness, salad-in-a-bag, buffalo-head nickels. |
| Favourite Shows | Chico and the Man, Q-Bert |
| Bio | Sep was born in a bustling bazaar just west of East Bangladesh, which I guess puts it somewhere in Central Bangladesh, on 131st Street and Main. Left to fend for herself, she got by on her wits, selling naughty hood ornaments whittled from old fence posts and stealing the odd plantain for breakfast. Enticed by the steel-blue eyes of a passing carnival barker, Sep hit the road, getting by on her wits and selling naughty hood ornaments whittled from petrified elephant dung and stealing the odd honeydew for lunch. Eventually her travels brought her to Austria, where in an effort to get the carnival top billing in the annual Strudel Parade she turned the Von Trapp children over to local authorities. Impressed, the German Intelligence Agency enlisted Sep's help in international espionage operations, until finally, on assignment in sunny California, where she was secretly getting by on her wits and selling naughty hood ornaments whittled from endangered redwoods and stealing the odd sushi roll for dinner, she decided to hang up her cloak and spork and live the recapper's life. |
| Recaps | Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Real World: San Francisco |
Shack
| a.k.a. | Scott |
| shack@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Chinese dumplings, Zingers (both the snack food and the snappy comeback), Dr. Pepper, P.M. Dawn, mailing boxes of raw hamburger to David E. Kelley |
| Dislikes | Mayonnaise, pundits, people who use "dialogue" as a verb or "signage" in any context |
| Favourite Shows | Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The West Wing, Iron Chef, The Simpsons, Futurama, Farscape |
| Bio | Shack claims to be a journalist and editor, but if you look at all the errors on Bitch Panic, you'll just shake your head in wonder about the sad state of today's media. |
| Recaps | Pasadena |
Sobell
| a.k.a. | Lisa Schmeiser |
| sobell@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Diet Coke, comic books, structuralism and post-structuralism, open source, Ken Cole shoes, making grown men cry |
| Dislikes | Many, many things |
| Favourite Shows | Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Oz. I love you, HBO! (Except you, Arli$$. Or you, Real Sex.) Also, Good Eats, Iron Chef, Homicide: Life on the Street and Farscape. |
| Bio | Lisa is counting the days until she can leave her life as an executive editor at a national technology magazine and begin following her dream -- becoming queen of her own island nation. When she�s not reading up on the finer points of creating a theocracy in one�s own image, she�s writing about television for this site too. |
| Recaps | C.S.I. |
Stee
| a.k.a. | Stee, a.k.a. The Pit Boss (I'm trying to make it catch on, people) |
| stee@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | bars, dogs, baseball, Thanksgiving, the moment the lights go down at the movies, snack chips of all kinds, Paul Auster novels, gum, Jeff Bridges, staying up late, coffee, funny girls, The Kids From Widney High, and laughing so hard you feel like you're going to throw up but you actually don't, and your mom |
| Dislikes | cleaning, cooking, most vegetables, people who are mean to animals, Gretchen Mol, movie trailers that tell you the whole story, Creed, and people who don't use their turn signals |
| Favourite Shows | The Sopranos, Friends, Seinfeld, Will and Grace, Monty Python's Flying Circus, ER, The Real World, Silver Spoons, Inside The Actor's Studio, Cheers, COPS, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, The A-Team |
| Bio | Stee is a busy actor / writer living at the very bottom of the Hollywood Hills. When he's not searching for dive bars with pool tables, stee acts in films, on stage, and with his comedy troupe Film Pigs. He also writes plays and screenplays, directs short films, writes for the web, reads scripts for a studio, and dances on Solid Gold: The New Season. He has been married to national treasure Carol Channing now for eleven glorious years. For TWoP, Stee has recapped Friends, The $treet, Temptation Island, and Road Rules |
| Recaps | Road Rules, Chains of Love, The $treet, Temptation Island, The Osbournes |
Strega
| a.k.a. | Just don't call me Sue |
| strega@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Petty grudges, good books, bad television, her chinchilla, playing devil's advocate, complaining about her many dislikes |
| Dislikes | Centipedes, laugh tracks, 95% of fandom, peanuts, Oliver Stone, and too many other things to name |
| Favourite Shows | Farscape, Babylon 5, The Singing Detective, Fawlty Towers, The Prisoner, Aeon Flux� whoa, I'm such a geek. Yikes. |
| Bio | Strega grew up watching Star Trek, Monty Python, and David Letterman, which probably explains a great deal. She was born in California, went to college in Illinois, and now lives in suburban Maryland, where she works in a gray, suburban office building. Strega spends far too much time thinking about cookies. Every so often, she remembers to update her website. |
| Recaps | Angel, The West Wing |
Tumbleweed
| a.k.a. | Julia Clinger |
| tumbleweed@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
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| Recaps | Jack & Jill |
Uncle Bob
| a.k.a. | Jimmy D |
| unclebob@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Making my baby boy smile; thunderstorms; sweet-and-sour chicken; puppies and kittens; driving really fast through busy intersections honking my horn and flipping off everyone in the vicinity; reading about celebrity drug busts and snickering to myself; taunting midgets and then placing my hand on top of their head to keep them at bay when they freak out and wanna punch my kneecaps out. |
| Dislikes | Sweating; surfing for porn and finding pictures of Grandma; any "teen heartthrob" who is introduced to a sitcom several years into its existence in order to garner interest from prepubescent girls. |
| Favourite Shows | Strangers With Candy, Survivor, Ed, Will & Grace, Oz, Twin Peaks |
| Bio | Uncle Bob is a humor columnist for a newspaper which doesn't allow him to use profane language. This explains his penchant for four-letter words in anything he writes for the Internet. He's also a new father, a great husband, a barbecue grill master, a dead ringer for a young Harvey Korman, and kicks total ass at Wheel of Fortune, often getting puzzles before any letters are revealed. He is a pop culture machine, a lean, mean, fighting machine, and a love machine. And he don't work for nobody but you. |
| Recaps | Ed |
Wendola
| a.k.a. | Wendy McClure |
| wendola@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Chewing gum, really old music videos, shiny things. |
| Dislikes | Tapeworms, mustard, step aerobics, having her cake left out in the rain, Lenny Kravitz, blunt trauma. |
| Favourite Shows | Felicity, Gilmore Girls, Survivor, The Dukes of Hazzard, My So-Called Life. Also, sometimes Trading Spaces appears on her television and she just can't look away. |
| Bio | Wendola lives in Chicago and edits really short books for a living. Her writing has appeared in Bust magazine and a bunch of snotty little journals nobody's heard of. She has a website called Pound and wonders if it makes her look fat or something. |
| Recaps | Glory Days, Wasteland, Law & Order: SVU |
Wing Chun
| a.k.a. | Tara Ariano |
| wingchun@televisionwithoutpity.com | |
| Likes | Cereal, naps, Ballistic, talking shit, candy, new books, Elliott Smith, Coca-Cola Classic, Jerry Orbach, the Beatles 1965-68, and Bring It On |
| Dislikes | Alarm clocks, migraines, Scott Sassa, that chick who hosts Later now, people who think Heather in The Blair Witch Project was a bitch, Salon.com, and The Man |
| Favourite Shows | The Daily Show, Felicity, Gilmore Girls, The King of Queens, Futurama, Newsradio reruns, Will & Grace, Once & Again, Kids in the Hall, and The West Wing |
| Bio | Wing Chun wrote this bio at 4:28 AM on a weekday, which tells you nearly everything you need to know about her. Wing Chun also rides tall in the saddle at Hissyfit and Fametracker. She lives, laughs, and loves in Toronto. |
| Recaps | Dawson's Creek, ER, My So-Called Life |