Show-o-Matic

Breaking down each episode of our favorite formulaic shows by how closely it hews to said formula.

Shameless

All Hands On Deck, Gallagher-Style

With a social worker's home visit imminent, Lip tries to make everyone behave perfectly, and they do, except for how Fiona tries to excuse her own behaviour and Sammi gives Frank drugs. 2014.02.24

Teen Mom 2

No One In History Has Been More Anxious Than Kailyn To Move To Delaware

Meanwhile, Jenelle moves in with Nathan, Leah plans for Ali's new future, and Chelsea turns twenty-two...so how Teen Mom 2-y is it? 2014.02.12

Hollywood Game Night

Rosie O'Donnell And The Trouble With 'Trebles'

How the former talk-show host ruined maybe the best-ever round of TV ID, and more from the latest Hollywood Game Night. 2014.02.04

Hollywood Game Night

Jumpsuit And The Sockless

Which celebrity wore the most inappropriate outfit, and more superlatives from the latest episodes of Hollywood Game Night! 2014.01.28

Hollywood Game Night

Hollywood Game Night Is A Land Of Contrasts

In its back-to-back season-opening episodes, Hollywood Game Night shows how painful it can be when people (Martin Short) don't care about playing well, and how fun it can be when everyone is on point. 2014.01.21

Homeland

Homeland Heard You Like Training Montages

A blackmail daisy chain turns Brody back into a Marine for one last job. 2013.11.25

Catfish

Plenty Of (Cat)Fish

In the Catfish season finale, we meet Mike, who found Caroline through an online dating site. Is she what she seems? 2013.10.16

Catfish

Dog Eat Dog

Keyonnah is 60% sure she happened to find the real movie star/TV host/recording artist Bow Wow online. (Hopeless romantic Nev is at, like 75%.) 2013.10.09

The Pitch

Brush With Greatness

The Fuller Brush Company is still a real thing and not just a '50s punchline, as we learn when two ad agencies compete for its business. Which will be the season's last victor? 2013.10.04

Law & Order: SVU

Deen Splicing

This SVU episode about a racist celebrity chef who shoots a kid in 'self-defense' seems vaguely familiar...? 2013.10.03

The Pitch

Petals On The Wind

1 800 Flowers.com wants a new ad campaign. And you just know the guy on the tricycle scooter's going to have an assload of ideas. 2013.09.27

Law & Order: SVU

Island Getaway

Remember in the last season finale, that psycho Lewis attacked Benson? Well, in the premiere, he continues attacking her, all over Long Island. 2013.09.26

Law & Order: SVU

All In The Family

Benson's first case back is just a standard missing kid, until it's not. 2013.09.26

Catfish

What Tila Tequila Has Joined Together, Let No Man With Huge Gauges And A Neckbeard Tear Asunder

Who would have ever predicted that an online relationship formed on a Tila Tequila fan site would last about 500 times longer than Tila Tequila's career? 2013.09.25

The Pitch

Guitar Heroes

On The Pitch, two Nashville ad agencies present campaigns for Gibson. Which sounds better? 2013.09.20

The Pitch

Dough!

Two Chicagoland ad agencies compete for a Little Caesars campaign on The Pitch. Somehow, no one mentions Crazy Bread. 2013.09.13

Catfish

The One I Gave My Heart To

Aaliyah (not that one) wants help meeting her online girlfriend Alicia. Because she needs MTV to pay for her flight? Nah, just pinning her down: Alicia only lives a few dozen blocks away. Hmmmmmm. 2013.09.11

The Pitch

Tropic Of Crapricorn

Tommy Bahama comes to The Pitch wanting a strategy to raise awareness for their women's line. Both agencies respond in ways that make them seem like they've never vacationed anywhere warm or met a woman. 2013.09.06

Catfish

Mike Check

On Catfish, Ashley is ready to tell her online boyfriend of seven years that she's been sending him doctored photos of herself, which is going to be hard, because he's a competitive bodybuilder with perfect abs. What? 2013.09.04

Hollywood Game Night

'Unique'?!

Everyone, including the 'civilians,' fights to be the worst at games in the actually infuriating season finale of Hollywood Game Night. 2013.08.30