As we here at EW have been saying since ABC's Cougar Town premiered last fall, the show's super-cougar Barb is one of the funniest new characters on television this season. Granted, she only shows up for maybe a minute every other episode—if we're lucky. (And you're in luck, she'll appear, however briefly, in tonight's new episode!) But regardless of her slim screen time, we thought it high time that we figure out exactly who is behind the hilarious one-liners and over-the-top cougaring Barb puts out there. Turns out, it's none other than the genius Carolyn Hennesy, an actress revered...
- 3/3/2010
- by Tanner Stransky
- EW.com - PopWatch
Chop, chop, chop. Watching the smooth motion of a knife slicing up vegetables for dinner seems utterly normal, but adding the well-composed musical backdrop, Piano Trio No. 2 E-flat (the tune might sound familiar, if you have ever watched The Hunger), behind the action in the first installment of Penny Dreadfuls induces an eerie, unconventional feeling to the customary kitchen setting. Penny Dreadfuls, an original web series available on Strike.TV produced by Bosso Fataka Entertainments, is a set of unsettling tales written and directed by James Arnall, which depict engrossing accounts of every day life intermingled with edge-of-your-seat thrills. The name penny dreadful is aptly derived from a particular brand of nineteenth century British publications, which were fictionalized accounts of real crimes sold in cheap storybook form to the working class. Arnall has managed to capture the true essence of this centuries old pulp fiction by portraying real-life circumstances with subtle simplicity and shocking results.
- 8/3/2009
- by Heather J. Taylor
- Tilzy.tv
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