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• Giveaway Monday: What About Brian complete series DVDs
  

  Filed under: TV on DVD, Contests and Giveaways, What About Brian

  It's time for us to give away some stuff ... again! One of today's giveaways is for five copies of What About Brian - the complete series on DVD, which is in stores now. All you've got to do is submit a comment below before 5PM Eastern, October 5, and mention why you'd like to own the DVD set. We'll randomly choose five winners to receive the DVDs!
  
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  • What About Brian, The Complete Series -- DVD review
    

    Filed under: TV on DVD, What About Brian

    I miss this show... sort of. Was it the best thing on TV? Far from it. But it was enjoyable, had a really good cast, and provided some decent "that's how life really is" laughs. As I said time and again when I reviewed it, What About Brian had a nice blend of the quirkiness seen on Ed coupled with the "everyone wants to get laid" mentality of Grey's Anatomy. In theory, that's a stupendous combination.

    However, over the course of two seasons (I say that loosely because season one only had 5 installments and season two came back...
    

  
  
  
  • What About Brian: What About Calling All Friends (season finale)
    

    Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, What About Brian

    (S02E19) That wasn't much of a finale, was it? You can definitely tell that there were a couple more episodes that were meant to be and this one just got tweaked a little. I'm not sure how much else could have changed had we gotten a full 22 installments, but you never know.

    As I expected, Dave and Deena's impromptu wedding become the focal point of the episode, while everyone else just ran around like chickens with their heads cut off. That's one of the things you still gotta love about...
    

  
  
  
  • What About Brian: What About Secret Lovers
    

    Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, What About Brian

    

    (S02E18) What about Brian? Hell... I forgot about Brian. Didn't even realize there was a new episode last night until about an hour ago when I decided to clean out my TiVo list. I really do like this show, but apparently I'm not the only one who doesn't have it at the top of their list. Next week is the season finale, meaning the show order got cut by three episodes. First it got the 13 half order, then the full 22, and now it's been slashed to 19. What is it about the 10:00...
    

  
  
  
  • What About Brian: What About All That Glitters
    

    Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, What About Brian

    

    (S02E17) Something about this show... it's reaching right now. It had its footing, lost it, found it, and now it's back in some sort of weird TV limbo. It just feels like there's nothing of importance going on. Which is weird because I still enjoy the show a lot. Something was different here though. We've always known that this was a show about young people with relatively large amounts of money. That's kind of standard for ABC right now from Grey's Anatomy, to Brothers and...
    

  
  
  
  • What are rich people watching on television?
    

    Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, ABC, NBC, Lost, Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy, Watercooler Talk, The Office, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, What About Brian, Ratings

    Imagine this: you're sitting on your leather sofa with a glass of Joseph Phelps 2001 Insignia wine in one hand and a remote control in the other. You look at your 80-inch plasma television. What's on the screen? Scrubs.
    
    A media group analyzed Nielsen ratings by income and determined that affluent American television...
    
  
  
  
  • What About Brian: What About Strange Bedfellows
    

    Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, What About Brian

    

    (S02E16) I have to admit, I keep flip-flopping on this topic. I'm for Marjorie. I'm against her. Back and forth. I think what I'm starting to realize is that I really didn't like her character at all, but rather what she brought to the table: something that tied the whole series together. Something that gave the show meaning.

    After her departure, there were what, two really great episodes? And now this. I'm not saying I didn't like this episode, but it was a bit of a step down. There are just far too many little stories going on...
    

  
  
  
  • What About Brian: What About Temptations
    

    Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, What About Brian

    (S02E15) People should really start watching this show, especially if you've never seen an episode before. In terms of the show and its characters, everything is re-starting and beginning again. So it's a prime time to get into it because at this juncture, everything that happened before is starting to reach the point of irrelevancy.

    That being said, there's a lot going on now to make up for the fact that most of the original storylines and dilemmas are dying off. New characters are being introduced, new romances are popping up, and the same mentality that got me...
    

  
  
  
  • What About Brian: What About Finding Your Place
    

    Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, What About Brian

    (S02E14) Well it took a little more than half the season for the new staff of producers and writers to turn around What About Brian, but it's finally reached that point. This is a whole new show now. The Marjorie story is done, and while I'm not discounting another potential return for Sarah Lancaster, I'm not sure what the point would be.

    You have to look at this way. Would the series have really worked if Marjorie was just hanging around, constantly getting in the way of everyone's relationships? Don't forget -- I...
    

  
  
  
  • What About Brian: What About the Lake House
    

    Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, What About Brian

    (S02E13) This show is good again. It's been building and building with great episodes the past two weeks, and if it's possible after last week's stellar installment, this one was even better.

    Way back last spring when I first reviewed the pilot episode, I had this to say about What About Brian:

    "This show has got it. Whatever it is. It's got the quirkiness of Ed along with the "at the end of the day it seems like everyone just wants to get laid" mentality of Grey's. Plus it's...