Debbie’s Totally Random and Completely Insignificant Pop Culture Awards of 2023

Awards time! Yippee! As always, these are my personal preferences and just for fun. The Television Episode That Kicked the Ass of Anything in Movies Award: “Long, Long Time”: The Last of Us I came into the TV adaptation of The Last of Us completely cold. I had never played the game. If Game of …

Debbie’s Totally Random and Completely Insignificant Pop Culture Awards of 2018

(Sorry I’m a little late with these. Lots of upheaval in my life the last couple of months.) Happy New Year! It’s time for me to take a look over the past year in pop culture! As always, these are about my personal preferences and just for fun. The Television Episode That Kicked the Ass …

Forgotten Oscar Nominees and Winners

This post is part of the 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon 2018, hosted by Kellee of Outspoken & Freckled, Paula of Paula’s Cinema Club and Aurora of Once Upon a Screen. Read the rest of the posts in this event HERE! The aura around the Academy Awards is pretty strong. Not only the belief that …

Debbie’s Totally Random and Completely Insignificant Pop Culture Awards of 2017

It’s that time of year again! Woo-hoo, awards! As always, these are about my personal preferences and just for fun. The Sorry, Television, This Year the Movies Kicked YOUR Butt Award Wonder Woman, the No Man’s Land Sequence Yep, the movies finally did it. After years of TV out-doing, out-creating, out-character-driving action sequences, this year’s …

Debbie’s Totally Random and Completely Insignificant Pop Culture Awards of 2016

Yay, awards time! As always, these are about my personal preferences and just for fun. The Television Episode that Kicked the Ass of Anything in Movies Award: The Battle of the Bastards, Game of Thrones Yeah, I know I already covered the awesomeness of this episode in a previous post. And, yeah, Game of Thrones …

Alan Rickman’s Absurd Lack of Oscar Nominations

This post is part of the 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon, hosted by Kellee of Outspoken & Freckled, Paula of Paula’s Cinema Club and Aurora of Once Upon a Screen. Click HERE for a list of the other posts for Week 2: The Oscar Snubs. I’m just going to throw this out there because I …

Debbie’s Totally Random and Completely Insignificant Pop Culture Awards of 2015

I’m a little late with my pop culture awards—computer problems over Christmas. But at last, at last, (I know you’ve all been anxiously waiting!) here they are! As always, these are about my personal preferences and just for fun. 1. The Television Episode that Kicked the Ass of Anything in Movies Award: Hardhome - Game …

31 Days of Oscar Blogathon: Child Actor Nominees/Winners

This post is part of the 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon, hosted by Kellee of Outspoken & Freckled, Paula of Paula’s Cinema Club and Aurora of Once Upon a Screen. Click HERE to see more posts from Week 1: THE ACTORS. I remember so clearly when Tatum O'Neal won Best Supporting Actress at the tender age of 10. I …

What The 2014 Emmy Nominations Got Wrong–and Right

The Emmy nominations were announced this week. Some of my favorite shows got a boatload of nominations (Game of Thrones, Orange is the New Black, American Horror Story: Coven, to name a few.) So how come my main reaction was something like this: As I mentioned in my Pop Culture Awards post from last year, …

The Versatile Blogger Award!

Fellow blogger Rachel Lynn Brody has nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Award! Here are the rules for winning the award: Thank the person who gave you this award. THANK YOU RACHEL! Include a link to their blog: I Wrote This Nominate 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award and include a link to their …

Go Home Oscar Nominations, You’re Drunk

Before I go off on a rant about this year’s Oscar nominations, let me say this: 2013 was a pretty good movie year. I went to the movies more often than in the previous few years, and left the theater smiling way more than scowling. Good stuff from both mainstream Hollywood and independents. Some great …

Debbie’s Totally Random and Completely Insignificant Pop Culture Awards of 2013, Part Two

Time for Part Two of this year’s pop culture awards! Last week I concentrated exclusively on television. This week, I deal with movies, books, music and other entertainment topics. 1. The Complete Failure To Get The Point Award: The anonymous clowns who have approached Lionsgate Films about building a theme park based on The Hunger …

Debbie’s Totally Random and Completely Insignificant Pop Culture Awards Of 2013, Part One

It’s awards season! Time for my second annual pop culture awards! Same as last year, these are limited to my own personal preferences (as I’m not a professional critic) are just for fun and a place for me to laud what I loved and rant about what made me mad over the past year. As …

Pop Culture Roundup September 2013

1. New hits are already emerging from the Fall TV season. Sleepy Hollow, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Blacklist and The Crazy Ones were the first of the new series to break from the pack. Sleepy Hollow has already been renewed for a second season and The Blacklist has a full season order. And several shows …

The Best Shows Left Off The WGA 101 Best-Written TV Series List

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has revealed their list of the 101 best-written television series. First, let me say that in general, I’m not fond of lists. Rankings and what gets included can seem very arbitrary, and certain things like “recency-bias” (bias in favor of recently-made shows) and personal preference can skew the results. …