It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Review: "Frank's Back in Business" (Episode 8.07)

By Ross Bonaime at 2:50 PM on November 30, 2012

Back in the second season, when Danny DeVito’s Frank was introduced, he was a savvy businessman who was focused more on money and business than running around the sewers of Philadelphia naked.  read more

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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Review: "Charlie's Mom Has Cancer" (Episode 8.06)

By Ross Bonaime at 3:00 PM on November 16, 2012

Season eight of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has been a fascinating experiment for Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day and Rob McElhenney. The creative trio largely responsible for the show’s path have tooled around with the normal It’s Always Sunny formula and have turned in some of the most self-referential and self-aware episodes of television that makes the show more along the lines of Community and Arrested Development than Seinfeld, which it has been compared to for eight seasons. This eighth season has gone into the depths of the show, making callbacks to as far back as the first season. It’s an experiment that so far has worked pretty well, and even when it doesn’t, it’s compelling to watch.   read more

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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Review: "The Gang Gets Analyzed" (Episode 8.05)

By Ross Bonaime at 3:37 PM on November 9, 2012

“The Gang Gets Analyzed” has a lot of fun with how messed up these characters are, however I’m a bit surprised it didn’t go further. Dennis and Frank were unearthed as much more screwed up than we had previously thought, but Mac, Charlie and Dee just seemed like they were reinforcing their key character traits. But regardless, seeing how much help these five needed individually led to an amusing episode that showed us what lies underneath these screaming, maniacal lunatics.  read more

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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Review: "The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre" (Episode 8.03)

By Ross Bonaime at 4:30 PM on October 26, 2012

The best part of “Maureen Ponderosa’s Wedding Massacre” is that it’s a hell of a lot of fun.   read more

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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Review: "The Gang Recycles Their Trash" (Episode 8.02)

By Ross Bonaime at 3:00 PM on October 19, 2012

“It this our trash?” Mac asks Dee and Dennis in the beginning of “The Gang Recycles Their Trash.” Dennis responds, “We generate a lot of it.”  read more

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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Review: "Pop-Pop: The Final Solution" (Episode 8.01)

By Ross Bonaime at 2:29 PM on October 12, 2012

As season eight begins, Mac has had a sudden weight loss that allows him to fit into his leather duster again and the slate is wiped once again.   read more

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This Week in News

By Brian Tremml at 12:00 PM on September 9, 2012

A roundup of pop culture news for the week of Sept. 3, 2012.   read more

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Review: “The High School Reunion” (7.12)

By Ross Bonaime at 1:22 PM on December 9, 2011

After seven seasons of taking down almost everyone they’ve known in their past, The Gang from _It’s Always Sunny_ should know that going to their high school reunion isn’t going to go as well as they expect. The four high school friends, with Frank in tow, decide they are going to show all their old classmates how cool they have become, but of course their pasts are destined to come and bite them in the ass.  read more

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Review: “Thunder Gun Express” (Episode 7.11)

By Ross Bonaime at 5:17 PM on December 2, 2011

It seems like this season of _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ has been the most self-referential, for better and for worse. In this penultimate episode, “Thunder Gun Express”, before the two-part season finale, the show becomes essentially _It’s Always Sunny_’s version of _It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_ except packed with references to episodes prior, and less laughs.  read more

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It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia Review: "The Gang Gets Trapped" (Episode 7.09)

By Ross Bonaime at 4:05 PM on November 11, 2011

There have been several times on this season of _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ where it’s seemed like the episode was ending just when it should be getting good. In “The Storm of the Century”, the episode ended right when the gang started looting and getting all sorts of crazy while last week’s episode “The Anti-Social Network”, the episode ended right when Dennis was getting ready to seek revenge on a guy he spent the entire episode trying to track down. In “The Gang Gets Trapped”, we get a rare episode where the usual structure of It’s Always Sunny is taken apart, by starting the episode mid-caper.  read more

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