Eric Stonestreet and Bobby Cannavele
Cheers to Modern Family for once again proving it's the greatest show on Earth.
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In the midst of a creatively uneven third season, ABC's Emmy-winning sitcom rallied with its funniest episode in ages. Not since Chuckles bit the dust on The Mary Tyler Moore Show has a clown's funeral led to such uncontrollable laughter. The death of an esteemed joker led to a hilariously ill-fated ...
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Joelle Carter
Cheers to Joelle Carter for breaking bad (in a good way) on Justified.
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Her character, Ava Crowder, opened the FX drama by gunning down her abusive husband, Bowman. Two and a half seasons later, she's evolved into a Bonnie to her ex-brother-in law Boyd's Clyde. This week, she gave shelter to an abused prostitute — and proceeded to lure her pimp, Delroy (William Mapother), into a trap and shoot him down.
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Morena Baccarin
Cheers to The Good Wife for recruiting a blue-chip guest cast.
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Even by the CBS drama's lofty standards, this week's roster of visiting performers was impressive: Dylan Baker reprised his Emmy-nominated role as venture capitalist and unlikely ladykiller Colin Sweeney, this time accused of sexually harassing — and impregnating — a former employee (Morena Baccarin, on leave from Homeland). Opposing Alicia Florrick and Co. was Grey's Anatomy mom (and Richard Burton's daughter) Kate Burton, and presiding was the honorable Emmy winner Bebe Neuwirth.
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Craig Parker, Viva Bianca, Hannah Mangan Lawrence
On Friday's Spartacus: Vengeance, we find more reasons to really hate Glaber, which means that his eventual comeuppance will be sweet... and bloody!
The praetor has begun a reign of terror that mandates that any person who's thought to be a Spartacus sympathizer will be crucified, literally. He later invites Gannicus to help lead his men to victory against the rebels. Miserable with their lives under Glaber's rule, Lucretia thinks up a scheme to get Ilithiya out of town and then makes her own offer to Gannicus: She'll arrange it so certain guards are called away, making it easy for him to kill Glaber, which will end the crucifixions. Being Gannicus, he instead slaughters the caravan bringing Ilithiya to Rome and leaves behind his rudis, a rejection of the so-called freedom they had granted him.
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