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Tv Club Parenthood Season 4 Ray Romano, sex symbol. Discuss. By Allison Benedikt Posted Wednesday, Jan 02, 2013, at 02:57 PM ET Happy New Year and welcome back to our Parenthood TV Club. Every week, Allison Benedikt IMs with a different fan/regular watcher of the show. Today, please welcome Us Weekly editorial director and Allison's long-time pal Lara Cohen. Allison Benedikt: Hellllllooooo Lara! I hate to always start by mentioning next week's show, but as usual, the "scenes from the next," is, like, holy shit. Lara Cohen: Drew gets his girlfriend pregnant? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. I'm not watching. I'm just going with the Betty White Off Their Rockers lead in and I'm out. Benedikt: You'll watch. But I agree that it will probably not live up to billing. Tonight proved yet again that this show is much better with the in-betweener episodes than with the Very Special Christmas/Chemo/Teen Pregnancy ones. Cohen: Yes. Tonight was much better than the past few weeks—certainly the Adam and Kristina stuff this week, with her struggling over losing her hair/shaving her head and him desperate to figure out how to be the supportive husband in that struggle, felt less aggressively manipulative than in the last few eps. Benedikt: OK, so Monica Potter, the actress who plays Kristina, didn't really shave her head, did she? This somewhat spoiled that part of the plot for me, because she had a hair-under-prosthetic conehead thing going on that was very distracting. She should have committed and shaved. (Note: I still cried when she "shaved." Very moving.) Cohen ... To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Why Mostly Men at the Indian Anti-Rape Protests? Tearing Down the "Electronic Cottage" Why Tween Boys Love Les Miz	Advertisement
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