TV Review: Girl Meets World 1×08 – “Girl Meets Smackle”

Girl Meets World is back with an episode directed by Ben Savage! History class: Cory offers a present that everyone wants but Maya. Riley wins, only to find that the box contains a chalkboard with “The Trojan Horse” written on…

TV Review: Girl Meets World 1×07 -“Girl Meets Maya’s Mother”

Art class! So their curriculum DOES include subjects other than history. Live model Farkle whips off his robe to reveal an old fashioned swimming costume. As he poses, Riley asks why the class can’t draw Lucas instead. “Nobody looks like…

TV Review: Girl Meets World 1×06—“Girl Meets Popular”

Invitations are circulating for the first seventh grade party and the hallways are filled with possibility for Riley. She and Maya could be party girls! The possibilities evaporate when Riley decides that popularity is for Maya, not her. However, just…

TV Review: Girl Meets World 1×05 – “Girl Meets the Truth”

While a middle school production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet seems unlikely, I can’t deny how awesome it made the first few minutes of this week’s episode. Just before Lucas-as-Romeo kisses Riley-as-Juliet, Farkle-as-Spear Carrier stops the show to declare…

TV Review: Girl Meets World 1×04-“Girl Meets Father”

It’s time for Riley and Maya’s first dance! In this week’s round of City Gal vs. Country Boy, Maya asks Lucas what he’s going to do at the dance, since there won’t be any do-si-do-ing. Lucas’s breezy reply once again…

TV Review: Girl Meets World 1×03-“Girl Meets Sneak Attack”

The latest installment of Girl Meets World opens with father-son matching bathrobes and shaving cream beards, both demanding a smooch from Topanga. She attempts to avoid the incoming mess because, oh hey, she’s supposed to get to work early for…

TV Review: Girl Meets World 1×02-“Girl Meets Boy”

Girl Meets World is back! Why they chose a June premiere date only to suspend the show over the holiday weekend, I’ll never know, but whatever. This week, they’re tackling isolation in a technological age, or as Cory breaks it…