Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to join Luke Snyder and Reid Oliver in holy matrimony watch Eric Sheffer Stevens on TV again!



Friends, it felt like this day would never come (it's been since March 2012!), but finally Eric is gracing us with his presence again. And on a good show! Elementary begins at 10 p.m. Let's get this party started!





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ERIC SHEFFER STEVENS BACK ON OUR TEEVEES!



About time, Y/N?



So join us here tomorrow night at 10 p.m. eastern time for the Elementary live watch. Or should I say the:



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Hello, rewatchers! Sorry it's been a few weeks, but you know how it is with summer vacations and whatnot. Here's the final -- for now -- installment in the Eric Sheffer Stevens Film Festival. Now we just need Eric to make more movies and TV guest spots. And of course the comm will be hosting live watches for I Hate My Teenage Daughter in the fall.

In his second appearance on Law and Order: The One with Jeff Goldblum, Eric plays Aston Skinner, a jerky Wall Street type who is a suspect in a colleague's murder. Aston proclaims his innocence, and I guess he's telling the truth, because he doesn't get arrested at the end. He does look very sharp in a suit throughout, and Eric is enjoyable as always. Looking forward to new material from him in the fall, even if it's on a bad sitcom!

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As tomorrow celebrates my nation's birth (aka Canada Day) and I will be BBQing and drinking mojitos, here's the next installment in the ESS Film Festival. Sadly we're almost done! Since Silent House isn't available yet, the next item is Body of Proof. We watched this recently, but hey, never too soon to rewatch Eric Sheffer Stevens being awesome, Y/Y? Not to mention wearing a HOT suit. So, so hot. (A recurring theme of this festival!)

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Happy long weekend to Canadians and Americans! Happy regular weekend to the rest of the world! :D

Happy Friday! The next role in Eric's IMDB is Reid, so obviously we've got those appearances covered with the rewatch. So on we go to The Big C! Here, Eric plays Andy, a hotly bespectacled half of a gay couple going for dinner with Oliver Platt, who discusses how he supports ass sex, but doesn't get it. Oliver, I have some fanfic I can direct you to that might change your tune. :D

Eric looks incredibly good here. I mean, damn. That smile. Those glasses. *swoons* Let's examine the evidence:



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This week's installment in the Eric Sheffer Stevens Film Festival features Eric in a small role in a play-within-a-play-within-a-movie. Eric, poor man's Stephen Moyer, and fabulous Broadway actress Julia Murney (wish she was singing in this, because boy does that woman have a set of pipes!) perform in a meta play that moves Mira Sorvino to tears -- just as Eric kisses Julia. For some unknown reason, the film's editing staff chose to focus on Mira's tear-stained face instead of ERIC KISSING SOMEONE. Shit, people. Get it together!

Eric is a little scruffy here, with longer hair, and although I prefer it shorter, he does look quite fetching. His acting is wonderful as always, and I just wish his role was bigger. A recurring theme of the Eric Sheffer Film Festival, sadly.

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ETA: There will be no film fest post next week, as I'll be away. But we don't have that many clips left, so no need to rush through them. :)

After the horror of Greta last week, it's a pleasure to see Eric in a quality movie. If only we could see more of him! He really has little to do here other than hone his on-camera eating skills, which he does with aplomb. I'm sure it came in very handy playing Reid!

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Yes, friends, it's finally here! Eric's stirring performance as Yellow Sweater Guy, aka Yuppie #1! The movie is Greta, starring master thespian Hilary Duff. Hilary plays the world's most obnoxious and incompetent waitress, yet I suspect we're supposed to find her utterly charming. She's rebellious and doesn't conform! She has a free spirit! Er, not so much, filmmakers. Not so much. She's insufferable.

Eric plays one of Hilary's customers, and his hair is combed flat in a most unfortunate way. The hairdresser on this movie should be shot for trying to flatten his curls. But he laughs cutely and looks like a dork. I just wish he'd thrown his mai tai at Ms. Duff.

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Yes, Eric. Yes, you are v.v. cute. The Eric Sheffer Stevens Film Festival continues with a 2008 movie called Bittersweet, which "explores the evolution of love and takes a long hard look at the underlying forces that often bring people together while just as often break them apart."

Eric's 10-minute segment is with the lovely and awesome Sarah Wayne Callies (Prison Break, The Walking Dead). They play a couple who've been together five years and who are stagnating. It's very well acted and really makes me wish we could see Eric star in a full-length drama. (Or a weekly drama, but I'll take the sitcom -- it's better than nothing!)

Also, shirtlessness! And cuddling!



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In his final (so far -- I'm still crossing my fingers for Law and Order: Special Victims Unit!) L&O appearance, Eric is also owner of some truly douchey hipster doofus facial hair. I have to be honest: I don't find Eric particularly attractive in this performance.



I know, I know, you're disappointed in me. I'm disappointed in myself! But I hate the goatee thingy, and he's so sleazy and...sweaty. And not in a good way. I mean, don't get me wrong, he's still Eric, thus he's still cute. But this isn't my fave look.

Eric's performance is still good with what little he had to work with as the classic ne'er-do-well rich kid who squanders his inheritance on an escort service, yet still yearns for daddy's approval. Pro tip, Frank: Don't be a pimp. Most dads and various family members don't commend such activities.

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I realized that this episode is actually from 2006, and the CI ep was 2007, so this is Eric's first Law and Order appearance. My bad! Anyway, it's Law and Order: Original Recipe in an episode called "Magnet." Eric is a glasses-wearing ME at a crime scene. There's crouching, medical jargon, and did I mention the glasses? HOT. Just ignore the dead kid he's talking over and focus on the pretty.



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And now, a poll.

The first of Eric's requisite Law and Order appearances is on Law and Order: Criminal Intent. He plays Tom "Chilly" Chilton, and in case his nickname didn't tip you off, he's kind of a douche. The plot is something about him and a blonde screwing around behind her bikini-brief-wearing man's back, pulling up buckets of gold coins from the ocean, and some missing guy named Rick.

We start off with a delightful shower scene, followed by a delightful shirtless scene. Later, Chilly gets physical with the blonde, slamming her against a wall before kissing her. Ngl, it's extremely hot. Also, his look in this episode is scruffy surferish, which is quite yummy.

Naturally, since this is Eric, his character soon ends up dead. :| This time it's a nasty case of the bends from ascending too quickly whilst scuba diving. His corpse is all gross from being in the water, so I suggest rewinding to the start of the clip to rewatch the shower/shirtless scene as a nice brain cleanser.



Ahhh, that's better.

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Eric's next TV appearance was as a soldier (billed as "Natl. Guard Driver" on IMDB) on Invasion. He's prickly and impatient -- something Eric is very good at playing, as we well know! -- as William Fichtner and Eddie Cibrian stop his truck for an inspection. A suspicious Eddie gives Eric the gears, but before Eric can shoot him, William takes him out. Eric's solider was evidently a "hybrid," because apparently there hasn't been a sci-fi show since The X-Files that hasn't ripped it off paid loving homage to it.

Another fleeting glance at Eric, but enjoyable nonetheless! Fun fact: William Fichtner played Josh Snyder (aka Rod Landry) on ATWT from 1987-1993. Josh, a Snyder cousin, was Lily's biological father. He raped her bio mom, Iva, but felt super bad about it, and is another in a looooong line of reformed rapists on daytime TV. He ended up marrying Meg, because if there's one credo the Snyders live by, it's that if you can't keep it in your pants, keep it in the family.

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[Let's hope LJ stays up long enough for me to post this. And for you guys to read it!]

Today's entry in the Eric Sheffer Stevens Film Festival is a 2006 episode of Numb3rs. Eric plays "Search Team Member" and gets the distinct pleasure of discovering three mutilated bodies in the woods. (I imagine being a Search Team Member sadly doesn't often lead to finding lollipops and rainbows.)

Consulting some charcoal drawings, Eric intrepidly leads the team past some props left over from The Blair Witch Project and shouts his first line: "Over here!" Needless to say, it's totally hot. Also hot? Eric in a sheriff's uniform:



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In this week's installment of the Eric Sheffer Stevens Film Festival, we see a fuzzy and tantalizing glimpse of an unaired pilot called Amy Coyne. In this clip, Eric and delicious White Collar star Matt Bomer "get proactive" before Eric gives me a shout-out:

"Keira, let's huddle in my office."

WELL, IF YOU INSIST. :D :D :D

We cut to a sporting event, where Eric displays his excellent comic timing and touches Matt's leg. And...that's it. Sadly, the full pilot is lost in the bowels of 20th Century Fox, and neither the ESS nor Matt Bomer fans have been able to uncover it. But hey, someone wrangled up this peek, so we'll take what we can get!

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We here at noah_who thought it would be fun to look back together at Eric's career and revisit his earlier TV and film appearances available on YouTube. Along with the obligatory L&O appearances -- now a requirement for New York actors to maintain their Equity membership -- we have some gems to look forward to, including his stirring performance as "Yellow Sweater Guy" in Hilary Duff's seminal 2009 classic Greta. :D

Today we begin with what we believe is his earliest performance available -- a 2005 appearance on One Life to Life. Proving it's a small gay soap world after all, one of his scene partners is Forbes March, who would later smarm up Oakdale as Noah Mayer's true love, Mason Jarvis. (Seriously, those douchenozzles are perfect for each other!)

In this clip, we see an apparently tubercular Jessica Buchanan Santi Vega Brennan attempting to master the art of "sweeping" with a "broom," which seems to all be rather foreign to this rich girl in an Ed Hardy t-shirt. Enter Eric as "Gene Pavano," the owner of the winery that Jessica seems to be squatting in. Jessica decides that rather than just explain who she is, seducing Gene is the way to go. Well, Eric's hot, so who can blame her? Then Mason shows up, and hijinks ensue.

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Join us again next week for this ongoing series!