TV Reviews
Wagon Train: Little Girl Lost
Wagon Train: Little Girl Lost is a story from the final season of Wagon Train. It’s a little unusual for a western to have this type of story. I think it was perhaps their strange attempt at a Christmas tale since the story aired in Mid-December of …
Stargate season one, episode one, Children Of the Gods
Children of the Gods is the series orininally aired on July, 17th 1997 and takes place a year after the motion picture, starring Kurt Russell, and James Spader. The first episode, written by Jonathan Glassner and Brad Wright, directed by Mario Azzopardi, Â begins with the ailien artifact called the …
Boston Legal Season 1 Episode 10
Lori Colson and Brad Chase were defending Susan May, charged for the murder of her husband. The accused caught her husband making love to a business associate and she fired 3 shots to her husband and 3 shots the the paramour. This caused the instantaneous death of both victims. …
Battlestar Galactica: Saga of a Star World
When I was growing up, my family never missed an episode of the television series Battlestar Galactica (the original series not the remake). But, because I would have been about three when it first aired, I had no memory of the first episode “Saga of a Star World” so …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Blizzard Makers TV Show
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Blizzard Makers is the 13th episode from year one of this outstanding program. It opens with a new style, using newspapers to communicate what’s been happening, which is a lot of unusual weather, like blizzards in Florida. I do …
Bones: The Con Man in the Meth Lab
Well, we finally get introduced to Booth’s brother in the episode The Con Man in the Meth Lab and find out the importance of not judging someone a saint on first impressions. Sure, he seemed perfectly charming to Bones and just about everyone else meeting him for the first …
CSI Season 8, Episode 3
This was a pretty good episode of CSI and one that I didn’t see when it originally aired on television because it was after I stopped watching the show. Sarah heads to another shift where she discovers the dead body of a homeless man and the rest of the …
The Simpsons Season 10, episode 8: The Springfield Files
It’s Friday in Springfield and the whole town is celebrating the occasion in their own unique way. Homer, not surprisingly, spends the night at Moe’s, gets drunk and walks home.
Things take a turn, however, when he has a close encounter with a strange glowing being.
I remember …
Fringe Season 4 Episode 6 (TV show)
I really enjoyed episode 6 of season 4 of Fringe. I felt that the show has peeled another layer in the story, we got a little deeper into the matter of things. It really compensates for the shallow stories in the first episodes of the new season. But there …
Have Gun - Will Travel: The High Graders
I really enjoyed Have Gun - Will Travel: The High Graders, especially the opening which had Paladin (Richard Boone) being measured for a new suit. It’s the dichotomy between this civilized, wealthy, society persona of San Francisco’s paladin and the gunfighter for hire who wears a black trail …
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Destroy Malevolence (episode 4)
This is the final episode in the trilogy about the spaceship Malevolence commanded by General Grievous. The episode’s name pretty much gives away what the storyline is about: the Jedi destroying the ship. The episode stars Anakin, Obi-Wan and Padme. General Grievous, of course, also has a large part.
The …
Friends Season Two - The one with the breastmilk
Ross is finally getting some time to spend with his son Ben, and he is learning to be a father quite quickly when he has him on his own. Since Carol has decided to breast feed their son, she has prepared some breast milk in bottles for him to …
That Girl: Goodbye, Hello, Goodbye
This episode of That Girl is almost like the third pilot for the series. The first pilot had some different elements in it and wasn’t shown on network TV. The second pilot, referred to as a preview show, showed how Ann Marie met her boyfriend, Donald Hollinger. …
MASH - Season 7
The 7th Season of MASH seemed to focus a lot on the stuff the characters were missing while in Korea, ranging from them learning new medical techniques they weren’t aware of to them arranging a get-together of their families back home.
They also spend much of the season dealing with …
M*A*S*H: Hot Lips and Empty Arms
In M*A*S*H: Hot Lips and Empty Arms, Major Houlihan (Loretta Swit) asks for a transfer. She is just fed up with everything and wants out. It all stems from lamentations about past choices, memories that pop up when she hears from an old girlfriend.
What I like most …
Sea Hunt: Underwater Pirates TV Show
I greatly enjoyed this 25th outing from Sea Hunt’s fourth year on the air. The show was called Underwater Pirates, but no, there aren’t pirates with peg legs or ships with skull and cross bones flags waving furiously in the air. However, there are pirates, as in salvage …
House: Big Baby
Come on now, did we honestly think Cameron would step into Cuddy’s job and be an instant success at it? The second that was even suggested last week I had to laugh. Since when can any woman on the show House say no to him? Especially one that owes …
Birds of Prey episode 3: Prey for the Hunter
This is probably the strongest episode of the bunch so far. The writing is getting better and this episode had the strongest villain to date, both literally and figuratively.
My one complaint about this episode is that it seems less like a “Birds Of Prey” episode and more like …
Dancing with the Stars - Final Results 5/19/09
This was the big night when the winner of the Dancing with the Stars 2009 season would be crowned. While I agree, the best three couples are in the finals, it also bugs me that the voting has been so manipulated to ensure that one of them, Melissa …
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories, anime
I was looking for a new Japanese Anime to watch and someone recommended that I try one called Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories. However, I had my reservations about it because once I took a look at it, the animation was very different from a lot of other Japanese anime that …
Ghost Hunters: The Fear Cage
Well, that was a halfway decent Ghost Hunters episode. I started out watching “The Fear Cage” expecting not to see to much. But, it turned out to be pretty interesting.
The TAPS team visited the Cashman Inn; where a lot of confederate soldiers and generals stayed leading up to Gettysburg. …
Here Come the Brides: A Jew Named Sullivan
Here Come the Brides: A Jew Named Sullivan from season one of this ABC series of the late 60’s allows us to really grow to love the Biddie Cloom character. Biddie is a bit of silly girl. She always wants to be in love. Outwardly, she’s …
Sleepy Hollow TV Show Episode Two: Blood Moon
After watching the first episode of the new Sleepy Hollow series, I’ve decided that I will become a regular viewer. I literally had a week to dwell and think on the previous episode I watched and kind of connect some minor pieces. To be honest and to the …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Invasion TV Show
Invasion was the April 28, 1962 of Have Gun - Will Travel. It is not a favorite episode as it was all about some military fight. Basically, it’s part of the Irish revolution and revolves around the character played by Robert Gist, Gavin O’Shea.
O’Shea wants financial backing …
Highlander: The Series - 101 - The Gathering
“I am Duncan MacLeod, born four hundred years ago in the Highlands of Scotland. I am Immortal and I am not alone. For centuries we have waited for the time of the Gathering, when the stroke of a sword and the fall of a head will release the power …
The Simpsons Season 3 Episode 19 Dog of Death
The episode begins with an ad regarding the lottery. When Barney reveals that the lottery prize is $130 million, Homer buys a lot of tickets, and so does the entire town. However Homer does not win the lottery, someone else does. This is a loss for Homer. At the …
That Girl: Should All Our Old Acquaintance Be Forgot
One of the things I like about That Girl is that they celebrate a lot of the holidays, or at least acknowledge them. Some shows may do Christmas, but that’s about it, so this is quite nice. The occasion here is New Year’s Eve, and to welcome …
Star Trek: Voyager - Mortal Coil
Star Trek: Voyager - “Mortal Coil” is one of my favorite episodes of the series. In this episode, Neelix faces a crisis of faith after he dies and is brought back to life using Seven’s Borg nanoprobes. Neelix however is terribly disturbed because while he was dead, he saw …
Columbo: An Exercise in Fatality TV Show
An Exercise in Fatality in one of the Columbo episodes I remember very well. It made a strong impression and I never tire of seeing it. Here are a few of the hits and misses for me about this show from season four.
–Robert Conrad is perfect casting …
Sea Hunt: Underwater Shrine TV Show
Underwater Shrine. episode 23 from the second season of Sea Hunt, had deep sea diving expert Mike Nelson in the ocean waters with a pair of archaeologists who happen to be married.
Lloyd Bridges plays the skilled diver, Mike Nelson, with Anthony George guest starring as Peter Ordway with Norma …
Sense8 (TV series by Wachowskis)
Sense8 is an American Sci-Fi drama TV series with the ambition to do for TV what Matrix did for action films. Sense8 was written and produced by the Wachowskis, so if anyone could get away with such a claim it would be the creators of The Matrix themselves. I don’t …
Celtic Thunder: It’s Entertainment
First it was Celtic Woman, an awesome singing group of four singers and one violinist, and then came Celtic Thunder. I recall seeing them on a PBS special a couple of years ago. Now they’re back on PBS with Celtic Thunder: It’s Entertainment. The problem is, I …
Dancing with the Stars - Performance 5/11/09
My first beef with tonight’s two-hour show is that the first half-hour was a review. I would have liked to have known that in advance. Traditionally, they’ve put review shows as a separate entity. Nevertheless, the real meat of the show was, of course, the dancing.
Melissa …
Days of Our Lives - Alice Horton’s Demise Week 2 TV Show
This is the second week of Days of our Lives dealing with the death of long time cast member Frances Reid. The soap opera has taken the unusual and wonderful stance of giving Reid and her much beloved family matriarch Alice Horton a wonderful send off. They …
America’s Next Top Model: Karolina Kurkova TV Show
Part of the latest America’s Next Top Model which was called after Karolina Kurkova since she was the guest judge for the hour was entertaining and the rest was actually very forgettable in my opinion. I just wasn’t as entranced this week. This show is hardly mesmerizing, …
Man Vs. Wild on the Discovery Channel
I love watching the discovery channel but I am not a fan of the show Man Vs. Wild. My husband loves the show but I think there are too many disgusting parts. For example I just watched Bear Grylls (the only character) on the show cut open a …
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Episode 12 (Anime)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Episode 12 actually has two stories in it. The first is about Tachikoma, one of the robots, running away and the other story is about Section 9 looking into s msn’s disappearance.
Although this wasn’t one of my favorite episodes, I still …
Emergency!: Weird Wednesday
Emergency!: Weird Wednesday is all about having one of those crazy days when nothing but odd things happen. It begins for Johnny and Roy with a woman parachutist who gets stuck in a tree. She’s undaunted by it all, though, and ready to go right back at …
That Girl: Old Man’s Darling
Cecil Kellaway steals the show in That Girl: Old Man’s Darling. This marvelous acting fellow plays one of the world’s richest men, who really is just a very lonely old man who is without family and friends. When he meets Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas), he is charmed …
Making the Band (MTV show)
I have two criticisms of this show. The first is with the show’s creator, Sean Diddy Combs. The second is with the performers. The show itself is not much different in that the focus is to create a band to go out and …
Death of an Expert Witness - Part 6
Revelations and the long resolution of Death of an Expert Witness occurs in this sixth and final episode. We’ve been following the murder investigation conducted by Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh, played by Roy Marsden, into the death of Edwin Lorimer and, more recently, Stella ‘Star’ Mawson, who, as …
Centennial: The Winds of Death
Centennial: The Winds of Death is really an intense and emotional episode of this very long mini-series based on the novel by James Michener. It’s one that I think a lot of people can even identify with today. It’s almost a century old take on today’s home …
Time Warner Cable Service
This place is so frustrating to work with. I go in on Thursday to inquire about getting service. The guy at the desk states that I can have it installed on Friday. I let him know that would be great I get off work at 4 …
Avatar the Last Airbender Book One: Water
I recently finished watching the first season of Avatar the Last Airbender. Each season of Avatar is referred to as a Book and each episode is called a chapter. Thus, the first season is called Book One: Water.
I think Avatar is a great show. At first I thought …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Killed by Death
If you’re looking for something creepy to watch and don’t necessarily want to watch a movie, I would really recommend seeing the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode “Killed by Death.”
Hospitals, in my opinion, are creepy enough. But, what if you had some sort of invisible demon walking the halls …
Fullmetal Alchemist: brotherhood Episode 64 (Anime)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 64 is the last and final episode of the anime. The story comes to a close as Roy Mustang is visited by Dr. Knox and Dr. Marcoh. Meanwhile, Ed and Al return to Risembol to Winry’s house.
This was the best conclusion to an …
Miami Medical: Pilot TV Show
Here’s my issue for CBS. Why not give a show a decent chance? Last season, they had a great show called Three Rivers. It had top notch acting, interesting drama, and a couple of performers on the rise who could have brought in viewers. After …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Soledad Crossing TV Show
Have Gun - Will Travel: Soledad Crossing was the last show of the fourth season. Perhaps that is why it opened with a huge kiss for series star, Richard Boone. His Paladin was having a nice time in his San Francisco hotel. What I did think …
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Outcast
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Outcast is a very disappointing episode of the series that was supposed to be an episode that explored homosexuality and an alien culture’s desire to “change” those members of the population that exhibit such “unnatural” feelings, however the means in which this …
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