TV Reviews
Gilligan’s Island - Quick Before It Sinks TV Show
This episode is interesting, yes another survival scenario which I find they are more thought out than other shows. Especially with all the inventions the professor comes up with. Like in this episode not just the professor comes up with the hut ark, but also the women do too. …
Undercovers: Pilot TV Show
One of the new dramatic shows for the 2010 Fall TV season is called Undercovers:. It has a very big action beginning that is very spy like. That, of course, is appropriative since this hour long show is indeed about a couple of spies. This first …
John Doe season 1 episode 1 pilot
You know Lincoln Burrows from Prison Break? I was wondering where have I seen him before and then I remembered seeing a first episode of a show called John Doe, about a man without past who knows everything about everything and everyone except himself. Dominic Purcell was also, in …
The Simpsons
The simpsons is a very popular and successful TV show, a cartoon drawn in a very unique style by its creator Matt Groening. The characters are drawn in primary colours like kids doodles and are quite funny to look at. The show itself has a unique character that appeals …
Dancing With the Stars (TV reality show)
Here is yet another reality show that I happen to watch when I have the time and/or opportunity. Dancing With the Stars is so corny. Yet you get drawn in when you realize that the most uncoordinated celebrities try out for the thing and are paired …
Beast Wars - Optimal Situation
Beast Wars - Optimal Situation is the first episode of season three and the final episode in the four part story that began with “The Agenda, Part One”. In this episode, three major events occur: Blackarachnia betrays Megatron and leaves the Predicons, in part, to save her own life, …
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Showdown
Brisco and Lord Bowler go to Brisco’s hometown where Brisco ends up becoming the temporary sheriff in The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Showdown. This show was somewhat nice, giving us another glimpse into the past of the colorful Brisco. There were some definite highlights that make …
Dancing with the Stars - Final Performance Show - 5/24/2010
My problem in the last few years with Dancing with the Stars is that the judges have favorites and they push for them. It’s a bit of selective visuals.
Here’s my current case in point. The last free dance performance of the night was Derek Hough and celebrity …
Private Eye: Blue Hotel Part 2
Private Eye: Blue Hotel Part 2 picks up where the cliffhanger part 1 ended, at the end of the funeral for Billy Ray, a rock and roller whose life was cut short before he even truly realized his success.
Music has been integral in Private Eye from its first episode …
The Office: Baby Shower
“Baby Shower” is a more romantic episode of the Office, which airs on NBC on Thursday nights. The episode features the return of Jan, Michael’s ex-girlfriend. Michael is all excited beause he thinks Jan is going to let him be involved in her baby’s life, even though Jan …
The Office: Business Trip
“Business Trip,” is the eighth episode of The Office on NBC. It is a great episode that finally reunites Pam and Jim in Scranton after Pam’s extended stay in New York to study art. However, the real stars of the show are Michael, Andy and Oscar who …
Lipstick Jungle - Chapter 2 - Nothing Sacred
Starring your usual three main characters, Wendy, Nico and Victory, this episode the focus is on Wendy, the film executive. While she is enjoying the fruits of her labour on the release of her mosr recent movie and the award she is soon to recieving, the written word of …
Psych: 9 Lives
I ended up watching a couple more episodes of the show Psych last night before bed; including the one entitled 9 Lives. This one proved to be a decent episode, even though the cat Shawn pretends to talk to doesn’t really have as big of a role in the …
Fireball XL5: Space Monster
Fireball XL5: Space Monster started out as a hoot. The beautiful blonde space doctor, Venus, was dancing to an ancient dance called the Twist. What’s more, that cute little Lazoon named Zoonie was dancing the Twist, too. It was just hysterical in all good ways. …
Babylon 5 Season 1, Episode 3: Soul Hunter
An unidentified vessel suddenly travels through the wormhole. It’s out of control and heading right for Babylon 5. Commander Sinclair manages to use a ship to slow it’s trajectory and bring the vessel in for repairs. On board, they find a single humanoid alien that they …
Star Trek: Space Seed TV Show
Star Trek: Space Seed is one of the more memorable shows, especially since it is what spawned Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. It employed a number of interesting elements, including the possibility of cryogenics, as in placing bodies in suspended animation and then restoring them at …
Final Interview of Friends in NBC
I truly respect the whole cast of Friends, including the actors, actresses, the writers and all the not-known staff. They are all awesome and that could be depicted of a great team-work when I watch Final Interview of Friends in NBC. Each and everyone of the real celebrity …
Golden Girls Season One Boxed Set
The first season of the Golden Girls is something completely random, and that is part of the reason why I had to rate the boxed set lower than I wanted too. As much as I love the episodes, the first season is disjointed and discombobulated, with no real pattern …
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig: Episode 17
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig Episode 17 has Major Kusanagi in Taiwan investigating Kuze’s identity. She rescues a boy named Chai from Yakuza thugs and he tries to see if she can get him a fully prosthetic body.
This was one of the more interesting …
Highway Patrol: The Seventh Green TV Show
Highway Patrol’s 18th show from its third year was a little different, and I liked that quite a bit. As the name might indicate, The Seventh Green, which aired back in February 1958, opened with Chief of Police Dan Mathews (Broderick Crawford) playing a round of golf with …
Supernatural Season 4 Episode 3
Sam is upto something mysterious, while Dean is sent back to the time is dad was dating his mom. It turns out that the yellow eyed demon starts selecting kids from that time. Dean gets to meet his mom’s parents. It turns out his grandfather was a hunter too. …
Burn Notice: Good Soldier
Burn Notice: Good Soldier is an episode from season two of this spy series that I think is a little on the ridiculous side of things. Most of the time, the regulars — Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan), Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar), and Sam (Bruce Campbell — are covertly watching …
Highway Patrol: Dan Sick TV Show
Dan Sick was the 38th episode of Highway Patrol’s third season, and it focused on Chief Dan Mathews, as played by Broderick Crawford, becoming ill quite suddenly. Though I have issues with how the show proceeded in spots, it was actually an enjoyable half hour that had me interested …
Dexter: Season 1
This is a series that I am really glad to have picked up on. I am currently watching season 2 of Dexter because season one enticed me to keep it on my Netflix DVD queue. The show introduces you to its main character: Dexter Morgan. He is …
Monk (tv series)
The television series “Monk” was one of those that I began watching from the time the pilot episode premiered years ago. While I don’t remember thinking it was very interesting, especially since I was much younger and my interests differed somewhat, when I got older and my sense of …
Everybody hates Chris
I like this show because there’s this little boy who is telling his life in a really funny way. His father is doing two jobs and everybody hates him in the school specially white kinds, even black kids manage to pull pranks on him and rob him but the …
The Ray Bradbury Theater: Some Live Like Lazarus TV Show
From 1992, The Ray Bradbury Theater: Some Live Like Lazarus opened in a very intriguing way. We, the viewers, walk up to a house where a woman is seated on her porch. She greets us and says she’s been expecting us. Naturaly, we want to know …
The Simpsons: Season 16, Episode 4 - She Used to Be My Girl
When another one of Mayor “Diamond Joe” Quimby’s sex scandals hit the news, a media circus arrives in town. Though the smaller news outlets are distracted by Quimby’s puppy, Chloe Talbot, a big-shot news anchor who was one of Marge’s high school friends, appears on the scene to …
Til Death
Til Death is a cool show. It’s a half hour sitcom about a couple who have been together a long time. They are set in their ways and the first couple of seasons focus on the young newlywed couple next door and their differences. The later …
Wagon Train: The Grover Allen Story
The Grover Allen Story from season seven of Wagon Train is a little different from the other stories. It revolved around Grover Allen, a seemingly mild-mannered man who suddenly turns murderer, killing his boss with a bomb. Oddly, the episode is filmed as part comedy, with several …
The Andy Griffith Show: Aunt Bee’s Medicine Man TV Show
The Andy Griffith Show: Aunt Bee’s Medicine Man, from March 1963, begins with a funny bit in which no lines are spoken. It’s all Don Knotts as Barney Fife trying to spruce himself up to look like Rock Hudson. His guide is a large magazine photo of …
Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 3 (Animated)
Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 3 begins with Aang, Katarra and Sokka traveling to the Air Temple in the Air Nation where Aang used to live and he discovers the awful truth about what happened there. Meanwhile, Prince Zuko docks at a naval station to repair his ship. …
Lipstick Jungle - Wendy’s Thanksgiving Dinner
NBC’s Lipstick Jungle has had a rough ride. First the show was aired on Wednesdays, and then Law and Order came back so it was pushed to Fridays…Anyways, where ever Lipstick Jungle goes, I shall follow. And with Thanksgiving here, it was fit for them to air the …
How I Met Your Mother: Intervention
“Intervention” was a pretty funny episode of the CBS sit-com How I Met Your Mother. It actually addressed some of the issues a lot of fan are probably thinking that Ted is really rushing into things with Stella, considering she lives in New Jersey and has a young …
Deadliest Catch
I have been watching “Deadliest Catch” on The Discovery Channel for several years now, and still enjoy every new season. With the recent death of the Cornelia Marie’s captain, Phil Harris, I find myself saddened that he won’t be around in future seasons of the show. I …
Air TV (Anime)
Yukito Kunisaki is a traveler who is looking for the “girl in the air” of a family legend. His journey takes him to a small coastal town where he meets Misuzu, a girl eager to be his friend. A history of thousands of years begins to unfold after her …
Ghost Hunters TV Episode: Century of Hauntings
Synopsis: TAPS investigates both a private home in Massachusetts before visiting Philadelphia to investigate the reportedly haunted USS Olympia.
What I liked about this episode: This episode is essentially a throw back of some sorts because they are investigating someone’s private residence in an effort to help them cope with …
Imbestigador
I love documentaries and I love real life stories. To be honest, I enjoy these shows more than life challenges like the fear factor that make you do certain things for the money. I hate those that present yucky things it just make my stomach churn. Browsing through the …
Bigg Boss reality show
Bigg Boss - The Indian version of UK’s famous reality show, “Big Brother”.
You know of the famous reality show of UK called “Big Brother”, right?
Fine, here is the Indian version of it, called “Bigg Boss”. Currently, the second season of Bigg Boss is being aired on the Indian …
The Virginian: The Big Deal
The Virginian: The Big Deal, episode 4 of season 1, brings back Pippa Scott as Molly Wood, the publisher of the town newspaper. She’s a recurring character on this western. I haven’t checked to see how far she goes, but she’s in several episodes from the first …
Remembering THE CONTENDER
Our whole family watched every episode of THE CONTENDER. Even the replays whenever we had the chance. I must say, we all experienced a very deep and wide scope of emotions watching the CONTENDER than we did watching any other reality show.
I guess one reason is because a vast …
Dog The Bounty Hunter Show
I have a strange and most likely unhealthy fascination with this show. The scenery is definitely part of it (Hawaii is beautiful, and an interesting locale for this sort of show). But it is Dog and his family that make the show so unusual and unique.
Dog is …
Extreme Cowboy Race
Extreme Cowboy Race is a weekly television series hosted by RFD TV. I am an English rider, but love to watch Extreme Cowboy Race. Both male and female competitors and their horses race through an obstacle course. The horse and rider team that completes the course in the best …
Anselm Gets His Chance by P.G. Wodehouse
“Anselm Gets His Chance” is an episode of “Wodehouse Playhouse” (see my review of the series) British television series that features John Alderton and Pauline Collins. Aldterton plays the title role of Reverend Anselm Mulliner in “Anselm Gets His Chance” while his real life wife, the ever-cute-as-a-bug, Pauline …
The View show
The View is a show hosted by four women (five when Barbara Walters is on). These four women, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, have very different opinions and views on many different subjects from raising children, to marriage woes, to political issues.
The best and most …
The Brightest Angel
This year, I surfed video on demand to try and find some holiday fare to watch. I just wasn’t satisfied with what I was finding on a daily basis. Maybe I just wanted to see something new here and there. One of the shows I stumbled …
Law and Order: CI Season 1, Episode 9
This episode of Law and Order Criminal Intent has a completely new feel to it. This is one of the first stories the show did that seemed more original, and less like a story we’ve previously seen on one of the other Law and Order franchise. The episode begins …
Direct TV
A couple weeks ago, I decided to do away with Charter cable television and take advantage of a special offer we had from Direct TV. I was nervous about the switch. But, I wanted to cut our monthly costs and thought this would be a great way to do …
The Apprentice: Pedicab Confessions TV Show
At the beginning The Apprentice: Pedicab Confessions, Stephanie met with the Rockport CEO. She was the winning project manager from the last task. The thing that struck me is that Rockport is really backing this reality show this season. They were the focus of one task …
The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Show) - Gesundheit, Darling (Episode)
“Gesundheit, Darling” is an episode of “The Dick Van Dyke Show”. In this episode, Rob begins to sneeze whenever he’s near his wife, Laura, and his son, Richie, and after seeing a doctor and discovering that there’s nothing wrong with him, he begins to wonder if he could possibly …
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