TV Reviews
Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School for Boys TV Show
Okay, who is this Gareth Malone really? I know he’s British and that he loves music, but is he really someone with an award winning history and/or outstanding reputation? I can’t tell, and I really don’t know. I’m left to ponder the query though with the advent …
The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Murderer TV Show
I’m not a big Bruce Weitz fan, but I have to admit up at the top that his appearance as Albert Brock in The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Murderer was outstanding. There was an energetic restraint to his performance, and while that may sound like a contradiction, it’s …
Code Geass Episode 6 (Anime)
Code Geass Episode 6 has Lelouch trying to track down a cat that has gotten away with his Zero mask.
This episode was different from the others and it’s a way to get away from all the serious episodes for a little bit. It was rather funny to see …
Life After Tomorrow TV Show
Life After Tomorrow was a television special done recently to look back and honor the hit Broadway stage play, Annie. Who doesn’t know this little iconic redheaded orphan and her dog, Sandy? She’s been a comic book, a movie, and a comic strip at one point or …
On Demand Television
I opted to purchase On Demand Television in my home. As a result, I have wound up getting four hundred some odd television channels that I thought I would never utilize. I suppose I underestimated the the addictive nature of being spoiled enough to have such a …
Project Runway: The Sky is the Limit
Well, last night’s Project Runway challenge was kind of cool. The designers had to work in teams of two to make an outfit. Their only requirement is it had to be blue and it had to fit Macy’s Inc. line.
The winner would have their outfit sold by Macy’s, which …
Highway Patrol: Plane Crash TV Show
Highway Patrol: Plane Crash deals with California Highway Patrol Chief Dan Mathews overseeing the discovery of a possible plane crash. The small plane is found, all in one piece, but nearby is the body of a dead forest ranger. Naturally, there are many questions that come up.
I …
M*A*S*H: Cowboy
M*A*S*H: Cowboy deals with a helicopter pilot who regularly flies in patients for treatment and often gets shot himself, as he did here. While being treated, he lets Hawkeye know that he really wants to go home. Hawkeye is willing to fight for that, but Henry Blake …
Ouran High School Host Club
Ouran High School Host Club is probably one of the most favorite anime series I have ever watched and it’s one of the few shows I actually got to finish watching. It’s a funny anime, mixed with outrageous characters and cute romantic scenes that’s it’s bound to make you laugh, …
Smallville: Salvation TV Show
Smallville: Salvation was the 2010 season finale. This show received a surprising renewal which led to this finale and to what will take place next season. As a fan of Michael Shanks, I’m ecstatic. The Justice League which was brought back into play in an earlier …
Best Friends
Like I mentioned before, I took the time to watch some movies on the Lifetime Movie Network this past weekend. One of the films I ended up watching was called “Best Friends” and it turned out to be a decent movie.
The film starts out with two women who are …
Burn Notice: Comrades
Burn Notice: Comrades brings us Michael Westen’s brother, Nate, who is far less interesting than Michael is. In fact, I don’t really care much about him. The two have a strained relationship that leaves you guessing about Nate’s true intentions the entire time.
I do like some of …
Survivor Grasps At Straws (tv show)
I find Survivor’s latest ploy to get ratings rather stuid. They would have been better off removing the show from Prime Time about a year after it began, and gone out with dignity and grace. Now, this season, they are attempting to have people from different cultural …
The Andy Griffith Show: Andy and Opie, Housekeepers TV Show
The Andy Griffith Show: Andy and Opie, Housekeepers is another comical outing that is highly entertaining. This is what television comedy should be. It’s suitable for the entire family and it’s full of genuine laughs.
–This is the first show that includes actress Hope Summers who becomes a …
Ghost Hunters: Whispers & Voices
Well, I got a new disk of Ghost Hunters Season 3 through Netflix the other day and my wife and I had an opportunity to watch the first episode on it; Whispers and Voices. The episode had potential but honestly wasn’t as good as expected.
Basically, they visited two places. …
Monk: Mr. Monk is Someone Else
Another last season of Monk episode and, I hate to say it, another disappointing one.
This one followed a plot that has been done way too many times before. You have Monk being the exact look-a-like for a professional hit man and he is asked to impersonate the hit man …
Death Note Episode 26 (Anime)
Death Note Episode 26 is a recap episode which shows what has happened in the anime so far and shows what the Kira Taskforce is going to do now that L and Watari have been killed by Kira.
This is a great episode, because it’s a good way to show …
Grey’s Anatomy Season 1 Pilot Episode A Hard Day’s Night Out
The Pilot episode will probably be one of my favorite episodes ever. It’s usually like that for pilot episodes. If it’s great then the succeeding episodes will be great too, some good but a few will be better. And for Grey’s Anatomy, I can say that the pilot episode …
You’re Cut Off! (reality televison series)
Recently, before my cable got cut off and I still had VH1, I had become very disinterested in all of VH1’s reality television programmes. Therefore, when I saw their new reality television series “You’re Cut Off!” advertising before its premiere, I completely dismissed it, and practically forgot about it. …
The Ity and Fancycat Show
It was only recently when we lost our cable and had to revert back to local TV, when I became acquainted with the “Ity and Fancycat Show.” This is actually a comedy sketch show hosted by two local comedians, where they make fun of some of Jamaica’s current events. …
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Taffeta Mayor
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Taffeta Mayor, a second season entry for this half-hour, black and white western series from the late 50’s, was a decent episode that surprised me in dealing a bit with women’s rights in a serious and dramatic fashion. The show was filmed …
Slash & Myles Kennedy MTV classic launch
Since Slash has made his new solo album and everyone has cited it as a very good album. Slash and Myles Kennedy were filmed for a live MTV launch program to promote the album as well as play some classic Guns N’ Roses hits live. I watched this concert …
House: Skin Deep
I had thought I had seen all the older House episodes until today, when I came across “Skin Deep” on television. And, I have to say it was an entertaining episode.
I am not a big fan of introducing young girls to modeling and this episode did nothing to pursuade …
The Apprentice: S10, Ep. 2 TV Show
The Apprentice continued its tenth season with this second episode that had loud mouth David acting as the project manager for the men’s team, known as Octane. He volunteers for it prior to knowing what it is. He reminds me of sneaky Matt from the latest Big …
Burn Notice: Truth and Reconciliation
I tuned into Burn Notice: Truth and Reconciliation originally because it included Michael Shanks as a guest star. He was reoccurring in the role of Victor, a very colorful operative of questionable nature. The bad news was that as it turned out, Victor only showed up for one …
Peer Pressure (Starhunter Episode)
This is a particularly and unfortunately bad episode of the Starhunter television series. I love Starhunter, it is one of my favorite television programs ever produced, but unfortunately this is not one of the better episodes to come from the franchise. It at times verges on the …
The Apprentice U.K.: S6, Ep 1 TV Show
The Apprentice U.K. has begun what is apparently its sixth season. I’ve only seen a couple, but I enjoy it, sometimes even better than the United States version. The show began with 16 candidates, all vying to work for Lord Alan Sugar, who they meet for the …
Spongebob Squarepants TV Episode: Chocolate with Nuts
My daughters have been watching Spongebob Squarepants all day today (yes,I know I really should be making them do something more constructive) and, as a result of that, I’m seeing episodes of the show I haven’t seen in a while. One of the episodes is actually one of my …
Fame: Metamorphosis
Fame: Metamorphosis is the premier of the musical dancing television series which was based on a hit movie. I recall at the time being a little put off by star Debbie Allen’s comments on The Tonight Show that they’d found an even better Coco Hernandez than Irene Cara …
Stargate SG-1: Divide and Conquer
Divide is exactly what Stargate SG-1: Divide and Conquer did to SG-1 fandom, and it didn’t conquer anything. All it did was sever the fandom even more.
Stargate SG-1: Divide and Conquer is the upsetisode that took footage from the previous Upgrades episode to serve the purposes of this …
Night Court: Santa Goes Downtown
I started watching re-runs of Night Court in the mornings again and came across one of the classic Christmas episodes that is very memorable for me “Santa Goes Downtown.”
There are a couple reasons for this.
First, you have the whole “Does Santa really exist” story line that has gotten a …
Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain
At first four hours on The Battle of Britain felt a bit excessive. They had managed to fit the all of it into part of one paragraph in my high school history book, but then perhaps it’s just that as Americans we don’t much like being reminded how long …
Married with Children TV Episode: Whose Room is it Anyway
Synopsis: At Al and Peggy’s urging, Steve and Marcy decide to build a new room on their house. However, when Peggy and Al each suggest different ways they could use the new room, it leads to a fight.
What I liked about this episode: At first, I thought this would …
The X-Files: Season 1, Episode 16: Young at Heart
This was a surprisingly traditional episode of the show. I don’t mean that in the sense that it was a “monster of the week” formula show, but that the plot itself is surprisingly mundane. Yeah, there’s a bit of science fiction, what with the reverse aging procedure, …
This is Daniel Cook
Ok, I’ll admit I’m not a seven year old kid, and haven’t been for a while. But I have a fondness for the show. I mean, how brilliant is it to give a seven year old kid his own show? It is a wonderful little show, …
The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Show) - Dear Sally Rogers (Episode)
The first time I watched the episode “Dear Sally Rogers” of “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” I had high hopes for the ending of the episode. I felt that since this was a fifth season episode and with the end of the series clearly in sight, the writers were …
House: Last Resort
Well, we finally had a House episode with plenty of drama that didn’t involve a possible relationship between House and Cuddy; about time.
“Last Resort” was actually a pretty good episode for this series. You have a desperate patient pulling a gun and taking people hostage until House can diagnose …
Fullmetal Alchemist TV show
This may seem like your standard action genre anime show, but it has a surprising depth. Edward Elric is an alchemist prodigy who paid the price for trying to bring his dead mother back to life. He lost an arm and a leg, and his brother lost …
Two And A Half Men: The Flavin’ And The Mavin’
“The Flavin’ And The Mavin’” was a decent episode of the CBS sit-com Two And A Half Men, although the one-liners were not as clever as they usually are, and the ending of the episode was not going to be a surprise to anyone. I will give you …
Seinfeld: The Comeback TV Show
I am not a fan of Seinfeld. To me, it’s one of the most boring comedies ever on TV. The only reason I watched The Comeback is because the IMDB lists one of my favorite actors as being on the show. He is on it, or …
Beast Wars - Victory
Beast Wars - Victory is an episode that offers the Maximals a second chance to return to Cybertron, which was a little surprising to me since the previous episode also presented them with an opportunity to return, and now all of a sudden we have another, back to back. …
Hana Yori Dango 1 and 2
I just finished watching the Japanese series called Hana Yori Dango. I know this was shown in Japan in 2007, and I am most probably late at doing this review, but I just finished it and here is what I have to say, I love this series so much …
Green Acres - The Ex-Secretary
“The Ex-Secretary” is the final episode of “Green Acres”. At the time, the writers were not aware that the network had plans to cancel not only this show, but several other popular shows to make way for television shows that were more
attractive to advertisers and a younger demographic. Had …
Deep South Paranormal (tv series)
I’m always getting teased because of my like for these paranormal reality television shows that not many people I know seem to watch, especially when it’s so obvious that quite a number of them are staged. However, I still tend to watch a select few of them since I’ve …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Time Bomb TV Show
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Time Bomb is the second episode of the second year that this wonderful Irwin Allen science fiction series was on the air. Following are some observations about this 1965 episode:
–The opening shot in the theme is a bit different in what …
Outlaw: S1, Ep 2 TV Show
Directed by Timothy Busfield, the second episode of Outlaw aired on September 24, 2010. In this series, Jimmy Smits stars as former United States Supreme Court Justice Cyrus Garza. Garza quit the bench to become a regular lawyer again. It’s really an interesting premise.
Guest star Ed …
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