TV Reviews
Law & Order Criminal Intent TV Episode: Great Barrier
Synopsis: Goren and Eames track down a young jewel thief and realize that she is being mentored by Goren’s arch nemesis Nicole.
What I like about this episode: One of the reasons I hated Nicole’s final episode (which has her murdered early on in the episode and off camera) is …
Here Come the Brides: A Man’s Errand
Here Come the Brides: A Man’s Errand is a cute show from the first season of this family drama. It’s a show that shows growth for the character of Jeremy Bolt (Bobby Sherman), the youngest of the Bolt brothers who own Bridal Veil Mountain. In this episode, Jeremy …
MacGyver: Hell Week
MacGyver returns to his old college to help judge the barricade contest, which is a physics competition. It’s called the Fizzics Follies, and there are four finalists, including the son of the professor. Unfortunately, the father and son don’t see eye to eye, and the son is under …
Heroes Episode 4.1 and 2 Orientation/Jump, Push, Fall
I had fallen out of love with Heroes. The first season was quite good. The second season was slow for the first half, and while it started to pick up near the end, the writer’s strike broke the momentum and cut the season short. The third …
Laramie: Trail Drive
Jim Davis, perhaps best known as the patriarch on the nighttime soap opera Dallas, guest starred in the Trail Drive episode of the western Laramie. This first season episode has always been a favorite. The show opens with an impressive gun duel between Davis’ character of Hake …
The Young Rebels: Suicide Squad TV Show
From 1970, The Young Rebels: Suicide Squad continues the events of the Revolutionary War. It was one of my favorite shows during that TV season, and I was so glad to be able to see so many of these shows again recently.
This episode is fun because Jeremy and …
The Simpsons Season 18 Episode 13
The episode starts with an intro by documentary filmmaker Desmond who every 8 years interviewed a group of Springfield children. These children were most of the Springfield people. The episode shows how the people have been dumb all along. It shows right from the time they were in kindergarten. …
Celebrity Big Brother 2010 (UK)
I am engrossed in the UK version of Celebrity Big Brother 2010 which, as I write, has been running for just over a week on Channel 4, with a couple more weeks to go. This is the very last one so I am trying to appreciate it before …
Abbey and Janice Beauty and the Best TV Series
Abbey & Janice: Beauty and the Best was a one-off series shown in 2008 on Living TV and I have just watched the whole series on BT Vision. The attraction for me was that the —˜Janice’ of the title is the self-proclaimed —˜world’s first supermodel’ Janice Dickinson who, …
Titanic: The Mission Part 5 TV Show
Titanic: The Mission Part 5 is the last hour of this British television documentary that charged four people with recreating some iconic elements of the luxury liner that sank on its maiden voyage. The emphasis for the finale was on safety equipment, including the Marconi wireless device that …
The Maury Show
This show comes on the channel CW 18, and is mostly about who is or who is not the father of the mother’s baby, who got who pregnant, or who cheated on who. Very rarely a subject matter that is not of those natures come on the show. …
Stargate SG1: 2010
It is 2010 and the Stargate now sits out in the open for the public to use. Carter is married to a Senator, Teal’c is living on Dakara, Daniel is continuing his career as a well known archeologist and Jack has retired. Only Janet is feeling left …
CSI New York
CSI NY is a crime scene investigation series based in New York. It is made by the same people as CSI Las Vegas and CSI Miami, and the main actors from both of the other series have been in New York on different occasions.
One of the things I …
CSI: New York: Out of the Sky TV Show
CSI: New York: Out of the Sky was just a so so outing in my opinion. I wasn’t particularly captivated by the hour or even intrigued. What was disappointing is that the opening teaser had some promise, but then once it was done, it just droned on …
Dance Your Azz Off (Oxygen)
I have seen the premiere of this show and have some mixed feelings. I know that obesity is a big issue in this country (lame pun). But I am having a hard time believing that the people behind this show aren’t trying to somehow exploit overweight …
Doctor Who: Season 3, Episode 9: Human Nature
After the awesomeness that was “42″, we’re given another amazing episode. It may not keep you on the edge of your seat in suspense, but it works extremely well and pulls off everything successfully.
As the episode opens, the Doctor and Martha find themselves being pursued by …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Pandora’s Box TV Show
From May 1962, Have Gun - Will Travel: Pandora’s Box was the 35th show of the fifth season for this Richard Boone western series. This outing had some politics to it and those aren’t usually shows I enjoy that much. Basically, Paladin (Boone) is asked to bring …
MSNBC Lockup
The television show called Lockup appears on MSNBC and is a great show to watch. Weekly tapings in different prisons throughout the states are featured. Interviews with prisoners of how life is behind bars in maximum security prisons, as well as low threshhold prisons. It is …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Bitter Wine
From season one, Have Gun - Will Travel: Bitter Wine opens with Paladin (Richard Boone) judging a wine contest. This continues the interesting dichotomy of the Paladin character. He’s a gunfighter for hire with sophisticated tastes and knowledge. I really think that seeing both sides of …
Burn Notice: Lesser Evil
The season finale of Burn Notice was an episode called Lesser Evil, which guest starred Michael Shanks, famous as Daniel Jackson on Stargate SG-1. This was Shanks fourth appearance on the USA hit drama, and he was awesome. It was the conclusion of an arc that was extremely …
The Twilight Zone: Long Distance Call TV Show
Not a favorite, The Twilight Zone: Long Distance Call is an eerie episode about an egotistic, possessive grandmother who believes she lost her son to his wife and who has every intention of taking her beloved grandson with her to the grave. There’s no love there; that’s perverted.
Before …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Puppet Show
OK, wooden puppets are a bit creepy and after the movie Child’s Play, any doll that can talk makes me a bit nervous. So, I liked the concept behind the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode “The Puppet Show.”
The school puts on a talent show and Buffy and her friends …
Home Improvement
One of my favorite old Sitcoms of all time is Home Improvement. It was one of those shows, that even though it did have a very long run, it was not quite enough for me. I wish it had stayed on the air for a few more years, …
Club808 Current Music Show
Presented by two young and trendy presenters (a local club deejay and a beautiful singer), who deliver the content in a fresh, vibey and trendy fashion, Club808 is certainly a hit with me and one Friday night show I have come to look forward too. What I like most …
Corner Gas TV Show
Corner Gas is a Canadian show usually seen on the Comedy Network. It’s set in Dog River, a small town in the prairies, and is about some people at a gas station and a diner.
It’s pretty funny, full of Canadian references and mostly making fun of the characters …
New Girl - comedy TV series on Fox
New Girl is a comedy TV series on Fox that stars Zooey Deschanel as the main character, Jess. I’ve been watching it since it started at the beginning of the show, and now that it’s well into it’s first season I think it’s a good time for a …
Dancing with the Stars - 3/23/09
It was another entertaining Dancing with the Stars show as the celebrities danced for the judges and tried their best to avoid being eliminated. There were several highlights for me.
First, Ty Murray has really come a long way. This rodeo rider who began with two left feet …
Criss Angel: Mindfreak (A&E network TV show)
The most I had heard about Criss Angel is that he was a paramour of Cameron Diaz’. But other than that, I had no idea who he was. Since his little romance with her dissolved (after about two minutes) I had the opportunity to catch …
Star Trek: Amok Time TV Show
Season two of Star Trek begins with a much loved episode with some classic dialog in it — Amok Time. It was a great choice for a season opener, and it’s proved to be a fan favorite for decades. The basic upshot is that Spock is going …
Spooks: Season 8 Episode 1
Spooks returns for another run, picking up where the last one left off.
MI5 head Harry Pearce is still in the custody of his abductors, while his team try desperately to track him down. Elsewhere, former Spook and fan favourite Ruth, is brought out of hiding when she and …
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. …
Laramie: Rimrock TV Show
Laramie is my all time favorite show. The stories were fresh and intriguing, and the stories were just top notch. This episode from the third season is called Rimrock. It actually starts out very fun and carefree with a scene that really made me smile and …
Star Trek the Next Generation TV Episodes: Survivors
I haven’t watch the show Star Trek the Next Generation in a long while. But, there was nothing better on TV tonight so I ended up watching an episode of it; Survivors.
This proved to be a pretty decent episode. The Enterprise comes across a planet that has been devastated …
The Simpsons Season 8 Episode 15
Bart does some mischief and it costs Homer a lot of money. They do not have that kind of money to pay the gas company. So Marge decides to sell an old figurine. They go to the antiques store to sell this figurine. There they meet a very friendly …
Stargate SG-1: Maternal Instinct
Stargate SG-1: Maternal Instinct is an excellent outing for the science fiction series, though it’s not a huge personal favorite. Not all the best shows are always a hit with every viewer.
I think the reason Stargate SG-1: Maternal Instinct isn’t a huge hit for me is that it’s …
Death Note Episode 22 (Anime)
Death Note Episode 22 begins with Misa playing the recording of Higuchi revealing that he is the third Kira. L decides he won’t arrest Higuchi until he learns how Higuchi kills people. He decides to trick Higuchi by using a fake Sakura TV special so that Higuchi …
Bones: The Princess and the Pear
For the most part, I like the show Bones. But, some episodes, like this week’s “the Princess and the Pear” tend to be a bit too dumb to be enjoyable.
This one decided to focus on the fantasy world many people enjoy living in. People who attend comic book conventions, …
The Office: Casino Night
While it’s always fun to watch the office sometimes the individual episodes of the show can blend together. Casino Night is not one of those episodes.
Part of that is because most of the show takes place out of the office, but there are also very interesting interaction between characters …
Apollo Wives
Apollo Wives aired on the BBC surprisingly and covered a reunion of Apollo astronaut wives in Arizona. I’ve watched a bunch of astronaut related programs over the years and this one was very different.
My chief criticism off the bat is that they didn’t identify who was talking as …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Heritage of Anger
I can’t say that I’m fond of Have Gun - Will Travel: Heritage of Anger. The main reason this episode of the half-hour western doesn’t work for me is that it all seemed too rush and too easy. A Mexican woman left her son with a couple …
Changing Lanes: Who Will Be in the Top 10? TV Show
Changing Lanes: Who Will Be in the Top 10? is the second show of this series that deals with Max Siegel’s Revolution Racing team’s quest to hire four drivers to race for them. It’s not just any four drivers, though, it’s four drivers designed to bring more diversity to …
iZombie (TV series)
iZombie is a crime drama TV series with elements of horror, comedy, action and a seriously wacky plot. Just like The Walking Dead, it is loosely based on a comic book series but is nowhere near as serious or at all dystopian. It comes from the creator of Veronica Mars …
Warehouse 13 season 1 episode 11 Nevermore
This episode was about the feather and a book written by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was writing mostly mystical works so that was greatly incorporated here with getting to know Myka’s family and the involving of Macpherson, Artie’s old partner.
Myka’s mother calls her she thinks that Myka’s father is …
CSI Season 5 Episode 18 Spark of Life
It was a very nice episode, although I feel it could have been better. There were some interesting twists of events, but for the most part of it I was a bit bored. It is not that the events of the episode did not matter, it was because there …
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Fifth Bullet TV Show
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Fifth Bullet which aired in September 1962 was the 3rd episode from the sixth season, and it was a pretty good one, too. The magic of the episode stemmed from its concentration on two terrific actors. The vast majority of action …
The X-Files: Season 1, Episode 14: Gender Bender
This episode seemed to have a lot going for it. The story follows Mulder and Scully as they investigate a series of murders by seemingly different people who all manage to kill their victims with intercourse so intense that it causes a heart attack. It seems like a …
The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Show) - The Cat Burglar (Episode)
“The Cat Burglar” is an episode from “The Dick Van Dyke Show” television series. In this episode, news of recent burglaries in the neighborhood cause Rob and Laura and Jerry and Millie to become uneasy that their homes may be targeted next, and their fears prove to be very …
Death of an Expert Witness - Part 5
There’s some excitement in Death of an Expert Witness - Part 5 as Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) continues the search for a murderer. However, as always happens in P.D. James novels that are turned into TV series, there’s never just one murder. Death breeds death …
House MD
I am sure, its not because I am a nurse by profession that’s why I enjoy this TV series a lot! I mean, yes, there are a lot of medical
jargons used in their scripts, but it’s not the medical terms which would entice the watchers to anticipate the …
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