TV Reviews
“Charmed” Season 1 Episode 2: I’ve Got You Under My Skin
The second episode of the TNT series “Charmed” of their first season entitled “I’ve got you under my skin” was not only suspenseful but very entertaining. I really enjoyed getting to know the three Hallowell sister’s even better and see how their powers are causing not only strength between …
Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Grand Opening
The third season of Curb wraps up in style as the restaurant finally opens, Larry insults and injures a particularly harsh food critic, Cheryl gets caught in a car wash and a foul mouthed tourettes suffering French chef causes concern for the investors.
While the third season has been …
HGTV Showdown - Battle of the Design Stars
HGTV Showdown is an interesting interior design television show on the Home and Garden Channel that pits teams of designers against one another. Each team is comprised of two members, and they each take on the same challenge.
The challenge is also the prize. Usually, a couple has …
Dead Like Me
I’d forgotten how much I liked this show until I saw it on the DVD racks at FutureShop. I asked for the DVDs for Christmas, and I was definitely right in remembering how good this show is/was. It’s too bad that there were only two seasons, although there is …
Comcast
Okay, now I usually do reviews on things I like, but this time I have had it! Comcast (used to be Time Warner cable here) has driven me to my limit. You would think that after being with them for so long and not moving to Direct TV, …
Highway Patrol: Transmitter Danger TV Show
The fourth show of the fourth season on TV, Highway Patrol: Transmitter Danger was another show that focused on dynamite. They’ve done this a couple of times so it wasn’t the freshest of plots to be doing in this half hour show. This show is about the …
The Simpsons TV Episode: Lost Verizon
Well, I have never seen The Simpsons Episode Lost Verizon until last night. And, you know what, it was actually a pretty darn good episode.
Basically, Bart, after missing out on Principal Skinner going through a major (and very funny) public humiliation, wants a cell phone. After trying to earn …
That 70s Show: Won’t be Fooled Again
Well, that was a cute episode of That 70s Show; Won’t be Fooled Again.
There are two story lines that were worth following in this one. First, Donna forgets to take one of her birth control pills and, before too long, everyone learns there’s a chance she might be pregnant, …
Psych: Earth Wind and Wait for It
I missed the new episode of Monk on Friday night but did manage to catch the Psych episode “Earth Wind and Wait For It.”
While it wasn’t half bad, it also wasn’t the best I’ve seen.
This episode had Shawn and Gus investigating a series of arsons that revealed dead bodies. …
Highway Patrol: Double Copter TV Show
Highway Patrol: Double Copter from 1958 was one of the later shows in the third season to air. This police drama which stars Broderick Crawford as Chief Dan Mathews, the head of the patrol, has a history of promoting the use of helicopters in its episodes. They’ve …
The Virginian: The Judgment
The Virginian: The Judgment is a flashback tale, told by Judge Henry Garth (Lee J. Cobb) to his daughter, Betsy (Roberta Shore), about something that happened ten years earlier. As a result, the show is Cobb-centric. Outside of Shore’s short bits in the opening and the ending, …
The Twilight Zone: Mute TV Show
In another review I wrote a few minutes ago, I had said that the human mind is a powerful thing. That’s not exactly earth shattering news, but it is something that The Twilight Zone exploits and uses in many of its stories. It’s never done more so …
America’s Got Talent: Finale 2010 TV Show
The 2010 America’s Got Talent finale was fairly entertaining. The final four were pretty good. There was the colorful Prince Poppycock, the everyday singer Michael Grimm, the variety act Fighting Gravity, and the young operatic star Jackie Evancho. In my mind, it was down to Grimm and …
Criminal Minds Season 1 Episode 17 A Real Rain
That is a good example for a well written episode and many people would agree with it. In this episode the BAU team travels to New York to help solve a case of a serial killer who does not go after the same type of victim. It is unusual for …
Gilligan’s Island - Take a Dare TV Show
Here we have George Barkley rolled by Strother Martin introduced to the island. He actually plays a strong willed but passionate character. But he has downfalls of his own. Ginger actually picked up on one and another is greed. If Barkley would have worked with the Castaways instead of …
Stargate SG-1: Descent
The weirdest thing about Stargate SG-1: Descent is that I don’t understand why Major Davis (well played recurringly by Colin Cunningham) is on the mission with SG-1 and Jacob. Apparently, he’s got some scientific reason for being on board, but the man is supposed to be the Pentagon …
East Bound and Down TV show
East Bound and Down was a short lived HBO series starring Danny McBride from such movies as Pineapple express and Land of the Lost. He is a favored actor of mine so this was a series i was really looking forward to watching. Even though I found out …
Warren Sapp on Dancing With the Stars
I love this guy ! I love watching him dance. He is so light on his feet and he uses the steps to his best advantage. I can’t believe such a bigger guy can move so lightly on his feet and look so good doing it ! He is …
Medium: It’s a Wonderful Death TV Show
Medium: It’s a Wonderful Death is another show that had a very nice season ender. The show narrowly escaped cancellation, or so it’s believed as of this writing. Actually, while I like this show, one thing I’ve consistently thought about it is that Patricia Arquette’s character of …
Legend: Knee-High Noon
The first thing I noticed about the sixth episode or Richard Dean Anderson’s Legend series, entitled Knee-High Noon, is that Anderson’s character, Ernest Pratt aka Nicodemus Legend finally gets to drive the locomotive invention created on the show by his partner, Janos Bartok (John DeLancie). I’m sure that …
Adam-12: Log 11
This episode gives us our first briefing for our Adam-12 boys, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed. Oddly, they aren’t sitting together, but it’s not really important. After the briefing, we get the set up for the show, and it’s a funny one.
Rookie Reed is asked to fill …
The Twilight Zone: Mr. Bevis TV Show
The Twilight Zone: Mr. Bevis is one of those shows that teaches us all to be happy with who we are and what we have. Actually, this premise is used again in a later episode that starred Carol Burnett. I actually like the Burnett one better, but …
M*A*S*H: Divided We Stand
Season two begins with M*A*S*H: Divided We Stand, which in many ways seems to be a quick study guide to the uninitiated of this military comedy. The opening has General Clayton (Herb Voland) discussing the personnel of the 4077th. This essentially provides an overview of the …
M*A*S*H: No Laughing Matter
In M*A*S*H: No Laughing Matter, Major Charles Emerson Winchester III sees a chance to finally be transferred back to Tokyo when the colonel who sent him to the 4077th visits the camp. Robert Symonds returns as Colonel Horace Baldwin. The odd thing to me is that Baldwin …
My Dog Ate What? TV Show
I was surfing channels when I saw this show at the National Geographic Channel. The title is “My Dog Ate What?” and it was very engaging I watched the whole show.
This is about dogs (and in this episode called “Batteries and Cereal Boxes”, a tortoise was featured too!) who …
Stargate SG-1: Prometheus
Stargate SG-1: Prometheus is one of the wildcards I’ve mentioned. I kind of like this one, even with the annoying constant smiling of Jonas Quinn.
Earth’s brand new spaceship, the Prometheus, is about ready for its trial run. That’s when four hijackers make their move, successfully gaining control …
Dancing with the Stars - 4/5/10 TV Show
The April 5th edition of Dancing with the Stars was to have a theme of telling a story, an edict given by judge Len Goodman on last week’s show. Below are some of my reactions to various dances of the week.
Evan, the figure skater, and Anna, the Russian …
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 …
Trinity Blood episode 3
Teardrops of hatred, spoiling the land with its wrath, without coherence or mercy for that part. This is episode 3 of Trinity blood and the starting point of the major story arcs, in this case the Istvan “Star of Sorrow” two part story arc. You are introduced to Sister …
The Andy Griffith Show: Opie the Birdman TV Show
The fourth season of the wonderful comedy series, The Andy Griffith Show, began on September 30, 1963 with a very nice show called Opie the Birdman. However, while I have watched this show several times over the years, it’s one I don’t watch as often as others. …
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants is a sponge with a shape of square living in a pineapple in Bikini Bottom. His neighbors and friends are Squidward and his best friend Patrick. Squidward is like always annoyed by Spongebob’s presence. SpongeBob and Patrick loves jellyfishing and always having fun. SpongeBob works as a …
The Fugitive: Dark Corner
Tuesday Weld is the main reason for watching this show. The Fugitive: Dark Corner is all about the Weld’s character of Mattie Braydon, a blonde sex-kitten type of gal who is spoiled and conniving. Oddly, she’s blind in this story, which makes her come off as sweet …
Monster Episode 12 (Anime)
Monster Episode 12 begins with Dr. Tenma at the orphanage where Anna Libert stayed. There he learns about 511 Kinderheim and the experiments that took place there. Dieter is taken away from the hospital by Mr. Hartman and Tenma finds out and goes to rescue Dieter from …
Simpsons - That Birdie In the Window
This was one of those Simpsons episodes that I just say, were they really so out of ideas that they must have just looked out a window and saw a bird and that’s where the idea of the episode came from. Even if the whole idea of using a …
Due South: White Men Can’t Jump to Conclusions
From season two of Due South comes White Men Can’t Jump to Conclusions, which has Constable Benton Fraser believing in a youth who has been set up by his friends to take the fall for a shooting. They mystery begins with simple sounds, the sounds of gunfire that …
Dragonball Z
“Dragonball Z” is the coolest anime TV show ever. I am watching this show for many years, and I just love to watch “Dragonball Z”. This is an epic anime show, this series is full of action, and I love to watch actions, so it has become my most …
The Ray Bradbury Theater: Downwind from Gettysburg TV Show
The Ray Bradbury Theater: Downwind from Gettysburg starts out reminding me of the living Mr. Lincoln exhibit from Disneyland. I’ve seen that marvelous show numerous times over the years, and it’s marvelous the way Disney created a Lincoln who could stand and talk to the visitors.
In Downwind from …
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Episode 24 (Anime)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episode 24 has the nature of Section 9’s work revealed to the media after Chief Aramaki ordering Section 9 to take down the man behind all the corporate terrorism.
This was a really good action packed episode and it showed just how good …
House: Hunting
The thing about so many shows is that what happens seems to be too easy. By that I mean that every week something extraordinary happens to the characters of the show. That is why having House being a famous diagnostician is such a good idea, and one they …
$40 a Day with Rachel Ray
The Food Network is one of my favorite channels and when you combine food with travel, it is a double whammy of entertainment. In $40 a Day, Rachel Ray takes us around the world to some of the hottest tourist spots - the Florida Keys, LA, Miami, Paris, Rome, …
The Simpsons Season 18 Episode 8
The episode begins with Homer and Marge fooling their kid’s and begin intimacy during the day. Bart and Lisa are terrified looking at it. Later Nelson invited everyone to his birthday party. However Bart urges that everyone should not go. However Marge makes him go for the party. Bart …
Stargate: Infinity: The Look TV Show
The message of Stargate: Infinity: The Look could probably be gleaned from its title. Remembering that this animated series was designed for the children watching, the moral of the tale is that clothes and accessories don’t make the person,.
The first part of the lesson comes when Harrison …
Danny Phantom
The only time I really watch Danny Phantom is when my cousins come over. They are ages three, six, eight and ten. I think it’s a pretty cool show from what I’ve seen. I also like some of the messages it teaches kids. There was one episode when there …
Star Trek: The Mark of Gideon TV Show
Star Trek: The Mark of Gideon is a show with another message and this time the topic is population control. We have Kirk beaming down to the planet Gideon and finding himself still aboard the Enterprise, only no one else is around; that is, until he finds …
Doctor Who: Season 2, Episode 6: Rise of the Cybermen
An explosion in the TARDIS causes the crew to make an impromptu stop. The Doctor fears that since they were thrown out of the timestream, that they will be stuck in a void, but Mickey opens the door and finds that they are in London. Of course, …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Episode 1.18: Mystery of a Thousand Moons
In the eighteenth episode of the 3D animated series titled “Mystery of a Thousand Moons”, the fatal Blue Shadow virus from the previous episode is finally released, infecting Ahsoka, Padmé, and many clone troopers — and giving Anakin and Obi-Wan just 48 hours to find the antidote on a …
The Andy Griffith Show: Mr. McBeevee TV Show
The season three premier episode of The Andy Griffith Show is a classic show called Mr. McBeevee. This particular program is definitely in my top 10 of the best of this comedy series. There’s humor in abundance and warmth that makes your heart both ache and smile.
The …
Spongebob Squarepants Season One: Hall Monitor
It is the time of the week when Mrs. Puff needs to choose another hall monitor for next week. Since she has gone through everyone in the class except Spongebob, she has to choose him even though she does not want to because she knows that he is going …
Nighty Night - Series 2
Julia Davis might have outraged, insulted and appalled with the first series of her critically acclaimed comedy “Nighty Night”, but with its second outing, she pushes the boundaries even further. Although, not always for the better.
The second series picks up sometime after the close of the first. Jill …
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