TV Reviews
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 12
As we flee from the threat of our identities of being revealed, we must question the nature of this fear in the first place. Does it exist to torment us, or is it an foolish illusion wrought by man’s own hands? These questions may not have an answer at …
60 Minutes tv show
There is one part of 60 Minutes that I enjoy after all of these years, and it is Andy Rooney. His ten minute blip at the end of the show is usually far beter than the entire hour that the show airs. Andy has that comical gift …
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig Episode 6
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig Episode 6 has Togusa investigating the death of a man who was the prime suspect in a blackmail case involving the Ministry of Energy. He discovers that the case is way more complex than he thought.
This is a great …
Dead Like Me: The Bicycle Thief
This is the episode that I was worried about with J.D. the dog. I just don’t like to spend my time worrying about innocent animals, and that’s what I do for most of Dead Like Me: The Bicycle Thief. J.D. gets out, and the Lass family goes …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Black Sheep TV Show
Have Gun - Will Travel: Black Sheep was of interest to me, primarily for guest star Patrick Wayne, who is one of the sons of the great John Wayne. I met Patrick a couple of times at functions, so I get a kick out of seeing him on …
Medium: Talk to the Hand TV Show
Medium: Talk to the Hand had a very different beginning. The opening teaser has Alison with Mr. Bill about safety. Mr. Bill was such a contemporary figure a couple of decades back. I was never that amused with him, but once you see him, it’s hard …
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Bounty Hunters’ Convention
The best part of The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Bounty Hunters’ Convention
was an early scene where a man warned Brisco to make sure Comet didn’t have his way with his horse, Lily. It was a hoot of a scene.
Morgan Woodward guest starred as Sam Travis, one of …
Transformers Rescue Bots TV Show
One of the best Transformers cartoons I’ve seen. Transformers Rescue Bots is on the TV station called The Hub. It’s a channel has some of the old time shows like ALF as well as old children’s cartoons like the 1985 Transformers , GI Joe from the 80s, and so …
Teach - Tony Danza: Back to School TV Show
Teach - Tony Danza: Back to School is the first of seven episodes that focus on entertainer’s unusual experience at Northeast High School in Philadelphia where he teaches English to 10th graders. This is a documentary series airing on A&E that is a mixture of fun, frustration, hope, …
The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 16
The town of Springfield is getting ready to prepare for the 200th celebrations of their founder Jedediah Springfield. They are going to have a parade, playing various historical characters. Homer decides to play the role of the town crier. However when he reaches the auditions center, the role is …
Street Hawk: The Arabian
Street Hawk: The Arabian is episode 11 of this series and it all revolves around Rebel’s Choice, a horse with a heck of an insurance policy. The horse is, well, horse-napped. As an animal lover, I have to be honest and say I don’t like shows like …
Stargate SG-1: Touchstone
Stargate SG-1: Touchstone continues on the second season with style and adventure. Here, the team has to find what amounts to a weather machine that has been stolen from a planet SG-1 has recently visited. In fact, the inhabitants believe that the SGC stole it. Watching …
M*A*S*H: Hepatitis
In M*A*S*H: Hepatitis, Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) comes down with a case of hepatitis, meaning that Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) has to test everyone at the 4077th to see if anyone else has the disease. The episode was written by Alan Alda, which usually means that there’s going …
House on Fox
House on FOX is one of my favorite TV shows. I love the main character Doctor House even though he can be an insensitive jerk. He is witty and smart and leaves you wanting more. I mainly love the show because of the mystery behind each episode. There …
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Sammy Davis Jr. TV Show
The Man of the Hour was Sammy Davis Jr. on this Las Vegas taped edition of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Unfortunately, it wasn’t as good as it could have been. I am a huge fan of Sammy’s. I loved his acting, his singing, and his …
Saved by the Bell
Saved by the Bell was a really cool show that I remember. It was show that brings back to many memories and really made me laugh. The show is about a bunch of kids in high school. It’s very funny and also very entertaining. I think the way the kids …
Black Gold: S3, Ep 3 TV Show
In this third episode of Black Gold’s third season on TruTV, Peggy, the owner of the land on which the oil rig is currently operating, confronts the tool pusher about the broken cattle guard seen in episode 2. I don’t think much of this guy. He talks …
Stargate SG-1: Prisoners
Stargate SG-1: Prisoners is a huge favorite of mine. I can watch this episode over and over again, and I have, many times.
In this show, the team end up being transported to a prison colony for what Jack terms, jaywalking. Now, they have to figure out how …
The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 1 Bart Of Darkness
It is summer time, and the heat is unbearable. Bart and Lisa pester Homer into buying a pool, which Homer willingly agrees. Because of the pool, the entire town’s kid’s come over to their place to swim. So Bart and Lisa’s popularity soars. However while performing one stunt Bart …
The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 2
Bart and Milhouse are die hard fans of Radioactive man. The “Comic guy” tells them that a movie is going to be made about Radioactive Man. The producers of the film decided to shoot the movie in Springfield. This delights the entire town. Announcement is made that auditions will …
Family Guy
Family guy is a cartoon show. It is rated M 15+. The show is about this family, and a dog.
Peter Griffin, is the father, who is pretty lazy and bigish. He does have a good heart when he wants to. He tends to tell everyone what he thinks right …
The Andy Griffith Show: The Guitar Player TV Show
I mentioned early on that most of my reviews for the early episodes of The Andy Griffith Show would tend to be glowing. I adore this series and it was so very well produced. That said, there are some shows that I’ve never warmed up to, and …
The Simpsons PTA Disbands Season 6 Episode 21
A field trip to Fort Springfield goes horribly wrong when Principal Skinner refuses to pay the entrance fee and the class are caught attempting to “learn for free” by trying to watch a battle re-enactment through a fence. This leads to the Fort Springfield employees chasing the class out …
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 …
The Simpsons: Season 16, Episode 6 - Midnight Rx
It’s time for the annual company party, and the usually tight-fisted Mr. Burns surprisingly reserves the Springfield Air and Space Museum as the venue. Once all of the employees have greatly enjoyed themselves, Burns drops the bomb that he will terminate the company prescription drug plan. At …
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 …
The Biggest Loser
Overall, I like this show. I really love seeing the transformations! Most of these people are really obese when they come on the show. Some of them even over 400 pounds. Then, when the season is over, they have lost over 100 pounds usually, if not …
Fireball XL5: Sabotage
Gerry Anderson really knew his stuff with the puppets. In Fireball XL5: Sabotage, he continued to pioneer the craft. This is one of 39 episodes that aired, Sabotage showing on American television in 1963. As so many of the half-hour black and white episodes do, there …
Stargate SG-1: There But For the Grace of God
The first season of Stargate SG-1 wraps up with a three-story arc that actually then leads into a cliffhanger for season two. The first story of this arc is There But For the Grace of God, one of the best shows in the series and this is definitely …
John Adams: Reunion TV Show
Part four of John Adams, the HBO 2008 mini-series, is called Reunion. Following the end of the war, John Adams is back home once again, although not for long. This time, John eventually sends for Abigail to join him in Paris.
The scene where Abigail arrives is prolonged. …
Doctor Who: Season 5, Episode 12: The Pandorica Opens
So we come to the first part of the fifth season’s finale, and man, does it manage to cram a lot into the 47 minute run time. The first few minutes jump around to various historical eras. This allows us to see some past characters like Van Gogh, …
House : Skin Deep
This has got to be one of the best switches I have seen on “House” so far. The story involves a supermodel who punches out another model and then collapses on the catwalk. They discover heroin in her blood and so at first they assume it is that, and …
CHiPs The Complete Second Season DVD Set
Regarding CHiPs The Complete Second Season DVD Set, let’s get the bad out of the way first.
For starts, these are double sided disks, so that you have to flip them over. Unlike the season one set that had 6 DVDs and were single sided, there are four DVDs …
Family Guy: Petergiest
This entertaining enough parody of the horror movie Poltergeist proves to be a solid episode from the forth season.
It’s a pretty affectionate spoof, with Stewie stepping into the shoes of Carol Anne and effeminate Bruce popping up in a role influenced by Zelda Rubenstein’s diminutive medium. After a …
Simpsons - Elementary School Musical
As Seasons of the Simpsons go, Season 22 has been not even hit and miss episodes. They have just been disappointing episodes with very few humor points involved in them. And this episode was no different than the others. It was …
Family Guy: Tales of a Third Grade Nothing
I’m not sure about Family Guy some weeks. Some episodes are very clever and unique. Others, like “Tales of a Third Grade Nothing” lack any real substance to them.
This episode basically has Peter having to repeat the third grade because he is seeking a management position and it is …
The Virginian: If You Have Tears
If You Have Tears is the 20th episode of the first season for the hit western, The Virginian. This 90-minute color episode centered on a friend of The Virginian’s who is accused of murder. James Drury, who plays the title role of the series, was also the …
Clean House, Messiest Home in America Contest 2
OK, I watch Clean House on a regular basis only because my wife makes me. But, I will admit, watching other people and their messes really makes me feel a bit better about my slightly messy home.
I have to say though the house on their Messiest House Contest 2 …
TV show Survivor
The TV show Survivor premiered in the United States in 2000 on CBS and became a huge hit that year. I remember the show that year because I was still in school and had plenty of free time to watch the show and get obsessed about it.
Jeff Probst …
Survivor Nicaragua: Fatigue Makes Cowards of Us All TV Show
Survivor Nicaragua: Fatigue Makes Cowards of Us All is the 2nd episode of the current season where its older versus younger members. In my mind, I have to wonder about the fairness. The challenges in Survivor tend to be physical. I think the older tribe is …
Stargate: Infinity: The Answer TV Show
The deal behind Stargate: Infinity: The Answer was that Major Gus Bonner and his team of Stargate cadets was that they were going to go to a planet where a scientific symposium was being held. One of Stargate Command’s scientists, Doctor Mason, would be attending. This would …
24 TV series
24 is a drama series on television. I started watching a few years and was immediately hooked on to the show. Basically it’s about Jack bauer an agent at CTU - the Counter Terrorist Unit and the first season starts off about his family when his …
Devices and Desires - Part 1
Devices and Desires is from 1991, and it looks like it was shot on tape instead of film. There’s a very different look to the visual. There is some location shooting that looks very nice and pleasing to watch. In fact, it’s the outdoor, ocean side …
Handy Manny
My family and I (my husband, our eldest son Kurt who is 3 and Josh our youngest who is 6 months) are going to be moving over to Spain towards the end of this year. We already have a place over there and my parents live over they’re …
H20 - Just Add Water
When I first heard about H20 - Just Add Water I was quite excited. A series about mermaids? I love mermaids, I also loved that the show was an Australian one.
H20 is into it’s third season now and I must admit the first season was a bit …
True Blood show
True Bood is a show HBO. This show is based on the Sookie Stackhouse books, or “The Southern Vampire Mysteries“ series by Charlaine Harris. The show follows the story of Sookie Stackhouse, a twenty something woman that also happens to be telepathic, and the coming out of vampires from …
Psych TV Episode: Ghosts
I was watching another re-run of the show Psych this afternoon while having lunch. This one was entitled Ghosts and was one I have seen before but couldn’t remember much about it. I’m glad I watched it though because it was actually a very good episode.
Basically, Gus needs to …
CSI: Las Vegas A space oddity
This is one of the latest episodes of CSI: Las Vegas. While I give it up for them for trying out something new, I didn’t really care much for this episode. Other than being completely different from other episodes, I didn’t really like anything about it. I thought it …
The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing - Episode 2 TV Show
The second episode of The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing was quite interesting to watch. I’m still left wishing they’d not tried to cover so much ground in such a short period of airtime, though. The events cover literally months and yet we see a great deal of …
Two And A Half Men: The Devil’s Lube
“The Devil’s Lube” is the episode of Two And A Half Men originally airing on CBS on December 15, 2008. This episode was not one of the better ones, as it featured a needless cameo by Emilo Estavez playing Andy, Charlie’s womanizing best friend.
Most shows featuring star cameos …
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