TV Reviews
Hellcats: A World Full of Strangers TV Show
I was not expecting to watch the new series, Hellcats, at all. I guess I was just bored, but for whatever reason, I tuned in to see A World Full of Strangers, which was the pilot.
Now I think the pilot was altered. There was a cast change …
The X-Files: Scary Monsters
A young boy whose drawings come to life with grisly consequence provides the premise for this episode; a relatively straight forward stand alone that neither excites impresses.
For a start, the storyline once again feels like something out of a more fantastical show than an X-Files episode, showing that …
Ice Road Truckers: A Rookie’s Nightmare TV Show
In an odd sort of way, Ice Road Truckers: A Rookie’s Nightmare felt a bit like the karma show, the one in which some of the drivers got at least a small taste of what has been due them for a while.
For example, Hugh, nicknamed the polar bear, is …
The Virginian: Strangers at Sundown
The Virginian: Strangers at Sundown opens with senseless cruelty towards animals so I’m very leery of this episode from the start. Normally, I change the channel at this point, but I think it might have just been a passing plot device. Whatever the story involves, there’s a …
The Virginian: Bitter Autumn TV Show
The 8th outing of The Virginian’s sixth season on the air was one of transition, although that fact wasn’t really communicated as part of the 90 minute episode. Entitled Bitter Autumn, the story did deal with loss, but that loss had nothing to do with the real life …
Prison Break
One of the best series to ever hit the television small screen, I honestly and truly believe that the hit series Prison Break, has not only captivated me, but has made a huge impact on audiences world wide.
When I watched Prison Break for the first time last year, …
Mythbusters TV show
Mythbusters is an entertaining educational program airing on the Discovery Channel. In each episode, a team of “mythbusters” tests the feasibility of various myths and urban legends. For example, past episodes have tested whether a tissue box in the back window of a car can injure the …
Boston Legal Season 2 Episode 6
Its halloween and the case fits this very occasion. Shirley Schimdt and Denise Bauer are representing Christians and Wiccans who are outraged by the public school’s celebration on halloween. The client sued the school specifically because they don’t like the witch. They contend that the witch that the school …
Friends Episode: The Apartment on Fire and Phoebe
Friends Episode: The Apartment on Fire and Phoebe is really hilarious. This time, it is all about Phoebe and how she denies so hard that she has a part to do with the apartment being on fire. The interrogation by the Fire Department Officer makes Phoebe really frustrated …
Felix the Cat in Bold King Cole cartoon
Growing up, Felix the Cat was among my favorite cartoons to watch. I thought that feline was so funny. Recently, I’ve been able to go back and watch a few of the original, or vintage animated shorts. These aren’t really the ones I saw growing up, …
The Simpsons: Love, Springfieldian Style
Friday afternoon, I tuned into the Simpsons and came across an episode I haven’t seen before; Love, Springfieldian Style. And, I have to say I loved it.
Everything about this episode was classic. You have Homer and Marge celebrating Valentines Day with the kids and they go on a tunnel …
The Andy Griffith Show: Barney’s First Car TV Show
From April 1963, The Andy Griffith Show: Barney’s First Car is exactly what this show title says. Deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts) decides to buy a car so he can be more independent. He plans to spend a whopping three hundred dollars for a used car. …
Throw Down With Bobby Flay
Before I started watching Food Network, I had no clue who Bobby Flay was; now I can’t get enough of his cooking or his shows. My favorite show that he has is “Throw down With Bobby Flay.” Bobby will be given a book by a mysterious bike messenger filled …
The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 16
Bart is obsessed with proving Lisa wrong that the toilet water goes in clockwise direction. however Lisa says that scientifically water in northern hemisphere movies in anti-clockwise, and water in southern hemisphere moves in clockwise direction. Bart is desperate to prove Lisa wrong. He phones up Australia and talks …
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Long Hunt
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Long Hunt gives us a Paladin we’ve never seen before. He’s a man with a beard! What’s even more fun is that he actually apologizes for it, as if to explain it to viewers who don’t understand the passage of time. …
That Girl: There Was a Time Ann Met a Pie Man
That Girl: There Was a Time Ann Met a Pie Man is an episode I’ve always remembered, mainly because of the central theme of the show and the publicity that it received when it first aired on ABC. While actress Ann Marie has made progress in her career, …
The Twilight Zone: Eye of the Beholder TV Show
The Twilight Zone: Eye of the Beholder is one of the best episodes of this science fiction series. It’s a poignant narration about mankind and our perceptions. It’s a wonderfully strong story, one told in the shadows for a reason. The story is a futuristic one. …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Strange Vendetta
I haven’t mentioned yet how the opening ‘theme’ as it is for Have Gun - Will Travel changes with each episode. I don’t recall if that continues throughout the series run, but thus far, star Richard Boone draws his weapon, aims the gun at us, the viewers, and …
Lost TV Show
Lost is a television series on every Wednesday evening at 10 pm central on CTV. It gets better and better each time I see it. The mystery involved in this story is so intriguing, it reveals a different scenario for each character every episode. Basically, the passengers of an …
If I had a hammer - CSI: las vegas
This was the latest episode of CSI: las vegas. I enjoyed it for the most part. Here lately they haven’t been having very many good episodes at all. There have only been a couple of good episodes ever since Grissom left. This one and “miscarriage of justice” was good …
That Girl: No Man Is a Manhattan Island
In That Girl: No Man Is a Manhattan Island, Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) appears on a game show where her success depends on knowing her neighbors. I actually had a problem with how this introductory scene went because we’ve seen Ann with a lot of her neighbors, and …
Spongebob Squarepants Season Three - One Krab’s Trash
Mr. Krabs starts to dig threw other people’s trash to hold a sale and make some money. I think that is so funny because it just goes to show how cheap he really is. He convinces Spongebob to buy a really ugly hat he found in the …
Mr. Monk Stays in Bed
I was bored yesterday so I ended up watching a re-run of the show Monk “Mr. Monk Stays in Bed.”
Compared to some of the episodes that have been on lately, this one was actually a breath of fresh air because it turned out to be fantastic.
Monk, who we all …
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Datalore
This first season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation - “Datalore” is an episode that I enjoy watching, but it is also an episode that is weakened by writing that is a bit too convenient and wobbly in my opinion. The episode definitely suffers from some faults that …
Numb3rs TV show
I really enjoy this show - I like the idea of using statistics and other forms of math to solve major crimes, and actually have a friend of mine who works in crime profiling, which I think is pretty cool.
The relationship between the characters is that Don Epps, an …
War and Remembrance: The Making of War and Remembrance featurette
Produced in 2004, the War and Remembrance: The Making of War and Remembrance featurette opens with one of the promotional ads for this lengthy mini-series which aired on ABC in 1988. From there, viewers are introduced to Dan Curtis who produced, directed, and co-wrote the mammoth war picture. …
Hawaii Five-O: Face of the Dragon
Hawaii Five-O: Face of the Dragon is part medical drama and part spy caper. Combined, Hawaii Five-O: Face of the Dragon just doesn’t do a whole lot for me. I never have liked the opening scene. It sets up the drama naturally enough, but it’s just …
Stargate SG-1: 2001
In season 4 of Stargate SG-1, there was an episode called 2010 that I just didn’t like very much, reason being everyone was just so depressed with their lives. Season five gives us the precursor to that episode, though, and it’s called 2001. It’s far better and …
Sable: Mob
Let me say up front that this review definitely has spoilers about this series end that not everyone might want to read, so if you don’t want to know the specifics, you may want to bypass this one.
I’m really not sure what to say about Sable: Mob. It …
Kaun Banega Crorepati- The Biggest TV Game show in India
“KBC” now come back with a new name “KBC 2″, as it is the second part in “Star Plus” channel of Indian television. The best part of this game show is its host -the unpredictable Mr. Amitabh bacchan. His performance as a host is mind-blowing. His humor and the …
Project Runway: There’s a Pattern Here TV Show
Project Runway: There’s a Pattern Here was another intriguing 90 minutes of entertainment. Following are some thoughts on this episode:
–This was the return of the HP challenge where the designers draw their own designs onto an HP touch computer. It is then printed out and will become the …
Law & Order SVU: Signature
I’m not sure why Law & Order SVU feels the need to bring in guest stars rather than relying on its main cast members but last night’s episode ‘Signature’ was weak at best.
Ericka Christensen was brought in as an FBI agent hunting down a serial killer (who we later …
Digital Max, Cox Cable Character
I guess this is my day to vent about television commercials I find detestable.
Chief among the television ads that make me personally queasy are the series of commercials featuring Digital Max, the digital character with the blue sweater and obnoxious wisecracks. This character is supposed to influence live …
Here Come the Brides: Democracy in Action
Here Come the Brides: Democracy in Action is a fun show and one I enjoy watching. One of the things I like about it is that the theme of the show changes two or three times, meaning that just when you think the story is about ‘this’, it turns. …
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ethics
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ethics is really a very enjoyable and thoughtful episode that effectively explores two sensitive topics and presents both sides of each topic equally: assisted suicide and testing experimental procedures on patients that, in one case, is willing, and the other case, too injured …
M*A*S*H: What’s Up, Doc?
M*A*S*H: What’s Up, Doc? is remembered most for me because of the threat to one of Radar O’Reilly’s pet bunnies. Hawkeye and Margaret want to conduct a pregnancy test, and at first, they don’t care that doing that test would result in the death of Radar’s Fluffy.
The thing …
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Jimmy Kimmel gets on my nerves every single night! My husband likes to watch Jimmy Kimmel Live. He seems to think Jimmy is funny but I can’t stand him. He is not funny and I have seen him be down right mean.
Did you watch Jimmy Kimmel Live during the …
Fireball XL5: Robert to the Rescue
Fireball XL5: Robert to the Rescue gives us something new yet again, and that’s really a neat thing about this puppet series for kids that aired back in 1962-1963. The powers that be kept doing different things, featuring characters in varying situations and whatnot. It’s variety that often …
Weird, True and Freaky (animal show)
Have you ever seen a toad that is as big as a chicken and has poisonous skin? Neither had I until I watched “Weird, True & Freaky” on Animal Planet. This particular toad, when squeezed or manipulated roughly will secrete a gooey yellowish looking poison that protects …
Fox News Channel
With the multiple news channels that we have access to in the United States, we all have to make choices about what channels we watch. I think that Fox News is the best choice among American news channels. This is for many reasons.
First of all, its slogan …
The Gates TV Show
This is a brand new summer television show that just premiered last Sunday. It’s another show about vampires, however there are a lot of vampire shows out right now. So I am a bit concerned about the success of this show. I’m not too sure how well it’s going …
M*A*S*H: Springtime
M*A*S*H: Springtime is a pivotal episode to one of the characters, but it’s also a show with a lot of gaps that make it a bit sub-par. I do like the location shooting here, which really wasn’t much of a location, except that the cameras went outside of …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Revelations
I have to say season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer really isn’t as light hearted as the first two seasons. In fact, you have so much going on at once, it’s actually starting to get confusing. The episode “Revelations” is a good example.
The episode itself focuses on a …
The Twilight Zone: The Bard TV Show
From May 1963, The Twilight Zone: The Bard is not a show that I like very much. It never captures my interest or draws me into any part of the story. Usually when this episode pops up on television, I change the channel or even turn the …
Death Note Episode 29 (Anime)
Death Note Episode 29 begins with Sayu being pushed in a wheelchair by her mother after she goes into an unresponsive state because of the trauma she experienced. Soichiro blames himself for what happened. Meanwhile a Shinigami named Sidoh confronts Ryuk about taking his notebook.
This is a …
The Flintstones: The Flintstone Flyer
My daughter has never seen the Flintstones before so I recently rented the first season of the show on DVD. We watched the first episode last night, the Flintstone Flyer and it was somewhat interesting.
This is before the characters were fully established but it managed to be entertaining. Barney …
Justice League Unlimited Season One: The Cat And The Canary
“The Cat And The Canary” is the 14th episode of season one of Justice League Unlimited, which aired on the Cartoon Network and is now available on DVD. This was a passable episode with some large holes in the plot. However, it did give the viewer a …
Ghost Hunters on the Sci Fi channel
If you’re into paranormal stuff and ghosts I strongly suggest you watch Ghost Hunters on the SciFi channel on TV or on your computer. I watch it on HULU.COM for free. This isn’t your everyday television show.
The show isn’t set up to prove ghosts exist but more to prove …
Nip/Tuck
I love Nip/Tuck, the plastic surgery-based drama series on FX network, and am actually quite sad to see it go off the air. Ever since I started watching the show in 2006, I’ve been hooked on the weekly dose of sex, scandel and surgeries presented in such life-like …
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