TV Reviews
That Girl: My Part Belongs to Daddy
The most disappointing thing about season four’s That Girl: My Part Belongs to Daddy is that for just about the first time, or maybe just the second, they used an interior car scene that was clearly done on the stage. In the past, they’ve done more location shoots …
Due South: One Good Man
The action in Due South: One Good Man is mostly personal for Royal Canadian Mountie Benton Fraser. He lives in a poor area of Chicago and is trying to improve the living conditions of his run-down building. In doing so, he gets the attention of a developer, …
Family Guy
I adore Family Guy. Who doesn’t ? The writers get my sense of humor. It’s something I can actually laugh at and I’m a hard person to make laugh. I love how Peter will say something so random and it’s just funny. I like the story line with the …
The Dean Martin Comedy Hour: William Conrad TV Show
The robust man who starred as private eye Cannon and who had the wonderful voice, William Conrad, was the honoree for this issue of The Dean Martin Comedy Hour. He was the Man of the Week, the one who took the heat delivered by the various roasters of …
The Two Coreys: Episode 1.2 - Lost Boys
While Corey Haim is busy promoting the 20th anniversary of the film that launched them to stardom, “The Lost Boys”, Feldman would rather concentrate on his wife’s photo shoot with Stuff Magazine. It’s a very messed up and embarrassing situation where Haim shows up alone at a radio interview …
Lie to Me on Fox
Have you seen the new TV show “Lie to Me”? It is the new Fox hit on Wednesday nights. My husband and I really like it so far. We needed a new show for Wednesday nights and “Lie to Me” is the lucky winner. It has a great new …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Witch
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode “Witch” is a good example as to why I feel the series should have been called Buffy the Demon slayer instead. As a fan of the show, I came to learn Buffy tended to fight more than just vampires.
The episode Witch is definitely …
Mayday Season 3 Episode 2 TV show
I really enjoyed this episode of mayday, just like many of the other episodes. You can easily tell just how much good work is put into each and everyone of the episodes. But I think that this episode stood out even more than the rest. The best thing …
Criminal Minds —“ Season One —“ Episode Eleven —“ Blood Hungry
I almost thought this episode was about someone who thought he was a vampire. But someone was breaking into places and hacking people up with tools and then taking internal organs from the victims. Later, the team discovered that whoever was doing it, was actually drinking the blood as …
Law & Order SVU: Unstable
Last night was the season premiere of Law & Order SVU and it was a bit better than expected; though you can only have so many cases involving rape before you start feeling like you’ve watched the show before.
This one had an unstable cop discovering a rape victim and, …
Beast Wars - Equal Measures
Beast Wars - Equal Measures is an episode that I like on some levels, but dislike on others. First, the good. Terrorsaur gets some, not a lot, but some development in this episode and the viewer learns that he has ambitious goals of his own and a duplicitous streak …
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 …
M*A*S*H: Dear Uncle Abdul
In M*A*S*H: Dear Uncle Abdul from season 8, it’s Corporal Max Klinger’s turn to write a letter home. As I’ve often said, I enjoy these letter home stories, but sometimes they aren’t allowed to complete themselves, and that’s the case here as well. I prefer it when …
Due South: A Likely Story
The best thing about Due South: A Likely Story is the story that Constable Benton Fraser (Paul Gross) tells both in the first and the last scenes. Gross is a good storyteller, and I understand that he’s a folk singer of some sort, so that may explain why …
The Twilight Zone: The Incredible World of Horace Ford TV Show
The Twilight Zone: The Incredible World of Horace Ford isn’t a show I particularly look for, but it’s okay. The late Pat Hingle stars as the title character of Horace Ford. He’s 38 years old, and he just wants to live a happy life. However, he’s …
Planet Earth TV series
Once again the Discovery Channel comes through with a superb series. The Planet Earth series has without a doubt the most remarkable photography I have seen on a television “nature” series. The producers have spent an exhautive amount of resources in order to present the snapshots of the varied …
M*A*S*H: Back Pay
M*A*S*H: Back Pay focuses on Hawkeye Pierce’s (Alan Alda) quest to get paid for his services. He begins by preparing an itemized bill and then sends the charges to the government. It is a pretty funny bit, but the problem is that it really wasn’t a half-hour’s …
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Episode 1.7: Duel of the Droids
Episode 7, “Duel of the Droids”, picks up where “Downfall of a Droid” left off with the search for the missing R2-D2 whom is now being held captive at General Grevious’ secret listening post on a planet that resembles Bespin from “Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes …
Project Runway (Even Designers Get the Blues)
This episode of Project Runway was definitely worth watching this week. Rather than getting to work with their choice of fabric, the designers were forced to use denim; more specifically, Levi denim taken from blue jeans and other denim outfits.
Of course, you have the usual trash talking throughout the …
Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas
With the success of Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas a few years earlier, in 2004, viewers were given Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas, a compilation of several short animated stories that focus on the holidays. They entertain and delight, and they teach valuable lessons of living that apply …
Fireball XL5: Whistle for Danger
Fireball XL5: Whistle for Danger has one of my favorite ongoing themes. That adorable and mischievous Lazoon, Zoonie, stays at Space City and wreaks havoc once again. He just loves to blow things up, unintentionally of course. Commander Zero finally puts him under house arrest, paw-cuffing …
CSI Season 1 Episode 8 Anonymous
This episode tells the story of two crimes investigate by the Las Vegas Crime Scene Investigators. One of the crimes targets Grissom on a personal level and really gets the amount of emotion out of him, which was never previously displayed on the show. This is the first time …
Stargate Atlantis: Remnants
Stargate Atlantis: Remnants continues the exploits of the Atlantis team in the Pegasus Galaxy. In this 15th show of the farewell season, the opening scenes have my head spinning. There’s just way too much going on, all presented in very short segments. More time needed to …
Monk TV Episode: Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy
I had Friday off from work because we didn’t have a baby sitter. And, because my youngest didn’t let me do much else, I found myself watching some Monk re-runs on TV (one of the channels happened to have a marathon on Friday).
Even though most of the episodes were …
The Virginian: The Good-Hearted Badman TV Show
Pete Duel guest starred as The Good-Hearted Badman in this sixth season episode of The Virginian. Back when this show aired originally in February 1968, Duel was using the original spelling of his surname, Deuel. While his brother Geoff continued to use that spelling, Pete changed it …
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Book 2, Episode 9: Bitter Work
Toph starts to begin training Aang in the art of Earthbending. Whereas, Aang caught on to waterbending fairly quickly, he actually has a bit of trouble with getting Earth to move.
Between Toph’s drill sergeant approach and the fact that Earth is air’s natural opposite, Aang starts to doubt …
DC Cupcakes: Greek Festival TV Show
DC Cupcakes: Greek Festival is the third episode of a new series on The Learning Channel, a channel I’d pretty much stopped watching considering their insistence on stuffing the Gosselins down America’s throat. However, I’m liking this show. Here are some highlights from my point of view.
–Sophie …
Laramie
From 1959 to 1963, NBC aired a wonderful western called Laramie, starring John Smith and Robert Fuller. Many folks still remember this series, which had an enduring impact on many. Unfortunately, it’s yet to be released on DVD, or even video.
What I love about the series is …
Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Hail the Tornado Tyrant
Some think that this show, with it’s lighter and softer take on the DC Universe isn’t capable of telling great stories. This episode proves them wrong.
It’s a simple tale, android hero Red Tornado builds himself a son so that he can experience a family for himself. While …
Spongebob Squarepants Season 5 —“ Good Ol’ Whatshisname
Mr. Krabs makes a deal with Spongebob and Squidward that if he learns the names of all the customers in the restaurant, he will give them a prize. They are both so surprised that Mr. Krabs is going to actually give them something that they start to scurry around …
The X-Files Lord of the Flies Episode
One of the things I liked about this television show was the introduction. Of course I also liked the plot and I guess I can say that it is one of the most interesting X-Files episodes I have ever seen. In a way the fictitious show “Dumbass” in …
24: Season 8 Premiere
In this episode we see that Jack recovered fully from his previous exposure to lethal weapons. He’s a grand dad and is back with is daughter and her family. Then once again he’s dragged into the midst of a terror plot that needs to be stopped. Jack does not …
Gilligan’s Island - Forget Me Not TV Show
Simple mistakes can always be taken the wrong way. And even though the Castaways are a family type group, there are still problems they have to face. Problems like jumping to conclusions to quickly and judging people too harshly. Even with these negative qualities, most of the
Castaways keep a …
52nd Grammy Awards
The 52nd Grammy Awards was opened by Stephen Colbert, who won a Grammy later, but he was just horrible. He kept wanting to be cool and would ask his daughter if he was cool yet. It was a stick that got old real fast.
I wasn’t impressed by …
Sanford & Son (TV sitcom)
If you were alive and kicking in the 1970s, you will certainly remember this show, featuring one of the grouchiest men of all time - Fred Sanford. I found this program really funny because it was set at a junkyard. That was a very different setting for …
Emerald Point N.A.S.: Episode 14 - The Assignment
Emerald Point N.A.S.: Episode 14 - The Assignment takes a bit of a tragic turn for my favorite, Lt. Simon Adams (Richard Dean Anderson). There’s some fun moments early on, but then something happens that disturbs him greatly, so much so that he is given a ten-day leave.
Back …
The Andy Griffith Show: The Haunted House TV Show
From October 1963, The Andy Griffith Show: The Haunted House is a classically funny episode of this comedy series which features Griffith as small town sheriff, Andy Taylor. Andy is more common sense oriented than most of the others we meet in this rural community of Mayberry, North …
Confessions of a Teen Idol - Episode 2
This show has such a campy, reality show title, Confessions of a Teen Idol, but if you give it a chance, there’s a lot of drama here about the human condition, and it’s not always pretty to look at it. Yet, for our own growth, looking at ourselves …
Criminal Minds —“ Season Two —“ Episode Twenty Four —“ P911
Another pedophile case, only this one revolves around online pedophiles. Elle comes back from medical leave and its obvious she is still having issues. I mean who wouldn’t be. But she is on edge and its pretty bad, she disobeys Hotch’s orders and just goes around doing her own …
Monica: The Single (Peachtree TV network show)
This show apparently follows singer Monica in her quest for completing a new single. I heard this was going to be a reality show series about Monica. But in fact, this is really a show Bryan Michael Cox put together to emphasize the necessities of putting together …
Mork & Mindy: Mork Runs Down
I remember seeing the episode of Mork & Mindy “Mork Runs Down” when I was a kid (and before this was a show in re-runs) but didn’t remember a whole lot about the episode until seeing it again today.
While not a great episode, it still was good enough to …
That Girl: Counter Proposal
That Girl: Counter Proposal is the first episode of the fifth and final season of this wonderful ABC comedy starring Marlo Thomas as aspiring actress Ann Marie and Ted Bessell as writer Don Hollinger. This is the pivotal episode that fans had been waiting for. It’s the …
Spoon on NET 25 Philipine TV hosted by Janice de Belen
I have been viewing SPOON, a show on NET 25 on Philippine Television which is being hosted by Janice de Belen. The show is every Sunday evening and as this is the time for my ironing, I’d iron clothes while enjoying the show.
I like the concept of the show. …
One Big Happy Family (TLC)
I have no idea why I can’t seem to find much information on TLC’s show “One Big Happy Family.” This show features a family of overweight black people. There is a father, mother, son and daughter—”each of whom weighs over 300 pounds. I would say …
Ghost Hunters Academy: Blame Game
Last night was the second-to-last episode of this season’s Ghost Hunters Academy and, if they pick a winner, I really don’t see that person being someone who would really stand out on the Ghost Hunters show.
They sent the team to the St. Augustine Lighthouse; the same place that Ghost …
The Andy Griffith Show: The Christmas Story
From the first season, The Andy Griffith Show: The Christmas Story is a show I must watch every year at least three or four times. I love it that much, and it just isn’t Christmas without seeing this wonderful episode of this down home comedy show.
Andy Griffith and …
The Black Tower - Part 3
As I begin my review for The Black Tower - Part 3, I should point out that this serialized version of this P.D. James murder mystery aired in multiple parts originally, each of which was about 50 minutes. However, I’m watching these off the DVD set, which has …
|