TV Reviews
The Catherine Tate Show - First Series
Mainstream female comics are few and far between. Certainly, there’s more than a few going strong amongst notable comedy groups and the likes of Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have all brought us some downright fine entertainment over the years, but since Dawn and Jennifer …
Legend: The Gospel According to Legend
The Gospel According to Legend is the seventh episode of this Richard Dean Anderson futuristic western. I like this one quite a bit. A man Ernest Pratt (Anderson) knew before as a low life called Weasel Willy comes to town as Mordechai and claiming to be reformed …
BBC’s Sherlock Special- The Abominable Bride
So the Christmas special episode of the series Sherlock has been dominating the internet since its outbreak. Sherlock is the modern adaptation of the book Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the 1800s and the series’ Sherlock Holmes is no other than Benedict Cumberbatch who really became more …
Highway Patrol: Confession TV Show
From 1959, Confession was the 36th episode to air in the final season, its fourth, of the police drama, Highway Patrol. This half hour series starred Broderick Crawford as Chief Dan Mathews and William Boyett as his number one helper of sorts, Sergeant Ken Williams. For me, …
Unsolved History: Chicago Fire
From 2003, Unsolved History: Chicago Fire examines the devastating 1871 Chicago fire that essentially destroyed the city. The experts from the show recreated the O’Leary barn and nearby structures and with the cooperation of the Chicago Fire Department actually started a very hot and dangerous fire to help …
Law and Order: Criminal Intent Season 1
Watching Law and Order: Criminal Intent Season One now is a fairly different experience than watching it when the season first aired years ago. I actually remember when the show first started because my parents were big fans of the original Law and Order and I actually watched Special …
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Sitcom Series)
I was looking for a new series to get started on when I heard about the Netflix sitcom “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”. I didn’t expect it to be great, but the premise made me curious enough to want to find out what the series was all about, especially since I heard …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: A Time to Die TV Show
From December 1967, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: A Time to Die is the 11the show of its fourth and final season on the air. Irwin Allen did a great job with this series, and while it wasn’t always great, it most often entertained viewers. …
Models of the Runway: Hair Today, Hair Tomorrow
Well, since I was up anyway after watching Project Runway, I did take the time to watch Models of the Runway again (though I do think the show is getting a bit on the boring side now).
For the most part, it was pretty much the same old stuff. A …
The Twilight Zone: Ring-A-Ding Girl TV Show
The Twilight Zone: Ring-A-Ding Girl is actually one of my favorite shows from the series, which is surprising since it aired in the fifth year, one which is full of lesser quality productions. This one, though, I’ve always enjoyed and I never tired of seeing it. It’s …
Mr. Monk and the Leper
I am a huge fan of the television series Monk. However, Friday’s episode, Mr. Monk and the Leper was a bit of a disappointment.
While the show still kept most of it’s trademark comedy, the episode seemed to lack a lot of the mystery that has kept it a top …
Butt Ugly Martians
WHen I was younger and still had not graduated high school, my younger brother would watch cartoons on Saturday mornings and after a while one of those cartoons I noticed was a show named “Butt Ugly Martians”. The first time I heard of it was when I saw him …
Chase: Havoc TV Show
Chase: Havoc was one of the more interesting hours of this freshman NBC series that focuses on a team of United States Marshals. The head of the team is Annie. She’s a bit of a wild cannon in my opinion and I’m not sure yet if I …
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: Painless
I really hate how they keep messing with the overall format of the show “House.” It is a great medical drama that keeps losing momentum because of all the dumb little side stories you have to contend with each week.
The episode “Painless” for example, has a great case in …
Trigun Episode 2
Trigun is a Japanese anime space western set in the distant future on the planet Gunsmoke. Vash the Stampede has been hired by Cliff Schezar played by Ivan Buckley to be his bodyguard to protect his guest Marianne Orlerkaizen. Meryl and Milly wander into town looking for …
Cowboy Bebop episode 8
When a thief tries to mug Spike Speigal, he soon discovers a small problem. On Cowboy bebop, a waltz of death is danced in between two rebels in an dying world. Episode 8: “Waltz for Venus” is a tale of both hardships and a the love of a man …
MASH - Season 9
I think this season may have kept MASH going for a couple of more years just because the episodes, though not as funny, definitely made you think more about the mental effects of war.
First Hawkeye needs to reply to a letter written by a kid who lost his brother …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Invasion TV Show
Invasion was the April 28, 1962 of Have Gun - Will Travel. It is not a favorite episode as it was all about some military fight. Basically, it’s part of the Irish revolution and revolves around the character played by Robert Gist, Gavin O’Shea.
O’Shea wants financial backing …
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 …
Sky Cable
A 500 pesos per month for having a sky cable is worth a try if you are bored watching on the local channels.
When I resigned from work, I started to live with my parents in Imus, Cavite. I am so happy that I can see now my parents …
M*A*S*H: A War for All Seasons
M*A*S*H: A War for All Seasons goes through the year1951 told in one thirty-minute show, which further points out how crazy it is that this show lasted almost five times the length of the actual war, which went from 1950-1953. This would mean that the first eight seasons …
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Code of Honor
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Code of Honor is an episode that puzzles me. I do not know if the writers of the episode were deliberately trying to be racist or if they were driving at something else, but the way the episode is scripted makes me wonder. …
CSI Season 2 Episode 11- Organ Grinder
CSI Season 2 Episode 11- Organ Grinder
It was a really nice episode but still, there was something in it, which gave me the feeling that things did not really add up, even at the very end when the crack the case. The thing I liked the best about this …
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Bye Bly
Just when we thought the evil John Bly was gone, he’s back in The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Bye Bly. Big time groan. As played by Billy Drago, he just is one weird looking bad guy. However, this is the show that gives us a …
The Simpsons Season 4 Episode
Homer is lying on the couch. Just when Marge notices that Ned appears a bit slanting. Homer is not bothered by it. Later it turns out the foundation is faulty. Homer decides to fix it on his own, because of the huge expense if they hired a contractor. …
The next best thing
This year featured a new reality type show called the Next Best Thing. The show featured people impersonating movie stars or other famous people. While the show was slightly boring watching week to week. The semi=finals of the show was simply outstanding. The winners were …
Court TV
Within the past year, I seem to have gotten farther and farther away from watching mainstream television shows, and I, for one reason or another, have become more interested in Court TV. Maybe I am just tiring of redundant television concepts, or maybe it is because I am …
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Book 2, Episode 5: Avatar Day
Aang and crew are attacked by a group of fire nation troops and forced to flee. The worst part is that Sokka’s boomerang gets left behind.
They come upon a festival that they believe is celebrating the avatar, after all, they call it “avatar day”. It …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Blow Up TV Show
From December 1967, the 12th show of its fourth year, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Blow Up has a new twist for the viewers to enjoy. It’s not exactly the typical ‘body take over’ theme that is so popular in science fiction shows, but it’s more …
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig Episode 12
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig Episode 12 Has Section 9 discovering a file that seems to be a virus and try to stop it because they don’t know when they’re going to strike.
This was a very good episode and it was very well done and …
Spongebob Squarepants Season One - F.U.N.
This is just another great episode on season one of Spongebob Squarepants. In this episode, Plankton is trying to be friends with Spongebob just so that he can get the Krabby Patty recipe from him. Spongebob truly thinks that Plankton wants to be friends and Spongbob gets …
The Andy Griffith Show: Alcohol and Old Lace TV Show
The title from this outing of The Andy Griffith Show no doubt comes from the classic movie, Arsenic and Old Lace, which was a tale of two somewhat ditzy but loveable sisters who had a funny look on life. That could also be said of the sisters in …
Due South: An Eye for An Eye
In Due South: An Eye for An Eye, elderly people are being murdered and it’s up to Fraser and Vecchio to find out why and whodunit. There are a couple of nice twists to this plot that keeps the story fresh. Overall, though, it’s not really one …
The People’s Court With Judge Marilyn Milian
Daily I look forward to sitting down comfortably and watching an episode of The People’s Court. The people’s court is presided over by Judge Marilyn Milian, and I couldn’t think of anyone better to do it. She has a little bit of an attitude complimented by a sassy, yet …
Beast Wars - The Web
Beast Wars - The Web is the third episode of the series and one that delivers character development to Tarantulas, Cheetor and Rattrap. The deranged and sinister nature of Tarantulas begins to shine for the first time in this episode, and the writers do a superb job of projecting …
Emergency!: Mascot
Emergency!: Mascot is really the first episode of the Emergency! series, the pilot movie having come before it. This is the show that introduces the regular Station 51 shift that we quickly grew to embrace. Real life fire department Captain Dick Hammer played, yes, Captain Dick Hammer. …
Destination Truth show
Destination Truth is a show that airs on Wednesday nights after Ghost Hunters on the SciFi channel, or SyFy now. This show is mainly about cryptozoology but they’ll occasionally do paranormal cases as well. It’s a bit like Ghost Hunters but the crew for Destination Truth is a …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Werewolf TV Show
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Werewolf, the second show of the third season, begins a little like last week’s show, in that we begin by seeing a scientist working on a project outside of the Seaview. Last week it was Arthur Hill diving on the ocean …
TV’s 50 Funniest Phrases
Tonight NBC aired TV’s 50 Funniest Phrases, a celebration of the best 50 phrases in TV history. What I liked about this show is that they ultimately admitted it was a mainstream 50 phrases. Going in and out of commercials, for example, they’d give the top 3 …
America Celebrates July 4th at Ford’s Theater TV Show
For the 2010 Independence Day holiday, a special called America Celebrates July 4th at Ford’s Theater was presented. I liked this hour long show, but I wish it had featured some holiday music in it. Instead, we had a lot of pop music and some other songs, …
In Here Come the Brides: The Firemaker
In Here Come the Brides: The Firemaker, Jason Bolt (Robert Brown) and Aaron Stempel (Mark Lenard) make a bet over which one of their men can convince Lulu Bright (Stefani Warren) to get married. Aaron offers his man a position as chief accountant, complete with raise, if he …
Star Trek: Friday’s Child TV Show
Star Trek: Friday’s Child is one of those weird shows that I don’t really enjoy that much. Something about the characters don’t sit well with me, but I’m not sure what it is. Here are a few reactions to this show:
–I like that in the teaser we …
That Girl: Rattle of a Single Girl
That Girl: Rattle of a Single Girl is Ann Marie’s version of cold feet, a situation that fiance, Don Hollinger, succumbs to in a later story. She begins to think that they aren’t ready for marriage, so when someone suggests counseling, she insists that they go.
Of course, counseling …
Judicial Indiscretion (TV Movie)
This movie was made for the Lifetime TV Channel and was first shown in 2007. It stars acclaimed actress Anne Archer as a judge recently up for nomination to the Supreme Court. I have to admit that my primary interest in watching this movie was for her male co-star, …
Celebrity Ghost Stories (TV series)
I generally find some reality television series about supposed real life hauntings to be addictive. For example, I loved watching the television series “Ghost Hunters” when my time wasn’t so limited and when it would air regularly on the cable television channel Syfy. I also liked watching series such …
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Book 2, Episode 12: The Serpent’s Pass
After Aang’s latest trip into the Avatar state, he becomes worried about the lack of control and decides to abandon all emotion. It starts off rather subtle, but becomes more obvious as the episode progresses, until he flat out explains the reasons for his detachment.
Katara is naturally …
Modern Family Season 2 Episode 4 “Strangers on a treadmill”
This review is of the American television show Modern Family, Season two episode 4, “strangers on a treadmill.” This episode gets it’s name from a reference to the movie strangers on a train where two strangers agree to kill someone for the other one so that the person close …
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