TV Reviews
Justice League Unlimited Season One: Clash
“Clash” is the 20th episode of season one of Justice League Unlimited. The episode features Captain Marvel, Superman, and Lex Luthor in a battle of brawn and wits. This was a decent episode and it really worked to push forward the main storyline of the season.
Lex Luthor …
Pushing Daisies (fantasy comedy television series)
While not many people might have heard about or watched the television series Pushing Daisies, I can remember it from when it started airing on the cable television channel ABC in 2007. Back then although I was never lucky enough to catch a single episode of it, I had always …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Maggie O’Bannion
Have Gun - Will Travel: Maggie O’Bannion was another one of those episodes where Paladin just happens into a drama that isn’t really of his own making. In this case, he’s just riding along when he’s set up and ultimately knocked off his horse. His clothes and …
Star Trek: Mudd’s Women TV Show
From October 1966, Star Trek: Mudd’s Women is one of the more entertaining episodes. I actually prefer the follow up from the second season, but nevertheless, this is one of the shows that people tend to remember. A few of the things that stand out for me …
Tree house of Horror I Season 2 Episode 3
This Simpsons episode features three stories called “Bad Dream House”, “Hungry are the damned” and “The Raven”.
Bad Dream House
This story is based on the film poltergeist and sees Homer, Marge and the children move into a creepy house which they bought at a very cheap price. The reason for …
Americas Next Top Model: Francesco Carrozzini TV Show
Americas Next Top Model: Francesco Carrozzini begins with the models going to the Grammy Museum and freaking out at the various items there, especially one that had belonged to Michael Jackson. The winner of the opening challenge would be one of the Grammy gals who hand over the …
American Idol
Oh no, I see ads for American Idol on TV again. Well, I guess it’s time to start renting more than one movie at a time from Netflix again.
Up until season 4 of the show, I was a regular viewer. But, after Carrie Underwood beat Bo Bice for the …
Vampire High Season 1 Episode 19
In this episode, things between Sherry and Drew start to heat up and Drew’s past is revealed.
The night students are assigned to do something creative and Merrill notices that Drew has a talent for drawing and gives him paint supplies as a gift, but he quickly declines.
Things are heating …
Stargate: Infinity: The Key TV Show
Major Gus Bonner’s team of SG cadets continues their journey in Stargate: Infinity: The Key, which is the 18th outing of the animated series which lasted but a single season.
The society in this show lives in what they call the commonality. It’s more like everyone being one thought. …
Mr. Monk and the Earthquake
Today was the first time I’ve seen the Monk episode Mr. Monk and the Earthquake since it first was broadcast in season 1. And, I still find it entertaining.
This show, of course, has Monk being caught in an Earthquake and having to cope with everything involved with that (of …
Shark Week: Oceans of Fear: episode one — Perfect Predators TV show
The collection Perfect Predators is a series of nature show specials on sharks. This was one of the editions of Shark Week, a yearly event on the Discovery Channel, which features a week of programs all about sharks. This episode, Perfect Predators, is an overview of information …
LAW AND ORDER TV SHOW
At my house, the television set is usually set on TNT, to watch Law & Order. I am a court advocate, and I enjoy watching the workings of the police and of the court actions, afterwards, on this t.v. drama.
The really nicest part of this series is that you …
Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics - Champions Gala
The Champions Gala for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics was held on Saturday, February 27th, and it was worth the wait.
Japan’s Takahashi gave a wonderful performance, full of color and delight. I loved his motion and fluidity within his exhibition performance. It made me intrigued and brought …
Casper’s Haunted Christmas
My daughter was watching some Christmas specials on TV last night and came across one that wasn’t too bad; though not overly impressive, Casper’s Haunted Christmas.
This animated film featured Casper the friendly ghost (with a much deeper voice than I remember him having) and his friends at a local …
Cowboy Bebop episode 7
Cowboy Bebop Session 7: Heavy Metal Queen is proof that Cowboy Bebop can play in a different genre than it is used to normally portray. Heavy Metal Queen is as the name says, about Heavy Metal Rock music and the life of Truckers in the Twenty-Third Century. As you …
George Lopez
George Lopez is a very funny show. I started watching this show a few months ago and I must say I do enjoy it. You can watch it on the CW 44 or cable 12. I like George Lopez’s sense of humor. He is very funny yet very sarcastic and …
Stargate Atlantis: Identity
The 18th episode of this last season of the series, Stargate Atlantis: Identity, gives us a strange-acting Jennifer Keller. The good doctor just isn’t acting like herself. Of course, we the viewers get a clue from the beginning, since it’s a different actress everyone thinks it’s Jennifer …
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 …
The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 8
Lisa is good at everything, except one field, and that is sports. She tries her best, but cannot do well in sports at all. However Bart is very good at ice hockey. On one particular match, the entire family goes to see Bart’s game, there Apu realizes Lisa’s potential …
Wedding Story TV Show
I just started watching the television show a wedding story on TLC. What it is, is a television show that tells the story of a couple who is getting married. they follow the couple from when they got engaged through their stroeis and a reinactment sometimres, and then follow …
The Office: Branch Wars
The Office is one of the more hit or miss shows on television in my opinion. It’s not even just from episode to episode. There will be four or five jokes in a single scene and only one or two will be funny, but those jokes can make me …
The Dean Martin Comedy Hour: Kirk Douglas TV Show
The great Kirk Douglas was the honoree who was roasted on this edition of The Dean Martin Comedy Hour. I like to see performers of his caliber in the hot seat. Usually someone like Douglas means more appropriate people on the dais, though not always.
One of my …
One Piece Anime
One Piece is a pirate anime (Japanese animation). The basic plot is that a teenage boy named Luffy eats a Devil Fruit that gives him the ability to stretch like rubber. Luffy’s idol is a pirate named Shanks. Luffy’s dream is to be King of the Pirates. In order …
Drawn Together
The animated TV series of Drawn Together has been around for a few seasons and I have just discovered it a few months back. I was instantly hooked on to this cartoon series when I saw the first episode. It was so hilarious, controversial, daring and sarcastic at the …
The Cleaner: Here Comes the Boom
The Cleaner: Here Comes the Boom has William Banks (Benjamin Bratt) trying to help the son of someone he helped in the past who has died. The boy’s father has returned, promising that he’s clean and is going to stay clean. Banks decides he has to test …
House of Payne show
I have watched this show called house of Payne quite a few times. In general I really like it. It’s funny and entertaining. I watch it quite a bit now. Some episodes aren’t as good as others but that is true with any show. I like this show because …
The Simpsons: Bart the Genius
You know, as unintelligent as Bart is supposed to be on The Simpsons, you really do have to admire his ability to improvise when the pressures on.
The episode “Bart the Genius” is a great example of this.
Bart doesn’t want to fail his intelligence test so he manages to switch …
Family Guy TV Episode: Mr. Saturday Knight
I have seen bits and pieces of the Family Guy episode “Mr. Saturday Knight” before. But last night was the first time I actually had a chance to watch the entire thing. And, overall, I think it was a pretty good episode.
Basically, Peter is feeling depressed because he hates …
The Second Leaders’ Debate, UK general election campaign 2010
The second of the live leaders’ debates to be held during this year’s U.K. general election campaign was, I thought, less of an interesting affair than the first one, and not only because that first debate had had the obvious advantage of being something of a novelty. This time …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Thing from Inner Space TV Show
From November 1966, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Thing from Inner Space, which stars Richard Basehart as Admiral Harriman Nelson and David Hedison as my favorite, Captain Lee Crane, is the eighth show of the third season. The main guest star is Hugh Marlowe as Bainbridge …
Martha: The Martha Stewart Show: 9-17-10 TV Show
Martha: The Martha Stewart Show from September 17, 2010 featured guests Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, John Ortiz, and Daphne Rubin-Vega. Some were more enjoyable than others.
Much of this show was devoted to Hoffman and his movie, Jack Goes Boating. Other members of the cast, as mentioned, …
Spongebob Square Pants Series
I admit that I watch cartoons and to be honest I’m a bit choosy when I watch because I only want to tune in to a good and humorous cartoons and I hate a show that is full of nonsense. While my sister is watching television I watched with …
The Rachel Ray show
I hate the Rachel ray show. It feels like I am watching reruns of the Oprah or the Tyra Bank shows only the host is a chef who was unknown to the public just a few years ago! I think that everybody should stick to what he does best …
The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Show) - Sally is a Girl (Episode)
“Sally is a Girl” is an episode of “The Dick Van Dyke Show”. In this episode, Laura rather harshly criticizes Rob and Buddy for treating Sally like “one of the fellas” in front of her newest prospective boyfriend and asserts that Sally herself has lost some of her lady-like …
Due South: A Cop, a Mountie, and a Baby
Due South: A Cop, a Mountie, and a Baby was a fairly entertaining show, though like the two shows that preceded it, there was an awful lot of music. I don’t know if the writers for this show were having issues or what, but some of these …
The X-Files: Season 1, Episode 16: Young at Heart
This was a surprisingly traditional episode of the show. I don’t mean that in the sense that it was a “monster of the week” formula show, but that the plot itself is surprisingly mundane. Yeah, there’s a bit of science fiction, what with the reverse aging procedure, …
H2O: Just Add Water
This is an amazing show that first aired in Australia, then its popularity caused it to expand to the UK and the US in mid 2007. The show is about three normal teenage girls in Australia who, through a miraculous event during the full moon in a water …
Due South: Letting Go
Due South: Letting Go is the final episode of this series for the first season, and it continues to resolve the events of Victoria’s Secret, Part 1 and Part 2. The good news is that Diefenbacker is all well now and staying with Fraser as he recovers. …
Waterloo Road BBC One programme
I just love this programme and I am eagerly awaiting to hear whether it is back on again this Autumn. Normally the new series starts about this time, and I have watched every series since the beginning.
Not only do I really enjoy this programme so does my son. …
The World Strictest Parents - TV Show - BBC 3
The Worlds Strictest Parents is a show on BBC 3. The title is not quite as harsh as it might seem. There has not been a competition to find the strictest parents, or anything like that, but the purpose of the show is to take teenagers from the U.K …
Dell Notebooks (television commercial)
The young man is walking with his red Dell laptop computer. As he struts down the street various people begin to touch him in a congratulatory fashion. The first man actually pats the young man on the bottom. He never seems to skip a …
LAs Vegas, The Pilot
My son introduced me to a great cable television series that I had not seen before. It was called Ls Vegas and it is a really good series. I was truly amazed that this was as good as it was.
So my son purchased the first season on DVD …
Painkiller Jane TV Episode: Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot
The Sci Fi Channel’s “Painkiller Jane” television show is based loosely on Jimmy Palmiotti’s comic book of the same name. There was a made for television movie of the same name which did lead to the TV series order, but the back story is not a contiguous piece …
The Great British Bake Off: S1, Ep6 TV Show
Being in the United States, for a while I wasn’t sure I was ever going to see the finale of The Great British Bake Off. I’d managed to get copies of the first five competitions, but that sixth was elusive until now.
This cooking competition series began with ten …
Stargate: Infinity: Us and Them TV Show
There’s lots of greenery and a flowing pink waterfall in Stargate: Infinity: Us and Them. The team had a bit of a rough arrival, though, almost riding over the cliff’s edge. I’m not surprised, considering how fast they ride those motorcycles and vehicles through the Stargate all …
Brooklyn Nine-Nine comedy show
‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ is now into its second season and as a comedy show it has excelled. In its FIRST season, it won two Golden Globe Awards! It’s one of the funniest shows to have come out in a long time. It has a ‘Parks and Recreation’ vibe in that it …
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Book 2, Episode 10: The Library
Man, this show is good. The group comes across a professor who is looking for an ancient library filled with centuries worth of knowledge. Sokka convinces them to join him, thinking that they can learn about the fire nation to begin forming a strategy.
This episode is quite …
Whoopi: Shout TV Show
In the Shout episode of the 2003 comedy series, Whoopi, Courtney Rae (Wren T. Brown) is upset because an ATM ‘ate’ some of his money. He spends much of the show dealing with something many of us can truly understand — computerized answering systems. It’s a comical …
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