I thought this episode of the popular 1990s television show was okay. I couldn’t say that I found it particularly intriguing, as I didn’t think it was very good. However, I didn’t think that the episode was very terrible either. I thought that all the elements …

This is one of my most memorable episodes of the popular 1990s American television series “The X-Files”. It was memorable to me because of the plot of that particular episode whereas I had always wondered if people who were struck by lightning and survived ever became electrically charged even …

When I first watched this episode on The Sci-Fi cable channel, I could not understand what it was about. I found myself wondering constantly if the thing Mulder and Scully were investigating in the episode was a literal fallen angel or a U.F.O. I could not understand how a …

“Dead At Seventeen” is a made for tv movie I watched this evening.
Barbara Niven gives a dramatic portrayal as Alyssa, a mother who is investigating the reason her teenage son commited suicide.
Jason had been acting strangely the previous two days. Alyssa feels guilty for not listening to …

Even from seeing the commercials, I knew that by episode’s end they would’ve pressed the reset button. I was hoping that they wouldn’t, but I knew deep down that it would be the case.
Still, this was a good episode. Clark finally outs himself as the …

“My Son’s Enormous Head” is the episode of Two And A Half Men originally airing on CBS on March 16, 2009. This was a sub par episode with few real big laughs.
Pros: The episode attempts to force Charlie into seeming more like a real person with feelings …

Stargate SG-1: Lost City Part 2 is rather frustrating, even though it’s a fairly well crafted conclusion to the seventh season.
I’ll get right to the main point of my frustration. Jack’s situation is tentative. He gets all these goodbyes with characters. In fact, I believe Teal’c …

Stargate SG-1: Lost City Part 1 was the first of a two-part season ender for the science fiction show. While much of it is excellent, I have problems with other facets of the production.
This show marks the end of an era, and it’s not one I liked. …

Stargate SG-1: Inaugeration is the annual clip show, but this time, there isn’t a single regular character in it, aside from archival footage. Instead, the entire story takes place at the White House, with the new President’s first day in office. As such, he’s being briefed, and …

The leftover remnants of Michael Shanks’ original story idea show up in this seventh season episode. Stargate SG-1: Resurrection is actually a bit of Hannibal Lecter meets the NID. It’s just not the type of story one would imagine Shanks writing, and it’s really not. It’s …

I’m not as fond of Stargate SG-1: Heroes Part 2 as I am of part 1 for several reasons.
First, I don’t like what happens in part 2. There’s a major character death, and it’s one that was ordered by the Sci-Fi Network. They wanted the audience to …

Stargate SG-1: Heroes Part 1 has some great moments in it. The premise is that the SGC is being documented. It’s the one-thousandth trip through the Stargate, and they want history to know how the Stargate has helped to shape and save the future.
To that end, a …

Stargate SG-1: Death Knell is not a favorite. I don’t like it for a number of reasons. The show starts off with Sam and Jacob at the Alpha Site being sort of snippy with each other. Jacob claims they don’t talk anymore. This little tidbit …

Stargate SG-1: Chimera brings about a lot of surprises for fans of the series. The first one is that Daniel suddenly owns a home. This has come out of nowhere. For seven years, he’d had an apartment and, bam, now he has a house.
The second is …

Superstars of Dance, hosted by Irish dance great, Michael Flatley, has really been fascinating to watch. In this unique competition show, dancers from eight countries have faced off against one another in team dance, pairs, and solos.
The show could have been a political disaster, with the judges all …

The Devil You Know, from season 3 of Stargate SG-1, concludes the events begun in the prior episode, entitled Jolinar’s Memories. For me, this second part is so much more exciting to watch.
On a mission to rescue Sam’s father, Jacob, from hell, otherwise known as Netu, SG-1 become …

Stargate SG-1: Jolinar’s Memories was an episode from the third season and is actually the first of a two-parter in which SG-1 go to hell, well, in the show, it’s call Netu. The basis for the trip are memories that Sam has from the time when she’d been …

Talk about poorly placed timing, the powers that be at Stargate SG-1 made a very bad choice. My understanding is that the episode called Past and Present was supposed to be either earlier or later in the season. After being tossed around the season schedule, it had …

What do you do when you feel like your character is being held back? For Michael Shanks on Stargate SG-1, the answer was ask the producers to change the direction. The issue at hand was Daniel’s wife, Sha’re, who had been taken host by the Goa’uld and …

Stargate SG-1: Rules of Engagement is a third-season episode of the successful series, and it’s one I enjoy watching. The team stumbles upon a training base setup by Apophis, whom they believe is dead. The purpose of the base is to help aliens act more like the …

For the second year in a row, The Learning Channel presented a reality show entitled, Miss America: Countdown to the Crown. The purpose for this reality show, which includes all of the Miss America contestants, is to bring the pageant up to modern day standards and away from …

Stargate SG-1: Demons is a sort of odd entry in the minds of some for the third season of the sci-fi series. In this episode, SG-1 find themselves on a planet that is reminiscent of Medieval Europe in their way of living and beliefs.
At issue in part is …

The third season of Stargate SG-1 gets back on track with a really terrific episode called Deadman Switch. It guest stars Sam Jones (of Flash Gordon fame) as Aris Boch, an alien bounty hunter whose actions and motives keep the team guessing about what is really going on.
The …

Season three of Stargate SG-1 gives us what feels like the annual alternate universe/reality story when the quantum mirror from episode one’s There But For the Grace of God episode is activated by another reality. Thus we get two Sam Carters in Stargate SG-1: Point of View. It …

Stargate SG-1: Learning Curve once again put Richard Dean Anderson’s Jack O’Neill in a bonding situation with a young child, this time an alien girl named Merrin. The saving grace is that Teal’c, too, gets to have a connection with one of the alien children, so at least …

Stargate SG-1: Legacy was a standout show for actor Michael Shanks, who played Daniel Jackson. In it, Shanks portrayed what looked like Daniel losing his mind. He was eventually taken from Stargate Command to a padded room at the Academy hospital. It was amazing to watch …

Stargate SG-1: Fair Game is a really nice episode from the third season of SG-1. It begins with Jack finding himself beamed up to an Asgard vessel and coming face to face with Thor for the first time. Richard Dean Anderson, who plays Jack, is known to …

Stargate SG-1: Seth is another episode that some of the actors of the series thought was pretty bad. The whole premise seemed weak to them, the idea of a Goa’uld still living on Earth and having achieved nothing but a tiny cult like following seeming ludicrous. Still, …

Excellency returns to SG-1 in season four. In the midst of ogling and soap operaesque episodes, Stargate SG-1: The First Ones is a delight. It’s angst, action, drama, and it has heart. It’s about friendship and teammates. It’s a lost teammate, and SG-1’s absolute determination to …

A show I can really sit back and enjoy! Finally! Stargate SG-1: Watergate is a nice episode with a good guest star, Marina Sirtis of Star Trek: the Next Generation. Marina plays a Russian scientist who knows all about SG-1, much to their curiosity.
SG-1 discovers that …

Stargate SG-1: Window of Opportunity is a taste of fresh air in season four of this science fiction series. It’s a comedic retreat that occurs when Jack and Teal’c are the only two on Earth who realize they are reliving the same events, over and over again.
Watching the …

Divide is exactly what Stargate SG-1: Divide and Conquer did to SG-1 fandom, and it didn’t conquer anything. All it did was sever the fandom even more.
Stargate SG-1: Divide and Conquer is the upsetisode that took footage from the previous Upgrades episode to serve the purposes of this …

The male ogling continues in the world of science fiction with Stargate SG-1: Crossroads. Once again, the producers tried to make this soap opera a male gaping event. This time it’s not only Tok’ra Spice who was responsible, but a Jaffa priestess as well, one who has …

Stargate SG-1: Upgrades is often described as just two little words — Tok’ra Spice. As I’ve said before, with a new producer at the helm, the show was no longer the great show of exploration and character dynamics. Now it was a soap opera, and early in …

Confessions of a Teen Idol - Episode 3 is another thought-provoking show in what has turned out to be a big surprise for me. I’m not fans of any of these one-time teen idols, but they are making for interesting television.
One of the classic battles — at what …

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 …

Confessions of a Teen Idol - Episode 1 was a re-introduction for many of some of their favorite teen idols of old. All of these men are no longer in show business, but all have indicated an interest in starting up their careers once again.
Producers Scott Baio and …

Having just discovered Confessions of a Teen Idol on VH-1 yesterday during a re-airing of its fourth episode, today I tuned in for the latest showing, Episode 5.
The standout for me here was Jaime Walters, of Beverly Hills 90210 fame (I mistakenly stated he was on Baywatch in my …

Flipping through the channels yesterday, I landed on a show that surprised me. It had a couple of recognizable faces on it, though they were older. With time, I realized I was watching Confessions of a Teen Idol - Episode 4.
I wasn’t really sure what Confessions of …

Stargate SG-1: The Other Side is a good entry for season four of this sci-fi series. In it, SG-1 and Earth test their code of ethics, a charge led by the passionate Daniel Jackson.
At first, SG-1 is all for helping the Eurondans, a race that contacts them, desperate …

The fourth season of Stargate SG-1 begins with Small Victories, which concludes the action begun at the end of the third season in Nemesis.
The opening is quite fascinating. It’s a sequence that takes place on a Russian submarine, a real one, and the two actors speaking the lines …

There are all kinds of reality shows on today, and many are crime related. One of the series I’ve learned to enjoy over many of the others is Call 911, which airs on the Discovery ID channel.
The show uses actual 911 phones calls, recreations of incidents, and interviews …

Season three of Stargate SG-1 ends with the first of a two-part that sadly indicates a shift in the show that ultimately began its downhill slide. Many fans consider the first three years of the show to be the vintage years. Sadly, I agree with them.
The unfortunate …

Stargate SG-1: Crystal Skull is an excellent episode of this great science fiction series. It brings a bit of personal into the mission picture as Daniel Jackson’s maternal grandfather is an intricate part of the story.
The essence of Stargate SG-1: Crystal Skull is that Daniel gets out of …

This review is focusing solely on the programming offered by Comcast Cable in the Northern California region and particularly in Sacramento.
Since coming to Sacramento the last time, Comcast Cable has done very little to increase its channels offered. Let me explain that originally, we had Sacramento Cable. …

The third episode of A&E’s series, The Beast, is called Nadia, and once again, I’m intrigued.
Patrick Swayze’s Charles Barker character continues to excite. He’s natural and at ease with the part. His actions and movements are subtle and well timed. He’s a veteran performer, and it …

Stargate SG-1: Maternal Instinct is an excellent outing for the science fiction series, though it’s not a huge personal favorite. Not all the best shows are always a hit with every viewer.
I think the reason Stargate SG-1: Maternal Instinct isn’t a huge hit for me is that it’s …

Season three of Stargate SG-1 rolls on with another terrific episode called New Ground. The team sets foot on a planet that is sharply divided on its origins, and SG-1 is drawn into the battle by their mere presence.
Assisting the team is their new friend, Nyan. In …

The week following a somewhat weak show, viewers of Stargate SG-1 were treated to one of the best shows of the entire series, an episode entitled Shades of Grey. In it, Jack O’Neill resigns from the Air Force after becoming frustrated by the military’s lack of taking action …

This season three episode of Stargate SG-1, called A Hundred Days, is one of my least favorites ever. While parts of it are well worth watching, I just don’t buy into much of what happened and most especially the final scene.
In Stargate SG-1: A Hundred Days, the team …