TV Reviews
The Office: Customer Survey
“Customer Survey” is the seventh episode of season five of The Office on NBC. This episode deals with the aftermath of Holly being reassigned and also delves into how the sales department is reviewed, based on customer reviews. This allows Dwight and Jim the chance to team up …
Law and Order: CI Season 1, Episode 6
This episode is where Law and Order Criminal Intent finally began to find its footing. Yet at the same time, it has a very familiar feel to it. As you’re watching the episode, you start to wonder if you’ve seen it before on one of the other Law and …
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Episode 9 (Anime)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Episode 9 has a bunch of internet users chatting about the Laughing Man.
This episode is interesting because it doesn’t really have a lot happen in it, but things do happen. This is an interesting episode because disuses the Laughing Man case …
The Andy Griffith Show: Aunt Bee’s Brief Encounter TV Show
From season two, The Andy Griffith Show: Aunt Bee’s Brief Encounter focuses on Frances Bavier’s character of Aunt Bee Taylor. She becomes very fond of a handyman named Henry Wheeler. He’s jovial and fun, and the two senior citizens enjoy spending time together.
There’s just one thing about …
The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska TV Show
Oh no. It’s another story about a ventriloquist and his wooden doll, this one a female. I really don’t like these stories. I recently watched all of The Twilight Zone and there were several shows of this theme there. Then there was one on Mrs. …
Drop Dead Diva Season 4 Episode 1 - TV Show
I waited for quite a long time for drop dead diva to come back on air. It is a very lighthearted and silly little show, but I can’t help but loving it and enjoyed every single moment of it. By the way that the previous season ended, it was …
Supernanny
I’ve only just recently begun to watch the reality show called Supernanny. Apparently, it was ABC’s answer to a Fox show about nannies. That show was said to be harsher and crueler, whereas this show is more centered on love. Since I never watched either show …
The Simpsons: Season 16, Episode 4 - She Used to Be My Girl
When another one of Mayor “Diamond Joe” Quimby’s sex scandals hit the news, a media circus arrives in town. Though the smaller news outlets are distracted by Quimby’s puppy, Chloe Talbot, a big-shot news anchor who was one of Marge’s high school friends, appears on the scene to …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Black Sheep TV Show
Have Gun - Will Travel: Black Sheep was of interest to me, primarily for guest star Patrick Wayne, who is one of the sons of the great John Wayne. I met Patrick a couple of times at functions, so I get a kick out of seeing him on …
Saved by the Bell
Saved by the Bell was a really cool show that I remember. It was show that brings back to many memories and really made me laugh. The show is about a bunch of kids in high school. It’s very funny and also very entertaining. I think the way the kids …
Extreme Couponing (tv series)
Extreme Couponing is one of those television series that I don’t necessarily love enough to go out of my way to see, but I might watch if a few episodes if nothing else is on. I can imagine that just watching a reality television series about people who dedicate …
John Doe: The Mourner TV show
While not technically listed as a two-parter, that is in essence what John Doe: The Mourner is. In this first hour of a continuing drama, a serial killer dubbed The Mourner is on the loose. One of the kickers is that he’s using the symbol that is …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Creature TV Show
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Creature is the 28th show of the series. This science fiction show has always been a favorite of mine, and it’s really been fun to go back and watch them again in order to write these reviews. Of course, …
The Truth About George by P.G. Wodehouse
“The Truth About George” is the first episode in the “Wodehouse Playhouse” series I started reviewing recently. In this episode George Mulliner (John Alderton) a noted solver of crossword puzzles and notorious stammerer, falls in love with Susan Blake (Pauline Collins, cute as always and in all ways) whom …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 12: Turn Left
Just as “Midnight” focused on the Doctor and featured Donna in a minimal capacity, so too does this one focus on one character while leaving another one on the sidelines, though this time it inverts that formula. The focus is on Donna and the episode takes a look at …
True Jackson VP
True Jackson VP is a very good sitcom for children. Though in real life, it’s not possible for a teenager to become a vice president of a company at the age of 15 as she is doing office and adult jobs instead of being in high school. True Jackson …
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Singer
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Singer was an episode of this thirty-minute black and white western that I really enjoyed. Since the last few were ‘misses’ in my book, I enjoyed seeing this ‘hit’. It began with a brief moment of levity, one that occurred when …
The Cosby Show. A TV Sitcom
For those of us who grew up during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s there is no more memorable sitcom than “The Cosby Show”. To me “The Cosby Show” was a big part of my childhood and a sitcom that still reigns as my favorite sitcom of all …
The Simpsons Season 8 Episode 12
MrBurns wants to see how good his workers are in case of a fire drill emergency and so decides to have a fire drill. However it takes more than 15 minutes for Homer to come out. It is really funny since the place should be evacuated in seconds, but …
The Young Rebels: Suicide Squad TV Show
From 1970, The Young Rebels: Suicide Squad continues the events of the Revolutionary War. It was one of my favorite shows during that TV season, and I was so glad to be able to see so many of these shows again recently.
This episode is fun because Jeremy and …
BBQ Pitmasters: Season 2 Premier TV Show
The second season of BBQ Pitmasters premiered this week. I only caught a few token scenes of this series last year, so this is really the first complete show of the show that I’ve seen. I do recognize some of the faces, though, including judge Myron Nixon, …
My Name is Earl: Joy’s wedding
Joy and Crab Man are two of many great characters on “My Name is Earl” but sometimes they don’t get a lot of time in episodes. This one was different, it focused on their wedding and we see that Joy is still angry at Earl. She has planned her …
Time Warner Cable Service
This place is so frustrating to work with. I go in on Thursday to inquire about getting service. The guy at the desk states that I can have it installed on Friday. I let him know that would be great I get off work at 4 …
Game of Thrones TV Series
Game of Thrones is a new TV series on HBO that has just completed its first season. The show follows the now series of five books.
First of all, I would highly recommend this series. I have already done so to my siblings.
Opening sequence
The opening title sequence coupled …
Oprah’s Big Give TV Show
Oprah has a new TV show and no surprise it’s all about giving. The Talk show host who has become famous for giving away lots herself, is now challenging others to do the same.
Oprah’s Big Give is a show with contestants all trying to help others. …
Shroud for a Nightingale - Part 4
Much of Shroud for a Nightingale - Part 4 reminds me of an episode of Colombo. Actually, most of the production does. We have Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh having numerous face offs with a chief surgeon of Nightingale Hospital, Stephen Courtney-Briggs (Joss Ackland). Their verbal battles …
Captain Planet
Captain Planet was a television carton series that i used to watch in my early teens. I really enjoyed it and I think a lot of people in my generation did as well.
Captain Planet was released at a time where people were starting to become more concious about …
Highway Patrol: Chain Store TV Show
The 12th outing for Highway Patrol in its third year of televising was called Chain Store and was a pretty decent episode. The show starred Broderick Crawford as Chief Dan Mathews, the head of the California Highway Patrol. Also starring was William Boyett in his recurring role …
Whose Line Is It Anyway? TV Show
First off, I would just like to say I love this show!
The comedians are really talented, the whole consept of the show is great!
How the whole thing works, is the host (Drew Carrey), will take suggestions from the audience on what scenes the comedians(Ryan Stiles, Colin Mocherie, Wayne …
Nurse Jackie Season 2 Episode 1 “Comfort Food”
Nurse Jackie season one was a great tv show with a premise different from other shows. It is about a nurse who abuses prescription drugs and has an affair with a co worker who is unaware she is married. Nurse Jackie lives a different life at …
Death Note Episode 28 (Anime)
Death Note Episode 28 begins with the members of the Japanese Taskforce trying to figure out what to do about Sayu’s kidnapping and how to get her back because they want the Death Note in exchange for Sayu’s release
The plot twists keep coming and the story is still interesting, …
The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Lake TV Show
The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Lake aired in July 1989, and it’s turned out to be one of my favorites so far. This is the third season of Bradbury science fiction stories that aired, and it’s been pretty much a love/hate relationship for me. A show either …
Television Show “Glee” Season One Episodoe 19 “Dream On”
I am a big fan of glee but this episode was just mediocre to me. Neil Patrick Harris guest starred and he was great in this episode. He was really the only highlight of this episode. His acting was great and he sang a great …
Naruto on Cartoon Network
Fans of Japanese cartoons- anime- no doubt looked forward to the premiere of the anime Naruto on Cartoon Network Saturday nights. However, devotees of the show are likely to be disappointed by its dub. To those unfamiliar with the process, the original Japanese language track is removed …
That Girl: Old Man’s Darling
Cecil Kellaway steals the show in That Girl: Old Man’s Darling. This marvelous acting fellow plays one of the world’s richest men, who really is just a very lonely old man who is without family and friends. When he meets Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas), he is charmed …
The Twilight Zone: Long Distance Call TV Show
Not a favorite, The Twilight Zone: Long Distance Call is an eerie episode about an egotistic, possessive grandmother who believes she lost her son to his wife and who has every intention of taking her beloved grandson with her to the grave. There’s no love there; that’s perverted.
Before …
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 …
Mr. Monk & the Candidate
I got the first season of the show Monk for Christmas and finally got a chance to watch the very first episode again; Mr. Monk and the Candidate. This is a fantastic episode.
Even though I do wish they would have spent a bit more time talking about the death …
Due South: Hunting Season
As Due South winds down, it gave us a storyline twist that really proved to be quite interesting. Due South: Hunting Season guest stars Jessica Steen as Constable Maggie MacKenzie who comes to Chicago for much the same reason as Constable Benton Fraser had, to track down a …
The Real Ghostbusters: Season 1, Episode 51: Hard Knight’s Day
Normally, I really like it when the show incorporates literature and mythology into the plot lines. As such, you’d think that I would’ve been able to get behind this episode as it centers around Arthurian lore. Yet somehow, this episode didn’t work for me as much as …
NCIS: Pop Life
When a guy named Willy is caught in bed with a dead naval officer, he is arrested for murder. He swears up and down that the dead woman in his bed is not the same woman he slept with the night before. It is up to NCIS …
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 …
Nana Televsion Show
Nana is the second anime I have seen by manga artist Ai Yazawa, an it lived up to all my expectations. I was highly pleased with the drawing style, the originality in design, the great choice of music, and the heart put into the storyline. It was …
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Mail Order Brides
From December 1993, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Mail Order Brides has Brisco (Bruce Campbell) and Lord Bowler (Julius Carry) coming upon a group of women. Brisco and Bowler are chasing the Swill Brothers again, who have stolen the women’s dowries. The women are mail order …
Last Comic Standing
If you like to watch stand up comedy a great new reality show called Last Comic Standing is for you. They start out with l6 contestants and week after week they are given challenges which evolve around performing stand up. The audience votes and the next week …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Bad Girls
Well, it’s about time Buffy the Vampire Slayer had some sort of twist in the plot involving Faith. All it took was the episode “Bad Girls” to give everything a whole new perspective.
Not only are we introduced to a very disgusting demon and gain a bit more understanding about …
Naruto Episode 27 Subbed
At long last the second part of the Chuunin Exam is about to begin and viewers can be heard taking a collective breath hoping for some action to finally start happening in the arc which showed so much promise as it was being introduced, but of course with a …
Emerald Point N.A.S.: Episode 13 - Hide and Seek
A couple of things stand out for me in Emerald Point N.A.S.: Episode 13 - Hide and Seek. First, I’m feeling a little bad for Rear Admiral Thomas Mallory, the widower with three adult daughters, all of whom are in the middle of some crisis or another. …
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