TV Reviews
Kim Possible: Steal Wheels
Kim Possible is a show on Disney about a cheerleader and her bumbling sidekick (and his pet naked mole rat) who repeatedly saves the world. It is a very cute cartoon aimed mainly at teens, but also enjoyable for adults- or at least this adult.
In Steal Wheels, the first …
Adam-12: Log 155: Internal Affairs - Blackmail
From 1971 which was the third season of Jack Webb’s highly successful Adam-12 television series, Log 155: Internal Affairs - Blackmail focuses in on a cop accused of corruption. Jed Allan guest stars as Officer Tony Johnson, a friend of Pete Malloy’s. Malloy, a veteran police officer, …
Probe: Metamorphic Anthropoidic Prototype Over You
I’m going to say up front that I really thought I was going to enjoy Probe: Metamorphic Anthropoidic Prototype Over You, and I did, except that I don’t like the ending, which is too melancholy for me. I have concerns about what will happen to subject of the …
Art Attack
The Art Attack is the Programme, which is being telecasted in the kids channel called Pogo. The art attack is a very interesting programme specially for kids where they are thought to do many kind of crafts sitting at home using the simple things which are always available …
The Twilight Zone: Walking Distance TV Show
The Twilight Zone: Walking Distance is another episode from the first season of this great science fiction television series. It focuses on a middle-30’s businessman named Martin Sloan (Gig Young) who is a bit unhappy with his life. He decides to take a quick trip to his …
Scrubs: Our First Day of School
I kind of lost track of Scrubs about midway through the last season. My DVR wasn’t working and there are way too many shows on to watch. I had read that they were going to renew the show for another season, even though most of the cast …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Wax Men TV Show
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Wax Men was the 24th episode of the third season. The story has the Seaview doing a favor for the State Department by transporting wax figures that are supposedly from the infamous Atlantis, only that’s not exactly the case. …
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Stagecoach
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: Stagecoach would have been better with a little different mix of stagecoach passengers. Basically, Brisco is taking a prisoner to Mexico on a stagecoach on which there is a killer. The viewers learn this first, thanks to a scene with Socrates …
Voyagers!: Barriers of Sound
Voyagers!: Barriers of Sound is an intriguing connection of two historical events. It’s shows like this one that proved how creative Voyagers! could be. It begins with history going wrong with Dwight David Eisenhower almost didn’t get born, or survive. The reason? The telephone hadn’t …
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 …
Masquerade: Oil
Masquerade: Oil took us to Rome, the city of love, where the National Intelligence Agency operatives were trying to foil the villains of the piece. The villains are a bunch of Arabs who kidnapped Americans in Kuwait. They took the workers from an oil field and locked …
Cinemax
I can’t believe how much cinemax has changed. I used to have it and I glad I don’t pay for it anymore. I had it free over the weekend and I don’t see why anybody would pay for this channel anymore, especially not a high price for it. I …
A Capitol Fourth TV Show
This was the 30th anniversary of A Capitol Fourth, which aired on PBS and was hosted by Jimmy Smits. Smits certainly had a lot of drama in his hosting. He was full of energy and vibrated enthusiasm for the nation’s historic birthday. This is the show …
The X-Files: Season 1, Episode 19: Shapes
This episode had some potential, but inevitably fell flat for me. It was interesting to see the monster of the week get killed off in the stinger, and have its death be the subject of investigation. It seemed like a nice inversion, but at about the halfway …
House: Lucky 13
Well now, the episode of House entitled “Lucky 13″ certainly was intended to bring in ratings. After all, who can object to an episode that features Thirteen and one of her female lovers. I have to say it got my attention.
The case itself was actually quite dull. Another patient, …
M*A*S*H: Potter’s Retirement
M*A*S*H: Potter’s Retirement is a pretty decent episode from the sixth season of this great series. In the episode, Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) learns that complaints have been made about his command of the 4077th. Now in years past, that was commonplace for Potter’s predecessor, Colonel …
M*A*S*H: War of Nerves
M*A*S*H: War of Nerves focuses on the troops of the 4077th just getting plain tired and sick of the war. They’re on the edge, frustrated, miserable, lonely, irritable, and all kinds of adjectives that scream they want out. Everyone is driving one another batty, and there just …
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Episode 2.12: Alpine Fields
What is the point of “filler episodes” exactly? Really, I’m wondering, because that’s exactly what “Alpine Fields” is - filler. First off, John Connor is nowhere to be seen, it’s only Derek, Sarah, and Cameron. There’s also another nameless T-888 assassin that has to be killed. Apparently, there’s a …
Kenja no Ai (aka A Saga Love, 4-episode Japanese TV Series)
When I saw the trailer on the movie channel, I was immediately captured by its dark and mesmerizing plot. So I didn’t wait till the weekends for it to be aired on the movie channel but when online to watch it instead.
This is one of the most interesting and captivating …
The Simpsons
Has there ever been a better show than “The Simpsons”? I think not, at least in my generation. I think back to when I was just growing up and the show first aired. It was an instant hit and it has not stopped providing laughs. …
“The Descent” (Season 12 Episode 2 of The Vampire Diaries)
The 12th episode of season 2 of The Vampire Diaries called “The Descent” was very moving and one of the most emotionally memorable episodes of the entire show. Not only does a myth about werewolves and vampires come to light, but the characters of Mystic Falls are in for …
Family Guy: Barely Legal
OK, I like some Family Guy episodes and don’t like others as much. That’s going to be true about most series. But, some episodes of this show like “Barely Legal” are just a bit disturbing.
If you haven’t seen this episode, it goes a bit like this. Meg convinces Brian …
Devices and Desires - Part 3
Part 3 of Devices and Desires, a six-part series based on the P.D. James novel, has the standout line of the first three parts, and probably of the entire story. Spoken by Caroline Amplett to the very naive Jonathan when she says, “You say you love me but …
Stargate: Infinity: Hot Water TV Show
Why is that there is always one traitor on every world to mess things up? I suppose it’s natural, but as a plot device, it’s just way overused. It’s too much of the easy catalyst for why things go wrong. This is what we have again …
Project Runway Season 1 Episode 2
There is something to be said for a person with a great sense of humor, and Jay Carroll proves he’s that person in this episode.
The episode opens up with Heidi on the runway along with the models. The designers get the opportunity to either keep their original model or …
Throwdown w/ Bobby Flay
For some reason, Bobby Flay annoys me. I have really only seen about three or four of these episodes. But I think it’s a combination of his personality and his cooking. He seems a little condescending to people, and I have the feeling that he …
Laramie: The Fortune Hunter TV show
From the fourth season of Laramie, The Fortune Hunter is one of the buddy shows that I love so much. By this I mean that it features both stars, John Smith and Robert Fuller, in their roles of Slim Sherman and Jess Harper. It’s the friendship between …
NCIS: The Truth Is Out There
A man goes into a bathroom at a night club. While he is in there, he notices blood dripping onto his shirt from the ceiling. Like most people in television shows or movies, he lets his curiosity get the best of him and investigates. He is …
Ducktales
When I was a kid, I would race home in the afternoon to watch the cartoon Ducktales before doing my homework. Since my daughter seems to be getting bored with a lot of the shows that are currently on TV (especially some of the cartoons) I decided I would …
Alias Smith and Jones: The Girl in Boxcar #3
Alias Smith and Jones: The Girl in Boxcar #3 has some drama and poignancy to it, and while I enjoy it, it also is the first show that has Hannibal Heyes (Pete Duel) and Kid Curry (Ben Murphy) apart for much of the time. This serves to allow …
Stargate SG-1: Morpheus
Stargate SG-1: Morpheus is one of the better episodes of season ten, and it’s one of the few where we really get to see Sam and Daniel together. In this episode, the team go to a planet and become victims to a sleeping sickness. To stay alive, …
Miranda Episode One
This new sitcom, starring and written by central star Miranda Hart, promises itself as something of a throwback to the classic 70s sitcom, the type where crude but allowable jokes were plenty and cardboard cutout characters were commonplace.
While this show is only starting out, things don’t look good. …
Boston Legal Season 2 Episode 6
Its halloween and the case fits this very occasion. Shirley Schimdt and Denise Bauer are representing Christians and Wiccans who are outraged by the public school’s celebration on halloween. The client sued the school specifically because they don’t like the witch. They contend that the witch that the school …
American Dad “Stannyboy and Frantastic” Season 6 Episode 10
In this episode Stan and Francine grow bored with their relationship. Like most couples they realize they know each other’s stories and are scared of their relationship growing stale. They also recognize they have no couple friends to do things with as they hate one out of …
Friends - The one with the birthing video
To prepare for the birth of her baby, Rachel decides to borrow a video from Phoebe of a mother giving birth so that she knows what she can expect while she is in labor. Although she is not excited to see the show, she decides that it would be …
Spartacus: Blood and Sand
“Blood and Sand” was the first season of the popular cable television series, Spartacus which used to air on Starz. It took me a very long time to start watching it because for most of the season, I either was not very interested in watching it or did not …
Psych TV Episode: There’s Something About Mira
My wife wanted to watch Project Runway at 8 but I had the TV last night until then and decided to watch a re-run of Psych I had recorded on our DVR called There’s Something about Mira.
I think I have seen this episode in the past but didn’t remember …
Gilligan’s Island - Mr. and Mrs. Who TV Show
What I first noticed about this episode is how completely the producer and screen writer can thoroughly turn people’s lives upside down, and they do a good job of it here. There is a whole lot of uncertainty throughout the show, uncertainty that causes other problems even the break …
DC Cupcakes: Roller Girls TV Show
In this episode of DC Cupcakes called Roller Girls, the two sisters who own their cupcake bakery business are making over a thousand cupcakes for an event for the DC Roller Girls, which I believe is a Roller Derby team in Washington, D.C.
While that is going on, they also …
Outlander (romance drama television series)
With all the hype surrounding the premiere of the television series Outlander, I honestly thought that it would have been something that I might enjoy. This was especially after I discovered that it would be set between post World War II and that the plot would contain elements of time …
Final Interview of Friends in NBC
I truly respect the whole cast of Friends, including the actors, actresses, the writers and all the not-known staff. They are all awesome and that could be depicted of a great team-work when I watch Final Interview of Friends in NBC. Each and everyone of the real celebrity …
The Twilight Zone: Mr. Denton on Doomsday TV Show
Episode three of The Twilight Zone isn’t a particular favorite of mine. It’s called Mr. Denton on Doomsday and features Dan Duryea. Certainly, Duryea was one very talented man. He’s been in numerous shows that I have enjoyed greatly, but this wasn’t one of them. …
Hawaii Five-O: Cocoon (Pilot)
The pilot for Hawaii Five-O was presented as a movie that aired several days before the regular season began. The show is about the elite state police force of Hawaii, which is called Five-0. The force is led by Steve McGarrett, a no-nonsense and tough man of …
Home and Garden Television
I just love HGTV. If you are into making your house nice or being creative, this is the channel for you. The ideas that I have gotten from this channel are just unbelievable. The painting and decorating shows are a real help. They show you …
Pysch: Extradition from British Columbia
After being disappointed by the Monk Season Premiere, I was glad when Psych came on to save the day.
The season premiere of that show “Extradition from British Columbia” turned out to be much better than expected and I think I’m starting to think of this show as my favorite …
Your Song: Abs Cbn Show
Another TV Show everyone loved in the Philippines, Your Song premiers about 2 years ago, in July 2006 and since then the filipinos have been following this show everyweek. Their tagline “Ang Soundtrack ng Lovelife Mo” meaning ” The Soundtrack of your Lovelife”, has also helped the show bring …
Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things… Part Two
Star Trek: The Next Generation - “All Good Things…” Part Two is the last episode of the series, and really, I think it could have been better. There is a lot about this episode that just does not make very much sense. For example, the explanation for where the …
That Girl: Mission Improbable Part 1
That Girl: Mission Improbable Part 1 opens up the fourth season of this fun-filled comedy series starring Marlo Thomas as Ann Marie and Ted Bessell as Don Hollinger. These two have a marvelous chemistry that is a joy to watch. Sometimes you wonder how Donald puts up …
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