TV Reviews
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Harsh Light of Day
Finally, an episode of a show geared toward teenagers that shows premarital sex and the possible consequences of doing so.
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode “The Harsh Light of Day” finally reveals my suspicions about Parker. He’s not allied with Buffy’s enemies, but it he obviously is a total …
The Real Ghostbusters: Season 1, Episode 29: Beneath These Streets
I was going to bemoan the fact that the episode opens with the Ghostbusters suffering from slow business. After all, that was a plot point in the last episode, but luckily, it gets quickly tossed aside as the plot gets underway.
I do mean underway in one of the …
That Girl: Sixty-Five on the Aisle
That Girl: Sixty-Five on the Aisle is a fun little show about Ann appearing in a play where she has a decent part with a few different scenes with dialog. As a surprise, her father has arranged for 65 people in all from Brewster to attend the opening …
Blue’s Clues Television Show
There are many television shows out there that are geared to toddlers. My most favourite right now for my two-year old is Blue’s Clues. Blue’s Clues is partly animated and is based on a young man and his puppy.
The puppy provides clues via an animated paw print to his …
House TV Episode: Guardian Angel
There wasn’t much on TV tonight so I ended up watching a re-run of the show House that I might have seen before but really don’t remember; Guardian Angel.
This is one of those episodes where he has lost his original team and is still trying to pick a new …
Star Trek: The Apple TV Show
Gene Roddenberry tackles Eden yet again in Star Trek: The Apple. The series creator seems to love to show that books shouldn’t be judged by their covers and that living easy isn’t necessarily living. Man never quite finds paradise in Star Trek.
Another red shirt goes down before …
The Office: Dinner Party
The problem with “The Office” is that in many episodes the awkward situation it feels too forced. This episode is the exception. Michal starts this episode with a rare moment of outsmarting someone. He tells everyone in the office they will have to stay late so not to make …
Pysch Pilot
One of my Christmas presents this year was the first season of the show Psych (my wife bought it for me but I picked it out). Because of that, I was finally able to watch the series pilot again; something I saw a long time ago but it hasn’t …
Death Note Episode 37 (Anime)
Death Note Episode 37 is the final episode of the anime and it shows Near revealing with proof and solid evidence that Light is Kira. The SPK has their reaction and they try to take Light into custody.
This episode was fantastic. The dialogue was terrific and very …
Star Trek: The Cage - Extended Version TV Show
The beginning of the Star Trek legacy was back in 1966 with a pilot produced by Gene Roddenberry called The Cage. No one could imagine that this would be the birth of a legendary show that would last well beyond Roddenberry’s lifetime. In the mid-eighties with the …
Criminal Minds Season 1 TV Series
I just got off after finishing all twenty two episodes of the TV series for the third time in a row. What I like best about this series is the humor of the characters which never fail to make me laugh. In the face of death and gruesome scenarios, …
Dexter
I discovered Dexter the television series when I was in the United States for training when my officemate cajoled me into watching it with her. I was a bit curious when she told me that this was about a serial killer of serial killers. And so I sat down …
Trials and Tribble-ations An Historic Endeavor featurette
Rick Berman talks quite a bit in Trials and Tribble-ations An Historic Endeavor featurette, which talks about the making of the Star Trek: Deep Space 9 episode called Trials and Tribble-ations. This was a show to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the franchise, taking the DS9 folks back …
M*A*S*H: The Red/White Blues
In M*A*S*H: The Red/White Blues, Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) examines the base commander, Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) for his required annual examination and discovers Potter has high blood pressure. This would result in Potter being sent home early. Since the test doesn’t need to be done …
Top Shot: The Razor’s Edge TV Show
Top Shot: The Razor’s Edge was full of action and emotion. I really like this competition show where top shooters face off against one another using all types of weaponry. This one was a bit of a surprise as the elimination challenge involved the use of Bowie …
Battlestar Galactica: A Disquiet That Follows My Soul
Every episode of Battlestar Galactica is an experience and “A Disquiet That Follows My Soul” is certainly that. This show takes place shortly after The Battlestar Galactica discovers that earth was destroyed and people are still trying to regain their composure.
The president is having the most trouble, retreating from …
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 46
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 46 The Briggs soldiers help smuggle Winry back into her home in Risembool where she is unexpectedly reunited with Ed, who has come to get his automail serviced. He tells her that she, Pinako and Den should leave the country, but Winry tells Ed …
Lockup
The television show on the cable station MSNBC called Lockup is great. The show should be watched by any teenager you may have in the house. It depicts what life in prison is like. How dangerous it is even though you might think being locked up …
The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Murderer TV Show
I’m not a big Bruce Weitz fan, but I have to admit up at the top that his appearance as Albert Brock in The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Murderer was outstanding. There was an energetic restraint to his performance, and while that may sound like a contradiction, it’s …
The Jeffersons (TV Show) - Mr. Piano Man (Episode)
“Mr. Piano Man” is an episode of “The Jeffersons”. In this episode, George announces that he wants to buy a piano for the apartment after seeing a large home in a magazine with a grand piano. George believes having a piano will send a message to anyone that visits …
Martha: The Martha Stewart Show: Season Premier 9-13-10 TV Show
Martha: The Martha Stewart Show premiered its new season on Hallmark on September 13, 2010. This series is the leader of the new Hallmark Home block of TV entertainment. It is followed by Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer and Mad Hungry with Lucinda Scala Quinn. Apparently, the …
The Simpsons Flamin’ Moe’s Season 3 Episode 10
In this episode Homer’s favourite Tavern owner Moe runs out of beer. Homer then tells Moe about a recipe he accidentally created one night when Patty and Selma (Homer’s Sisters-in-Laws) made the whole family watch their holiday slide show. While watching the slide show Patty’s cigarette ash accidentally drops …
Univision
Univision has to be in my opinion one of the best Hispanic channels, that are out right now, The channel is made and designed for the Hispanic community and personally i think that its set up in a very smart way. Me also being a Spanish speaking person, i …
Dexter season one
Micheal C Hall makes this series plain and simple. No other man could have done the Character of Dexter so well. His versatile acting skills have seen him through on this one.
Dexter, a blood splatter pattern analyst working for the Miami metro Police department has a dark secret…he moonlights …
Speed Grapher Television show
Well this one has taken a lot of knocks this year. My enthusiasm to watch it was off and on before I actually turned on the DVD. However, after the first episode my negativity was calmed and I was ready to watch more! From the start …
The Secret Millionaire
I think The Secret Millionaire make for interesting viewing and usually it is quite moving. The idea is that a millionaire will go undercover to a disadvantaged area, volunteer to help with some local charity or community project and live amongst the community for a while in conditions …
Prison Break Season 2 Episode 14- John Doe
Prison Break Season 2 Episode 14- John Doe
Finally the story picks up the pace again and the events start to progress rapidly. It looks like some major changes are coming.
Michael, Lincoln and Kellerman join forces in attempt to bring down the president and expose the conspiracy, and hopefully get …
F List TV show
This show appears on Fuse, a music-focused station. It’s a half-hour show that plays five videos centers around a theme, whether it’s the genre of the music, or some aspect of the videos themselves, like featuring extreme sports. The problem with this format is if you’ don’t …
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 …
Adam 12 - Log 73
Martin Milner gets the lead in “Adam-12″s Log 73 episode. In it, his character of Pete Malloy is attending a local college, where the students are unhappy about many of the policies in place. Anne Helm, who has a steady body of quality work, plays one of …
The Fall Guy: No Way Out TV Show
From January 1982, The Fall Guy: No Way Out had a fairly good opening sequence. Though the main story is always about Colt Seavers (Lee Majors) chasing down some bail jumper, we most always get a fun stunt segment to remind us that he’s normally a stunt man.
In …
The Simpsons: Trilogy of Error
Today was the first time I’ve seen the Simpsons episode “Trilogy of Error” in its entirety. And, I have to admit it is one of the better episodes in the series.
I like this episode because it is essentially several stories in one; and they manage to overlap each other …
Brothers and Sisters
Brothers and Sisters is a television show about families. At first glance the show appeared to me to be dull, another soap opera style drama on prime time. After watching a couple of episodes I was engrossed.n The premise of the show is that a large …
Sliders Double Cross
This could have really been a quite good episode of Sliders. It has a somewhat interesting take on some of the problems that face our own world (the idea of diminishing resources), a chance for our four homesick Sliders to finally make their way home as well as …
Once Upon a Time (ABC tv series)
I’ve always had a love for Fairy tales and Disney movies and so I was intrigued when a family member introduced “Once Upon a Time” to me. I didn’t have a lot of hope for it though since it looked a little low budget and I didn’t see how …
NCIS: See No Evil
“See No Evil” held a lot of surprises for the viewers. Not only was the case concluded in a surprising way but this was the episode where Gibbs hired McGee to be a full time field agent on his team.
The case starts when a secretary for a Captain …
Battlestar Galactica: The Oath
Every episode of Battlestar Galactica builds on the last. There have been a few misses of course but in general it feels more like one story than any series I can think of. Even Babylon 5 took breaks occasionally finishing one part and moving onto another, but Battlestar feels …
Dancing with the Stars - 9-21-09
Dancing with the Stars debuted a new season on September 21, 2009 with more celebrities than ever. Twenty, yes, twenty stars are included in this season’s show. The season premier is stretching over three nights. Tonight the focus was on the men.
The number one attention getter …
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 …
Justice League Unlimited Season One: Fearful Symmetry
Fearful Symmetry is the rather bland fourth episode of Justice League Unlimited, season one. The episode stars Supergirl, which is normally a good thing. However, the episode is light on action and the plot is not all that interesting.
I did enjoy that the writers stuck Supergirl with …
The Fugitive: When the Bough Breaks
The Fugitive: When the Bough Breaks is a poignant episode that guest stars Diana Hyland as a woman who is traveling with her baby. Kimball comes across her when he hops a freight train. As events evolve, he discovers the baby isn’t hers after. Then he …
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 …
Stargate SG1: Need
While this episode is Daniel-centric, I cannot make up my mind whether I really love it, hate it or am stuck in between. I think it’s the latter. Even though I am a huge fan of the character Daniel Jackson and his portrayer, Michael Shanks, there are …
Seinfeld: The Pick
I was watching Seinfeld last night and came across an episode I hadn’t seen before “The Pick.” Wow, this is a classic episode because there is so much going on at once.
First, you have Elaine deciding to copy one of her friends (or coworker, I’m not sure which) by …
Voyagers!: Buffalo Bill & Annie Oakley Play the Palace
Originally airing on January 9, 1983, Voyagers!: Buffalo Bill & Annie Oakley Play the Palace is the 12th episode of the series, and it’s a royal one, with a story revolving around Queen Victoria and her daughter; more specifically, who her daughter will marry.
What is so fun about Voyagers! …
How I met your mother Season 1 Episode 15 Game Night
Ted tells his kids that Marshall was very good at any game that they played. This made Marshall to invent his own game ‘Marshgammon’. So one night while playing at Ted’s house, a hidden secret about Barney is revealed. Barney it seems was ‘ not as cool as he …
Wagon Train: The Kate Crawley Story
Barbara Stanwyck returns for the second time in season seven in Wagon Train: The Kate Crawley Story. The story revolves around her and wagonmaster Chris Hale’s romance, something that was hinted at in the season opener, The Molly Kincaid Story.
Stanwyck is a superb actress, and she pulls off …
M*A*S*H: Bottoms Up
M*A*S*H: Bottoms Up gives the viewers a different slant on the usual prankster plots that we’ve seen over the years. This time around Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) and B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) pull a prank in the operating room that isn’t funny and turns the camp against him. …
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel is an interesting phenomenon to watch, if anything. Famous for their slogan “Fair and Balanced,” they are anything but. Bias resonates through almost every word iterated by one of the Channel’s many columnists. The half-hour news reports are fairly standard fare, but the …
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