TV Reviews
Eastenders
I have been a fan of eastenders for many many years. I love all the drama, Love and tears, it is a classic British soap. What on earth happened!!!! I think the show has gone way down lately, and the writers are just taking storylines from other soaps, for …
Teach - Tony Danza: Just Say No TV Show
Teach - Tony Danza: Just Say No is the third entry in this documentary series airing over on the A&E network. In this program, viewers get a glimpse into actor Tony Danza’s foray into the education field as he teaches English to a class of 10th grade students …
Friends Season One - The one with the boobies
One day Chandler decides that he is going to take a shower, but didn’t realize that Rachel was using their shower at the moment. He ends up walking in on her and seeing her breasts, which she does not appreciate very much. The guys are wondering what they …
Law & Order Criminal Intent TV Episode: Ten Count
My wife was watching re-runs of Law & Order Criminal Intent last night and, since I really wasn’t in the mood to watch Monday Night Football, I decided to sit down on the couch and watch them with her.
The first episode that aired was one I hadn’t seen before …
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show is an awesome show. I love Ellen! She is such a character and is always entertaining. Her show airs on NBC in the afternoons. If you haven’t seen it yet, give it a shot. I gaurantee you will be laughing in no time.
Ellens show …
Stargate SG1: Full Circle
This episode makes all of us who suffered through season 6 remember why we love Stargate SG1. And it is not just because Daniel has returned, although that plays a big part in it. After all, Daniel is the heart and soul of the SGC. Without …
Entertainment Tonight
There was a time when Entertainment Tonight was a viable, worthwhile entertainment news magazine. I actually saw their first show, so I’ve witnessed a bunch of changes in format, tone, and hosts. While change is sometimes good, it’s also sometimes bad. Right now, when I think …
Beast Wars: Transformers - The Complete Second Season
Beast Wars: Transformers - The Complete Second Season holds all thirteen episodes from the second season. Every episode looks crisp and clear, and the audio quality is impressive. There’s no grain or static or background noise to interfere with your enjoyment of these episodes. Unfortunately, what may interfere with …
Virgin Media Digital V-Box (and Remote Control)
When I first moved into my flat I had the option of either signing up for Sky TV or going for the Virgin Media cable network. At the time I opted to go for Virgin, largely because they offered a better package with a range of channels, a …
Night Gallery: Pamela’s Voice/Lone Survivor/The Doll TV Show
Pamela’s Voice was written by Rod Serling, the creator and host of this Night Gallery series. It starred Phyllis Diller as Pamela, the deceased wife of John Astin. She appears without her spiked hair. She’s actually very polished in the role of the late wife.
The show …
Ice Road Truckers: A Legend Meets His End TV Show
Ice Road Truckers: A Legend Meets His End had two story segments that held my interest more than the others. Traditionally, this show follows several truckers as they work the ice roads or, in the case of this season, dangerous roads. There really aren’t that many ice …
Columbo: A Case of Immunity TV Show
Unfortunately, Columbo: A Case of Immunity is one of those episodes that really doesn’t appeal to me. It guest stars Hector Elizondo as a foreign embassy worker, so he has diplomatic immunity; at least, on the surface. He’s a security worker who kills the security chief and …
Kuya
I use to watch Jerry Springer show that’s why this morning show captured my attention. The program is entitled Good Morning Kuya and the format - just the format, not the content - is somehow parallel. The first scene that I was able to see was the host, …
Serial Experiments Lain Episode 1: Weird
This episode is titled “Weird” and boy does it live up to the name. It’s not as imcomprehensible as I thought it would be, but it’s still pretty bizarre.
For the first seven minutes or so we don’t even have a plot, just a seemingly random collection of mini-scenes. …
Alias Smith and Jones: Wrong Train to Brimstone
Alias Smith and Jones: Wrong Train to Brimstone is an important show for the series in that it’s the very first time we meet the character of Harry Briscoe as played with wit and brilliance by J.D. Cannon. Cannon is probably best known for being Sam McCloud’s boss …
M*A*S*H: The Colonel’s Horse
Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) heads off for Tokyo to have some rest and relaxation with his wife, Mildred, in M*A*S*H: The Colonel’s Horse. I’d forgotten about this story and was very pleased to see that Mildred was flying in from home to see her husband. While …
X-Files season one: Ghost in the Machine TV show
the X-Files was a very successful science-fiction/horror television show that ran in the 1990s. This show featured special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigated strange happenings for the FBI — the so-called X-Files. Mulder played the die hard crusader to uncover paranormal secrets while Scully …
Family Guy
The television series known as Family Guy has proven itself to be one of the best cartoon series that is around today. Not taking anything away from the other cartoon series, but this one is more additive than so many others it is ridiculous. The characters of the Family …
“10 Things I Hate About You” Show
10 Things I hate About You is an American sitcom about the Stratfor sisters, Kat and Bianca. Kat and Bianca have absolutely different personalities. Kat is an intelligent and strong-willed feminist while her little sister Bianca is a girl who will do anything to stand out, be popular and …
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 …
Smallville Episode 8.15 Infamous
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 …
The Simpsons: All About Lisa
I don’t know when the Simpsons episode “All About Lisa” was made, but last night was the first night I saw it. And, it wasn’t too bad.
There are two interesting storylines in this episode. First, you have Lisa becoming Krusty the Clown’s unpaid assistant and; through a variety of …
Max Headroom: The Blanks TV show
I was quite surprised, and pleased, to see that Lisa Niemi returned as reporter Janie Crane in Max Headroom: The Blanks. After having virtually no lines in the prior show called War, in The Blanks she actually does get some decent dialog. I had no clue she …
MacGyver: Thief of Budapest
MacGyver: Thief of Budapest has that incredible opening gambit where MacGyver is rescuing a horse and ends up buckling the horse to a hook and the two go flying away beneath a helicopter. It’s a little on the unreal side and I worry about that horse. I’m …
That Girl: The Honeymoon Apartment
We meet another relative of Ann Marie’s in The Honeymoon Apartment episode of That Girl begins. From season, this episode opens with the arrival of Ann’s boisterous cousin, Harold Turner. Harold doesn’t come alone, though. He’s brought his brand new wife with him, too. In …
Teen Mom (MTV)
There was a time when teenaged girls were scolded for getting themselves “in trouble.” But for some reason now, people think it’s ok to showcase these young girls. Young black women have been raising kids at an early age for many years. There has always been …
Two And A Half Men
Charlie Sheen and John Cryer are Charlie and Alan Harper. Two brothers more or less sharing a house on the beach. Actually Charlie owns the house and Alan is just there because he had a choice a roof or the street in order to pay his ex-wife alimony and …
Family Guy: Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater
As one of the earlier episodes of Family Guy, “Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater” is among the more funny ones. It has a decent build up, and while the plot is not as out there as later episodes, its decent writing saves the day.
Lois’ aunt dies, and the family inherits …
The Virginian: The Land Dreamer TV Show
From season seven, The Virginian: The Land Dreamer has a really bad continuity goof to start off the show. It was so bad. We have Sheriff Abbott (Ross Elliott) in the middle of a confrontation between Hosea McKinley (James Olson) and Caleb Welles (Don Francks) when shots …
Local Flavor TV Show
Local Flavor with Joan Cusack is a new show on the Travel Channel that comes on after Passport to Europe on Thursday nights. I love this show. Joan Cusack is hilarious and a great host! In this show, Joan Cusack goes to various countries and then to different cities …
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Man Who Lost TV Show
From season two, The Man Who Lost was the 31st episode of the year. Can you imagine that? The 31st, and it wasn’t the last one! The series was Have Gun - Will Travel, starring Richard Boone as the intellectual gunfighter for hire, Paladin. Whatever …
Ellen talk show
I think Ellen is a pretty good talk show. I don’t think Ellen is that interesting but she dos have some very interesting and cool guest come onto her show. I think it was really cool when she had Leah Remini on the show. Now I love Leah so I …
A Man Called Hawk: Hear No Evil
From February 1989, A Man Called Hawk: Hear No Evil is episode three of this spin off from Spenser for Hire. Starring Avery Brooks as the brooding Hawk, he now struts his stuff in Washington D.C.
This is the first episode that has some bite to it and actually …
The Simpsons Season 4 Episode 11
Marge tells Homer not to eat much fatty foods. However Homer does not listen to her and continues to eat such foods. His heart condition deteriorates. He gets a heart attack, but is saved. however his doctor tells him to get a surgery done. It is too expensive for …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 11: Midnight
Once again, we have a fantastic episode. Sadly, Donna sits this one out, but that gives more time for the other characters to shine (or not given what happens) as well as putting more focus on the Doctor himself.
Interestingly enough, this trip was meant to be more recreational …
MacGyver: The Coltons
Finally, the entire Colton clan is together in the same episode of MacGyver. Over the last couple of years, all four Coltons have been introduced, but no two have ever been in the same episode. In fact, the only repeat was Frog, their bulldog. The reason …
A Taste for Death - Part 1
A Taste for Death - Part 1 from the P.D. James novel was produced in 1988 and starred Roy Marsden as Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. Like most of these movies/mini-series that are made, this is a story with lots of little subplots and a lot of characters. It …
I miss my “Friends”!!!
I know that it was everywhere and I know that people began to find it annoying, but I absolutely love “Friends”!!! I miss it so much. I watched every single episode of every single season in less that 10 days. I just went out and rented Season 6 again! …
NCIS
NCIS is a crime drama. It stands for Naval Crime Investigation and that’s what it is. They deal with crimes that involve the navy. While on the surface that may sound boring it’s actually not. NCIS is a very well done show and is …
Fringe Season 4 Episode 2 TV show
After Peter was wiped out of existence at the end of the last season the show has been changed completely. It seems that everything else has been wiped from the existence as well: the high stakes and the action scenes, the mystery and the adventure, any kind of meaningful …
That Girl: Easy Faller
In That Girl: Easy Faller, Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) is planning on enjoying a weekend of skiing with Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) in Stowe, Vermont, only she’s not eager to learn how to ski. While trying to make her feel comfortable with the use of the skis themselves, …
That Girl: Counter Proposal
That Girl: Counter Proposal is the first episode of the fifth and final season of this wonderful ABC comedy starring Marlo Thomas as aspiring actress Ann Marie and Ted Bessell as writer Don Hollinger. This is the pivotal episode that fans had been waiting for. It’s the …
CSI Miami
CSI Miami is a spinoff of the very successful TV Show SCI- Crime Scene Investigation set up in the hot and sexy Miami. The different location dictates some major differences in the content. To begin with- the cast is selected to reflect the ethnic diversity much better. Unfortunately the …
Dancing with the Stars: S11, TV Theme Week Results TV Show
The results show for the TV Theme Week edition of Dancing with the Stars’ 11th season opened tonight with an attempt to set up that possible upset that would keep viewers tuned in for the full hour. They did this by starting with the two lowest scoring couples …
Transformers
I had seen the television series of Transformers. I liked the series very much. When a movie was released of the same kind, I was overjoyed and expected it to be way better than the series. And it was exactly that way.
The movie revolves around the life of Sam …
The Real Ghostbusters: Season 1, Episode 11: Citizen Ghost
After an episode that made direct reference to the “Ghostbusters” movie, it is only natural that they make an episode to show what happened between the battle with Gozer and the present. The episode is shown in flashback as a reporter interviews Peter as part of a story …
That Girl: Those Friars
The plot of That Girl: Those Friars really doesn’t matter. What does matter is the joy of seeing Danny Thomas guest starring on his daughter’s highly successful TV series. He’d done a cameo on an earlier episode that was just delightful, but this part was a little …
The Simpsons TV Episode: The Principal and the Pauper
Last night, I ended up waiting for a re-run of the Simpsons to come on TV (like I do most evenings) and was a bit disappointed it was one I had seen a couple times before; The Principal and the Pauper. However, after watching it again, I did realize …
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