TV Reviews
The Batman: Episode - A Matter of Family
I am a big fan of comics and their characters and cartoon shows. Batman is a character created by DC comics and there have been so many cartoon versions of this simple superhero. One of my favourite versions is a recent one named “The Batman.” This story unfolds little …
Stargate: Infinity: Who Are You? TV Show
It’s a common piece of advice, a cliche even, that things aren’t always what they seem. That’s the first lesson of Stargate: Infinity: Who Are You? which is the children’s animated version of the hit science fiction series, Stargate SG-1, only there’s very little that really resembles that …
House: Last Resort
Well, we finally had a House episode with plenty of drama that didn’t involve a possible relationship between House and Cuddy; about time.
“Last Resort” was actually a pretty good episode for this series. You have a desperate patient pulling a gun and taking people hostage until House can diagnose …
Family Guy: Peter’s Daughter
OK, I have to admit it, the Family Guy episode “Peter’s Daughter” has got to be one of the funniest episodes I’ve seen of any program on television.
There are two major plot points to this episode; both related to a flood that takes place in the opening minutes.
First, you …
The Universe: The Earth
The Universe delivers another thrilling and informative instalment, this time with the focus on something closer to home than the usual subject matter.
This episode focused on our own blue world; the Earth. That mightn’t sound the most thrilling focus, considering the other destinations this series investigates, reminding us of …
The X-Files: Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot
Much like “The Real Ghostbusters”, I’ve had the complete X-Files series on DVD for some time, yet never got around to sitting down and watching them. So, much like with the aforementioned cartoon, I decided to give it a watch through now.
This was a frustrating show …
InSecurity: A TV comedy show
I loved the new Canadian action-comedy show of CBC. The story revolves around spies of a fictional government office called National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA). It stars Natalie Lisinka as Alex Cranston, Canada’s version of Alias. She’s suppose to be a kick-ass spy who gets into all …
House: Epic Fail
Last night was another new episode of House; one that sets up his return to being a doctor.
After getting out of the mental institution, he decides to quit because he feels being a doctor is what led to him becoming an addict. He ends up taking up cooking instead …
MacGyver: Silent World
MacGyver: Silent World centers on a deaf woman named Carrie who is a friend of MacGyver’s and is having a lot of nasty nightmares that seem to end the way, in Mac being hit by a car and dying. The same footage is used repeatedly in the first …
Spongebob Squarepants Season Three - Doing Time
In this episode, Spoongebob gets into a lot of trouble when he is taking his driving exam and practically wrecks all of Bikini Bottom because he really doesn’t know how to drive. When Mrs. Puff is found guilty of not properly teaching him, she is thrown into jail. The …
Whoopi: Mother’s Little Helper TV Show
Whoopi: Mother’s Little Helper was an interesting show because it dealt with the pills taken by people that alter their personalities. The setup was that Mavis’ parents arrive for a visit. Mom Viveca is as happy as a lamb. However, after her bag of pills …
The Twilight Zone: Time Enough at Last TV Show
The Twilight Zone: Time Enough at Last is one of the best, if not the best, episode of the entire series. It’s superbly acted, is an enticing tale, is full of irony, and it just keeps your heart pounding as you watch.
Here are a few ups and downs …
CSI Season 5 Episode 17- Compulsion
That was a really, but really boring episode. I did not enjoy it at all. I don’t know what they were thinking when they were writing it. Not only that nothing really happens in there, but the whole story just is not quite believable.
In the first story line, …
Grey’s Anatomy (TV series)
Grey’s Anatomy is a medical drama that airs on the ABC channel on Thursday nights. I came into the show a little bit late, but I have been slowly catching up from season 1.
The show reminds me vaguely of ER. However, there are some points to …
Broadway on PBS Series
PBS aired a short term series, “Stage on Screen” that featured live performances of plays that were filmed and broadcasted on American public broadcasting. Unfortunately the series did not last, but before it came to an end “The Man Who Came to Dinner” was aired in 2000. “The Man …
Boston Legal Season 1 Episode 6
During this case Alan Shore was defending a client who wanted an injunction to stop further advertisement which were negative publicity against his candidacy. The client’s wife was a former girlfriend of Alan Shore.
Lori helped a lawyer who wants their son’s umbilical cord because he has cancer. Denny …
Sea Hunt: Ghost Light TV Show
Ghost Light was the 23rd outing for the adventure series Sea Hunt’s third season of televising. This June 1960 had Mike Nelson, our resident expert deep sea diver, doing some underwater research of an experimental nature that involved an infrared detector. Nelson is doing this with Dr. …
Death Note Episode 18 (Anime)
Death Note Episode 18 begins with Light and L having a fist fight over the fact that it seems that L wants Light to be Kira even though he’s been cleared of suspicion. Meanwhile, Kira begins killing again, but this time it seems he’s killing for profit rather …
Scooby Doo Christmas
I finally had a chance to sit down and watch Scooby Doo Christmas with my daughter last night (it was on TV the other night but it was a school night so I taped it for her). It turned out to be a halfway decent TV special.
Basically, Scooby and …
Legend: Knee-High Noon
The first thing I noticed about the sixth episode or Richard Dean Anderson’s Legend series, entitled Knee-High Noon, is that Anderson’s character, Ernest Pratt aka Nicodemus Legend finally gets to drive the locomotive invention created on the show by his partner, Janos Bartok (John DeLancie). I’m sure that …
How I Met Your Mother: Little Minnesota
“Little Minnesota” is the episode of How I Met Your Mother originally airing on CBS on December 15, 2008. This was a pretty funny episode of a very consistently funny sit-com.
In this episode, Ted’s younger sister Heather makes an appearance. Her character is not very funny, but …
Stargate SG-1: Family Ties
Stargate SG-1: Family Ties is not really my style. It opens with Sam and Vala returning from a shopping trip, the two all decked out and drawing attention as they walk down the corridors of the SGC. I guess they wanted to show these two are friends. …
Bring ‘Em Back Alive: A Switch in Time
Bring ‘Em Back Alive: A Switch in Time has a couple of decent moments in it, but mostly, it lacks cohesion and entertainment values.
In the opening scenes, for example, the big star is Fanny the chimp. Fanny’s in several episodes, and in this one, she gets to cause …
Seven days Season 2 Episode 14
The episode starts with the scene in which we see Parker talking to himself, but there are actually two Parkers, one is eating the chicken and drinking beer and the other tells him that the bubbles in the beer are going upside down and that his addition to the …
House M.D.
First off, let me tell you all that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SHOW!!! Usually I don’t like dramas too much, but this one is exceptional. It stars Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jennifer Morrison, and Jesse Spencer.
The Show is all about a doctor named …
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Redd Foxx (#2) TV Show
This show was the second time that Redd Foxx was an honoree as a celebrity to be roasted on The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Taped at the MGM in Las Vegas, Foxx was the Man of the Hour. Now I’m not a fan of Redd Foxx at …
The Twilight Zone: Nick of Time TV Show
The Twilight Zone: Nick of Time is another show I really enjoy watching. This series came up with some great stories based on common situations, and this is one of those. We are presented with a newlywed couple who end up in a small town for an …
CSI: Miami
I loved the original CSI, but CSI Miami is another matter. When I first saw the introduction of CSI Miami in one episode in CSI, I was intrigued because the architecture of their lab was really exceptional. The plot which intertwined the two series’ was done smoothly. When the …
The Two Coreys: Episode 1.2 - Lost Boys
While Corey Haim is busy promoting the 20th anniversary of the film that launched them to stardom, “The Lost Boys”, Feldman would rather concentrate on his wife’s photo shoot with Stuff Magazine. It’s a very messed up and embarrassing situation where Haim shows up alone at a radio interview …
Whoopi: Identity Crisis TV Show
Whoopi: Identity Crisis is pretty much about what the title says, an identity crisis, but not of the emotional kind. It’s the identity theft type of crisis that Mavis Rae (Whoopi Goldberg) has to deal with. When she goes to pay for lunch for her family and …
The Jeffersons (TV Show) - A Night to Remember (Episode)
“A Night to Remember” is an episode of “The Jeffersons”. In this episode, George and Louise plan on going to a beautiful hotel to celebrate their wedding anniversary, but when Louise learns that George has neglected to mention a few things about his past, such as seeing a girl …
Extreme Homemaker home edition
I really like this show because it is inspiring. They remake people homes over. It’s exciting to watch as well as inspiring. I love watching at the end when the people see their finished house.
Most of the time there is either something wrong with the house, it isn’t …
Bravo
Bravo is a channel that I occasionally watch on television. The thing that I like about the channel is that it has some good shows on it. The thing I don’t like about the channel is that is plays the shows over and over. One day they will have …
Ghost Hunters: Irish Ruins
Another interesting Ghost Hunters episode; or at least something that seemed interesting at first; Irish Ruins.
This one has the TAPS team doing some investigating in Ireland and England. The first case had them at the ruins of a building in the middle of nowhere that is now overgrown with …
Hawaii Five-O: The Box
There’s a huge guest cast in Hawaii Five-O: The Box. Everywhere you turn, there was a familiar face, and that always makes a story more fun in my opinion.
Gerald S. O’Loughlin, Gavin McLeod, R.G. Armstrong, and Al Harrington are a few of the familiar faces in this cast. …
Stargate SG-1: The Devil You Know
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 …
Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 20 (Animated)
Avatar: The Last Airbender Episode 20 begins with the Fire Nation continuing their attack on the Water Tribe and Aang has been captured by Zuko. Sokka and Katara are searching for Aang, hoping to rescue him before it’s too late.
This episode was really intense and exciting and was …
Highway Patrol: Dead Patrolman TV Show
Highway Patrol: Dead Patrolman focuses on the search for the killer of a California Highway Patrol officer. The police have a description of the car, but need to track down the driver. The owner, a woman, says she loaned her car to someone else. She’s actually …
Dead Like Me (Showtime)
I gave the Showtime series “Dead Like Me” a chance one day. I liked the concept—that a young lady would be selected to lead other souls to “wherever.” The pilot episode featured a young 21 year-old girl named George Lass. I found this name a …
Naruto Episode 9 Subbed
At long last the action is back in Naruto as Kakashi activates his Sharingan(secret eye technique) and the fight between two Jounins(advanced ninjas) finally gets in full swing. This episode has some of the best scenes of Naruto so far as it goes back to the tried and true …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Attack! TV Show
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Attack! featured guest stars Skip Homeier as Robek and Kevin Hagen as Komal. This 1968 episode, the 23rd of this science fiction program’s fourth and last season on television, starred Richard Basehart as Admiral Harriman Nelson and David Hedison as Captain …
M*A*S*H: Lend a Hand
Alan Alda, who stars as Captain Hawkeye Pierce in this hit wartime comedy, wrote and directed M*A*S*H: Lend a Hand. While he was at it, he brought his father, Robert Alda, back as Dr. Anthony Borelli. Not only that, he had his brother guest star as Corporal …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Submarine Sunk Here TV Show
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Submarine Sunk Here, the tenth program of the first year, was spellbinding for its first quarter. I sat transfixed on the screen. The action was intense and dramatic. In fact, I’ll go so far to say it was gripping.
The …
Burn Notice: Breaking and Entering
Burn Notice: Breaking and Entering is the first episode of the second season, and it’s the conclusion of a sort of cliffhanger, meaning there’s a lot of history that a new viewer such as myself needs to pick up on in terms of knowing the story.
One of the things …
South Park: Pee
South Park is often known for its irreverent humor. The newest episode, and the last new one of the decade, has the boys going to a water park.
After Butters pees in the pool, Kyle comes to the shocking realization that almost everybody does. No one …
No Ordinary Family: No Ordinary Marriage TV Show
No Ordinary Marriage is the second outing for this new series called No Ordinary Family. The series stars Michael Chiklis as Jim Powell, with Julie Benz as his wife, Stephanie Powell. Then there is ay Panabaker as daughter Daphne and Jimmy Bennett as son JJ. Both …
The Good Wife: Cleaning House TV Show
The Good Wife: Cleaning House is a pretty good hour of drama in many ways. Below are a few things that stood out to me about this particular episode.
–There are some really good moments with Alicia’s former co-worker, Cary Argos (Matt Czuchry) questioning her over something that has …
Law and Order Criminal Intent/SVU
Above you will notice the names of two of the Law and Order series. Criminal Intent and SVU or Special Victims Unit. I know there is another one but I haven’t seen it in so long it’s not part of this review. In fact I have seen the Law …
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