TV Reviews
The X-Files: Season 1, Episode 2: Deep Throat
Just like the pilot did, this episode centers around the existence of extra-terrestrials. Whereas the pilot focused on the phenomenon of abductions, this one put more of an emphasis on the conspiracy theories that the military is covering it up and running tests on alien technology.
Not surprisingly, Mulder …
Babylon 5: Season 1, Episode 6: The Parliament of Dreams
Babylon 5 prepares to host a festival that will allow various races from across the galaxy to give a demonstration regarding their dominant religion. When the episode began, I was expecting some sort of tirade, but outside of Garibaldi’s comment about how it’s a bad idea, the script …
It’s Always Sunny in Philidelphia: Seasons 1-6
If I had a top ten list of my favorite shows, It’s always Sunny in Philadelphia would be number one on my list. It is laugh out loud funny from beginning to end and the cast is Phenomenal. The series focuses on the lives of 3 friends Dennis (Glenn …
The Office Seasons 1 & 2
This is a great television show that I was turned on to by my sister who also likes the show. If you haven’t already heard about The Office, it’s a hysterical view of the Dunder Mifflin paper company. The head boss Michael Scott bases his work ethics on fun …
Bad Day at Black Rock - Episode 3, Season 3, Supernatural
This is one of the funniest episodes of Season 3.
It opens rather ominously with Gordon (happily in prison) telling a fellow hunter Kubrick that ‘Sam Winchester must die’ and the hunter agreeing to help track Sam down.
Sam & Dead get a call to tell them that someone has broken …
M*A*S*H: Bombshells
M*A*S*H: Bombshells is a cute little story about a rumor that gets out of hand. Just joking around in the mess tent with Sergeant Max Klinger (Jamie Farr), Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) and Major Charles Emerson Winchester III (David Ogden Stiers) come up with an impromptu rumor, claiming …
Stargate SG-1: The Tok’ra Part 1
Midway through the second season of Stargate SG-1, there was a two-part episode that gave us more information on the Tok’ra race, which had been introduced earlier in the year in the episode In the Line of Duty. Stargate SG-1: The Tok’ra Part 1 is an interesting episode.
However, …
Anime - High School Of The Dead Season 1
High School of the Dead is about a group of teenagers trying to survive a sudden zombie apocolypse. The show is directed by Tetsuro (Death Note, Black Lagoon) and is based on the hit manga series by Daisuke Sato. The show has yet to be dubbed and brought over …
Ghosthunters Television Series
Ever since I saw the first Ghosthunters episode advertising on the cable television channel, Syfy, I have been hooked to the show ever since. Somehow I think that it seems to be a little more realistic than other shows about the paranormal on television such as “Most Haunted”, “Paranormal …
MASH - Season 6
I think season 6 is the season the show started to jump the shark a bit and it was probably time. There were several good episodes out of this season but many of them had a re-hashed plot (a major who gets his soldiers killed, marital problems, etc).
The season …
Babylon 5: Season 1, Episode 12: Survivors
The Earth Alliance President is going on a series of press summits to push for alien immigration reform. As it happens, one of his stops is on Babylon 5. Things hit a snag however when there is an explosion in one of the docking bays.
At …
The Real Ghostbusters: Season 1, Episode 30: Boo-Dunit
When the will reading of a best selling mystery writer gets interrupted by the ghost of said writer, the Ghostbusters are called in. As it turns out, she seeks only to reveal the ending of her last, unfinished book before she moves on to the next world or …
The Simpsons Season 3 Episode 5 Homer Defined
Homer becomes the town’s hero after he saves the town from a nuclear meltdown. However only Homer knows how he did that, by total fluke. However he was enjoying the praises he was getting and did not bother to come clean. He gets the chance to talk a famous …
Highway Patrol: Safecracker TV Show
From November 1957, Highway Patrol: Safecracker was the fourth outing of this police drama’s third season. It was actually a very calm show, I thought. It was easy to watch with nothing that really screamed ‘I’m great’ and nothing that moaned of it being horrible. It …
Afro Samurai Episode 2 (Anime)
Afro is found and nursed back to health by a woman named Okiku (Kelly Hu). But there may be more to her than just her taking care of Afro (Samuel Jackson).
This episode was very interesting, but Afro Samurai is very violent and is not recommended to anyone under …
TV Show: The Outer Limits
The television show The Outer Limits is an older show and it always gave me the same eerie feeling as the Alfred Hitchcock series. I used to watch this show all the time but now I only catch it occasionally when the Sci Fi Channel does an Outer …
Super Mario World - Send in the Clown
Super Mario World - “Send in the Clown” is my favorite episode of the cartoon series. Part of the reason I really enjoy this episode is because this episode actually features a fight between Mario and Koopa that resembles the battle at the end of Super Mario World. It …
CSI New York Season 3 Episode 1 - People With Money
A body of a man is discovered on the Brooklyn bridge with only the evidence that he was about to propose marriage to a woman that night (an engagement ring is found in his jacket). The case becomes unusual when they try to discover whether he was refused and …
Have Gun - Will Travel: Show of Force
Have Gun - Will Travel: Show of Force from season one pits Paladin in the middle of a range war. However, before we get there, there’s some comedy involved. Paladin loves to play poker. He makes a bet with a man during a game in San …
That Girl: Sue Me, Sue Me, What Can You Do Me?
The final episode of the third season of the groundbreaking comedy, That Girl, is called Sue Me, Sue Me, What Can You Do Me? and concerns something that a lot of people can easily imagine and maybe even identify with completely. It concerns a fall inside Newsview Magazine, …
Emerald Point N.A.S.: Pilot Part 2
Emerald Point N.A.S. was more soap opera than military drama, and I think I have always regretted that. I knew that it is what it would be all along, but I was hoping for more guts and glory than extramarital affairs and scheming. As the second part …
Beast Wars - Call of the Wild
Beast Wars - Call of the Wild is an episode that I found a little on the boring side even though the basic concept is an interesting one: what would happen if the Maximals were forced to stay in beast mode for an extended period of time? Apparently, according …
My Name is Earl (TV series)
One of my favourite television series is a comedy “My Name is Earl”. It’s about the day to day life of a man named Earl who lives in a small town in the United States. He has a list of all the people he wronged over the years and …
American Idol
This is a fantastic show where three judges travel around different cities choosing the best singers to go and perform in Hollywood where contestants are eliminated every show until there is only one left standing: the American Idol. The beginning of each season is always hilarious as you …
The Inbetweeners - Series 3 - Episode 5
Nearing the end of the final series of The Inbetweeners now and the fourth episode, was pretty good, though not as good as some of the others.
I found it a fast moving episode, rather than one that was full of really comical moments.
Wills mum has gone away with an …
Justice League Unlimited Season One: Initiation
The episode “Initiation” was a great way to start Season One of Justice League Unlimited, now on DVD. Like most episodes, this episode featured a small group of heroes, allowing the audience to learn and appreciate their various personalities. This episode featured Supergirl, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, …
Junior Apprentice Episode 2 TV Show
Junior Apprentice Episode 2 continued the process where Lord Alan Sugar would be selecting a junior apprentice. Now the pool is comprised of teenagers seeking a prize of 25,000 pounds that would be overseen by Lord Sugar to ensure the young entrepreneurs don’t waste the funds on some …
Laramie: No Place to Run TV show
My favorite show of all time is the western, Laramie, which ran from 1959 to 1962. Robert Fuller and John Smith starred as Jess Harper and Slim Sherman, two very opposite types who become best friends and partners. In this fourth season entry, No Place to Run, …
Good Day Xtra news show
I am usually an avid watcher of Fox Five news. But now they have a new show called Good Day Xtra. I was surprised to see that this show, which is on from 9am to 10am, features some of the anchors from the regular news program. …
M*A*S*H: The General’s Practitioner
In M*A*S*H: The General’s Practitioner, General Lowell Korshak (Edward Binns) wants to transfer Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) to his staff to be his personal physician. He learns about Hawkeye from his assistant, Colonel Bidwell, played by Leonard Stone. Both Binns and Stone are strong character actors and …
Gilligan’s Island - Gilligan’s Personal Magnatism TV Show
This is a great episode, lots of action, lightening strikes, and bizarre natural occurrences. The Professor has lots of challenges ahead of him. And I can almost see the gears turning in his scientific mind of his trying to help Gilligan. And this episode is definitely high up there …
The TV network MTV
The network MTV really sucks now a days and I am sorry but MTV is short for music television but seriously how often does MTV plays music? They hardly play music anymore except in the mornings, like very early mornings and that is about it. I think it is …
M*A*S*H: Dear Ma
One by one, the producers are getting around to everyone having a chance to do a letter home show, and this time around, M*A*S*H: Dear Ma is Radar O’Reilly’s turn to pen a letter to his much beloved mother. Gary Burghoff follows the letter throughout the show. …
Lee Nelsons Well Good Show BBC3
A couple of months ago I saw an advert for a new t.v show. It was Lee Nelsons Well Good Show. It was to be shown on BBC3 and my initial impressions, without even watching the show was that it looked like a complete waste of time. A man …
Law and Order: Criminal Intent Season 1, Episode 22
Watching this episode now, I have to wonder why the Law and Order Criminal Intent series decided to end their season with it. The previous episode is far better than this one, yet it is the season ended. I really didn’t care for this episode very much, and I’m …
Battlestar Galactica: Sometimes a Great Notion
I was as excited as any fan for the return of Battlestar Galactica, but I also knew that this first episode wasn’t likely to be a fun episode. That isn’t to say that it isn’t good, it was an excellent episode, but I can’t say that I enjoyed it.
This …
War and Remembrance: A Living History TV Show
War and Remembrance: A Living History aired a couple of weeks prior to the showing of War and Remembrance, the massive mini-series which continued the story of the Henry family from The Winds of War.
A Living History is narrated by Robert Mitchum which is interesting because I recall that …
Have Gun - Will Travel: The Shooting of Jessie May TV Show
Season four of Have Gun - Will Travel brought this Richard Boone directed episode, The Shooting of Jessie May. Jessie May Turnbow is the subject of a newspaper article that Paladin (Boone) is reading while in his San Francisco hotel where he resides. Turnbow has built a …
Clueless
The movie version fo Clueless was such a hit that of course the television executives tried to find a way to capitalise on it, bringing into existence Clueless the television series.
Now while this series was okay and by okay I mean bearable, watchable but not good, it lacked in …
Outlaw: S1, Ep 2 TV Show
Directed by Timothy Busfield, the second episode of Outlaw aired on September 24, 2010. In this series, Jimmy Smits stars as former United States Supreme Court Justice Cyrus Garza. Garza quit the bench to become a regular lawyer again. It’s really an interesting premise.
Guest star Ed …
Law and Order: CI Season 1, Episode 7
This is one of the confusing episodes in Criminal Intent history because the story tends to jump around quite a bit and involves a number of different characters, some of whom only appear for a few minutes. The episode opens on a reporter who is being yelled at over …
Blue Planet: Seas of Life television specials
Blue Planet: Seas of Life is a five part documentary series from the BBC which aired on the Animal Planet and Discovery networks. The show was absolutely fascinating. Each segment covers a different aspect of the ocean. There is one on the polar oceans which discusses …
How to Get Away with Murder, TV show
I’m not a huge fan of Shonda Rhimes. For everyone that doesn’t know her, she is the creator of shows like Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice and Scandal, she likes to mix her characters and give a lot of drama to their lives. I’ve seen a lot of her shows and …
Star Trek: The Paradise Syndrome TV Show
Star Trek: The Paradise Syndrome is really a tender show. I’m not into the Kirk romances, but I do like this one because it is true of spirit. It’s real and not some sophisticated thing or past fling who returns. This is a love of the …
Fullmetal Alchemist Episode 8
Fullmetal Alchemist Episode 8 begins with Ed distraught over the death of Nina Tucker after he finds the remains of her Chimera form blown up from the inside. Assigned to look over Shou Tucker’s research he refuses and hands over his State Alchemist watch. He decides to …
Cowboy Bebop Episode 10
Cowboy Bebop Episode 11 involves the crew of the Bebop landing on Ganymede, Jet’s home planet in order to collect a bounty. Jet goes to visit his ex-girlfriend Alisa, while Spike pursues a bounty on a man named Rhint Celonias.
This episode was really interesting because it didn’t center …
That Girl: That Shoplifter
You just have to feel for Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) in That Girl: That Shoplifter. She’s so innocent and naive sometimes. Of course, back in 1971 when this ABC hit comedy aired, things weren’t as jaded as they are today.
While working as a specials announcer at a …
Due South: The Edge
Due South: The Edge is about a theft that occurs inside the Consulate. The problem for Benton Fraser is that he actually saw the culprit, but didn’t come away with any information other than that the man spent a lot of time outside (based on what his hands …
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