TV Reviews
Golden Girls
I watched the Golden Girls on lifetime, tv for women yesterday, for the first time in many years. I love the Golden Girls again, They are funny, witty, and raunchy. I used to watch the Golden Girls a lot, but then I didn’t have cable, then I just plain …
Caprica 1×01
So i just watched this, and felt like giving reviewing it. First of all, this is no Battlestar. I felt it was dry, boring, and very uninteresting. Premieres should start off with a bang and build your excitement to continue watching the rest of the series, and I found …
That Girl: No Man Is a Manhattan Island
In That Girl: No Man Is a Manhattan Island, Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) appears on a game show where her success depends on knowing her neighbors. I actually had a problem with how this introductory scene went because we’ve seen Ann with a lot of her neighbors, and …
Judge Judy
We all have guilty pleasures and I guess mine is watching the various judge shows. One of my favorite shows of this genre is “Judge Judy.” The presiding jurist is Judith Sheindlin, who makes decisions about small claims cases. This is a tough, unsentimental lady who …
Beast Wars - The Web
Beast Wars - The Web is the third episode of the series and one that delivers character development to Tarantulas, Cheetor and Rattrap. The deranged and sinister nature of Tarantulas begins to shine for the first time in this episode, and the writers do a superb job of projecting …
Columbo: Murder by the Book TV Show
Murder by the Book is one of the early editions of the Columbo police detective shows. I remember mostly for Martin Milner’s appearance. There’s a great directorial shot early on that shows a car, Columbo’s, driving on the road and then it focuses up to the tower …
Law & Order Criminal Intent TV Episode: Frame
As I mentioned in another review, my wife and I were watching episodes of Law & Order Criminal Intent last night; re-runs that were airing on one of our local stations.
We used to watch the show on a semi-regular basis when it first came out but haven’t really …
Oprah TV Show
I think Oprah Winfrey as a person is awesome. And I used to love watching Oprah TV Show pretty much, but lately I simply have lost interest. I don’t know; I feel very happy that someone as Oprah is very kind-hearted enough to feature lots of great and …
Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics - Champions Gala
The Champions Gala for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics was held on Saturday, February 27th, and it was worth the wait.
Japan’s Takahashi gave a wonderful performance, full of color and delight. I loved his motion and fluidity within his exhibition performance. It made me intrigued and brought …
True Blood on HBO
I just started watching the hit show True Blood from HBO and so far it has been a fun ride. If blood and really explicit sexual scenes don’t make you squeemish or you enjoy that than this show is for you.
The characters are easy to digest and the story …
Highway Patrol: Train Copter TV Show
Highway Patrol: Train Copter is the sixth show of the fourth and final year that the police drama was on the air. It was November 1958 when Broderick Crawford starred as Chief Dan Mathews in this particular episode which involved not just the series’ beloved helicopter, but a …
M*A*S*H: Big Mac
M*A*S*H: Big Mac is from season three and deals with the impending visit of General Douglas McArthur. Is the 4077th ready for a visit from the esteemed general? Well, maybe, especially if Corporal Klinger isn’t standing guard in one of his dresses.
Graham Jarvis appears as Colonel Whiteman, …
Touching Evil: Justine
In my opinion, the third episode of Touching Evil called Justine was the most intense yet. It was spellbinding at the end. I just couldn’t take my eyes off the screen.
What Justine does is wrap up the story that was begun in the pilot, while also taking …
Tales of the Gold Monkey: Naka Jima Kill
Just when I thought Sarah Stickney White (Caitlin O’Heaney) was out for the count and relegated to nothingness, she finally gets some action in Tales of the Gold Monkey: Naka Jima Kill. Trust me, it’s been several episodes since she did more than sing, which she doesn’t do …
M*A*S*H: Give ‘Em Hell, Hawkeye
He’s done this once before and he does it again now in M*A*S*H: Give ‘Em Hell, Hawkeye. The ‘he’ is Hawkeye Pierce, played so brilliantly for years by Alan Alda. The ‘it’ is writing a letter to President Harry S. Truman. It’s Hawkeye’s attempt to communicate …
Justice League Unlimited Season One: Hawk and Dove
The episode “Hawk and Dove” was one of the worst episodes of the first season of Justice League Unlimited. Even Wonder Woman cannot save this episode full of cliches and generalizations.
The plot involves an armed conflict between two sides in some South American country. You do not …
Boy Meets World
Boy Meets World was a cool show. I watched it religiously when I was a kid and I loved it. It was about a boy named Cory, his best friend Shawn and his friend who later became his girlfriend Topanga.
I think Boy Meets World is the kind …
The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Man Upstairs TV Show
The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Man Upstairs, which aired in March 1988, takes place in Paris, France. It’s about a boy who is visiting his grandmother and the people who live there as boarders. The boy, Douglas (Adam Negley), becomes curious about a new boarder, a man …
Gilligan’s Island - Quick Before It Sinks TV Show
This episode is interesting, yes another survival scenario which I find they are more thought out than other shows. Especially with all the inventions the professor comes up with. Like in this episode not just the professor comes up with the hut ark, but also the women do too. …
Beast Wars - Maximal, No More
Beast Wars - Maximal, No More is one of my favorite episodes of the series, in part because it focuses heavily on Dinobot, but also because it is a well handled episode that is enjoyable to watch time and again. This episode serves as a follow-up to the events …
Law & Order SVU
Every Tuesday at 10PM I switch the channel to NBC to watch Law & Order SVU. The timeslot is really good as my children are already fast asleep and do not have to hear or see the show. I don’t believe this show is suitable for their age. They …
The Twilight Zone: Execution TV Show
The Twilight Zone: Execution is not an episode I enjoy all that much, and that is despite the fact that I tend to enjoy time travel stories. The setup is that a modern day scientist decides to test out his new gadget and ends up bringing an outlaw …
The Carol Burnett Show: James Garner and George Carlin TV Show
One outing from The Carol Burnett Show’s final season on the air included James Garner and George Carlin, along with regulars Tim Conway and Vicki Lawrence. Below are some thoughts about this hour of variety entertainment.
–Burnett joked about being on the unemployment in 3 weeks, but the real …
Nightmares and Dreamscapes: Battleground
I discovered this adaptation after reading the short story for Examiner.com. A reader presented the oppurtunity to watch it after I reviewed the story itself.
This is definitely an adaptation that deserves mention as it is really good. William Hurt turns in a great performance. He deserves …
Laramie: Street of Hate TV Show
Laramie: Street of Hate, a first year episode of this awesome western series, featured an interesting guest star performance by Charles Bronson, who actually did a lot of television in the late 50’s and early 60’s.
In this hour, Bronson plays Frank Buckley, an outcast from Laramie who has been …
Laramie: Day of Vengeance TV Show
Laramie: Day of Vengeance, a first year episode of this awesome western series, had some nice elements to it. The show stars John Smith and Robert Fuller as cowboys, Slim Sherman and Jess Harper, respectively.
One of the scenes I loved was when Slim arrived back at the ranch …
Highway Patrol: Statute of Limitations TV Show
From February 1957, Highway Patrol: Statute of Limitations, starring Broderick Crawford as California Highway Patrol Chief Dan Mathews, is just a so so episode that did very little to capture my interest for more than a few seconds at a time.
The story begins by talking about speeding, which is …
The Closer 6.1 “Make Over”
Over the last couple of years, I’ve watched The Closer somewhat irregularly, whenever I would accidentally catch it on TV. I’ve seen some better and worse episodes, and I’ve overall enjoyed the focus of the show, away from the forensic stuff and on the honest-to-goodness old school detective work …
That Girl: An Uncle Herbert for All Seasons
While Joe Flynn, most famous on television for portrayal Captain Binghamton on McHale’s Navy, is a fine actor, his performance in That Girl: An Uncle Herbert for All Seasons left me a little flat. I doubt that it was totally Flynn’s fault. It was the character that …
Law & Order SVU: Confessions
Another Law & Order SVU episode and another yawn coming from me. Maybe I’m growing a bit bored with the series, but I could have sworn Confessions offered all the same elements I’ve seen in other episodes of the series.
Let’s see, you have a young man confessing to raping …
Golden Girls Season 2
The second season of The Golden Girls was a really good one. The show combines four older women of an older age who live together in Miami, Florida. One of the better episodes involved Blanche’s much older father coming to town and marrying a woman less than half his …
School Rumble seasons 1
School rumble Season 1 is a Japanese anime that can be categorized as very interesting. By taking the theme of love story in the high school environment, this anime can serve all the love story at the high school in Japan. With so many of each characteristics of these anime …
Arrested Development TV Show
This has to be by far, one of the best tv shows I have ever seen. The tv series is hilarous! It has a growing fan base too. Arrested Development has three seasons. (Hopefully there will be more if they bring the show back). You can watch all of …
The Vampire Diaries TV Series Season 1
I have read the book series of The Vampire Diaries by LJ Smith, and was expecting the TV series to be based on it. The story is about a love triangle among a girl called Elena and vampire brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore as they try to save their …
Stargate SG1: Exodus Season 4, Episode 22
“Exodus” is the beginning of the end of the season two parter. SG1 goes to meet the Tok’ra on their planet of Vorash using a Goa’uld mothership. Tanneth is surprised to see them with one, wondering how they got it. Jack tells him that it was …
Jack Frost cartoon
Jack Frost was another vintage cartoon that I saw recently. Unfortunately, I wasn’t quite as enamored with it as I thought I might have been. I love all kinds of holiday films, and it wasn’t that the story wasn’t good as that it wasn’t as complete as …
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 …
That Girl: The Homewrecker and the Window Washer
From season three of That Girl, we get The Homewrecker and the Window Washer. It’s the first episode that aired in 1969, and it was okay. It’s not a huge favorite of mine personally. However, the color of the show comes from Jules Munshin, who is …
The Tyra Banks Show
The Tyra Banks Show stars ex-supermodel, Tyra Banks. Evidently Miss Tyra is taking her fame and fortune to help other people. That is what I�ve witnessed when I see episodes of this show. Tyra hosts celebrities but it seems more than anything, she features real people who have done …
Criminal Minds: Roadkill
Criminal Minds is a complex show. It’s one you can’t easily multi-task through. It requires you to be present as the case develops; that is, unless you just want to go from the crime to the bad guy and don’t care about how it came about. …
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Episode 24 (Anime)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episode 24 has the nature of Section 9’s work revealed to the media after Chief Aramaki ordering Section 9 to take down the man behind all the corporate terrorism.
This was a really good action packed episode and it showed just how good …
Extant TV Show Episode One Re-Entry
Extant is a new Sci-fi TV Series that premiered on CBS. As a fan of Halle Berry, I was excited to see this new TV series. It’s said to be about an astronaut who is trying to figure out how she got pregnant on a thirteen month solo space mission. …
M*A*S*H: Strange Bedfellows
In M*A*S*H: Strange Bedfellows, Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) and B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) are frustrated by their Swamp mate, Major Charles Emerson Winchester III (David Ogden Stiers) who is snoring all of a sudden which is keeping them awake. The two want him to move out.
Ultimately, it’s suspected …
Sea Hunt: Underwater Narcotics TV Show
Sea Hunt: Underwater Narcotics, the 34th show to air in season three back in August 1960, surprised me a little in that it was almost a lesson on drugs. It dealt with marijuana, or rather, a hybrid form of the drug which Mike Nelson (Lloyd Bridges) discovers underwater.
The …
Keith Olbermann Countdown
These days you can watch the news on TV 24/7 if you’d like and you can find all kinds of different opinions and points of view depending on the show and the network you choose to watch. Also, these days you can get pretty depressed from watching the news; …
Desperate Housewives Season 5 Episode 18
There are more character developments in Desperate Housewives Season 5 Episode 18. Dave is still adamant on his so called revenge and he tries to fast forward his plan so that he could bait Katherine and Mike. Edie isn’t joining their so called upcoming camping trip and right …
Diagnosis Murder: You Can Call Me Johnson TV Show
I must admit that I’m not that crazy about the main murder investigation in Diagnosis Murder: You Can Call Me Johnson, but I do love the side story that involves Dr. Mark Sloan (Dick Van Dyke).
The murder is of Jack’s godfather who, as it turns out, is really a …
FOX TV Series: Lie to Me
One of the latest midseason replacement TV series to come out of FOX, I saw the listing for “Lie to Me” and watched out of simple curiosity. I have to admit that my feelings for this show are somewhat mixed.
The series premise is that the Lightman Group are …
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