TV Reviews
MTV 2006 VMA
On Thursday August 31, MTV aired live their annual Music Video awards.
The award show returned to whee they first began in New York. With big celebrities, great music stars, and Jack Black as the host, the show would be the best of its kind, right? Well I didnt think …
Climax!: Casino Royale TV Show
Hosted by William Lundigan, Barry Nelson, Peter Lorre, and Linda Christian starred in the Casino Royale presentation of Climax! It’s presented in acts, which I love. That’s a very classic way of putting on a performance. This is really going back in TV history, to 1954. …
Joyful Hour
Joyful Hour is a show I ran across while surfing the dial one night, looking for something to watch. I found it on one of the religious channels that I’ve been checking out lately but haven’t really watched in the past. These channels are proving to be …
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 …
Stargate SG1: The Fourth Horseman Pts 1 & 2
One of the SGC teams returns from a planet where an Ori Prior has been recruiting followers. Later on, one of the men becomes ill. Landry orders the other members to be placed under quarantine after Caroline tells him she thinks it is the same virus as …
CSI Season 12 Episode 4
While watching episode 4 of season 12 of CSI, it became very clear to me that the show is changing direction. At first it looked like the addition of Ted Danson in the role of DB Russell, the new shift supervisor allowed the show to be a little bit …
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 …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Nightmares
Nobody likes nightmares so the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Nightmares is a great episode to watch if you like being creeped out a bit.
This one, again, doesn’t involve vampires. But, it does involve a kid in a coma who has an out of body experience and brings his …
Bodylicious TV Programme, NDTV Good times
NDTV Times is a TV Channel which started about a couple of years back. This channel addresses the issues of the cosmopolitan and urban global Indian audience. We are avid watchers of this channel. This channel has very interesting programmes like ‘Bodylicious’. This programme has three types of …
The Soup
The E! television production The Soup, starring Joel McHale, is an incredibly fun and hilarious half hour of television. It is essentially a venue for McHale and his team of interns (the staff of this show is impressively small) to take a look at the past week in …
What Not to Wear TV Show (British Version)
As a big fan of the show What Not to Wear (the U.S. version), I couldn’t help but check out the British version when I saw it listed in my TV listings. I have to say, I was disappointed. Perhaps it is cultural. I enjoyed listening …
Beast Wars - The Trigger, Part 2
Beast Wars - The Trigger, Part 2 continues where the first part left off, and in this episode, despite the best efforts of Airazor and Tigertron, it is Blackarachnia that reaches the structure on the floating island first and begins to explore it. She begins to realize the potential …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Go Fish
If there’s anything that really stands out about the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode “Go Fish” it’s the fact it’s both very unbelievable (even for this series) and has some pretty disgusting moments in it.
OK, the fact they live on the Hell Mouth would probably give me some reason …
Ghost Hunters: Shadow People
This episode of Ghost Hunters wasn’t too bad because the TAPS team at least seems to make a legitimate effort to debunk the cases.
The first one was in a private home where a little girl was being haunted by the spirit of another child. I don’t really buy …
The Real Ghostbusters: Season 1, Episode 58: The Ghostbusters in Paris
As the title would suggest, this episode sees the team whisked away to Paris, France when supernatural activity erupts and decimates the tourist economy. This is one of the rarely mentioned perks of being a Ghostbuster. They’ve already visited a few locales and it is generally on …
Dexter’s Laboratory
Dexter’s Laboratory is a pretty funny show. I think Dexter is cool and he looks really funny. The animation in Dexter’s Laboratory looks like of weird. It has the new look that I don’t really like. I guess it’s because I grew up watching classic animation like bugs bunny. …
Droctor Who season 1 episode 2 The End of the World
I thought this show was a serious one until I saw this episode. Well, this episode made me realise that this show is probably in the same category as Power Rangers and similar children Sci-Fi show.
In this episode The Doctor takes Rose 5 billion years in the future to …
Psychic Detectives
If you do not believe in psychic powers before watching Psychic Detectives, you will after. Even experienced and hardened detectives, who have solved some pretty tough cases, become believers after they get the help from a psychic. When a psychic goes to the scene of a crime, they can …
Best Week Ever
I’m not sure if Best Week Ever is still on televsion, but “Best Week Ever” was a series which would be aired every week on VH1. I didn’t pay much attention to it at first since I realise that many of these programmed on Vh1 tend to be nothing …
MSNBC
All of the cable news networks have a slogan, or more than one; Fox News has “Fair and Balanced” and “We Report, You Decide” but none are as accurate in the opinion of this viewer and political junkie as MSNBC’s. With its line-up of entertaining and informative shows and …
M*A*S*H: Springtime
M*A*S*H: Springtime is a pivotal episode to one of the characters, but it’s also a show with a lot of gaps that make it a bit sub-par. I do like the location shooting here, which really wasn’t much of a location, except that the cameras went outside of …
Dancing with the Stars - 3/16/09
The second episode of Dancing with the Stars continued the injury bus. I don’t know what it is about this show, but the stars are dropping like flies. First, before the show even hit the air last week, Nancy O’Dell and Jewel both had injuries that took …
M*A*S*H: B. J. Papa San
In M*A*S*H: B. J. Papa San, B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) latches on to a nearby Korean family whose father has taken ill. He ends up doing all kinds of things for them, including giving them supplies and fishing up their home, while cutting himself too thin, time wise. …
Psych TV Episode: Talk Derby to Me
I have never seen the season three episode of Psych called Talk Derby to Me until today, when I ended up watching it on Netflix Instant Watch because the kids were both in bed and my wife was glued to the computer (she is obsessed with a game she …
Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Aquaman’s Outrageous Adventure
The cold open has Batman flying a plane in World War 2. There’s not really any explanation, but Batman has time traveled before so it’s not too outlandish. He teams up with Enemy Ace to defeat..aliens I guess. I’m not sure, there wasn’t much in the …
Judge Judy (American Court show)
I’ve started watching the TV program Judge Judy back in 2007 when at that time I don’t really have much thing to do at home while I was pregnant with my first child. This TV program is about an American reality based show which features Judith Sheindlin which …
Spongebob Squarepants TV
Hands down, Spongebob Squarepants is for me the funniest cartoon for kids and kids at heart. Its unique humor is something that not everybody appreciates, knowing a lot of articles written about it all over the web which are not favorable, but it is MY type of humor, so …
Walking Dead (TV Series)
I am generally not a fan of zombie movies because they’re ususally very low budget and very terrible. Infact I can count on one hand how many zombie movies I’ve actually liked. The “Walking Dead” is different since not only is it the 1st zombie television series I’ve seen, …
Gargoyles Episode 2.4 A Lighthouse in the sea of time
This episode features the return of Macbeth. His goal is to obtain the recently uncovered scrolls of Merlin. I know that King Arthur comes into play later in the series, so this was probably a way to plant that seed.
The focus of the episode is about reading. …
The Twilight Zone: The Parallel TV Show
From 1963, The Twilight Zone: The Parallel is an intriguing hour of entertainment. It’s a show I enjoy quite a bit. The story dabbles in the concept of parallel universes or alternate dimensions or alternate realities. There are fine lines that separate the differences of these, …
Kathy Griffin my life on the d list
I enjoy watching this show because it makes me laugh. It’s interesting and entertaining. It’s about a comedian named Kathy Griffin. I like the show because she speaks her mind and tells the truth. I also find her to be funny and enjoy watching the show because her and …
The Beverly Hillbillies TV Show
The Beverly Hillbillies.
An all time classic, The Beverly Hillbillies was first made around the 1950-1960’s.
There are 6 main characters, Granny, Uncle Jed, Jethro and Ellie Mae, and Mrs Drysdale their banker and neighbor. Miss Jane Hathaway is his secretary.
Granny is a real character. She is always cooking up batches of …
The Time Machine - Upright Citizens Brigade show
The Time Machine is the eight episode of the Upright Citizens Brigade’s first season, and this is an episode that really highlights some of the best aspects of the show. Unique ideas drawn to absurdity (for example the whole “hole in the sheet” thing), hilarious sketches and all …
Stargate Atlantis: The Prodigal
Stargate Atlantis: The Prodigal, a fifth season episode, begins with Woolsey confronting Ronon about not filing mission reports. It then shifts to Sheppard and McKay racing remote control cars down a corridor where they run into Teyla who is trying to get her baby to sleep. It’s …
The Forgotten - Diamond Jane
In this second series of this new ABC drama which stars Christian Slater, I find myself more into the story of the dead body than I was the regular characters who make up what is called The Forgotten Network. This network helps the police to identify dead bodies …
The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Dwarf TV Show
Season 3 of The Ray Bradbury Theater begins with a July 1989 episode called The Dwarf. He’s a writer who meets up with a fan named Aimee.
The action actually begins at the Mirror Maze where the dwarf (Machs Colombani) goes to look at himself in the mirrors. …
Rock Profile
Long before Little Britain came about, David Walliams and Matt Lucas were still playing around in strange costumes and silly wigs. Rather than a sketch show, Rock Profile is instead a spoof interview series with real life presenter Jamie Theakston posing as the interviewer to a host of world …
Junior Apprentice Episode 1 TV Show
Junior Apprentice Episode 1 began by introducing the viewers to the 10 contestants selected from 28,000 applicants to vie to be Lord Alan Sugar’s junior apprentice. Now I remember watching the first regular Apprentice and found it very interesting. Sugar operates differently from Donald Trump and for …
Ghost Whisperer On ION Television
Background Story: The story line revolves around the main character Melinda Gordon (played by Jennifer Love Hewitt). As it so happens Melinda has recently gotten married to a paramedic named Jim Gordon, they’ve moved to a small town called Grandview and Melinda has opened up an antique shop. Sounds pretty …
Prison Break Season 1 Episode 1- Pilot
This is the beginning of the series, and the whole story is being introduced in a very clever way. It really made the story look appealing. But there was this feeling that it was going to be some clever spy-like story where the hero outsmarts everyone and manages to …
The Twilight Zone: The Fever TV Show
The Twilight Zone: The Fever isn’t about being physically ill in the sense of having the flu or some ailment, but rather, it’s about an addiction, and a surprising one at that. A casino welcomes its latest guests, a couple from a small town. They think …
Pokemon (TV Show) - Pokemon, I Choose You! (Episode)
“Pokemon, I Choose You!” is the first episode of the animated television show, “Pokemon”. As the first episode of the series, it works on a number of levels. For one thing, the first episode of any new television show needs to establish the primary characters and provide the primary …
Friends Episode: Mike and Ross Hanging Out
Friends Episode: Mike and Ross Hanging Out is truly awesome and you see Rachel and Phoebe having a ladies night out or something and that leaves Mike and Ross together in Ross’s apartment. Ross and Mike could really bond and they talk about anything at all under the sun. …
M*A*S*H: I Hate a Mystery
While M*A*S*H: I Hate a Mystery has some very nice elements to it, I also feel like it has some flaws as well that detract from the show as a whole.
What happens in this first season episode is that belongings begin to disappear, beginning with a silver picture …
The Fugitive: Man on a String
The Fugitive: Man on a String has never been a favorite episode of mine. I’m not totally sure what it is, but even as a kid watching it for a first time, or even when I watched all of The Fugitive episodes several years ago when they were …
Pokemon (TV Show) - Ash Catches a Pokemon (Episode)
“Ash Catches a Pokémon” is the third episode of the “Pokemon” television series and this episode is one that does a good job of showing off the dynamic that quickly begins to build between the Ash and Misty characters. This is the first episode where Ash and Misty actually …
Stargate SG1: Secrets
This episode revolves around the promise that Daniel made to the people of Abydos in the first episode. He promised to return to Abydos with Sha’re. He told them if he did not return to bury the gate forever.
When he sends a MALP through to Abydos he …
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 …
Supernatural Season 6, Episode 1
A show that I have come to enjoy ever since its first season started back in 2005 is the CW series of Supernatural. The series revolved around two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, whose family have been hunters for years. When I say hunters, I don’t mean the kind …
The Andy Griffith Show: The Merchant of Mayberry TV Show
The Andy Griffith Show: The Merchant of Mayberry is what I call a quiet episode simply because the story is a rather low key, sweet one with a character who is unassuming and just a real down to earth type of guy. This second season show guest stars …
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