TV Reviews
Mork & Mindy: Mork goes Erk
Well, that was an episode of Mork & Mindy I haven’t seen before. Mork Goes Erk is a great episode and one I would recommend watching if you’ve never seen the show before.
The great thing about this episode is it creates the possibility of Mork and Mindy having to …
Touching Evil: Grief
Touching Evil: Grief involves yet another grizzly crime where women are killed with their hearts cut out. This show is not for the faint of heart, even when it’s at its best.
There is an early reference to Holly Creegan, David’ ex-wife. He has her hidden away in …
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig Episode 13
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig Episode 13 has Section 9 looking for the man who sculpted Hideo Kuze’s face, the man who attacked the prime minister. Meanwhile Pazu is having his own problems.
This episode was pretty good, but not as good as the other …
Bones: The Man in the Morgue
I’ve never seen the full Bones episode “The Man in the Morgue” until last night and, after watching it, I think it is one of the better ones ever produced for a number of reasons.
First, you have the whole think taking place in New Orleans right after hurricane Katrina. …
The Two Coreys: Episode 2.7 - Role Models
What I have been noticing so far in much of this season’s episodes is that each one is like two sides to a coin - First we have the snobby and conceited fame and fortune lifestyle (the Feldmans), then there’s poor and lost with bridges burnt and only a …
Sea Hunt: Legend of the Mermaid TV Show
Sea Hunt: Legend of the Mermaid almost feels like a repeat or perhaps a sequel. Let me explain why this June 1958 outing feels a little quirky.
First, this is yet another episode about sponge diving. We saw quite a bit of that just a few weeks before …
Adam-12: Log 75: Have a Nice Weekend
For me, there isn’t anything terribly exciting about this episode of Adam-12 entitled Log 75: Have a Nice Weekend. The segment I key in on more than the others is one with Norma Connolly as Eva Foster. I met the late Ms. Connolly a few times, and …
Zoo - The TV Series (2015)
OH. MY. WORD!!!! If you haven’t seen this series yet, you are definitely missing out! I suggest you immediately find it and watch it! Zoo is a 2015 TV series based on the James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge book of the same title. I would describe this series as an …
Da Vincis Demons (tv series)
During the year I found a few series I started watching, but most of them were discovered by way of the internet. I actually found out about this one when it began advertising on the cable television channel, Starz, a little before the series Spartacus was set to have …
Death Note Episode 19 (Anime)
Death Note Episode 19 begins with Masuda feeling irritated that no one takes him seriously on the Kira case and he decides to investigate Yatsuba, the company suspected of working with Kira, on his own under the guise of being Misa Amane’s manager.
This episode was very clever, because …
Bones television show
The television show Bones has a new take on crime drama.
At first I wasn’t too interested in the show. I had thought there were already many crime drama series around and Bones was just another one. Also the premise of discovering who committed a crime by examining …
Highway Patrol: Taxi TV Show
Highway Patrol: Taxi has comedian Joe Flynn playing a vicious robber and killer. I’m so used to seeing Flynn as a funny man that this is almost shocking to me. I don’t believe in all these decades that I have seen him play this kind of character. …
Friends Episode: The One Where Joey Is Turning Into a Woman
Friends Episode: The One Where Joey Is Turning Into a Woman is totally hilarious and really awesome. I laugh so hard whenever I watch this. Seems that Joey is picking up a fuss over little things when this tall and blonde, beautiful lady becomes his room-mate and he …
Columbo: An Exercise in Fatality TV Show
An Exercise in Fatality in one of the Columbo episodes I remember very well. It made a strong impression and I never tire of seeing it. Here are a few of the hits and misses for me about this show from season four.
–Robert Conrad is perfect casting …
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Book 2, Episode 11: The Desert
Aang and company are trapped in the desert with very little water and their primary means of transportation has been stolen. Aang is none too happy about the fact that Toph let Appa get stolen. Even when she brings up the fact that she kept the library …
Project Runway TV Episode: Season 8 Premiere
Well, my wife is once again spending her Thursday nights watching Project Runway on Lifetime. This started last night with the season 8 premiere of the series. And, unfortunately, I think the series is continuing to get worse and worse every year.
First of all, the contestants this year seem …
The Twilight Zone: The Last Flight TV Show
The Twilight Zone: The Last Flight is an intriguing time travel type of episode which aired in the first season of this premium science fiction series from the mind of Rod Serling. Serling narrates the story, as always.
The Last Flight hones in on a World War I British …
The Forgotten - pilot
By a fluke, I decided to watch a new drama called The Forgotten. The show stars Christian Slater, who isn’t a performer I’m particularly fond of. There’s no specific reason for that, other than he’s never appealed to me. In this show, he plays Alex Donovan, …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Who Are You
Well, I was right in my assumption during the last episode that Buffy and Faith switched bodies. This was confirmed in the episode “Who Are You” and it was definitely an interesting episode.
For one, you have Buffy facing imprisonment and even death because the council believes she is Faith …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Reptile Boy
Sometimes lost in the science fiction element of the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the ocassional message about being safe in an awkward situation. The episode Reptile Boy is one of them.
Along with the whole cult that worships snake man thing at the local university frat house, you …
Naruto Shippuden Episode 1 (Anime)
Naruto Shippuden Episode 1 begins with Naruto and Sakura searching for Sasuske and later, his return to the Hidden Leaf Village. Meanwhile, the Akatsuki, the organization that attacked the Hidden Leaf Village, is planning something.
This episode was pretty good, I’m not a big fan of the Naruto anime franchise, …
Star Trek: Space Seed TV Show
Star Trek: Space Seed is one of the more memorable shows, especially since it is what spawned Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. It employed a number of interesting elements, including the possibility of cryogenics, as in placing bodies in suspended animation and then restoring them at …
Katekyo Hitman Reborn First Arc Episode 1-33
The first story arc for the anime Katekyo Hitman Reborn is the normal life of Sawada Tsunayoshi, the protagonist of this anime, and how he meets the home tutor Reborn (who’s form is a baby). Tsuna then realizes that Reborn is a home tutor who would be training him …
Warehouse 13 season 1 episode 11 Nevermore
This episode was about the feather and a book written by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was writing mostly mystical works so that was greatly incorporated here with getting to know Myka’s family and the involving of Macpherson, Artie’s old partner.
Myka’s mother calls her she thinks that Myka’s father is …
The Whole Truth: Pilot TV Show
The pilot for the new TV series, The Whole Truth, was just okay in my opinion. The show features Rob Morrow as a fast paced defense attorney, along with Maura Tierney as the lead prosecutor. This gives the viewer both sides of the story, so to speak.
At …
Diagnosis Murder: Love Is Murder TV Show
Diagnosis Murder: Love Is Murder has Steve Sloan (Barry Van Dyke) unlucky at love once again. The man has bad choice in women, when he can find one, and as this series progresses, he finds a lot of them. Oddly, a lot of them are some kind …
The Six Napoleons
I am reviewing The Six Napoleons, a Sherlock Holmes episode from the boxed set, The Adventure of Sherlock HOlmes, which was produced in 1984 by Granada television. This episode finds Sherlock Holmes assisting Lestrade in a most bizarre mystery. Some mad man keeps destroying the last remaining six Napoleon …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: When She Was Bad
I finally got a chance to start season 2 of the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, starting with the first episode “When She was Bad.” And, I have to say this episode was pretty good.
One of my biggest complaints about the series is they never show the traumatic …
Due South: Chicago Holiday: Part 1
Due South: Chicago Holiday: Part 1 was the first of three somewhat strange episodes of this series in my opinion. This two-parter probably has enough dialog for a solid thirty-minute show. What is included instead is a lot of music, and odd music at that, while the …
Royal Palm Estate
“Royal Palm Estate” was a Jamaican soap opera from the nineties which used to be aired on Sunday evenings on the local channel CVM. I became a very big fan of the television series even though I was still too young to be watching those things. However, since there …
The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Handler TV Show
From October 1992, The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Handler was a bit on the weird side, though not so odd that it turned me off. Even as I state this remark, though, I know that it’s not the kind of show that normally appeals to me. I’m …
Project Runway Season 6 Finale
Wow, that had to be the most predictable Project Runway finale ever. Arina entered it as the obvious favorite and, no surprise, she ended up winning it.
Of course, I have to say, compared to other seasons, this finale was a bit weak. Carol Hannah had a bit of an …
Batman: The Brave and the Bold: The eyes of Despero
This is one of the highlights of the series. It has that perfect blend of light hearted humor, silver age wackiness, and serious superheroism that makes any hero story worthwhile.
The galactic menace Despero seeks to take control of the corps and it’s up to Batman, Guy Gardner, G’nort, …
Whoopi: Is Rita Pregnant? TV Show
The focus of Whoopi: Is Rita Pregnant? from February 2004 was on Courtney’s girlfriend, Rita (Elizabeth Regen), and the possibility that she might be pregnant, something that makes Courtney’s sister cringe. She’s not really fond of Rita, at least not while her brother is unemployed and living with …
Seven Days season 3 episode 22 Live: From Death Row
If you read any of my reviews about Seven days, where I am always saying that the show is very simple and predictable maybe this sentence will shock you: I am sorry it ended. Yeah, that’s true I really am. Not because of this episode, I mean, CERTAINLY not …
Television Show: The Good Night Show
When we ordered Direct TV a couple months ago, we decided to set it up in our oldest daughter’s room too; just so we could watch some more adult programming rather than cartoons all the time.
She recently discovered a show on the television station called Sprout. For the most …
Confessions of a Teen Idol - Episode 2
This show has such a campy, reality show title, Confessions of a Teen Idol, but if you give it a chance, there’s a lot of drama here about the human condition, and it’s not always pretty to look at it. Yet, for our own growth, looking at ourselves …
CSI New York Season 3 Episode 2- Not What It Looks Like
This is a really cool episode on the show. The first story on the show, the one with the robbery of the jewellery store is really interesting. The crime itself is very sophisticated and the tools used to commit it are really unusual. The second story is kind …
Adam-12: Assassination
Adam-12: Assassination shows the peril that can face police officers when they are made the target of revenge. The plot begins slowly as ambush attempts and no one is sure if it’s random or targeted. It’s not until a man calls Jim Reed’s house that they know …
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 …
Toddlers and Tiaras show
I am shocked that women would allow their young girls to parade across television screens and stages in such adult, provocative clothing. This reality television show follows little princesses (kid beauty contestants) in their quest for crowns and cash. THe mothers on the show are not as …
Seven days Season 3 Episode 9 Top Dog
NSA has a special secret project which is about time travel. There’s a sphere which functions on some alien fuel and it is used to take 1 man, Frank Parker back in time to change bad things that happened. In this episode Tallmadge is declared incapable for the position …
The Good Life Series 3 Episode 2 Happy Event
‘Happy Event’ is the second episode of The Good Life’s third series. With Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal as Tom and Barbara, a jovial couple of Surbitonites who have given up the rat race to become self-sufficient and live off the land, which is actually their back garden …
The Real Ghostbusters: Season 1, Episode 2: KillerWatt
Now this is how you make a Ghostbusters episode! No ridiculous comic relief that doesn’t work, but a crisis that tests the Ghostbusters’ abilities and an opponent who forces them to think outside the box.
The opening scene establishes the threat as a city worker is seemingly attacked …
The Hillside Stranglers movie
From 1989, The Hillside Stranglers is almost as frightening as the actual events that this movie is based on. I lived through these events, watching them unfold on television, and it was a scary time. I would have been terrified had I lived in that area where …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fear, Itself
Once again, I’m watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and have to suffer through another episode “Fear, Itself” that doesn’t even spend any time discussing vampires.
This is the typical Buffy Halloween episode, where Halloween is supposed to be a quiet time and something strange happens to put the gang in …
Strictly Dr. Drew (television show)
The Discovery Health Channel has introduced a show called Strictly Drew that is on Thursday evenings, and offered as an On-Demand option, for those of you who obtain that service from your cable company. Anyway, I have watched the show only twice and I am now addicted. …
Code Geass Episode 9 (Anime)
Code Geass Episode 9 focuses on Kallen and her daily life as a student; we also learn about her mother and learn that she has a tragic home life, along with her double life at school.
I did think that this episode was very interesting and it gave Kallen more …
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