TV Reviews
American Idol
Is anyone else out there tired of American Idol? Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person in the country that doesn’t like it. I see why the show appeals to so many, but personally, I’m just plain sick of it!
First of all, most of the winners really haven’t …
Models of the Runway: That’s a Wrap
Well, I wasn’t sure what to expect with the final episode of Models of the Runway considering it came on after the Project Runway finale and we already knew who the winner was. I figured it would be a wrap up episode where they showed her at her modeling …
M*A*S*H: Inga
Mariette Hartley portrays the title role in M*A*S*H: Inga. Dr. Inga Halvorsen is a Swedish doctor visiting the 4077th, and Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) is immediately fascinated by her. I really love this because it’s not the usual love affair for the chief surgeon. In fact, …
The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Dead Man TV Show
The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Dead Man aired originally on cable television on September 26, 1992. These stories all come from the mind of science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury. This particular tale is a very quiet one and is appropriately odd as so many of Bradbury’s stories …
Stargate SG1: The First Ones
There were quite a few Stargate SG1 fans who were disappointed in this episode, or who ridiculed it. Episode 8 of season 4 - The First Ones - was one of my favorite episodes. Sure, people could accuse me of loving this episode because it was Daniel-centric …
Justice League Unlimited: the Doomsday Sanction
Typically “Justice League Unlimited” focused on the less famous members of the Justice league and that is good. It adds depth to the D.C. universe which isn’t in most cartoons because they need to focus on a few characters.
The second thing it does is serve as a contrast to …
Due South: We Are the Eggmen
This episode of Due South opens with a funny bit, picking up where they left off in the last show. I laughed out loud then, and I did just now, too. Due South: Starman has Benton Fraser and Diefenbacker running some tracking drills. Their exchange is …
Fireball XL5: Space Pen
One of the things I’ve longed realized about Fireball XL5 is that the lovely blonde Venus gets more change of clothing than any of the other characters. I suppose that’s how it really is in life anyway, but it’s amused me quite a bit. In this show …
MacGyver: Lost Love Part 2
MacGyver: Lost Love Part 2 continues where part 1 left off. MacGyver confides in Jack about what the Russians want him to do in order to save Lisa’s life. Lisa is the woman Mac was once going to marry, only she was shot and supposedly kill at …
Highway Patrol: Plant Robbery TV Show
Highway Patrol: Plant Robbery is not a story I like to watch really. By happenstance, I’ve seen it a couple of times, and neither viewing was all that pleasurable, simply because there’s no one in the story I like. In other words, none of the characters really …
Columbo: Playback TV Show
Columbo: Playback, from season four, is notable to me for one of its guest stars, Oskar Werner. Werner has done some incredible things, but there is one performance that stands out to me. While I love him in Farenheit 451, it’s his portrayal as Father Telemond in …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: No Way Out TV Show
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: No Way Out, show number twelve, has a teaser that bores me, and that’s not a good sign. It’s another foreign intrigue affair, which oftentimes makes me yawn. However, it picked up after the theme and opening credits. Following …
The Simpsons TV Episode: The Old Man and Lisa
I got home early enough to watch a re-run of the Simpsons on TV. The one that was showing was one I have seen before and still think is one of my favorites; The Old Man and Lisa.
Basically, Mr. Burns discovers he has been making a number of bad …
House TV Episode: The Choice
My wife and I got a bit bored with the series House earlier this year and elected to simply record the episodes on our DVR rather than finding time to watch them on Monday nights. And, they ended up sitting there for quite some time.
We, however, did finally get …
MacGyver: The Gauntlet
MacGyver: The Gauntlet is another episode with lots of action in it. MacGyver is once again sent overseas, to South America, to rescue a photographer, played by Robin Curtis. She’s got the goods on a couple of bad guys, and they know it. Hence, the big …
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The City Beneath the Sea TV Show
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The City Beneath the Sea, episode two of season one, had the Seaview trying to unearth the mystery about two ships that have disappeared in the waters of Greece. Ultimately, Captain Lee Crane (David Hedison) does a bit of sleuthing, skin …
Sony Bravia KDL32L4000 LCD TV
This Sony Bravia KDL32L4000 LCD TV is the newest addition to my drawing room and also, to the huge collection of electronic gadgets.
I had always desired to buy an LCD television to replace my flat screen traditional TV, but the exorbitant costs did not ever allow me to even …
Dexter - season 1 - Complete season
So how did this award-winning tv show start? Well Dexter, in my opinion, is a very distinctive tv show from all the others. It is not a simple crimishow. The whole idea of Dexter, as shown in season 1, is to portray the crime scene from Dexter´s point of …
The Twilight Zone: Deaths-Head Revisited TV Show
The Twilight Zone: Deaths-Head Revisited takes on the holocaust and does it in an eerie style. From the third year of this series, this show introduces us to a former German SS captain as he travels back to Dachau, the concentration camp where he was stationed, at least …
The X-Files: Season 2, Episode 8: One Breath
Just as Scully’s mother is preparing her daughter’s headstone, the abducted FBI agent appears in a hospital bed, seemingly out of thin air. None of the doctors have any idea how she got there, who admitted her, or even what her condition is beyond being comatose.
This episode is …
Firefly
Firefly used to be a television show on the Sci-Fi Channel. I began watching this series when I rented the movie Serenity from Netflix and realized it was the finale of the tv show Firefly. This show is very wild west meets space smuggler. I love …
NCIS (tv series)
I first became familiar with the cable television series NCIS which was a couple of years after it had piloted, since it actually began airing in 2003. Someone who I had known watched the series almost religiously every time there was a marathon and when there were new episodes. …
NCIS: Jack Knife Season 7, Episode 15
Damon Werth from Season 5’s “Corporal Punishment” returns in “Jack Knife.” Seems his friend (also from the previous episode)Heatherton has been driving a truck for a man Werth feels is to blame for Heatherton’s murder.
Werth wants to go undercover in order to help catch his friend’s …
Family Guy: Stewie Loves Lois
OK, I’ll admit it, even though there were some objectionable scenes in the Family Guy episode “Stewie Loves Lois” I think it is still one of the funnier episodes in the series.
You have two major plots. First, Lois fixes Stewies Bear Rupert and he realizes that he loves her …
Columbo: Old Fashioned Murder TV Show
Columbo: Old Fashioned Murder guest stars Joyce Van Patten as museum curator, Ruth Lytton. It could be said that the museum was her life. Her sister is played by Celeste Holm, who this time around portrays her role with an old vulnerability. Jeannie Berlin guest stars …
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 10
As the world spins its unprecedented course, our valiant heros find that unlike their classmates, that they are on a scheduled standby as long as the angel threat exist and are not allowed to join their class trip to Okinawa. This is Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 10 “Magma Diver”, …
Trading Spouses
I find the TV reality show Trading Spouses truly awesome. Actually, I have a very bad impression of the show when I initially started watching, but after some time, I’ve gotten the message of the show and noticing how some families featured are indeed having a bigger problem issue …
Trigun Episode 1
Trigun is a Japanese Anime space western that takes place on a distant planet called Gunsmoke. It involves bounty hunters trying to collect the bounty on Vash the Stampede, who has a $$60,000,000,000 bounty on his head. He’s known as the “Humanoid Typhoon” because he causes a …
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 …
Adam-12: Truant
I enjoy Adam-12: Truant quite a bit. Jim Reed (Kent McCord) puts in a suggestion for a new truant program to help keep kids off the streets and drop the crime rate in the area. This is one of the shows that exhibits Jim’s sharp mind and …
The Loretta Young Show: Sister Ann
From 1959, The Loretta Young Show: Sister Ann starred Loretta Young in this recurring character of Sister Ann. This series was an anthology show that lasted for several seasons. Loretta appeared in several of the stories throughout the seasons, but not all. This role of Sister …
BET
Horrible.
My only word to describe the network known as Black Entertainment Television. This channel is absolutely horrible. It destroys the integrity of the black community and is a divisive, harmful tool for those who watch it.
BET wasn’t always the worse channel a black person could flip to. There …
MacGyver: The Invisible Killer
MacGyver: The Invisible Killer is a who-dun-it mystery where a killer has infiltrated a five-day retreat that Mac is leading for the Phoenix Foundation. Four men from high pressure assignments, none of who know one another, meet to go backpacking for several days. Eventually, they learn …
Fact or Faked Paranormal Files (series)
I’m a sucker for horror movies and have been ever since I can remember. I started watching some horror movies that would frighten most adults in the worst way before I reached age five, and had read most of Stephen King’s novels by the time I was eleven. Therefore, …
The X-Files: Season 2, Episode 17: End Game
Picking up on the cliffhanger from the previous episode, this takes all the momentum gained from its predecessor and manages to keep moving at a brisk pace. It manages to tie up all the loose ends and manages to up the scale of the show.
This episode had a …
Full Metal Alchemist: Show
Full metal Alchemist is an excellent show by Funimation. I’m literally getting chills just thinking about it.
The story is about 2 boys who study an ancient science-like art called alchemy. Alchemy can deconstruct and reconstruct matter. The story is a great concept. The main phrase that they use …
Trading Spaces TV Show
Trading Spaces is a show on TLC that in vites families or individuals to trade houses for the day or several days depending on the challenge, and then decorate a room in their friends home. Each team is given a budget of $1000 and they have to redecorate …
The Fall Guy: The Snow Job TV Show
From March 1982, The Fall Guy: The Snow Job has Colt Seavers (Lee Majors) and company in Aspen for a combination work and leisure trip. The opening teaser in the Colorado resort town has some very nice night scenes of skiers lighting up the slope. I really loved …
Boston Legal Season 2 Episode 8
Denise was approached by two women who wanted to sue their doctor for malpractice for using unconventional methods in plastic surgery. The two women was enraged when they knew that it was the fat from the doctor’s ass that was plumped in their lips. Denise refused to represent them …
Here Come the Brides: Democracy in Action
Here Come the Brides: Democracy in Action is a fun show and one I enjoy watching. One of the things I like about it is that the theme of the show changes two or three times, meaning that just when you think the story is about ‘this’, it turns. …
The Prisoner: Dance of the Dead
The most fascinating aspect to The Prisoner TV series for me has been the revolving door with the Number Two character. Number Two continues to change all the time, and I still don’t quite understand why that happens. Regardless, in The Prisoner: Dance of the Dead, Number …
Masquerade: Oil
Masquerade: Oil took us to Rome, the city of love, where the National Intelligence Agency operatives were trying to foil the villains of the piece. The villains are a bunch of Arabs who kidnapped Americans in Kuwait. They took the workers from an oil field and locked …
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Book 2, Episode 12: The Serpent’s Pass
After Aang’s latest trip into the Avatar state, he becomes worried about the lack of control and decides to abandon all emotion. It starts off rather subtle, but becomes more obvious as the episode progresses, until he flat out explains the reasons for his detachment.
Katara is naturally …
Emergency!: Cook’s Tour
Emergency!: Cook’s Tour is a fun little show. When I watch it, it’s not really any one story that stands out, but it’s more the feel of the firehouse that is the heart of the show. Fire department cooking is almost legendary, and this show deals with …
Law & Order SVU TV Episode: Surveillance
Synopsis: Emily Deschanel guest stars as a cellist who is attacked and possibly raped in her apartment. While investigating the attack, the detectives discover a bunch of cameras that someone placed in her apartment to monitor her every move.
What I liked about this episode: Well, for one, Deschanel is …
St. Bear’s Dolls Hospital
St. Bear’s Dolls Hospital is a kid’s show and I first saw it while baby sitting for a relative. It is basically what the name states. It is a hospital for broken toys to come to and get repaired. They seem to have some toys that are regulars on …
Forever (TV Show)
Forever is TV show on ABC, that I decided that I would sit down and watch. Given it had an interesting plot, of a man who works as an New York city M.E, but is actually two hundred years old, and is trying to find the secret to his …
Doctor Who season 1 episode 8 Father’s Day
In this episode Rose and the Doctor are not travelling in the future as we are used to see them travel but they go in the past. Rose’s dad died when she was still a baby and her mother kept telling her how great guy he was and how …
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