Category: Episode Reviews
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Cougar Town, “Walls”
Our long national nightmare is over folks, Cougar Town is back! ABC took the series off the air to try to jump-start Matthew Perry’s career (which I don’t think worked), but for all our waiting, the network has done the nice thing and given the series a twofer week, starting with last night’s “Walls” and…
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Series Premiere — Game of Thrones, “Winter is Coming”
Over the past few weeks, I’ve said a few times that I wasn’t going to review Game of Thrones, at least not the first few episodes. And for the most part, that’s still true. This post on the first episode, “Winter is Coming,” will probably be the only one on the series for a bit…
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Supernatural, “My Heart Will Go On”
A few days ago, I wrote about how Supernatural should probably be canceled. This doesn’t mean that I hate this season or even strongly dislike this season. But if the whole season was full of episodes like “My Heart Will Go On,” I probably wouldn’t have written that piece to begin with. This is a…
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Smallville, “Kent”
When I wrote this piece yesterday, I mentioned that the Smallville writers should do their best to focus on Clark and try not to detour into too many gimmicky episodes or characters not in the main cast. “Kent” is sort of a cheat, because it does both. Bring back Clark Luthor and shooting CK over…
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Season premiere — Friday Night Lights, “Expectations”
Ed note: I wrote this review during the DirecTV run of Friday Night Light’s final season, but am moving it to the front page to coincide with the premiere on NBC tonight. I hope you enjoy the season, it is tremendous. Pardon the pun, but coming into Friday Night Lights‘ fifth and final season, we as an audience…
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The Vampire Diaries, “The Last Dance”
With Klaus ready to make his move, everyone on Team Elena has their own opinion on not only how to kill him, but the best way to protect Elena in the interim. Different perspectives and plans of course brings conflict, and that’s really what this whole episode is about. All season has been about protecting…
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Community, “Competitive Wine Tasting”
I’ll just go ahead and put this out there: “Competitive Wine Tasting” is probably my least favorite episode of Community‘s second season and quite possibly my least favorite episode OF ALL TIME. Of course, it’s still better than a lot of television out there and if I were giving it a grade, it would still…
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Justified, “Debts and Accounts”
Note: I don’t have a lot of time, but I wanted to get some ramblings down about last night’s episode. After last week’s epic episode of Justified “Debts and Accounts” is one of those episodes where the dust is settling and characters are trying to position themselves perfectly for when it’s actually all cleared. In…
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Series Premiere — Happy Endings, “Pilot” and “Quicksand Girlfriend”
Yay, another comedy about late-twentysomethings trying to find their way in the game of love! There’s been much discussion about the stupidity of this year’s Friends-riffing trend and at this point, it’s pretty hard to muster up much enthusiasm for Happy Endings when we’ve already had to deal with the likes of Better With You,…
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The Chicago Code, “Wild Onions”
Heat wave episodes are fun. It’s a go-to gimmick for television series, but one of the better ones. “The heat makes people do crazy things!” is an easy, but effective premise to start building an episode around, especially on a police drama that requires people to do crazy things on a weekly basis. The Chicago…
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The Killing, “El Diablo”
The first two episodes of The Killing that aired last week were, let’s say, fairly dark. The case is depressing, the location is depressing and a lot of these people Linden and Holder are coming into contact with seem suspicious and kind of awful. Well, if the events of this week’s episode, “El Diablo,” are…
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The Vampire Diaries, “Know Thy Enemy”
I’ll be honest: There have been a lot of television series off the air over the past month or so, but there are none I missed more than The Vampire Diaries. It’s certainly not the “best” series I watch, but it’s certainly the most watchable and enjoyable so it is very, very fantastic to have…
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Justified, “Brother’s Keeper”
There was A LOT of hype for this episode of Justified. People were calling this best episode of the series yet, the best episode of 2011 and so on and so forth. For the most part, that hype is, well, justified. “Brother’s Keeper” is a fantastic episode of television and most certainly one of the…
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