Category: Episode Reviews
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Lie to Me, “Beat The Devil”
Lie to Me is one of those finely tuned procedural dramas that I like, sometimes even really like, but ultimately have to ditch during the regular television season because there are other things on that I enjoy more. But with the summer season here and the series coming back just in time, I’ll probably talk…
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The Hard Times of RJ Berger, “Pilot”
File this one under: I watched this so you didn’t have to. For some really weird reason, I found myself watching the pilot episode for The Hard Times of RJ Berger last night. Right after Breaking Bad, even! As you can imagine, the transition was not very seamless.
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Party Down, “Party Down Company Picnic”
A few weeks ago, the Party Down crew chilled with Steve Guttenberg in a reveal episode that was certainly a change of pace for the series. When I saw that this week’s effort would have the team not actually working at all, I had high hopes that it would be like Party Down’s time with…
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Friday Night Lights, “The Son”
Apologies for not giving my thoughts on last week’s episode — short form answer: I liked it — but I had other things to handle. And I knew that this week’s episode would deserve more discussion. You know, because “The Son” is one of the best hours of dramatic television produced in the last year.
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Burn Notice, “Friends and Enemies”
I think everyone had their issues with Burn Notice‘s third season and I’m no different. The overarching plot for the season was mishmashed mess that never quite made sense. It seemed as if the idea that everyone could come after Michael meant that no one really that important actually did. The first half was still damn…
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Justified, “Fathers and Sons”
Justified is on a roll, folks. Thoughts after the jump.
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Party Down, “Not On Your Wife Opening Night”
Last week, Party Down was much more subdued and honestly, interesting. This week: back to the zany, organized chaos.
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The Good Guys, “Pilot”
Quick thoughts on The Good Guys pilot episode right after the jump!
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Justified, “Veterans”
I don’t have a whole lot to say about this week’s Justified, but some quick thoughts are behind the jump if you’re interested.
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Party Down, “Steve Guttenberg’s Birthday”
“Steve Guttenberg’s Birthday” is not the funniest episode of Party Down’s second season, but by eschewing the normal episode/plot structure, the series reveals its ability to tell fairly potent and mostly serious character stories.
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Friday Night Lights, “In The Skin of a Lion”
I cannot say that “In The Skin of a Lion” is a bad episode of television, but it’s certainly not up to par with Friday Night Lights‘ best or even the first two episodes of the season.
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Lost, “The End” Part Two — Evaluating character arcs in both universes
I’ve decided to avoid adding more bold sectioned-off updates to my original recap of the Lost series finale, “The End” and start a brand new post. You can view my initial set of ramblings here before jumping in to this post. For starters, I want to discuss the characters, since that’s what the whole episode…
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Lost, “The End”
Well, in my opinion, they basically nailed it.
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The Pacific, “Part Ten”
Last night as I was determining what Tuesday series to watch before Fringe, it hit me that I hadn’t even watched Sunday’s final installment of The Pacific. And it’s really too bad that it took me this long to get to it, because “Part Ten” is damn close to being my favorite portion of the…
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Fringe, “Over There, Part 2”
In last week’s quick post about “Over There, Part 1” I said that it would be difficult to throw out judgments about the first hour until I’d seen the second. Now having experienced both efforts, I’m surprised to say that the first hour was certainly more effective in terms of expanding the mythology, while the…
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