Category: Episode Reviews
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Tuesdays with Walt — “End Times” (Podcast edition)
There are loads of great critics writing Breaking Bad reviews every Sunday night/Monday morning. Because of skill and scheduling, I’m not going to be able to stand alongside those reviews. Instead, I hope to write something about Breaking Bad each Tuesday when I have more time and perhaps you are ready for a new day’s worth of material on…
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Season Finale review — Warehouse 13, “Emily Lake”/”Stand”
This season of Warehouse 13 has been pretty tepid. The first half of season three was especially bad, as the early episodes quickly moved away from the emotional weight and damage of season two’s conclusion and chose to re-focus on the quirky – and often dumb – standalone episodes that didn’t have much last impact.…
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Review: Supernatural, “Hello, Cruel World”
Sorry for the delay in this review folks. I’ll probably not be talking about Supernatural until Monday this season and I’m still not sure how often I’ll be able to write something at all. Fridays and the weekend are tough. Holy crap. “Hello, Cruel World” is not only the best second episode in Supernatural’s run,…
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Season Premiere review — Dexter, “Those Kinds of Things”
Dexter is a series that I don’t really care about anymore. I’m not emotionally invested in anything that happens to any of the characters and the writers and Showtime have made it perfectly clear that they have no problem avoiding taking the series into the final stretch (i.e. putting pressure on Dexter and/or having Deb…
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Season Premiere review — How to Make It in America, “I’m Good”
It’s nearly impossible not to compare How to Make It in America with Entourage. The two series share production teams and writers. They both follow the trials and tribulations of young men in modern culture. And they both feature a whole lot of last-minute “everything’s going to be alright!” moments. But after watching last night’s…
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Pilot rapid-fire review: Homeland
The next couple of weeks are going to be insane. There are so many new series debuting and unfortunately, there is only so much time in the day for me to write about television while balancing my “real” life. You know, the one I spend on Twitter. ANYWAY, I’m going to try to touch on…
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Review: The Vampire Diaries, “The End of the Affair”
Ed note: Hey folks, I’m very, very short on time today, so this review is going to be shorter than normal. Apologies. I’ll be honest with you folks: I grew a little tired of the flashbacks during the second season of Vampire Diaries. The trips back to 1864 were fine and generally purposeful, but for…
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Review: Community, “Geography of Global Conflict”
The nature of the television sitcom is often, if not always, in direct conflict with substantial character development. Critics and people like me want to pull at thematic threads and discuss the big moments for our favorite fictional people, but when it comes to a sitcom, even one as complex, complicated and interesting as Community,…
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Season Premiere review — Happy Endings, “Blax, Snake, Home”
I really love Happy Endings and I am stoked that the series was picked up for a second season. I just re-watched season one this weekend while trying to get my girlfriend to love it (she did!) and I forgot how comfortable the cast is with one another and how sharp the writing can be.…
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Review: Luther, Season Two
Luther returned for its second season on BBC America last night. The episodes aired this summer in the UK and I, well, procured and watched them during that time. I’m not going to write weekly reviews about this season’s four episodes for a couple of reasons: I don’t have enough time and I wasn’t particularly…
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Pilot rapid-fire review: Suburgatory
The next couple weeks are going to be insane. There are so many new series debuting and unfortunately, there is only so much time in the day for me to write about television while balancing my “real” life. You know, the one I spend on Twitter. ANYWAY, I’m going to try to touch on each…
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Review: Glee, “I Am Unicorn”
If Will Schuester runs for public office against Sue Sylvester I will burn down Fox Television Studios, never watch television again and quit Twitter. Glee has had some terrible ideas in its first two-plus years on the air, but the political campaign portion of season three is already at the top of the list. Having…
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Pilot rapid-fire review: Terra Nova
The next couple weeks are going to be insane. There are so many new series debuting and unfortunately, there is only so much time in the day for me to write about television while balancing my “real” life. You know, the one I spend on Twitter. ANYWAY, I’m going to try to touch on each…
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Pilot rapid-fire review: Hart of Dixie
The next couple weeks are going to be insane. There are so many new series debuting and unfortunately, there is only so much time in the day for me to write about television while balancing my “real” life. You know, the one I spend on Twitter. ANYWAY, I’m going to try to touch on each…
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