Category: Episode Reviews
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True Blood, “You Smell Like Dinner”
After last week’s disastrous season premiere of True Blood, I saw a number of tweets from critics and fans watching on HBO GO that episode two, “You Smell Like Dinner,” was a dramatic improvement. A few folks even told me that it was one of the better episodes the series has done in a long…
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Burn Notice, “Bloodlines”
After last week’s somewhat awkward premiere, Burn Notice made a more pronounced effort to get out of the middle ground between the CIA world and Miami and unsurprisingly chose Michael’s more local exploits over his possible future with the agency. Even though I’m still very intrigued by how the series is going to integrate Michael’s…
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Series Premiere — Necessary Roughness, “Pilot”
Necessary Roughness is a weird program. The pilot episode doesn’t particularly feel USA-like no matter how the cable giant wants to market the series and so much of this episode’s story feels…complete. I’m never one to complain about a pilot episode actually feeling like a solid, standalone narrative, but I’m not really sure what Roughness presented…
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Surveillance Summer Watch: Hill Street Blues, “Film at Eleven” and “Choice Cut”
This is the newest post in 2011′s Surveillance Summer Watch series featuring Cheers and Hill Street Blues. For the next couple of months, I’ll be writing weekly reviews of episodes from each series’ first seasons, with Cheers on Tuesdays and Hill Street Blues on Thursdays. For more information, see this post and for all the SSW pieces, visit this page. This week, I have a…
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White Collar, “The Dentist of Detroit”
I haven’t written about White Collar since the season premiere. This is disappointing. But you know what else is disappointing this season of White Collar. Perhaps it’s just my personal taste, but I cannot get into this season’s overarching plot. After the season two finale and this season’s premiere, I voiced my concerns over the…
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Surveillance Summer Watch: Cheers, “Coach Returns to Action,” “Endless Slumper” and “One for the Book”
This is the newest post in 2011′s Surveillance Summer Watch series featuring Cheers and Hill Street Blues. For the next couple of months, I’ll be writing weekly reviews of episodes from each series’ first seasons, with Cheerson Tuesdays and Hill Street Blues on Thursdays. For more information, see this post and for all the SSW pieces,visit this page. People like to talk about…
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Series Premiere — Suits, “Pilot”
Apologies for the lack of punctuality with this review, I couldn’t get to the Suits pilot until this weekend. I had some substantial reservations about Suits coming into my viewing of the pilot. You folks know that I’m very intrigued by the USA Network brand and its programming formula and as I wrote about the other day, I wasn’t…
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Season Premiere — True Blood, “She’s Not There”
As begins its fourth season, True Blood is a series I no longer give the benefit of the doubt. After two severely flawed, but wonderfully entertaining seasons, last year’s offering of episodes failed to provide the same kind of enjoyable thrills to balance out the laughably large number of problems. Early last season, the series…
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Season/Series Premieres — Louie, “Pregnant” and Wilfred, “Happiness”
I’m swamped tonight so this dual review is going to be a bit short. Apologies or you’re welcome, depending on how you typically view my reviews! Comedies are supposed to be funny. This is a general rule that like to live by, but the world of television sure does love to muck up the already…
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Season Premiere — Burn Notice, “Company Man”
Season four of Burn Notice was not up to snuff but the last two episodes were very, very good. More importantly, after four years of moving the chains and delaying any resolution, the series finally pulled the trigger on bringing Michael in from the cold. Because of this (as I tweeted today), I’m very optimistic…
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Surveillance Summer Watch: Hill Street Blues, “Can WWIII Be An Attitude?” and “Double Jeopardy”
This is the newest post in 2011′s Surveillance Summer Watch series featuring Cheers and Hill Street Blues. For the next couple of months, I’ll be writing weekly reviews of episodes from each series’ first seasons, with Cheerson Tuesdays and Hill Street Blues on Thursdays. For more information, see this post and for all the SSW pieces, visit this page. Much like I did in…
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Surveillance Summer Watch: Cheers, “Any Friend of Diane’s,” “Friends, Romans and Accountants” and “Truce or Consequences”
This is the newest post in 2011′s Surveillance Summer Watch series featuring Cheers and Hill Street Blues. For the next couple of months, I’ll be writing weekly reviews of episodes from each series’ first seasons, with Cheerson Tuesdays and Hill Street Blues on Thursdays. For more information, see this post and for all the SSW pieces,visit this page. I don’t know what my…
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Season Finale — The Killing, “Orpheus Descending”
This is going to be a slightly different kind of review, mostly because it’s going to talk just as much about the reaction to the episode as it does the episode itself. If you’ve been on the site over the last week, you probably came across my frustrated rant about The Killing, pre-finale. After watching…
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Surveillance Summer Watch: Cheers, “The Tortelli Tort,” “Sam at Eleven” and “Coach’s Daughter”
This is the newest post in 2011′s Surveillance Summer Watch series featuring Cheers and Hill Street Blues. For the next couple of months, I’ll be writing weekly reviews of episodes from each series’ first seasons, with Cheers on Tuesdays and Hill Street Blues on Thursdays. For more information, see this post and for all the…
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Surveillance Summer Watch: Hill Street Blues, “Hill Street Station”
This is the next post in 2011’s Surveillance Summer Watch series featuring Cheers and Hill Street Blues. For the next couple of months, I’ll be writing weekly reviews of episodes from each series’ first seasons, with Cheers on Tuesdays and Hill Street Blues on Thursdays. For more information, see this post. Just a quick house-keeping…
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