Category: Featured
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TV Surveillance’s Best of 2010: Top 60 Episodes, 20-11
2010 has been a fantastic year for television. This year brought us a slew of great new programs and if we include the second halves of all the series that debuted in the fall of 2009 (which I am for these features), we have probably just experienced the best run of newbies since 2004. While…
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TV Surveillance’s Best of 2010: Top 60 Episodes, 30-21
2010 has been a fantastic year for television. This year brought us a slew of great new programs and if we include the second halves of all the series that debuted in the fall of 2009 (which I am for these features), we have probably just experienced the best run of newbies since 2004. While…
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TV Surveillance’s Best of 2010: Top 60 Episodes, 40-31
2010 has been a fantastic year for television. This year brought us a slew of great new programs and if we include the second halves of all the series that debuted in the fall of 2009 (which I am for these features), we have probably just experienced the best run of newbies since 2004. While…
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TV Surveillance’s Best of 2010: The Top 60 Episodes, 50-41
2010 has been a fantastic year for television. This year brought us a slew of great new programs and if we include the second halves of all the series that debuted in the fall of 2009 (which I am for these features), we have probably just experienced the best run of newbies since 2004. While…
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TV Surveillance’s Best of 2010: The Top 60 Episodes, 60-51
2010 has been a fantastic year for television. This year brought us a slew of great new programs and if we include the second halves of all the series that debuted in the fall of 2009 (which I am for these features), we have probably just experienced the best run of newbies since 2004. While…
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TV Surveillance’s Best of 2010: Most disappointing veteran series
2010 has been a fantastic year for television. This year brought us a slew of great new programs and if we include the second halves of all the series that debuted in the fall of 2009 (which I am for these features), we have probably just experienced the best run of newbies since 2004. While…
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Season Finale — Burn Notice, “Out of the Fire” and “Last Stand”
I haven’t checked in with Burn Notice since the summer break for a few reasons. One, Thursdays are ridiculously busy, both for television and my schedule in general. Secondly, I haven’t had much to say about Burn Notice. The summer episodes were generally dreadful (if you take a look at some of my reviews during…
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TV Surveillance’s Best of 2010: Five Best New Series
2010 has been a fantastic year for television. This year brought us a slew of great new programs and if we include the second halves of all the series that debuted in the fall of 2009 (which I am for these features), we have probably just experienced the best run of newbies since 2004. While…
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Psych, “The Polarizing Express” and “Dead Bear Walking”
Anytime there are two new episodes of Psych in one night, that is a good night. And even though last night’s double-shot, “The Polarizing Express” and “Dead Bear Walking” were not particularly great episodes of the series, there is definitely something interesting going on with Psych that I figured would be worth talking about a…
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Human Target, “Dead Head”
From everything I can gauge, it looks like Matt Miller is trying to make sure every case in Human Target season two is somehow connected to one of the five main cast members. This is opposed to last year’s method that saw Chance and company help random hotties all around the world each week. And…
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TV Surveillance’s Best of 2010: Best Reality Competition Series
2010 has been a fantastic year for television. This year brought us a slew of great new programs and if we include the second halves of all the series that debuted in the fall of 2009 (which I am for these features), we have probably just experienced the best run of newbies since 2004. While…
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TV Surveillance’s Best of 2010: Introductions
I love the last few weeks of the year. Not because of Christmas, New Year’s Eve or any of that other nonsense. Nope, I adore this time on the calendar because of all the “Best of” lists. If you’re a regular reader of TVS, you probably know two things about me: I love lists and…
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Season Finale — Dexter, “The Big One”
Sigh. The thing with Dexter, a thing we all know about, is that it is completely bound by its formula. It has been said over and over that the series cannot really move forward until it knows an end is in sight. Dexter has one more card to play — Deb finding out — and…
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The Vampire Diaries, “By The Light of The Moon”
As the final episode of 2010, “By The Light of The Moon” isn’t the most exciting effort of The Vampire Diaries‘ second season. In fact, it’s fairly timid compared to some of the crazy episodes we’ve seen this season. However, Mike Daniels’ script does a really smart thing by building the entire episode around what…
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Test Pilot: File #8, Gossip Girl
Test Pilot #8: Gossip Girl Debut date: September 19, 2007 Series legacy: Shinning beacon in today’s slate of teen dramas Welcome to the newest regular feature here at TV Surveillance, the fantastically titled, Test Pilot. In this bi-weekly feature, I will be joined by a rotating batch of guest writers in an analysis of, you…
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