Category: Summer Watch
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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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Surveillance Summer Watch: Cheers, “Give Me a Ring Sometime” and “Sam’s Women”
This is the first 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. Let me tell you…
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Surveillance Summer Watch: History Lesson — Announcing this summer’s viewing projects
As most of you know, the summer months are light on quality television or even decent television worth writing about. Because of this, many television critics and fans use this time to re-watch some of their favorite series or catch up on things they have missed over the years. Not only does it keep the…
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Surveillance Summer Watch, Sons of Anarchy: Families fall apart, come together
If you’d like to check out previous posts in this series, visit the Surveillance Summer Watch page. It’s really unfortunate that this is the final post in my Surveillance Summer Watch series. Just as it always happens, the summer was much busier than I had expected it to be, with work, trips and currently-airing television taking…
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Surveillance Summer Watch, Sons of Anarchy: One down, one to go
If you’d like to check out previous posts in this series, visit the Surveillance Summer Watch page. I’ve had a lot of balls in the air recently, which have prevented me from getting through my viewing of Sons of Anarchy. However, I did recently complete the first season and figured I should at least post something,…
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Surveillance Summer Watch, The West Wing: Reacting to a tragedy
If you’d like to check out previous posts in this series, visit the Surveillance Summer Watch page. It’s been a long time since I’ve written about my West Wing viewing and that makes me sad. I haven’t watched a whole lot of West Wing lately, and that also makes me sad. That is especially disappointing when…
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Surveillance Summer Watch, Sons of Anarchy: A family affair
If you’d like to check out previous posts in this series, visit the Surveillance Summer Watch page. After I finished up the first season of The West Wing I was ready for something else to occupy my television viewing time, if only for a little bit. I sent out a tweet asking followers if I should…
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Surveillance Summer Watch, The West Wing: Reflections on season one
If you’d like to check out previous posts in this series, visit the Surveillance Summer Watch page. I spent a good part of my Memorial Day watching the tail end of The West Wing‘s first season, something that seems like a fitting way for a television nerd to celebrate a very American holiday. Thoughts on the…
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Surveillance Summer Watch, The West Wing: A discarded disease
If you’d like to check out previous posts in this series, visit the Surveillance Summer Watch page. With upfronts and a slew of finales, I’ve only watched three episodes of The West Wing since my last post, but I wanted to post now because one of those episodes introduces a character beat that I have…
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Surveillance Summer Watch, The West Wing: On Message
In only a few short days, I’ve plowed through the first 10(!) episodes of The West Wing. Benefits of graduating college ladies and gentlemen! I’m still trying to figure out exactly how to write about the episodes because straight recaps would be boring after the fact, and I’m still reading up on the various issues.…
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Surveillance Summer Watch, The West Wing: Introductions
With the unofficial television coming to an end, I’ll be free to watch older series that I have on DVD that I haven’t quite gotten around to yet. There are three or four I’d like to knock out by summer’s end and the plan is to occasionally touch base with those series here on the…
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