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By fred | November 19, 2008
(S05E08) After being MIA for a little while, last week we were reminded of Cameron existence as she was very much involved in the case, and pretty much felt like she was back on the team, working with House again. What this really showed was that for over a year now, House has been working with new people – well, except for Foreman who somehow got stuck back with House — leaving the original one, Chase and Cameron, with close to nothing to do.
This has always been an issue for me, because as much as I loved the original team, it just felt wrong to knew they were still around, and sometime see one walking by, but without them having much to do. House has moved on, and i really wish the writers would either find a way to integrate them back into the show, or let them go as well, so we can move on too.
Read the review of “House: Emancipation” »
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Shows: House
In Series: House Season 5
By fred | November 19, 2008
(S01E07) This show isn’t a comedy, but it has never been shy and often threw a few jokes or funny moments. And even when it’s not really going for the laughs, and while dealing with crimes every week, one has to admit that it has never really been dark. That’s not to say it can’t be dark and serious, but often it goes for a lighter tone. Much like its lead, Patrick Jane, the actual mentalist.
It’s not that he’s a goofy character or that he never takes anything seriously, we all know there’s this hidden secret - or not so secret really - haunting him in the past, the reason he can’t always sleep and doesn’t do so on a bed; The murder of his family was a tragic and traumatic event, and with the track for the killer the show can be in a different tone, putting Jane in a different light and situation, as seen earlier on this season.
Read the review of “The Mentalist: Seeing Red” »
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Shows: The Mentalist
In Series: The Mentalist Season 1
By fred | November 18, 2008
(S02E07) During the first season there was no doubt that Chuck was into Sarah, but that wasn’t meant to be and, even though she did share those feelings, Sarah always denied it. It took a while for her to admit she cared about Chuck, but it simply couldn’t go anywhere, not with him being the Intersect and her a spy watching over him, so it never happened.
But, that wasn’t without a few scenes where the two got to talk and kiss, and while she remains on her position, this season Sarah clearly shows a lot more interest in Chuck that she used to at first. But she’s only his pretend-girlfriend, a cover for friends of family for some reason, and Chuck got to date someone else, someone real, someone we met last week, Jill.
Read the review of “Chuck: Chuck Versus The Fat Lady” »
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Shows: Chuck
In Series: Chuck Season 2
By fred | November 18, 2008
(S04E11) We’re getting close. Real close. Alright, so sure, it’s been quite a while now that we’ve been getting closer and closer to this mysterious “box” that they call Scylla, and we still have no clue of what it really is, and we’re still just close, maybe closer, not not quite there yet, but don’t worry this is going to change, I mean it will have to, at some point, it’s required by law.
What’s really getting scary, is Scylla. Not in itself, I’m sure in itself it’s just a big box that wouldn’t harm no one, but the big revelation of what it is, exactly, what the Hell is that highly secured thing that needs six cards - one of which the A-Team is still missing by the way - to be accessed. We’ve had all this build up about this mysterious Scylla the whole season, it probably started last season already in fact, and I’m worried that once we’ll find out what it is, it might be quite laughable.
Read the review of “Prison Break: Quiet Riot” »
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Shows: Prison Break
In Series: Prison Break Season 4
By fred | November 18, 2008
(S02E09) The Connors never really had an easy life, where everything was simple and they didn’t have to worry much or look behind them constantly. In fact, quite the opposite, with the future war they’re already fighting, the doom of being the only hope of Mankind and future leader of the resistance, resistance against killing robots, some of which have been sent back in time to kill you, nothing less.
It’s easy to see why they would get headaches already, but as this episode’s title indicated, that was nothing, because now things are getting complicated. Last week they finally managed to get ride of one of their main enemy at the time, Cromartie. They killed it, destroyed its chip, but the body was only buried for the time being.
Read the review of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Complications” »
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Shows: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
In Series: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2
By fred | November 18, 2008
(S02E11) With so many characters and so much going on in everyone’s lives, it’s not uncommon for a story to pop up one week only to be forgotten for a few weeks, if not disappear into the abysses never to come back again. This week it was Thanksgiving on the Upper East Side, and that allowed for many things to come to some kind of resolution. And of course, because you always need more drama, we also had lots of new doors opening to future complications.
If at first I liked Jenny when she tried to live her dream and make it on her own, if I was on her side when Rufus wasn’t willing to let her try, last week things changed as Jenny clearly took a wrong turn and went to the dark side. This wasn’t pretty, and it looked like it wasn’t going to be any prettier any time soon, as Jenny wanted to “divorce” her parents.
Read the review of “Gossip Girl: The Magnificent Archibalds” »
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Shows: Gossip Girl
In Series: Gossip Girl Season 2
By fred | November 18, 2008
(S04E08) Here’s the thing : this little show has been around for a few years now, and during that time we were lucky enough to enjoy so many stroke of brilliance with episodes filled with lots of creative plots and other unusual story-telling devices like flashbacks, flash-forwards and other, that I think in the end we might have gotten were much used to it.
Tuning in to How I Met Your Mother, we don’t expect to be watching just another sitcom, but something so different and unique - as well as hilarious - that when they “only” deliver a good episode — one that is good, and funny too, just not great, hilarious or so very unique as can be with the show — then we found ourselves a little disappointed.
Read the review of “How I Met Your Mother: Woooo!” »
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Shows: How I Met Your Mother
In Series: How I Met Your Mother Season 4
By fred | November 18, 2008
(S02E08) All along I’ve said how this show was owned by Sheldon, there’s no question that he’s the funniest of all character and makes the show week after week, which is probably why pretty much all episodes are Sheldon-centric, even when the main plot isn’t (supposed to be) about Sheldon directly. I guess there’s a risk that this show could turn into “The Wacky Sheldon Show” and focus more - if not only - on Sheldon’s eccentricity instead of coming up with more “creative” stories.
In the mean time, maybe that’s what people want ? The first season was mostly about Penny and her relationship with Leonard, but now that this is in the past, focusing on Sheldon (even better, his interactions with Penny, as illustrated brilliantly in their recent battle) is probably what people are looking for when tuning in to this show, and the side-kick characters that are Raj and Howard are probably best left in the unknown.
Read the review of “The Big Bang Theory: The Lizard-Spock Expansion” »
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Shows: The Big Bang Theory
In Series: The Big Bang Theory Season 2
By fred | November 17, 2008
(S05E11) We’re getting dangerously close to the end of this season, as next week will be the season finale of Entourage. This was not the last episode of the season, and yet it’s easy to see how it could have worked as a finale very well. In fact, and while I’m not sure what’s going to happen during the actual season finale, I almost wish this had been it.
Because it was a pretty cool episode, lots to enjoy, and the ending could have actually worked very nicely as a way to say goodbye to the boys for the time being. But when thinking about it, I’m really glad we have one more week to make things change and end the season in a different place, I just hope they’ll do it right. Because one thing that happened too many times this season, is to gave the impression that changes could be on the way, that things could be different, only to always resort back to the old ways of the show.
Read the review of “Entourage: Play’n With Fire” »
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Shows: Entourage
In Series: Entourage Season 5
By fred | November 17, 2008
(S07E06) I was disappointed by last week’s episode, which I thought failed to be really funny, especially once the Jackass parody was over. It might be taste, but as far as I’m concerned Family Guy is never as hilarious as when it doesn’t try to do anything else but what but does best : throw at us one joke after the other, regardless of whether or not it really makes sense, much less is part of an actual bigger story.
That’s what this episode did, and that’s really how I love the show. After last week’s faux-pas we’re back on track this week, with an episode as hilarious as this show can be, and it even had something that has become quite rare this season : Meg. Not that she’s a character I miss, she’s no Stewie or anything like that, but it’s always fun when she’s around and people make fun of her, or worse.
Read the review of “Family Guy: Tales Of A Third Grade Nothing” »
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Shows: Family Guy
In Series: Family Guy Season 7
