There has been talk about the new and improved "Knight Rider," and since I like to at least try to be a fair person when dealing with television shows, I respect when a failing show recognizes its problems (and when I say that, I mean NBC and not showrunner Gary Scott Thompson, who has stated the se ...
Read MoreMaybe more than 60 days between new episodes is just a long time for a new series. Maybe coming on after "Lost" wasn't as good an idea as it seemed when first proposed. Or maybe "Life On Mars" simply isn't getting the attention it deserves. When I read through the audience numbers for the latest epi ...
Read MoreI feared that a long layoff would do some damage to this series, which had finally hit its stride before the two month hiatus. My fears were unfounded -- ?Life on Mars? returned with a solid episode and a couple new complications. This was, by far, the lightest episode of the season. In fact, I?d sa ...
Read MoreThis may be one of the toughest episodes I?ll ever have to review. While I enjoy the complexity of ?Lost? and am a huge time travel fan, this episode left me somewhat curious, mostly entertained, and quite honestly, very confused. The time shifting has left the remaining islanders stranded in the 19 ...
Read MoreI love "Star Trek." I like Star Wars, "Battlestar Galactica" and all the Stargate shows. But I love "Star Trek." Of course, this wasn?t always the case. My first exposure to ?Star Trek? took place while the show was airing on NBC in the late 1960s, and my twin brother, Wayne, and I were growing up i ...
Read MoreWith the country's first African-American president taking office last week, it's easy for most Americans to start getting the idea that racism is dead in this country. But though our nation is finally ready to let a black man run the country, America still has a hard time with the idea of ethnic he ...
Read More"Battlestar Galactica" is a character driven show. And to that end, the characters ? all of the characters ? take precedent over any individual storyline. These two are not mutually exclusive however, and in most cases manage to complement each other in the telling of a very different tale. Gone are ...
Read MoreI always wondered how some people could sit back and just make bad movies and bad television series all the time. Do they do it on purpose? Do they just think there is an audience for everything, including things that most people would look for the nearest vomit bag while viewing? Or do they really ...
Read MoreAfter a brain-bending opening hour to kick off its fifth season, ?Lost? gave us ?The Lie,? which paled in comparison to opening hour. Still, this was a good episode, with some intriguing developments of its own. Where to start? Well, Hurley drags an unconscious Sayid back home, somehow evading the p ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the "Bound" episode of the Fox series, "Fringe." "Fringe? returns on good footing as the second half of the season opens following the capture of Agent Olivia Dunham. She is held by rogue FBI Agent Mitchell Loeb (Chance Kelly) and several henchman in a makes ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "Because You Left,? the season premiere from the fifth season of ABC?s ?Lost." ?Lost? returned for its fifth season with a solid pair of episodes. The first, ?Because You Left,? far outshined the second episode of the night, ?The Lie,? but overall, the retur ...
Read MoreThis review contains MODERATE SPOILERS for ?Bulletproof,? the twelfth episode from ?Smallville?s? eighth season. It may be intended as follow-up to the outlandish and mythos-filled "Legion," but the ambitious (and aptly named) "Bulletproof" doesn't quite meet the comic-book quota. Succeeding in its ...
Read MoreThis week we conclude my look at the genre series that premiered on network television this fall. Last, and probably least, is NBC. NBC NBC brought us four genre-related series this fall, two returning and two new. The first of which is ?Chuck.? One of the few successes of the current season, "Chuck ...
Read MoreNow that the fifth season of "Stargate: Atlantis" has come to an end, the future of that particular show lies in DVDs. This continues the trend begun by the program?s predecessor, "Stargate SG-1." After sales for two "SG-1" films stunned MGM by how much they could take in, I guess it was no surprise ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the ?The No-Brainer? episode of the Fox series, ?Fringe.? A killer unleashes a deadly video download, proving fringe science also operates beyond the shadowy players orchestrating the ?pattern.? ?The No-Brainer? is another standalone episode. Recent ?pattern ...
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