A hostage situation threatens to reveal the secret of Alcatraz
This week's criminal for "Alcatraz" is Cal Sweeney (Eric Johnson), a bank robber of the 1950s. He would seduce tellers to gain access to a bank's safety deposit boxes and rob them. If nothing goes wrong, no one gets hurt. But unfortunately something goes wrong. Madsen (Sarah Jones) and Diego (Jor ...
Read MoreThe ending to the series that 'Chuck' really deserves
This episode of "Chuck," the series finale, takes place two weeks after "Chuck vs. Sarah." Quinn (Angus Macfadyen) is on a plane, looking to buy a key (well actually, three pieces that make up a key) that will fix the Intersect and allow it to be reprogrammed. Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) has snuck ...
Read MoreInvisibility cloaks and miniture robots with lasers!
After her encounter with Quinn (Angus Macfadyen) at the end of the previous week’s episode of "Chuck," Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) is reset back to her original super-spy state. Quinn has convinced her that she is a CIA spy, he is her handler, that Chuck (Zachary Levi) has killed her old team, a ...
Read MoreThe team searches for a girl who draws people's deaths before they happen
After two weeks of focusing on the series arc, we are back to a case of the week story on "Fringe." We can expect them to spoon feed us the story arc for most of the season now. Our A-story revolves around Emily Mallum (Alexis Raich), who has the ability to see a person's death. She draws the dea ...
Read MoreEmma attempts to expose Regina's dastardly ways
Emma (Jennifer Morrison) and Regina (Lana Parrilla) are butting heads over Henry again this week, as Regina demolishes Henry’s play castle. An angry, unemployed, disillusioned Sydney Glass (Giancarlo Esposito) offers to help Emma by exposing something big about the mayor. He happens to know ab ...
Read MoreThe search for a child killer holds special meaning for Diego
It's the third episode of "Alcatraz" and the pattern is already set. But I guess there's not much they can do with a series that revolves around catching bad guys from the past. But then again, they really don't seem like they are from the past. I have to say that I wasn't terribly interested ...
Read MoreA long dead foe returns as an ally's true colors are revealed
Alternate Broyles (Lance Reddick) plans to kill our Lincoln Lee (Seth Gabel), until Walternate (John Noble) shows up and orders him freed. Too bad for Broyles. Fauxlivia (Anna Torv) and her Lee close in on the location of the call from last week's episode, and find David Robert Jones (Jared H ...
Read MoreThis week's episode focuses once again on the series' big love triangle in both universes
"Once Upon a Time" returns its attention to Storybrooke's oft-thwarted star-crossed lovers, David and Mary Margaret. We also learn how Snow White became friends with a certain group of famous dwarves. In two universes, Snow White is pining away for Prince Charming. Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin ...
Read MoreFake death and big bad guys lead to an exciting finish
"Chuck Versus the Bullet Train" picks up where last week’s episode left off. Quinn (Angus Macfadyen) has captured Chuck (Zachary Levi) and asks him to fix the Intersect, which is "en route to his base." Quinn also informs Chuck that Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) and Casey (Adam Baldwin) are dead. ...
Read MoreFox brings us the latest attempt to recapture the magic of 'Lost'
“On March 21, 1963 Alcatraz was officially closed due to rising costs and decrepit facilities. All the prisoners were transferred off the island. Only that's not what happened.” Fox brings us a new series from producer J. J. Abrams, which is trying to be the new “Lost.” It uses flashbacks ...
Read MoreFringe returns and brings us to the other side for answers
Keep in mind that this should have been the mid-season finale, until baseball threw off the schedule. It’s an episode filled with reveals and action that should have kept you on the edge of your seat for weeks. Fortunately you only have to wait one. This week we begin with Peter (Joshua Jac ...
Read MoreThe tale of Hansel and Gretel gets a twist, and Emma's past comes up
Themes about family continue to fill out ABC's "Once Upon a Time." Like last week's Rumpelstiltskin tale, this week's episode centers on a father and his family. In the fairytale realm, Hansel and Gretel's happy family life is disrupted when their father (Nicholas Lea) mysteriously vanishes in t ...
Read MoreABC's fairytale series returns, wisely focusing on the intriguing Rumpelstiltskin
As "Once Upon a Time" returns from its nearly month-long hiatus, it focuses on one of its best characters and a sudden death in Storybrook. In the modern world, it's been two weeks since Sherriff Graham had his heart broken -- literally -- and was killed by the Mayor/Evil Queen. And when Regina ...
Read MoreCould the 'Battlestar Galactica' reunion actually pulled it off?
I'm not sure how legal it is, but the Sony Television pilot of "17th Precinct" leaked online this week. From "Battlestar Galactica's" Ronald D. Moore, NBC had a chance to pick up a police procedural in a world that was very different from ours. Where magic is the norm and science is a fringe myt ...
Read MoreMiniseries debuts Dec. 4 on the cable channel
I'm not particularly a fan of the whole Peter Pan story, so I didn't really make it a priority to watch a preview of the upcoming Syfy miniseries "Neverland." Sure, the same people who brought us an excellent retelling of "The Wizard of Oz" as well as a so-so exploration into "Alice in Wonderlan ...
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