Good Ole Fashion Television Review: Terra Nova 1.2
The second episode of Fox's new series Terra Nova aired tonight. While tonight's episode wasn't as exciting as last week, it still had plenty of action to hold your attention. The excitement focused more on the characters and the drama between them than hostility inside Terra Nova, but that hostility was certainly not absent. It turns out that Terra Nova →
TV Without Commercials Review: Boardwalk Empire 2.2
Hard times have gotten harder for Nucky Thompson in this weeks episode of Boardwalk Empire. While the wheels are still spinning for the Commodore's plan of reclaiming the city for himself, Nucky is now aware of not only the plan, but who is perpetrating it. This episode showed us a few new characters, but mostly brought back one from the first season →
TV Reviews: Parks & Rec 4.2 and Modern Family 3.3 @cinemablend
Hey guys, here are links to my TV writings @cinemablend. Weeks One and Two of Parks & Rec and the latest episode of Modern Family. Enjoy! This weeks episodes were lesser fare for both series, with Modern Family really digging for the bottom of the shows barrel. Parks & Rec brought some laughs but not a whole lot of substance. Oh →
TV Ramblings – The Secret Circle “Loner” @cinemablend
Week three of The Secret Circle continues to have issues with filling in the body of the episode with elements that are just as important to the story as the events that end the episode, as week two's episode also struggled with. Last week the entire time was spent towards getting the characters to perform the ritual to bind the →
TV Review: New Girl – 102
New Girl's second episode is as solid as the first and makes some needed adjustments from the premiere. First off, the transition of losing Damon Wayans Jr.'s Coach is handled smoothly and somewhat logically with their old friend, Winston, moving in to replace him. It makes Jess no longer the "new" girl though, a funny complication that the show brushes off →
ESPN Films Review: Catching Hell
The story of Steve Bartman is well known among anyone who is a fan of baseball. This incident only proved once again to fans of the Chicago Cubs that they are in fact cursed. Alex Gibney's documentary "Catching Hell" was shown as part of ESPN's film series. The ESPN documentary's are always fascinating and this one was no different. This →
Good Ole Fashion Television: Tera Nova – Pilot
Last night was the series premiere of Fox's brand new original series, Terra Nova. Whenever Fox releases a new television series people, myself included, are often skeptical because they seem to have a strange habit of cancelling shows that have incredible potential (Arrested Development, Undeclared, The Tick, the list seriously just keeps going) and giving seasons to shows that are →
TV Without Commercials: Boardwalk Empire – 201
Last night was the season premiere of the second season of Boardwalk Empire. With big names like Martin Scorsese and Mark Wahlberg attached to the executive producer roles the show immediately had high expectations. The first season most certainly lived up to those expectations and series premiere last night was far from disappointment. The season picks up a fairly significant amount of →
TV Ramblings – The Secret Circle “Bound” @cinemablend
As Zac filled you in yesterday, we are spreading throughout the internet like a disease, sharing our words of epicness with cinemablend.com now in the form of show recaps (I claim no responsibility towards how I am writing right now; I went to bed at 6:30 AM. Should make my Moneyball review fun!). If you can forgive us for not →
TV Ramblings – The Secret Circle “Pilot”
With Smallville finally bowing out after 10 seasons and my lack of enthusiasm for The Ringer, The CW actually became a channel with fewer shows adding to my viewing pleasure than CBS. Gasp! But now they are back fighting head to head with 2v2 thanks to the series premiere of The Secret Circle, a show that has found my weak →
TV Review: Modern Family 3.1 & 3.2: Dude Ranch & When Good Kids Go Bad @cineamblend
Hello all, Modern Family is back and I have written up a review of the two episodes that were a part of the premiere. The catch is that you will have to head over to Cinema Blend to check them out. I will be reviewing Modern Family and Parks & Recreation for them every week this season. so be sure to support them too →
TV Review: New Girl 1.1: Pilot
New Girl was my most anticipated new comedy of the fall for one primary reason, Zooey Deschanel, and thankfully it seems to be worth the anticipation. The premise is a bit contrived. A girl, Jess, gets dumped and decides to move in with three random guys she meets on Craigslist and the first episode has her trying to get over her →
TV Review: The Walking Dead: 1.5: Wildfire & 1.6: TS-19
The first season has ended for the Walking Dead and while I enjoyed it I hope that the second season allows them to flesh things out and learn from the mistakes. I won’t bother recapping blow for blow two episodes here, but to be quite honest, not a lot happened in the last two episodes. The group gathered themselves, buried the →
TV Review: The Walking Dead 1.4: Vatos
Vatos, The Walking Dead’s fourth episode, sees the return of zombie action and a large chunk of the cast won’t be back for week 5. The Atlanta plot line didn’t really move that much forward this week other than the discovery of a new batch of survivors in a nursing home being protected by a batch of Latino gang-bangers. The story →
TV Review: The Walking Dead 1.3 Tell It To The Frogs
The third entry into the series is the least zombie filled episode yet, and while that was a tad disappointing, focusing on the humans was almost just as engaging and compelling as the rest of the series. Thankfully we find out, and maybe this was expressed last week and I just missed it, that the fact that all of these people →
TV Review: The Walking Dead 1.2: Guts
“Guts” is the second episode in this first season of The Walking Dead and the intensity and creativity of the series is still in full swing. Again the episode primarily focuses on Rick and his adventures in Atlanta and how the hell he gets out of that tank we left him in. Surprisingly the solution wasn’t that creative, he runs, and →
TV Review: The Walking Dead 1.1: Days Gone Bye
The Walking Dead premiered this Halloween on AMC and is another great step forward for the network and TV in general. The pilot introduces us to the tip of the iceberg of this world and oh what a world it may be. Having never read the graphic novel series I might be inclined to pick it up after this brief introduction →
TV Review: Mad Men 4.13: Tomorrowland
What. Just. Happened? A year, a whole fucking year. That is how long we have to wait before we get any sort of answers to the complete 180 we were thrown tonight; as well as any of the many questions left unanswered in this season’s finale. I don’t even remotely know how I feel about this episode as I am still trying →
TV Review: Mad Men 4.12: Blowing Smoke
Ted Chaough must suffer! That is my most wishful goal of the season finale this coming Sunday after he ruined one of the best moments of the season, Don’s brilliant “Why I’m Quitting Tobacco" ad and the moments that followed. “Blowing Smoke” was a big pick me up before the finale after a solid, but not superb, stretch of episodes we →
TV Review: Mad Men 4.11: Chinese Wall
I am not going to lie, after one viewing of this week’s episode of Mad Men, Chinese Wall; I can’t help but think that this was one of my least favorite episodes of the show yet. What’s great about Mad Men though is that the episode was still a solid hour of television even if it was less than. The show →
TV Review: Mad Men 4.10: Hands and Knees
Well crap, just when things started to look up a bit for a good portion of the family of SCDP, things go flying and hit the fan. Don is freaking out, I mean panic attack level freak outs, and that is because he is being background checked by the government due to SCDP’s involvement with North American Aviation. Don thinks his →
TV Review: Mad Men 4.9: The Beautiful Girls
Focusing on the women in Mad Men’s life is a common occurrence for the show but I don’t know if it has ever been as exclusively displayed as this. Outside his interactions with Sally and Faye, Don doesn’t really have a story here and surprisingly it didn’t really hurt the episode. Peggy’s lesbian friend sets her up with Peggy’s closet kiss →
TV Review: Mad Men 4.8: The Summer Man
So I have been hustling and bustling back and forth half way across the country these last 10 days and have neglected reviewing the last two weeks of Mad Men. Well I am here today to right that wrong in a couple of brief recaps and some bullets about the missed episodes on the site. Hope you enjoy and I →
For Your Renting Pleasure
This week we've got one good and a whole bunch of bad (at least in my opinion), with Dorian Gray, The Joneses, The Killers, and Lie to Me: Season 1. Rent: Lie to Me: Season One Now he may be no House, but Cal Lightman is another great character on TV that is easy to love for the reasons the people in →
