NBC gets the new season underway with the Wednesday premieres of Up All Night [10/9C, then moving to its regular timeslot of 8/7C next week] and Free Agents [premiering at 10:30/9:30C and moving to its regular timeslot of 8:30/&:30C next week]. As things stand, the retooled Up All Night has a lot of potential, but […]
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Wilfred Wraps Up First Season With Dramatic Flourish!
This evening, Wilfred [FX, 10/9C] – about a suicidal ex-lawyer who sees the girl next door’s dog as a large Australian man in a cheesy dog suit – wraps up its first season with unexpected drama.
Paranormal Witness: Low-Budget B-Movie Creepy – Only Real!
Tonight, Syfy premieres a paranormal series – Paranormal Witness [Wednesdays, 10/9C] – that is apparently based completely on eyewitness testimony. Real or not, the series premiere is pretty creepy.
Summer Glau’s Tinker Has a Profound Effect on The Alphas Team!
On tonight’s Alphas [Syfy, 10/9C], Summer Glau guest-stars as the tinker to end all tinkers – and Dr. Rosen and his team must make some profound choices!
Haven Gets a Creepy Groundhog Day Episode!
It’s strange – even the worst television series seem to be more entertaining when they do a Groundhog Day episode. Which makes it inevitable that a good and continually improving series like Syfy’s Haven [Fridays, 10/9C] would produce a really good one.
Warehouse 13 Goes High Fantasy Inside a Video Game!
Warehouse 13 [Syfy, Mondays, 9/8C] uses a loose format – agents must track down and neutralize a variety of dangerous artifacts – to go places that most television series would avoid at all costs. This week’s episode, for example, is a high fantasy parody of video games, their programmers, and the show itself.
White Collar: Choose a Side, Neal!
My initial thought, on screening the summer finale of White Collar [USA Network, Tuesdays 9/8C] was this: from the moment Mozzie let him know he’d stolen the Nazi treasure [from the season two finale] Neal Caffrey has to have known this moment was coming.
ThunderCats HO! The Cult Favorite Returns With a Dramatic One-Hour Premiere!
It’s been twenty-five years since an original episode of a ThunderCats animated series aired. Now they’re back, with an epic reimagining on The Cartoon Network. The new ThunderCats [Fridays, 8/7C] fuses a coming of age story with an epic quest.
Covert Affairs Revelation – How Auggie Was Blinded!
Practically since the series debuted, Covert Affairs’ [USA, 10/9C] blind tech wizard, Auggie Anderson, has fascinated the show’s fans. As has been mentioned in past episodes, Auggie wasn’t born blind; he was a soldier who was blinded on a mission in Tikrit, Iraq. This week’s episode, Half A World Away, tells that story.
Breaking Bad: The Journey from Mr. Chips to Scarface Continues!
Breaking Bad [AMC, Sundays, 10/9C] is one of the strangest, darkest TV series ever made. It tracks the descent of a decent man into a hardened criminal – exactly the opposite of a feel good dramedy. Yet, it is absolutely one of the best shows on TV. Tonight’s fourth season premiere is proof that is […]
Haven Gets Even Stranger In Season Two Premiere!
After a myriad of hints/clues/events from Haven’s [Syfy, Fridays, 10/9C] series premiere, Welcome to Haven, culminated in the events of the season one finale, Spiral, it’s easy to believe series creators Jim Dunn and Sam Ernst when they claim to have seven seasons worth of mythology thought out for the series. The second season premiere, […]