Before this Sunday’s episode of the extremely cool caper series Leverage [TNT, 9/8C], series stars Aldis Hodge [hacker Hardison] and Beth Riesgraf [thief Parker] will be taking part in a live video chat with fans. For a half-hour prior to the ep, ‘The Van Gogh Job,’ Hodge and Riesgraf will answer questions submitted by fans […]
Category: TV Reviews
Alphas – Blue Collar Superheroes for a Salary and a Great Dental Plan!
Syfy’s new original series, Alphas [Mondays, 10/9C], is a unique take on people with extraordinary powers. It may remind of things we have seen before, but it manages to take familiar ideas into fresh territory. They might seem like superheroes on paper, but the reality is far more interesting.
Eureka and Warehouse 13 Return With Killer Summer Premieres!
Eureka [Syfy, Mondays, 8/7C] and Warehouse 13 [Syfy, Mondays, 9/8C] have built up a core of devoted fans because they combine humor and drama with unique, and entertaining, premises. Their return, this evening, is fraught with the kind of unusual perils –and twisted senses of humor – that keep them unpredictable fun.
TNT’s Cop Shows Make Mondays Mystery Night!
TNT’s Cop Shows Make Mondays Mystery Night! If you’re tired of reruns and reality TV, and don’t much get science fiction and fantasy, then TNT’s Monday night cop shows – The Closer [9/8C] and Rizzoli & Isles [10/9C] – are a solidly entertaining alternative.
Necessary Roughness – Psychotherapist Hits The Big Time As Her Life Falls Apart!
Necessary Roughness [Wednesdays, 10/9C] is the newest series to premiere on USA Network – and yet another one that raises stakes beyond the expected for the so-called blue sky network.
Royal Pains: Stuck in Traffic?
Season three of Royal Pains [USA, Wednesdays, 9/8C] returns, this week, with an episode called Traffic – appropriate not just for a traffic accident and a diagnosis that involves a woman who was stuck in traffic for five hours, but also for the ongoing events in the lives of the show’s main characters.
Leverage: A Caper on the Heights!
TNT’s terrific bad-guys-turned-good series, Leverage [Sundays, 9/8], returns this weekend with a challenge unlike any they’ve ever had before – to pull off a caper on mountain, in a blizzard!
Burn Notice: Back to Normal – Whatever the Hell That Is!
Burn Notice [USA, Thursdays, 9/8C] returns for its fifth season with a big change – Michael Westen is no longer a burnt agent. He is, once again, working for The Company – albeit as an asset rather than an agent – and looking to capture the last remaining person behind his frame-up.
FX Thursdays: Comedies Wilfred and Louie Kill!
FX has put together an hour of unstoppable comedy for Thursday nights in Wilfred [10/9C] and Louie [10:30/9:30C]. Wilfred revolves around a suicidal lost soul who sees his neighbor’s dog as a tall Australian man in a cheap dog suit, while Louie continues the ongoing saga of a divorced, middle-aged stand-up comic who has to […]
Combat Hospital: Welcome to Kandahar!
ABC’s new war zone medical drama, Combat Hospital [Tuesdays, 10/9C] wants to be a dramatic version of M*A*S*H, but leans in equal proportion towards Grey’s Anatomy. It’s an uneasy mix that captures the chaos of war and the difficulties of medical work in such a context, but tries a little too hard to meld that […]
Falling Skies: The Other Spielberg Series Is Superb!
While Terra Nova has gotten huge press – partly because of the scrubbing of its early premiere and partly because of a pretty spiffy trailer – Steven Spielberg’s other series, Falling Skies [TNT, Sundays, 9/8C] is coming off without a hitch, this weekend. And it’s really, really good!