Bucking the trend of opening each ‘Walking Dead’ episode directly where the last one left off, ’18 Miles Out’ pulls a fast one by launching us right into the middle of an undead nightmare as Shane fends off famished Walkers from inside a school bus, Rick runs from a few more, and their new tied-up friend slinks along on the ground trying desperately to reach an abandoned knife.
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The bald-headed, fedora-wearing Observers have been one of the longstanding unresolved mysteries on ‘Fringe’. We know little bits and pieces about them (they exist outside of linear time, and appear during significant events in human history), but who are they, really? The promo ads for Friday’s episode promised answers to this question. Did it deliver, or was this just a big tease?
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Prepping for last night’s Oscar Live-Blog took up far too much of my time last week. Consequently, I once again let myself fall behind in TV viewing and recapping. That’s a problem, because my DVR is about to overload and start deleting the oldest programs unless I burn through some of these shows. In anticipation of tonight’s new episode, let’s take a quick look at last week’s ‘Alcatraz’, which gave us a storyline about a crazed poisoner.
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I don’t typically pay much attention to TV ratings. That’s something for network execs to stress about, not me. However, when shows that I like are on the so-called “bubble” for renewal, it’s worth checking in every once in a while to see how well or badly they’re doing. Unfortunately, ‘Fringe’ is doing very badly this season, even compared to last season, which wasn’t so hot to begin with. The situation looks pretty dire. Although Fox will let the show play out to the end of this current season, another renewal after that seems unlikely. Of course, I said that last year too, so who can predict what will really happen? In the meantime, Friday brought a new episode that both gave us a case-of-the-week and moved the ongoing storyline forward.
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This week’s episode of ‘The Walking Dead’ begins where we left off, but you wouldn’t be able to tell by the daylight. The last episode ended with Rick dispatching two real live humans with copious amounts of light streaming in through the bar windows, but at the start of this episode, right after the gunfire, darkness has descended on the town in mere seconds. Darkness comes fast in Zombieland, I guess.
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HBO premiered the new comedy series ‘Life’s Too Short’ on Sunday. The show was created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and stars famous little person Warwick Davis. Is this the next ‘The Office’ or ‘Extras’, or does the premiere episode come up a little… umm… short?
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Mad bomber plots are a staple of many crime shows. But a time-traveling serial landmine bomber… ? Well, that’s the kind of twist that ‘Alcatraz’ puts on the old formula.
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Now that ‘The Walking Dead’ is back on the air, we have one more group of characters to cover in our Character Guide for the show. As we watch new episodes, let’s make some guesses as to who will be the first (and second, and third, etc.) person to become zombie chow.
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‘The River’ has already settled into its formula, which is more or less ‘X-Files: The Jungle’, and I’ve found the good will I felt for the show’s premiere already waning.
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On Friday, Amy Acker from ‘Angel’, ‘Alias’, ‘Dollhouse’ and a dozen other popular nerdy TV properties made a special guest appearance on ‘Grimm’. Could Summer Glau be far behind? She usually shows up in series like this around this far into their runs.
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