“Captain Kirk is the man,” declares Harvey on ‘Suits’ when it’s revealed that this snappy dresser and eminent ladies’ man is a closet Trekkie. He even calls his girlfriend “Scotty.” As Spock would say… “Fascinating.”
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Well, it’s finally happened. The vaunted Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – long accused of rewarding mediocrity – has officially given up any pretense of being a standard of quality in the film community. The Academy has hired douchebag hack director Brett Ratner, a man who normally wouldn’t be allowed within a mile of the Oscars ceremony, to produce next year’s telecast. What the hell is happening out there in Hollywood these days?
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After last week’s shockingly intense episode, I have to admit that I expected ‘Alphas’ to ease off this week and give us something lighter, perhaps a routine case-of-the-week with fairly low stakes for the characters. In other words, filler. It’s not unreasonable for a modestly-budgeted genre show on a network like Syfy to pull back and save up its energy for the handful of important episodes sprinkled throughout the season. But that’s not at all what happened. Instead, we have another slam-bang suspense piece – one that also kicks the show’s mythology story arc into high gear. For a cable series only four episodes in, ‘Alphas’ is off to an incredible start.
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Perhaps the most disappointing thing about this season of ‘True Blood’ is that, especially in episodes like this week’s, reviewing a new episode isn’t really a matter of liking or disliking it. The episode conjures no strong feelings one way or the other. It’s just a stream of exposition necessary to get through all the important plot-points that the writers want to hit – and sadly nothing more.
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In last week’s episode of ‘Burn Notice, called ‘Enemy of My Enemy’, Michael and the gang search for the Michael Westen lookalike who purchased that cell phone at the mini-mart. However, the CIA has even bigger plans for them.
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Oh, Larry David, how many lives can you ruin in one week? That’s right – a lot. The eighth season of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ is fully in swing.
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After a couple of weeks that made a point of referencing Stephen King’s ‘IT’, this past Friday’s episode of ‘Haven’ shifted gears to channel ‘Maximum Overdrive’ instead. Didja get that? “Shifted gears…” Ain’t I a clever one?
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In last week’s episode of ‘Suits’, Harvey and Mike very nearly forced an innocent woman to plead to a prison sentence for a crime she didn’t commit in order to protect their corporate client. In the real world, this sort of thing happens all the time, and the lawyers don’t think twice about it. But this is television, and we wouldn’t be able to root for a character who doesn’t have a conscience, would we?
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The Bill Bixby TV version of ‘The Incredible Hulk’ used to say, “You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.” Well, this week’s episode of ‘Alphas’ has a whole lot of angry people in it, yet I liked it a lot. If every episode of the show can be this good, we’re really onto something here.
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‘True Blood’ is so frustrating this season, isn’t it? The show is capable of so much entertainment value, yet it feels like the writers are squandering all its potential in a series of increasingly-dull storylines. With this week’s episode, I’m even starting to get bored with Eric’s story. Things need to turn around on this show really fast.
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