Posts with tag Season Finale
Posted Sep 24th 2008 12:05AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: NCIS, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S06E01) All summer long,
NCIS fans have been simmering about how the team was broken up in
the season finale. It was bad enough that Jenny had died and a new director -- well, actually, the acting director -- was named to take her place, but then his first action was to reassign DiNozzo, McGee and David and give Gibbs three new agents. As the ads for
NCIS reminded us, "breaking up is hard to do."
Well, I'm relieved to report that the team may not be together, but they're still intact. It's not as confusing as it seems and if you watched tonight's return, it was clear that the powers that be knew what they were doing with the storyline. Picking up 126 days since the break up, you got the sense that Jethro was nearly as vexed about the changes as Abby, even though he was refraining from putting pictures and postcards on the bulletin board.
For more about how all the pieces of the puzzle have come together so that those that are scattered can still be whole, read after the jump.
Continue reading NCIS: Last Man Standing (season premiere)
Posted Sep 17th 2008 12:05AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews, Episode Recaps
(S10E29) Which of the Renegades will win $500,000 on
Big Brother 10? It's always a toss-up whether the jury pf pre-evicted houseguests will vote on game play or on personal biases. And, as we've seen this season, there sure have been a heck of a lot of personal issues betwixt hamsters! As a person who must like the misery of others, I have to admit that I enjoyed the explosions within the house this season. I know. I'm a mean, cruel person. Mind you, I wouldn't want to be inside the house in the thick of it. But, hey ... I'm just the voyeur here.
Continue reading Big Brother 10: Season Finale
Posted Sep 15th 2008 8:08AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Our Monday morning roundup of a half dozen things TV Squad readers - and TV fans in general - will be talking about this week.
1. Emmy Awards. Fingers crossed that
'Til Death wins a special award. Oh please oh please oh please oh please. (Sunday at 7 on ABC - we'll have live blog coverage!)
2. House season premiere. I'm just guessing, but I bet there's some mystery illness and House figures it out. (Tuesday at 8 on FOX.)
3. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season premiere. I haven't seen this show but the new commercials actually make me want to check it out. (Thursday at 10 on FX.)
4. Burn Notice season finale. Doesn't it seem like the season just started? (Thursday at 10 on USA.)
5. Supernatural season premiere. Yes, Dean is alive and well (?). (Thursday at 9 on The CW.)
6. The Closer season finale. Actually, maybe that should say
The The Closer season finale. (Tonight at 9 on TNT.)
Posted Sep 13th 2008 10:06AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Monk, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S07E08) Monk should have wrapped the season with last week's episode, ending on a high point, because this show was in many ways a downer. The case, such as it was, was pretty flimsy. The clues were presented so early and rather ungracefully that unless you were really unfamiliar with the
Monk formula, it was a cinch to guess who was really the "guy."
The real novelty was Monk's getting in touch with his inner child. That and Tim Bagley returning as Harold Krenshaw. It's always fun when Monk's nemesis shows up, but this was a reborn Harold. Thanks to his new shrink, Dr. Kleinman, Harold wasn't interested in competing with Monk. He just wanted to embrace the wonders of life.
Continue reading Monk: Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized (season finale)
Posted Sep 6th 2008 11:01AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E13) The summer's officially over on
Swingtown, marked by Tom's Labor Day clambake at the shore, which turned out to also be a key party.
Now that the first season of the show has come to an end, it's clear that while they explored hot topics like open marriage, wife-swapping and group sex, the essence of the show was not titillation or a guide page by page through
The Joys of Sex. Swingtown was about the characters, three families and the changing times in 1976.
Questions, questions. Will Tom and Trina keep the baby? The Deckers are the open marriage couple and they've enjoyed the freedom to swing. But how amazing is it that they are the marriage that's in synch! They actually talk things out and share what they're thinking. You can't say that about the Thompsons and Millers.
Continue reading Swingtown: Take it to the Limit (season finale)
Posted Sep 2nd 2008 4:20PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Industry, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
This Friday CBS will air the last episode of
Swingtown, but the question of the future for the show still remains unanswered. Is this the series finale or just the season finale? Fans are concerned and I've been contacted by one who has started a petition online to present to CBS, beseeching the network to give
Swingtown a second season. If you want to sign up, click
here.
I've been reviewing
Swingtown since it premiered earlier this summer and I've liked the show. In fact, it's grown on me and if I were in a position to make the call, I'd give
Swingtown an order for 13 more episodes. Yes, the series has not been a ratings hit, I'll give you that. However, it has created a lot of buzz and media coverage.
Continue reading Fans unite to save Swingtown
Posted Aug 30th 2008 11:26AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E12) "Do you think we closed Pandora's box?" -- Tom to Trina, after Janet's birthday party
You knew this was going to be an episode fraught with revelations when the strains of Carly Simon singing "No Secrets" played over the opening scene. Perfect song to comment on the surprises to come, as
Swingtown climbs toward the big season one climax next week.
The show is getting tantalizing terrific. It's not that I'm enamored with all the characters, but they've all become interesting to me. Even Ricky's struggle to come to terms with his best friend falling in love with the girl next door and leaving behind their buddy-buddy relationship, was surprisingly meaningful to me. The scene where Janet advised Ricky to show B.J. how important his friendship was to him was wonderful. His hugging Mom like that was so true; Janet is a tough mother, but she's the embodiment of love and support and Ricky needed his mommy in that moment.
Continue reading Swingtown: Surprise
Posted Aug 18th 2008 1:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, In Plain Sight
(S01E12) It feels to me that a big chunk of the first season of
In Plain Sight was Brandi's great adventure, and tonight's show was the big finish. In a twist that was both surprising and satisfying, the loose ends were tied up and the air was cleared for the show to return for more chapters in the Shannon family saga. And all that other stuff that Mary's been doing with the Witness Protection Program, too.
After nearly eleven hours (give or take) of Mary's frustration with her mother and sister, it all came to a head. Directed by John Badham (
Saturday Night Fever), this was an episode heavy on the drama, and he did a great job balancing the FBI investigation, Marshall and Stan's efforts to save Mary's career, and the family dynamics. From the first scene between the Shannons, there was no question that this was not going to be a warm and fuzzy examination of their feelings. Mary dropped the hammer when she told Jinx and Brandi how much trouble they were in.
Continue reading In Plain Sight: A Fine Meth (season finale)
Posted Aug 5th 2008 8:38AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
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S01E08) Like so many of the episodes this season, this one felt too short. The show is good but when it feels too short, it often feels underdeveloped too. Despite the lack of development in places, Belle did get some closure. And I think it's pretty obvious that closure in a season finale is important. I, for one, was glad to see her satisfied with her situation at the end.
Tonight Belle tried her hand at being a courtesan. Wow, semantics makes all the difference, huh? There's your street-walking hookers, your pimped out prostitutes, high class escorts, and your professional courtesans. As she explained how courtesans were different than even highly paid call girls like herself, I thought of one of her very first asides on
Secret Diary of a Call Girl. In the season premiere Belle told us that it didn't matter which way you slice it or what you call it, she gets paid to have sex.
Continue reading Secret Diary of a Call Girl: Episode 1-08 (season finale)
Posted Jul 7th 2008 1:20PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Desperate Housewives, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
As if it wasn't obvious from the last moments of the
Desperate Housewives season finale... You may remember Susan kissing another man during the show's highly anticipated
flash forward. And
James Denton told People that Mike and Susan are definitely split up. However, we're not losing James Denton from ABC's hit show altogether. "I'm not sure exactly in what capacity. Marc Cherry is being a little cagey. It's going to be interesting to see what happens. But I will certainly be on the show. It's a relief to me, trust me," the 45-year-old actor told
People. What's with that last bit about the new storyline being a "relief"?
Continue reading Housewives: Mike and Susan are definitely split
Posted Jun 20th 2008 2:40PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: House, WGA Strike, Reality-Free
Even as fear grips the business that there'll be
another strike that will lead to a work stoppage, there are some who can look back on the Writer's Strike and actually find a silver lining in that dark cloud. At a recent at the ArcLight Cinemas, sponsored by the L.A. Times, the folks who bring us
House, including creator David Shore and director Katie Jacobs, revealed that the strike actually was beneficial for them in a strange way.
Since Fox had the Super Bowl last season,
House had been given the plum spot following the game. That always means a huge audience will be watching, and even a show as successful as
House wouldn't mind a boost in the ratings.
Continue reading How the strike helped House
Posted Jun 16th 2008 9:21AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Interviews, Reality-Free
(Warning! If you haven't watched the latest episode of BSG yet, thar be spoilers ahead!)After
last Friday's episode, a lot of us had questions about what we saw. Was that Earth? Are humans and cylons really bonded together, after all this time? Who is the final cylon? I finally took the time to throw a slew of questions toward writer and co-executive producer
Jane Espenson about this episode, and she had a few things to say (though nothing quite as revealing as I had hoped).
Rather than get into what I had to say, I'll let her letter back to me speak on its own. As you'll quickly see, she's not a woman of few words when it comes to this show. I'm hoping she'll have just as much to spill when I ask her questions for our
Buffy Retro Squad week next week.
Continue reading Jane Espenson on Battlestar Galactica's mid-season finale
Posted Jun 11th 2008 9:25AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, NCIS, Casting, Reality-Free
You know how ticked you were at the end of the
NCIS season finale when acting director Leon Vance became the permanent replacement for the recently deceased director, Jenny Shepard? Well, prepare to be ticked off once again. The actor cast as Vance, TV veteran
Rocky Carroll, has been named an NCIS regular. That means if you were hoping that in the season premiere Vance was going to be kicked to the curb and Jethro put in charge, forget it.
Continue reading NCIS makes Rocky Carroll a series regular
Posted Jun 1st 2008 10:33PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(
S02E10) I'm just going to come out and say it. I really enjoyed the season finale of
The Tudors. The wife-number-two storyline is all wrapped up. And now
next season we'll move on to wife-number-three, Jane Seymour. I think I'm even more excited for next season because I know next to nothing about Henry's wives post Boleyn drama. I know many of you history buffs will disagree, saying that you'd rather they keep to the facts because Tudor history alone is interesting enough. I feel, at this point, I'd rather just watch the story --which is basically a primetime melodrama with corsets and crowns and public executions. So, I'm not as worried about accuracy. And by the way, public executions on
Melrose Place would have been awesome.
But, enough about what's to be, let's talk about what happened tonight. My review of the season finale is after the jump.
Continue reading The Tudors: Episode 2-10 (season finale)
Posted May 30th 2008 11:22AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Lost, Video, Reality-Free
OK, let's get this out of the way: if you haven't seen the
season finale of Lost yet, stop reading this immediately. Not only will you be spoiled, but you'll be confused as hell. Get it? Got it? Good. Fun starts after the jump.
Continue reading Lost alternate endings air on GMA - VIDEO
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