The Sting-related stories
Posted Jul 24th 2009 10:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Burn Notice

(S03E07) Burn Notice usually stays on the fun side of spying. This episode was all about getting back to doing a Robin Hood job, and since it tapped into Michael's psychology so perfectly, it added a good dollop of emotion to the fun.
And there was also that preview from last week that left fans gasping. Was one of the gang of three going down? Fortunately, in the world of spoilers and such, if that were true it would have been all over the net. Fortunately, it was all part of the con. More on that after the jump.
Continue reading Burn Notice: Shot in the Dark
Posted Dec 10th 2008 6:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Ratings, Reality-Free, The Mentalist

In sports parlance, every now and then a rookie sensation comes along and is an instant success. Like Robert Redford in
The Natural, only it's fact and not fiction. In TV parlance, Simon Baker -- who kind of looks like younger Redford (think
The Sting and
The Way We Were) -- has pulled off a rookie success that makes him look like pure gold.
The latest weekly Nielsen ratings are in and
The Mentalist is number one, just slightly ahead of
NCIS, with 18.8 million viewers. Simon Baker has a certifiable, solid and probably long-term hit series on his hands, and you know the powers that be at CBS have to be dancing in the corridors at the Black Rock.
Continue reading Rookie sensation: The Mentalist tops the Nielsens