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Posted Sep 13th 2008 11:45AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Psych, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E08) "Free hugs. Who's next?" -- Shawn Spencer, after saving his "kidnapper".
Woosh! Feel that? That was the first half of this season of Psych blowing right past us to this week's summer finale. As the show has done since its inception in 2006 it is taking the fall off and, save for a holiday special sometime in December, returning at the beginning of 2009. While one side of me understands the reason for this -- survive the onslaught of the network season premieres -- the other side is sad to see the show go so quickly.
Save for the episode entitled 'Daredevils', the first half of Psych has been pretty good. They've done some experimenting with the format, some character development, but have maintained the light touch that has made this show stand out in the crowd of ever-increasing first-run cable shows. With this week's episode we saw a further example of tweaks to the format as we had an episode that was equal parts drama and comedy.
Continue reading Psych: Gus Walks Into a Bank (summer finale)
Posted Aug 13th 2008 9:23AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Eureka, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S03E03) We're still too early in the season to get too deep into the bigger picture mystery. In fact, the clues that were given this week where Eva's plans are concerned made the whole thing even more confusing. That's ok though, we've got lots of time for that story to grow. In the meantime, "Best In Faux" was another quirky stand-alone that got a lot of things right. The yearly dog show managed to dovetail with some crazy science, Zoey's homework, and some fantastic guest casting to deliver a very fun hour of television.
Continue reading Eureka: Best In Faux
Posted Feb 22nd 2007 10:01AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Medium
(S03E13) One thing you can say about
Medium, they don't fall in to the trap of being a formulaic show. These last few weeks the shows have been all over the map with the structure and format. It's one of the things that makes the show so enjoyable.
I missed the very beginning of the episode because right as the show started my cable box decided that was the perfect time to shut itself off. So I scrambled to get all my junk flipped over to straight cable and came back in the middle of the scene with grown-up Ariel and Marie. It left me a little confused until old Joe and Allison turned up. I haven't decided yet whether Allison is just going to be a really hot 50+ woman or if the makeup to age Patricia Arquette just wasn't very well done. Old Joe looked good though.
Continue reading Medium: Second Opinion
Posted Oct 31st 2006 12:20PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, Industry, Programming, Pickups and Renewals
Here's a bit of good news. Fox has ordered 12 episodes of Tim Minear's new show,
Drive. That's a little surprising because it looked like the show was dead up until the announcement.
In September, the network made Minear a Consulting Producer on
Standoff, which implied that there wouldn't be any need for him to be off making his new show. Now they are saying that Minear will remain with
Standoff until they finish their 13 episode production order, which doesn't really bode well for that show.
Drive tells the story of an underground race across America and stars Alan Ruck (
Spin City), Kristin Lehman (
Tilt), and Melanie Lynskey (
Two and a Half Men). That's a pretty good start to a cast, but really, if it is made by Minear, it could star the finger puppet troupe from Mrs. Jablonski's first grade class and I would still watch it. The show is set to launch in the spring, hopefully not on Friday night at 9.
Posted Sep 17th 2006 12:12PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Programming, OpEd, The Five, Celebrities, The CW
After 11 years of work, the WB signs off for good on Sunday September 17th, making way for the new CW network. The frog network is going out with a bang though. To celebrate the final day of broadcasting they will be showing the pilot episodes of some of their more popular shows. You can look forward to seeing
Felicity, Angel, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and
Dawson's Creek. Along with the number one episodes, the night will be rounded out with classic images and promos from the history of the network.
Now, we could go all
Buffy crazy and start listing best five episodes, or have that Dawson/Joey/Pacey argument all over again. Maybe even bring up that whole Felicity's hair question. Rather than that, let's go the other way. Those shows were all great, and they've stayed in the public conscious, but what about those WB shows that didn't become household names? Take a trip down memory lane as I list five of the WB shows that we forgot.
Continue reading The Five: WB shows that we forgot
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