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Here's what's happened on Harper's Island so far
Sure, sometimes recaps can be unnecessary, but sometimes they're actually welcome, especially if you missed just an episode or two and you want to get caught up. Below is a summary of what has happened so far on CBS' Harper's Island, which airs tonight at 10. It's actually a good little recap for those of us who missed the first two episodes (of course, the full episodes are available too). Catch up before there are so many episodes you say to yourself, "eh, I don't have time to watch this!."
Grey's Anatomy: I Will Follow You Into the Dark
(S05E17) "There's no fixing you. You're a lemon." - Derek
It's official: I'm an emotional loser. After two weeks without my weekly Medical/High School drama, Grey's is back and even more dramatic than I remember. Has Grey's Anatomy been this good in a while? I always thought that with such a big ensemble cast, the show was bound to have loose ends. With this episode, it seems as though each character is what I remember from the first two seasons.
With no big guest stars this week, the characters developed amongst themselves. I appreciate the return of the Meredith/Christina friendship, now back at full strength, but why does it seem like when Meredith solves one thing, another falls apart? She suffers from the Chaos theory.
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Big Brother: Eviction #6 and HOH #7
(S10E18) "Anything else I could do for you, I would do for you." -April to DanOnce again, Dan the Man with the Master Plan is the swing vote at eviction time. Renny nominated April and Jerry on Sunday, her target being April from Arizona. However, Dan has no personal reason to evict her. In fact, if Dan was playing the game strictly listening to his personal feelings, he should evict Jerry who called him a "Judas" last week and said that he "hides behind his cross." Furthermore, April offered Dan, the PoV holder, money on Tuesday before the ceremony.
Okay, what am I missing? Oh yeah, it's that April is a kick-butt player in the Big Brother 10 house who will pick them off one-by-one with her showmance Ollie at her side.
Find out what went down and who went home after the jump...
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Grey's Anatomy: Freedom (season finale)
"The pager is sacred. Sacred sparkle." -- IzzieA sparkly pager, some quick-drying cement, and a field of candles all play into tonight's 2-hour episode -- the Season Four finale of Grey's Anatomy. Has it really been only four seasons? Because it seems like so much more.
Anyway, tonight we learn a little more about some of the interns' history. For one thing, via a therapy session (and why can't I have Amy Madigan as my therapist?), we learn that young Meredith saw her mom slit her wrists, then had to wait for her to pass out before calling 911.
Meredith says her mom wanted to die, but by the end of the episode, she figures out that she really didn't want to die. Being a brilliant surgeon, her mom would have known the faster road to death entailed slitting her carotid artery.
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Battlestar Galactica Revealed - VIDEOS
I'm curious to know how many people are newcomers to the current Battlestar Galactica series on Sci Fi. Seeing as this is the final season coming up, are there people more inclined to try to catch up (or have been catching up) so they can enjoy the end of the show in real time?Sci Fi has put together a short special called Battlestar Galactica Revealed, featuring scenes from past seasons and interviews with the cast and creators of the series. These videos, along with the eight minute "recap" video (shown over on the right of the site as of this writing), should help get those not interested in picking up past seasons on DVD caught up with things (though shame on you for your intolerable disinterest!) Check out the videos after the jump.
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Lost: The 8 minutes 15 seconds recap
If you are one of the few people who haven't watched ABC's Lost yet and want to start this coming season but don't want to have to watch the DVD sets for the three previous seasons, ABC just put online what you seek: the ultimate Lost recap!Narrated by a hyper woman, this 8 minutes and 15 seconds recap (get it? 815...) will not only bring those who never watched the show up-to-date but also help hard-core fans remember what happened since Flight 815 crashed.
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Survivor Fiji: Blackmail or Betrayal
(S14E11) Some of you took me to task for only giving last week's episode a 5 rating. And perhaps rightly so, after all it was easily the best tribal council of the season. But I had my hopes set on tonight's episode because the most interesting thing is often the fall-out from a big shakeup. And sometimes players that are outnumbered and cornered suddenly become brilliant strategists. Not tonight.Continue reading Survivor Fiji: Blackmail or Betrayal
Last week on TV Squad
Highlights from a week's worth of posts.
- TV Squad launched a new design
- We named the 14 greatest TV eateries
- Everybody fired Don Imus
- The Jackson family wants its own American Idol
- 24 bombed South Park
- We pondered: Are all old TV shows necessarily "classic TV"?
- Who's leaving ER?
- The Back to You (formerly Action News) script was OK, for a sitcom
- Jimmy Kimmel went off on Gawker and it was awesome
- The first of The Soproanos final episodes got a thumbs up
- Prison Break actor Lane Garrison will plead guilty
Six seasons of The Sopranos in 7 minutes - VIDEO
The Sopranos returns for its final episodes beginning April 8th, and I can't think of a better way to get caught up on the last six seasons. Some editing genius has put together a recap of the entire series up to this point, including everybody who has been whacked, everybody Tony has slept with, those ducks, Anthony's black-outs, etc. It's only seven minutes long and it's a great refresher. Because, seriously, can anybody keep track of who is still alive?Video is after the jump- watch it soon, because you never know how long HBO will let it stay up on YouTube. (If they're smart, they'll leave it up there because it's actually marketing for the final episodes)
*UPDATE: Sopranos creator David Chase loves the montage and is asking HBO to leave it up on YouTube. Yay!
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Survivor: Cook Islands: People That You Like Want to See You Suffer
(S13E08) I have a tendency to root for the underdog. Usually it's deeply frustrating. Cheering on Aitu, however, is the most transcendent underdog experience I have ever had. Sure, they are outnumbered but they are adorable and they have this amazing tendency to win even though the usual laws of Survivor mean that they should be slowly picked off. And maybe, just maybe, Yul is the perfect Survivor contestant (provided he doesn't blow it in the crucial coming weeks).Continue reading Survivor: Cook Islands: People That You Like Want to See You Suffer
The Amazing Race: Being Polite Sucks Sometimes
(S10E10) Tonight's race takes us to Finland where we see a lot more talking about alliances and a lot less actual allying (finally). In the wake of the "six pack" the other teams attempt alliances but the whole race seems a lot less heartfelt without David and Mary in it. It's supposed to be intensity time but someone needs to tell that to the Cho brothers in this endlessly boring leg of the race.Continue reading The Amazing Race: Being Polite Sucks Sometimes
Survivor: Cook Islands: Mutiny
(S13E08) After a few weeks when the whole tribes-divided-by-race thing seemed like a non-story, the racial divisions of the first tribes reared their ugly heads as Jonathan began dreaming of an all-white world. At the start of the episode, Jonathan campaigns against Ozzy and then at first opportunity with Candice starts spinning a plan for a whites-only final four with Adam and Parvati over at Raro. Mutiny is the order of the day and squinty little Candice lets her lust for Adam, the all-American doofus, help her shake up the game.Continue reading Survivor: Cook Islands: Mutiny
Shark: Russo
(S01E04) The Russo of the title is Harry Russo, an shady private eye and former associate of Stark, who becomes the focus of a murder investigation. Stark's boss Jess Devlin (Jeri Ryan) hates Russo. Stark seems to have a grudging respect for him, or at least him sees the situation as more complex than his boss does. For some reason we have to be told twice, in two close-together scenes, that "every lawyer in town -- not just Stark -- hires private eyes." That's important evidently. The great William Forsythe, classic bad-guy character actor, guest-stars as Russo. He and James Woods perform well together, and have good chemistry. Russo even makes at joking-stab at getting Stark to get him on the county payroll, but that's dicey given Russo's separate grand jury and murder investigation troubles. I'm still holding out hope that Stark's still keeping that position open for Henry Simmons.
Smallville: Wither
(S06E03) It seems everyone's back to calling Jimmy Olson Jimmy again, though he tried to insist on James in the season premiere. Chloe tells Jimmy that she wants to take any possible relationship between the two of them slowly. Fortunately for Jimmy taking it slow quickly turns out to include french kissing. Happiness is short lived, however, when a scream leads the cub reporters to a dead body that looks likes it fell into a tree after having been dropped directly out of a J-horror movie.
Despite a hoary costume-party conceit, and yet another mock crucifixion, when Kal-El gets himself vined-up in the woods, this episode was an improvement on "Sneeze" last week.
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The Biggest Loser: Free Pass
(S03E04) Going in, Red has lost 198 lbs, and Blue has lost 240 lbs. Red had to say goodbye to Nelson after screwing themselves with a tie vote last time. Ties get broken by the rival team -- which means rule number one for Biggest Loser should be: make sure your team's votes don't end in a tie. Red reacts to having lost Nelson by revolting against their trainer, Kim. Kai wants to work out alone. Kim acknowledges (in voice-over) she's losing control of the team, and the others just mope through a run, until Ken collapses in tears. They manage to get Kim crying too. It's nearly unbearable.
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