By John Keegan and Paul Pearson
For the first time this season, "Lost Girl" has managed to deliver two solid episodes in a row. It's not a one-two knockout like most of the other quality episodes of season two, but all the pieces are in play and working well to deliver the kind of fun, character-driven storytelling one hopes to find on any given instalment of the show.
For the first time this season, "Lost Girl" has managed to deliver two solid episodes in a row. It's not a one-two knockout like most of the other quality episodes of season two, but all the pieces are in play and working well to deliver the kind of fun, character-driven storytelling one hopes to find on any given instalment of the show.
Tonight Rizzoli & Isles returns to TNT for its third season. The episode picks up where the season finale left off with Jane (Angie Harmon) having shot Maura's (Sasha Alexander) biological father and head of the Irish mob, Paddy Doyle (John Doman), who showed up unexpectedly. He was only trying to protect his daughter, but things got out of hand when he shot the suspect and Agent Dean (Billy Burke), and Jane was forced to shoot Paddy.
When a lot of us were little girls, it was often a good night of television when you could sit down and watch The Miss USA Pageant. All the beautiful young ladies with graceful elegance in their evening gowns and their confidence as they walked the stage in their bathing suits, showing off different talents to show off a well rounded sophistication. It filled the evening with dreams of one day becoming one of the Miss USA winners. You got to meet them a little when the finalists answered questions on events of the world.
This Wednesday, Royal Pains, USA Network's #1 hit series, will return for season four. This season Dr. Hank Lawson, played by Mark Feuerstein, will be stepping out on his own with his medical practice, as his brother Evan (Paulo Costanzo), starts his own business venture. With all the fighting, it looks like Divya(Reshma Shetty) doesn't want to take sides. However, HankMed must team up for a Hamptons' emergency once more.
"Touch" has always been a show with potential. It could have been something very interesting. Instead, it quickly became apparent that Tim Kring was using this show to promote a lazy brand of spiritualism that predicates itself on the human tendency to find patterns in the noise. All too often, the writers force connections to imply that there is a grander scheme of things, and it shows. This season finale is no different.
It's all glitz and glamour until someone brings something distasteful up to the surface. When that happens, it has a way of rotting whatever gets in the way. All throughout this episode, I felt as if the walls of Jericho were falling all around the characters. The firm is not flush with money so they have to fight tooth-and-nail for any account they can get their hands on. They do try, befitting what Don said in his speech to rally the troops in the previous episode, but there are costs to getting that golden goose.
"The episode has dramatically exceeded our expectations," said series showrunner David Benioff in an interview with Entertainment Weekly recently. Instead of going with their original plan to frame the entire Battle of the Blackwater from the perspective of Cersei and Sansa, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss made the case to HBO that they just HAD to show that battle, and they'd need more money to do it. Surprisingly, HBO agreed to raise the budget significantly. I knew all of this before the episode had aired, and I'd been unable to keep myself from watching the promo, but none of this prepared me for what I was about to experience. This was TV history in the making.
The final episode of Awake didn't answer the bulk of the questions I had coming into it, least of all which world depicted throughout the season was the "real" world, but the last section presents a neat open-ended befitting of the series. It gives rise to more questions that the series unfortunately will not have the chance to answer. What we got in these thirteen episodes that varied somewhat in quality was sometimes a meditation on what it's like to mourn the loss of a loved one and also a standard police procedural.
Battleship has been receiving a lot of guff from critics since even before it was released. A natural reaction for them I think, given that the previews make it look like the fourth Transformers movie. A series that has polarized movie viewers like none other I've seen. (Since it is partially relevant, and if it's important to you, I enjoy that series. Are they flawless, no, but they are more than enjoyable action flicks.) However, though Battleship may look like Transformers, it is not; it's Independence Day, another big time movie critic punching bag that I enjoy.
It was obvious from the beginning of the season of American Idol that Phillip Phillips had something special. The twenty-one year old from Leesburg, Georgia, had a unique voice that separated him from the competition and helped him stand out early on. Every week fans waited to see what he would do, as he always made the songs his own. Phillips has known from the beginning the kind of artist he would become; often ignoring advice in order to stay true to himself.