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Virtuality Premiere, Pilot, or One and Done?
The Virtuality pilot aired on FOX last night but I didn’t get around to watching it until this morning. I’d been looking forward to it a great deal due to its pedigree – Ron Moore, Michael Taylor, Gail Berman, and Peter Berg in various creative capacities – and the promise held in its premise: a…
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Burn Notice: “Fearless Leader”
And so the saga, nay the tragedy, of Detective Paxson comes to a close. I’m surprised she didn’t literally whimper as she trudged off the screen. For a show that rarely missteps, Paxson was a rolled ankle, stubbed toe, and nail fungus wrapped in a somewhat pretty package. ((If you think that metaphor’s tough to…
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Hawthorne
Just when I think I could give up on TV and walk away forever, TNT creates a new medical drama, Hawthorne. I was skeptical. Grey’s lost its appeal once Isaiah Washington left and Izzie started sleeping with her ghost lover. ER lost me nearly a decade ago and Private Practice always has been a bit…
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Burn Notice: “Question and Answer”
Things are heating up in Miami, Eff El A. Michael’s got a new admirer in Detective Paxson, she of the sly smile and withering looks, and some C4 in storage. If Paxson finds out what Michael’s got stored, things will get downright explosive. Oh, and there’s a kid in peril and a birthday party in…
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Royal Pains: Pilot
Light. Frothy. Summertime fun. If you like your summers the way I do, with frosty drinks and evening breezes off the ocean, you might have enjoyed the premiere of Royal Pains as much as I did. Then again, if you’re in the camp who finds Mark Feuerstein bland and uninteresting, you might not have liked…
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Burn Notice: “Friends and Family”
Fiona, he did his government work, as you call it, for a reason. For what? His country? And what have they done for him lately, other than betray him, leave him for dead, ruin his life? The fact that you have to ask means you’re never gonna get it, Fi. It seems like ages since…
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Burn Notice Season Three
Michael Westen’s had a rough couple of years, even if they have been in the sunny clime of Miami. Burn Notice Season 3 premieres this Thursday, June 4, 2009 on USA Network in its new timeslot at 9p/8c. Tracked by Feds, hassled by Bly, attacked by Arye Gross, and splattered in Toby Ziegler’s blood, and…
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Royal Pains premieres on USA Network
I’ve been a fan of Mark Feuerstein for a long time. I even pushed through the pilot of Good Morning, Miami, subjecting myself to 22 minutes of Ashley Williams, ((Those who know me will know my extreme antipathy for that doe-eyed, charmless bimbo who nearly ruined season one of How I Met Your Mother with her…
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Pushing Daisies: “Window Dressed to Kill”
Nobody gave a crap about Clark Kent. He could disappear off the face of the Daily Planet, nobody’d even notice. But I bet he’d spit spandex to find someone special enough who cared about the man and not the cape. Viewing note: if you missed this week’s Pushing Daisies, you can watch it online at…
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In Plain Sight – ‘Gilted Lily’
When I first heard about In Plain Sight, I thought ‘Gee, another cop show. We don’t have enough of those.’ The trick to good storytelling, however, is to find a new angle to present old material. In Plain Sight may not have dramatically relandscaped the cop whodunit angle, but the flowers are fresh enough I…