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Burn Notice: “Truth and Reconciliation”
You know why I think your father wired the car the way he did? Because I think he thought if he was the only one who could fix it that we’d always need him. Be more useful, you know. Part of the family. After the incredible highs of last week, we could expect this week’s…
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Leverage: “The First David Job”
His cover’s blown. Faces of his people have been sent to every law enforcement agency in the state. We’ve taken their money, their base of operations, and now Nate Ford will never, ever, get his revenge. They will do the only smart thing to do. They’ll scatter. Leverage rarely plays around much with time, generally…
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Flight of the Conchords: “Unnatural Love”
Saturday. We open on Murray driving the boys to a disco club. Why? Nobody’s saying. But we are all loving it. Except for Jemaine, who’d rather go watch a video, and Bret, who would prefer “a sleep,” and thus they are both crouching down in the backseat and looking horrified when Murray pulls up to…
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Battlestar Galactica: “No Exit”
“I think we have to accept who we are.” —Admiral William Adama “You are not a mistake. If you could just accept yourself as what you are.” —Ellen Tigh “I need to be something.” —Kara Thrace “Saul, stay with the fleet. It’s all starting to happen, it’s the miracle, right here, it’s a gift from…
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Friday Night Lights: “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”
It’s when all the scared rats start running away from a sinking market that the true entrepreneurs come in. The true visionaries. The Smash Williams Farewell Tour complete, it’s time for Six to take his lap around Dillon. And just like Smash, the start of his story places him on a road out of town.…
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Burn Notice: “Bad Breaks”
No attacking the hosts. No leaving early. No calling the police. I see one cop, I kill three of you. I see two cops, six people die. You can do the math. Now, mess up my party by breaking one of my rules and you can expect me to overreact. Jason Bly, how I’ve missed…
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Leverage: “The Juror #6 Job”
When I was a kid, I was like eight-years old, I had a foster mom who was a Jehovah’s Witness. Used to dress me up in a suit and a bowtie, take me door to door to spread the word. Black neighborhoods, white neighborhoods, didn’t matter. I would kick, I’d scream, or whatever, but she…
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Battlestar Galactica: “Blood on the Scales”
“The truth is told by whoever’s left standing.” —Tom Zarek “I know who you are, Felix. I know who you are.” —Gaius Baltar At last a day of reckoning has come, and tyranny brings even more blood than we might have imagined, and not in the ways we might have guessed: the Quorum executed at…
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Friday Night Lights: “Hello, Goodbye”
Y’all think I’m going to talk about Smash, right? Or maybe Matt’s mom coming back into his life like a bad penny? Or Tami relinquishing ground like some Soviet general setting up a pincer for the German army? I will. I’ll get to that stuff. But first let me tell you how I know this…
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Burn Notice: “Seek and Destroy”
Some spy gets blacklisted goes freelance, he could be standing right in front of you; you wouldn’t even know it. After the incredible highs of the last two weeks, we had to expect we’d eventually have a bit of a let down. Fortunately, this is Burn Notice, where even the off episodes are eminently entertaining.…