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Interview with Jonathan Frakes about Leverage
Tomorrow night’s episode of Leverage, “The Juror #6 Job”, was directed by TV veteran Jonathan Frakes and reunites him with Star Trek alums Brent Spiner, Armin Shimerman, and Kitty Swink. I had a chance to talk with Frakes about his experience on this episode and with the Leverage team in general (he’s directed two episodes…
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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.…
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Leverage: “The 12 Step Job”
My father was an addict, my grandfather. I know how these people operate. TNT’s done a bit of a number on the order of episodes, shuffling them around for a variety of reasons. Last week’s episode, in fact, was intended to be the third on the air according to John Rogers. But we get serendipity.…
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Flight of the Conchords: “The Tough Brets”
We should start by rechristening this one “I love Jemaine,” because really, I love Jemaine. And never more so than when something is smacking him in the face. We are both funny that way. Bret, on the other hand, is funny in the way that he’s willing to insult not five but seven famed rap…
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Battlestar Galactica: “The Oath”
“I could do this all day. Who’s next?” —Kara “Starbuck” Thrace “Felix Gaeta. Who would’ve thought?” —President Laura Roslin “When this is over, there’s gonna be a reckoning. And live or die, it’s how you act today that’s gonna matter.” —Admiral William Adama Semper frakkin’ fi, indeed. What an amazing hour of television. So many…
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Friday Night Lights: “How the Other Half Lives”
There were a few great, moving lines in this episode, but as usual it was the silences that spoke loudest. Two minutes, one line of dialog, and Death Cab for Cutie singing a lamentation.
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Burn Notice: “Hot Spot”
Fiona: Michael McBride. Sometimes I wonder if he’s the one I fell in love with. Michael: I wouldn’t be surprised. We caused a lot of mayhem, you and I. He was your type of guy. Fiona: Yes you were. Where did he go? Michael: Oh you know how it is with cover IDs. You become…
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The Middleman DVD *is* coming!
A very quick note to pass along the good news from Javi Grillo-Marxauch’s blog: Shout! Factory, producers of some of the finest DVD sets on the market, are working on the box set of season one of The Middleman and should have it in time for Comic-Con!