TV Reviews
Drop Dead Diva Season 4 Episode 1 - TV Show
I waited for quite a long time for drop dead diva to come back on air. It is a very lighthearted and silly little show, but I can’t help but loving it and enjoyed every single moment of it. By the way that the previous season ended, it was …
Nurse Jackie TV Show
When I first heard about the TV show nurse Jackie, I did not know what to think about it. It seems like a spin off of to show House, only this one with a female character. At first I didn’t want to watch it because it seemed a bit …
Ghost Hunters TV Show
Summary:
Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, Founder of the Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), investigate reports of haunting and try to offer help in any way they can. They are both plumbers for Roto-Rooter by day and Ghost Hunters by night. The rest of the team consists of a case manager …
Game of Thrones, Season 2 Episode 9 - Blackwater
I have been an avid fan of Game of Thrones and now that the season is almost over, I am here to let you guys know how I thought about Episode 9 of Season 2’s Game of Thrones.
For all of you who still live in a cave and …
Doctor Who: Season 5, Episode 13: The Big Bang
Thus, the fifth season of Doctor Who reaches it’s end. This episode stands in a pretty stark contrast to the other finales. Where Davies kept wanting to escalate and make things more epic, this one is a bit more low key. I mean, sure, the universe …
Doctor Who: Season 5, Episode 11: The Lodger
After the downer ending from the previous episode, we get a more light-hearted romp that really thrives on its comedy. The opening leads you to believe that we’re going to have a “companion lite” episode as the Doctor is seemingly booted off of the TARDIS and is unable to …
Doctor Who: Season 5, Episode 12: The Pandorica Opens
So we come to the first part of the fifth season’s finale, and man, does it manage to cram a lot into the 47 minute run time. The first few minutes jump around to various historical eras. This allows us to see some past characters like Van Gogh, …
Doctor Who: Season 5, Episode 10: Vincent and the Doctor
Feeling bad about what happened to Rory, the Doctor makes an effort to be extra nice to Amy. Of course, she has no idea why he’s doing this, but that’s besides the point. He takes her to a museum where they marvel at the works of Van …
Doctor Who: Season 5, Episode 7: Amy’s Choice
This episode presents a dilemma that even the Doctor admits is going to be tricky. It seems the TARDIS crew is bouncing back and forth between two realities, one in which they are all on the TARDIS and another where five years have past and Amy is pregnant. …
Doctor Who: Season 5, Episode 9: Cold Blood
This episode picks up where the last one left off, with the Doctor attempting to make contact with the Silurians so that a treaty can be negotiated. Suffice it to say, it does not go well. The Silurians aren’t the most reasonable species out there, at least at …
Doctor Who: Season 5, Episode 8: The Hungry Earth
The Doctor and crew arrive in 2020, only to come across some mysterious phenomena. There are patches of blue grass seen around the area and the Earth itself seems to be pulling people in. No, it’s not the work of Gaia, but the work of a species …
Doctor Who: Season 5, Episode 6: The Vampires of Venice
The TARDIS picks up another crew member as the Doctor decides to bring Rory along so that he can spend time with Amy. I imagine it is also to keep Amy from putting the moves on him. More than that, he probably doesn’t want to be the …
Doctor Who: Season 5, Episode 4: The Time of Angels
This episode features the return of not only River Song, but the Weeping Angels, the nightmare fuel inducing monsters from “Blink”. It makes for quite a few continuity nods, which are always fun. Interestingly enough, not only are there nods to previous episodes, but there is quite …
Doctor Who: Season 5, Episode 5: Flesh and Stone
We pick up where the last episode left off, with the Doctor and crew trying to venture through a crashed ship that is infested with Weeping Angels. Sadly, this episode isn’t quite as good as its predecessor, but it is a worthy conclusion all the same. Where …
Doctor Who: Season 5, Episode 3: Victory of the Daleks
This episode picks up where the last left off, with the Doctor and Amy heading back to WW2 after getting a call for help from Winston Churchill. Despite arriving a month late, things aren’t looking too bad. Well, all things considered, of course, there is still a …
Monsters Inside Me (TV Show)
Monsters Inside Me is an American factual TV show on the Discovery Channel about medical conditions that have affected people as the result of some kind of infection.
I find the show both scary and fascinating as the thought of some kind of organism living in your body is like …
Doctor Who: Season 5, Episode 1: The Eleventh Hour
Thus far, each season of Doctor Who has ended with one of the leads departing. First it was Eccleston being replaced by Tennant as the Doctor, than Rose left to make way for Martha, who was subsequently replaced by Donna Noble. Here we have an unprecedented clean …
Sherlock (BBC TV series)
My friend has been asking me to watch the series Sherlock. This is not the movie, but the BBC series. Initially I didn’t want to see it knowing it only had 3 episodes per season, but recently I had nothing to watch so I decided to see it. Apparently …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 15: The Next Doctor
As fans were well aware of Tennant’s upcoming departure from his role as the Doctor, Davies decided to have some fun with the idea. We first saw this with the fake out regeneration in “The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End” and the idea continues here. The title is misleading …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 14: Journey’s End
The two part finale wraps up as the team tries to stop the Daleks’ nefarious plan. Where the last episode had a lot of epic goings on with little room for character moments, this one is oddly quieter. It’s still heavy, but not in the same sense …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 13: The Stolen Earth
Wow, just wow. That’s all that can be said after watching this episode. Doctor Who finales tend to be larger in scale, but this completely blew everything else out of the water by a long shot, a looong shot. Just when you think that the show …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 12: Turn Left
Just as “Midnight” focused on the Doctor and featured Donna in a minimal capacity, so too does this one focus on one character while leaving another one on the sidelines, though this time it inverts that formula. The focus is on Donna and the episode takes a look at …
Doctor Who special 3: The End of Time Part 2
Thus concludes David Tennant’s run as the Doctor as he faces off against both the Master and the Time Lords, who seek to bring about an end to creation in order to save their own hides.
The episode is a step above part 1, but it still didn’t quite hit …
Doctor Who Special 3: The End of Time Part 1
So we come to the first of the two part finale that marks the end of David Tennant’s run as the Doctor. It aims big, I’ll give it that, but I can’t help but feel like it fell flat a little.
The episode picks up on the prophecy that …
Doctor Who 2009 Special 2: The Waters of Mars
I had high hopes for this special. I really did. It has all the makings of a fantastic episode. You, once again, have the Doctor arriving at a fixed point, where he is seemingly helpless to do anything, which adds a nice level of tension. …
Doctor Who 2009 Easter Special: Planet of the Dead
Rather than go for another full season, Tennant and crew decided to wrap up his run with a series of specials. There was, of course, the Christmas special, which has become something of a Doctor Who tradition, but they followed it up with an Easter special. As …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 11: Midnight
Once again, we have a fantastic episode. Sadly, Donna sits this one out, but that gives more time for the other characters to shine (or not given what happens) as well as putting more focus on the Doctor himself.
Interestingly enough, this trip was meant to be more recreational …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 10: Forest of the Dead
After a fantastic first parter, this conclusion feels like a step down. It’s not bad, far from it, but it just pales in comparison to the utter awesomeness that came before it.
While there are some elements of creepy in this plot, it puts more of a focus …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 9: Silence in the Library
After a light-hearted, comedic episode, the show dives right into nightmare fuel territory with this episode. I’m surprised this doesn’t get more regard as it was fantastic. It probably ranks as one of the creepiest episodes of the series so far. Honestly, it puts “Blink” to …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 8: The Unicorn and the Wasp
This is one of those archetypal Doctor Who episodes where the pair travel to some point in history, meet up with a historical figure, and then have an adventure. I can’t help but notice that they all tend to be writers. First we had Dickens, then we …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 7: The Doctor’s Daughter
This episode picks up where the cliffhanger from the previous episode left off, with the TARDIS taking the crew somewhere on its own. The destination is an alien world where a faction of humans is at war with a race of aliens called the Hath. Upon arrival, …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 6: The Poison Sky
Things are looking grim for the Doctor, what with the entire planet being covered in a toxic gas. Fortunately, while the gas is toxic, it’s not quite lethal yet, giving everyone time to come up with a plan to stop the Sontaran’s scheme.
As big as this episode was …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 5: The Sontaran Stratagem
This episode features plenty of returns. The most obvious one being Martha, who calls the Doctor in to help her with a case she is working on. The other two are only noticeable if you are familiar with the franchise in its classic iteration. As I …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 1: Voyage of the Damned
This Christmas special picks up right where “Last of the Time Lords” (or Time Crash if you count that short special”) left off, with the now companionless Doctor crashing into the Titanic. Well, it’s not THE Titanic, but a tourist space cruiser that just happens to resemble the …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 4: Planet of the Ood
The Doctor and Donna arrive on an alien planet in the 42nd Century. I think this is the first time that the relaunch has ever truly gone off world before. We’ve been to New Earth and to various spacecraft, but never to a bona fide alien world …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 3: The Fires of Pompeii
The Doctor and Donna arrive in what they think is ancient Rome, only to realize that they’re in Pompeii. Even worse, they’re on the verge of Volcano Day.
This is one of those episodes where the sum of its parts turned out to be greater than the …
Doctor Who: Season 4, Episode 2: Partners in Crime
The still companionless Doctor finds himself investigating a new diet pill. As it happens, Donna Noble, the runaway bride, is investigating the same matter. You’d think that they would bump into each other right away so that the plot could get moving, but they don’t realize the …
Doctor Who: Season 3, Episode 14: Last of the Time Lords
The three part finale comes to an end. Things look grim, and they haven’t gotten better in the year that passed since the Master took control, but Martha is still out there, fighting the good fight.
This episode couldn’t seem to find its tone. Again, the Master comes …
Doctor Who: Season 3, Episode 13: The Sound of Drums
The Doctor, Martha, and Jack manage to escape their supposed grim fate implied by the cliffhanger from the previous episode. One would think that they were trapped, but luckily, the Doctor manages to fix Jack’s time vortex manipulator to get them back to the 21st Century. It’s …
Doctor Who: Season 3, Episode 12: Utopia
So we come to the first part in the three part season finale. While the season was mostly stand-alone episodes with the “Saxon” arc only getting brief mention, this still manages to be a culmination of everything that’s happened so far.
Team TARDIS finds themselves landing on Earth in …
Doctor Who: Season 3, Episode 11: Blink
Much like “Love and Monsters”, this is an episode where the Doctor only plays a peripheral role. Unlike the aforementioned episode, this is one of the more highly regarded in the series. I had high hopes for this episode as it is often cited as one of …
Being Human (US series)
As of recently, one of my favourite things to watch on TV has become the American version to the hit UK series, “Being Human.”
Like its UK counterpart, the series is a drama about three less than normal rommates living together in a house, where they strive to make their …
Doctor Who: Season 3, Episode 10: The Family of Blood
This episode picks up where the last left off, with John Smith being forced to comply to an order that makes absolutely no sense to him made by beings that he has no seeming familiarity with. Kudos to Martha for turning the tables the way she did. …
Doctor Who: Season 3, Episode 9: Human Nature
After the awesomeness that was “42″, we’re given another amazing episode. It may not keep you on the edge of your seat in suspense, but it works extremely well and pulls off everything successfully.
As the episode opens, the Doctor and Martha find themselves being pursued by …
Doctor Who: Season 3, Episode 8: 42
The TARDIS arrives on a vessel that is badly damaged and drifting towards a nearby sun. They have only 42 minutes to get everything up and running if they want to survive.
Now, at first glance, this seems like a simple solution, just load everyone into the …
Doctor Who: Season 3, Episode 7: The Lazarus Experiment
The Doctor brings Martha back to her home, the night after they departed. It seems that he lived up to his word on making Martha’s stay aboard the TARDIS only temporary. Granted, she got a lot more than one trip out of it, but that comes as …
Super Mario Bros. Super Show
Mario was once everywhere. I mean, Mario is still a very popular character and Nintendo’s been churning out more fantastic games starring the plucky plumber, but back in the eighties, and even into the early nineties, Mario was on everything. Much like how Pokemon was slapped onto every single …
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