http://www.thetvking.com/user/JeromeWetzelTV JeromeWetzelTV's all the posts, both news and reviews by JeromeWetzelTV. Mon, 20 May 2013 16:24:04 UTC ABC's Scandal begins season two last fall with "White Hats Off" and ends it this week with "White Hats Back On." In between, we get a dark, twisted game of manipulation, struggles for power, torture, murder, and intrigue. The characters go to places lower than they consider possible before, and do things they will live to regret. It's a hell of a ride. It's nice to see the "White Hats Back On" for Olivia (Kerry Washington) and crew. They've done enough, suffered more than their share. They need to refocus on a mission of helping people and making the world http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1711/scandal-puts-its-white-hats-back-on/ 2013-05-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC's Greys Anatomy likes to show the ups and downs of the doctors who work at Seattle Grace Seattle Grace Mercy West Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, their loves and their losses. In the penultimate episode of season nine, the focus is the positive, and delivers a heartwarming story. In the season finale which aired this week, "Perfect Storm," things get much more depressing. It's understandable that Callie (Sara Ramirez) and Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) still aren't seeing eye to eye. Arizona goes something very traumatic with the plane crash and losing a leg. There is no way for Callie to grasp http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1712/greys-anatomy-finale-not-quite-a-perfect-storm/ 2013-05-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com How do you say goodbye to a beloved series after nine (!) seasons on the air? Well, it helps to give every single person in the sprawling cast a nice moment, with even bigger payoffs for the show's leads. Toss in the most-missed character in the series' run, a slew of recurring returning players, a handful of well-known guest actors used in smart, not distracting, ways, and supersize it to 150% longer than the normal installment so it doesn't feel rushed. That's what NBC's The Office did last night, to great effect. There are two major stories intersecting in one http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1710/the-office-finale/ 2013-05-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as DVD Review: Private Practice The Complete Sixth and Finale Season on Blogcritics.org Spun off from Grey’s Anatomy in 2007, ABC’s Private Practice tells the story of a group of doctors who all work out of the same medical practice. After six seasons, the series ended this past January. Now, those final 13 episodes are available on DVD. As much as it has always presented itself as an ensemble, Addison Forbes Montgomery (Kate Walsh) has always been the star of the series. Her entire journey over the past six years has been to find herself, find her man, and http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1707/check-out-of-private-practice/ 2013-05-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FOX's New Girl predictably ends their second season this week with the wedding of Cece (Hannah Simone) and Shivrang (Satya Bhabha) in "Elaine's Big Day." Going in, viewers will know that the marriage cannot actually happen, and that hijinks will ensure during the ceremony, even if the specifics are kept in the dark. What's enjoyable is the sincere and funny way the actors bring the scenes to life. Schmidt (Max Greenfield) tries to tell himself that he can read Cece's unhappiness in her eyes, thus he is sabotaging her wedding "as a friend." It's preposterous, given Schmidt and Cece's http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1708/new-girl-elaine-has-a-big-day/ 2013-05-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Take Me With You" brings FOX's The Mindy Project to a close for the year in an interesting way, after a pretty enjoyable run. The mission of Mindy (Mindy Kaling) is to find love, and perhaps not knowing if the show would return, the writers decided to make sure that she accomplished this goal by the end of the first season. It's kind of weird that Mindy is ready to commit so fully to Casey (Anders Holm, Workaholics), agreeing to move to Haiti with him for a year. We've seen her date lots of different guys this season, and she's http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1709/take-me-with-you-the-mindy-project/ 2013-05-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC's Revenge brings its second season to an explosive close this week in the two-hour long "Truth." The Initiative strikes, killing an important character. The results of the election are in, a hidden identity is revealed, a choice in loyalties must be made, and the secret behind who the Initiative is is now known. Basically, as one would expect from this soapy drama, a lot comes out, and many changes are made. The Initiative is the shady organization responsible for what happened to David Clarke (James Tupper), the basis for Emily's (Emily VanCamp) mission of revenge. As such, figuring out http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1706/revenge-hides-the-truth/ 2013-05-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com For all of the complaints I've had about this fourth, Dan Harmon-less season of NBC's Community, and those complains have been numerous, as you'll see if you read my weekly reviews of the show, the one character that the writers have totally gotten right is Jeff (Joel McHale). Jeff, who starts out as a self-centered ego maniacal jerk, has grown into someone who is a true leader and team player. Working out the inner pain that causes him to be bad, Jeff is able to become good. The fourth season finale, "Advanced Introduction to Finality," is a Jeff-centric story. Having http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1704/communitys-almost-finale/ 2013-05-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Many were expecting "Something New," the eighth season finale of CBS's How I Met Your Mother, to show Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin's (Cobie Smulders) wedding, scenes of which we've already glimpsed in the past few seasons, and end at the moment where Ted (Josh Radnor) meets the titular mother, but not show her face. I was among those that believed I had the final half hour figured out, and we could not have been more wrong. "Something New" details the week leading up to the wedding. Ted is not even thinking about meeting his wife at this point, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1705/how-i-met-your-mother-shows-us-something-new/ 2013-05-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Glee - "All or Nothing" on Blogcritics. "All or Nothing" is an excellent mid-season finale or February sweeps ending for FOX's Glee. Too bad it is the season finale. Because, despite the title, the episode did not give us either all or nothing, but instead, just plenty of great stuff with a lot of unresolved stories. The New Directions make it to Regionals, where they kill with the combo of "Hall of Fame," "I Love It," and original song "All or Nothing." This is enough to beat the pleasant bit of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1701/glee-finale-definitely-not-all-or-nothing/ 2013-05-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FOX's Touch completed its two-season run with the series finale "Leviathan" last week. Aster Corps kidnaps Jake (David Mazouz) and Amelia (Saxon Sharbino), hoping to use them to finish the sequence before a financial report ruins the company. Unfortunately, with time being limited, Farington (Frances Fisher) orders a dangerous method to extract those digits from their brains that could kill them. Jack Bauer Martin (Kiefer Sutherland) goes a bit crazy in trying to track down the children, torturing Tanner (D.B. Sweeney) for a lead. We know Martin's overriding motivation has always been protecting Jake, but we've never seen him like http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1703/out-of-touch/ 2013-05-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com I really enjoy CBS's The Big Bang Theory pretty much every week, but the latest installment, "The Love Spell Potential," sticks out as one of the best of the season. In it, Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy (Mayim Bialik) finally have a frank discussion about sex. The growth of these two characters, both as a couple and individually, has been steady and rewarding. When first they meet, Amy tolerates Sheldon, and Sheldon has no thought of romance on the brain. Yet, having spent a lot of time together, they have steadily grown closer and closer. Sheldon is being honest http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1700/the-big-bang-theory-talks-about-love/ 2013-05-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Things have mostly gotten back to normal for The Office in "A.A.R.M.," a fine example of a classic episode, while still allowing those emotional, end-of-the-series plot developments to creep in. Jim (John Krasinski) plays a huge practical joke on Dwight (Rainn Wilson), Pam (Jenna Fischer) questions whether she's going to make Jim resent her, Kevin (Brian Baumgartner) gets jealous when baby Phillip is in the office, Andy (Ed Helms) tries out for a singing competition, and Darryl (Craig Robinson) tries, and fails, to leave without saying goodbye. I love "A.A.R.M." because it has something for each member of the cast. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1698/raise-an-aarm-for-the-office/ 2013-05-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as DVD Review: China Beach: The Complete Series on Blogcritics. There are some shows that fans wait years and years for, desperately hoping they will eventually be released on DVD so their favorite episodes can be relived, but are consistently disappointed. One such beloved, critically-acclaimed series is China Beach, the four-season Vietnam War drama that broke new ground by approaching the conflict from a perspective other than male-domination, and is one of the most-requested shows. Finally, China Beach arrives, the complete series being released by Time Life. China Beach is set at an Evacuation Hospital in http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1699/land-at-china-beach/ 2013-05-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Glee - "Wonder-ful" on Blogcritics.  Regionals are fast approaching, so in this week's installment of FOX's Glee, titled "Wonder-ful," Will (Matthew Morrison), still inexplicably sans Finn (Cory Monteith), has the New Directions sing the music of Stevie Wonder. Which also carries over to characters not at McKinley, for some reason, and no one gripes about it, even though a frequent concern among the students is that the music Will likes is too old. "Wonder-ful" provides a lot to complain about. From giant plot holes, to confusing character developments, to a pretty boring http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1695/glee-not-so-wonderful/ 2013-05-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC's Happy Endings completes its third season with "Brothas & Sisters." The gang attends the wedding of the eldest Kerkovich sister, the unseen-before-now Brooke (Stephanie March, Law & Order: SVU). Hijinks ensue as sibling rivalry rears its ugly head, and rumors spread like wildfire, whether they are true or not. Now that we've met the entire Kerkovich clan, I'm not sure I'm satisfied with the casting. Jane (Eliza Coupe) and Alex (Elisha Cuthbert) are great, but their chemistry with Brooke is cold and stilted. Part of this could be because Brooke has such an off-putting personality in the first place, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1696/happy-endings-visited-by-brothas--sisters/ 2013-05-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's The Office begins winding down to their series finale (airing May 16th) this week with "Livin' the Dream." Two weeks out from the release of the documentary, the staff considers what is important to them, and begins to think about where they want to be. For some, that means finally realizing something they have longer worked towards. For others, giving up one thing they love might be necessary to hang onto what they care about the most. And some are ready to take a leap of faith, no matter what it could cost them. Dwight (Rainn Wilson) has always http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1694/the-staff-of-the-office-are-livin-the-dream/ 2013-05-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com When last we see Cathy Jamison (Laura Linney), she is sailing away on a boat with a man named Angel (Michael Ray Escamilla), allowing her loved ones to believe she is dead. As THE BIG C’s final season, four hours that are subtitled HEREAFTER, begins tonight with “Quality of Life,” we learn that scenario is a dream had while Cathy is rescued from drowning and hospitalized, and, five months later, Cathy is back at home, slowly dying. It’s a little disappointing that much of the story seen in the previous season finale didn’t actually happen. And yet, taking the selfish http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1691/review--refresher-the-big-c-hereafter-premiere/ 2013-05-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com I understand what NBC's Community is trying to do this week with "Heroic Origins." By using the comic book-style transitions and frequent references to superheroes, like Spider-Man and the film Unbreakable, they're trying to present a weird episode in yet another genre-busting format. But like most of this fourth season, it fails to find the perfect pitch, and while it's somewhat entertaining, the story falls far short of the emotional impact that it should have. Abed (Danny Pudi) decides that, instead of working on his history assignment, he'll track the history of how the study group is destined to be http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1692/community-delves-into-their-heroic-origins/ 2013-05-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com In the fifth season finale of NBC's Parks and Recreation, "Are You Better Off?," Leslie (Amy Poehler) asks the people of Pawnee if they feel they are better off than they were a year ago, when she was elected. At first, she doesn't like the answers of many of her fellow citizens. One person, though, has a definite answer, when they find out they're going to be a parent. I like the mystery story where Andy (Chris Pratt) attempts to figure out who left the positive pregnancy test at Ron's (Nick Offerman) cabin. He assumes it is one of his http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1693/are-you-better-off-with-parks-and-recreation/ 2013-05-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: The Americans - "The Colonel" on Blogcritics. FX draws season one of The Americans to a close with "The Colonel." Despite reservations by many involved, the KGB orders the meet with The Colonel (Victor Slezak, Treme) to go forward, feeling the valuable intel they expect him to provide is worth the risk. Of course, this not go smoothly. The Americans has really crafted an entertaining and complex world in this first season. It's easy to get lost into the cat and mouse spy game of the 1980s in such a richly developed world, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1689/the-americans-meet-the-colonel/ 2013-05-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FOX's The Following ends its freshman run this week with "The Final Chapter." Ryan (Kevin Bacon) is lured to a lighthouse by Joe (James Purefoy) for a final showdown. Of course, Claire's (Natalie Zea) life hangs in the balance, and of course, Ryan doesn't take anyone with him to the confrontation, including Mike (Shawn Ashmore). There, the two men have it out with one another once and for all. I am a bit disappointed with the end of The Following's showdown between Ryan and Joe. I really feel like Ryan should have learned his lesson and trusted a few people. "The Final http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1690/the-following-reaches-the-final-chapter-for-now/ 2013-05-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FOX's hugely popular Bones completes its eighth (!) season, still going strong, this week with "The Secret in the Siege." Pelant (Andrew Leeds) resurfaces, and this time he's using Sweets' (John Francis Daley) work against the team. But when Brennan (Emily Deschanel) proposes to Booth (David Boreanaz), Pelant is upset by the draw of focus away from him, and takes revenge in a very cold way. Pelant is an intriguing and complex villain. It's incredibly hard to predict his next move, for both the audience and the characters. Yet, each new development makes sense for the character and the story. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1687/secret-kept-from-bones/ 2013-05-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com I absolutely love Kyle Bornheimer and hope that some day he is a big sitcom star. But I've become pessimistic about the chances of that happening. His first big series, Worst Week, was funny, but didn't last. His second chance, Perfect Couples, was near perfect, especially given his chemistry opposite Christine Woods (Go On), but again, died before its time. Now, we get Family Tools on ABC which is, going by last night's series premiere, by far the least of the efforts. Bornheimer stars as Jack, the son of fix-it man Tony (J.K. Simmons, Spider-Man, The Closer), who returns home http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1686/punch-in-the-family-tools/ 2013-05-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com SyFy's popular series, Warehouse 13, returns from a nearly-seven-month hiatus this week with "The Living and the Dead" to begin the second half of its fourth season. "The Living and the Dead" picks up where the previous episode left off, with a deadly virus swiftly infecting everyone on the planet, and Artie (Saul Rubinek), the releaser of the disease, in a coma. Because there are two urgent matters, saving the world and saving Artie, who may soon be lost forever, the four agents of the Warehouse split into the two teams. I love that there are two work-couples now, which http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1684/warehouse-13-tries-to-save-the-living-and-the-dead/ 2013-05-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com So much is happening in The Good Wife's season four finale, "What's in the Box?" which aired on CBS this week. Zach (Graham Phillips) thinks he spots voter fraud, sending Lockhardt Garner scrambling into multiple court battles to try to save the election for Peter (Chris Noth). Meanwhile, who will be splitting off to form a new firm is revealed, personal relationships are rocked, and the election results come in. One of the things The Good Wife does well is build a stable of reliable, fantastic recurring players. Lots of them appear in "What's in the Box?" lending a bit http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1683/the-good-wife-finds-out-whats-in-the-box/ 2013-04-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Glee - "Lights Out" on Blogcritics. "Lights Out" plague Glee this week as a power outage thrusts the school into darkness. This ruins Will's (Matthew Morrison) plan to stage a huge, stadium-style number to impress the judges at Regionals, and forces the kids to go back to their musical roots with acoustic and a cappella performances. The basic story of "Lights Out" makes absolutely no sense. A Mylar balloon gets stuck in an electric socket and knocks out the electricity for the entire building? The kids are not sent home? Somehow, the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1682/lights-out-creatively-on-glee/ 2013-04-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Just when I'd given up on NBC's Community, they pull a surprise from the bag. This week's installment, "Basic Human Anatomy," gives rich character development for multiple main players, and while not super funny, advances along a couple of plots in a very nice way. The premise is, Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi) switch bodies after holding a video copy of Freaky Friday and saying some words in unison. Except, they don't really switch. Troy is having trouble telling Britta (Gillian Jacobs) that he wants to just be friends, ending their one year relationship, and uses the ploy http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1681/community-passes-basic-human-anatomy/ 2013-04-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com I finally found the stinker in the lineup of Amazon Originals pilots, released online this week. Those Who Can't is an unfunny, offensive, unrealistic look at lazy, slacking teachers in a high school. These men would never have made it through their student teaching, PRAXIS tests, or earned a Master's degree, as is required of teachers, and would have long been fired. When teachers have so recently been unfairly attacked in the political and social landscape, the last thing the profession needs is a piling on like this. There are three main teachers in the show: Loren Payton (Adam Cayton-Holland), http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1677/amazon-originals-those-who-cant-review/ 2013-04-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Amazon made a ballsy move by releasing one of their new pilots, Dark Minions, in an unfinished state. Intended to be stop-motion animation, only a handful of scenes are complete, with the rest presented as sketches and sound effects. I do not know the costs associated with stop motion, so don't know if that was the reason for the incomplete look, but I got the gist of the program decently enough. The story is easy to follow, the characters are relatable and likeable, and the voice work is cartoonish enough to mostly overcome the lack of visual product. Still, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1678/amazon-originals-dark-minions-review/ 2013-04-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The last Amazon pilot on my review list is Browsers. Set in the offices of what appears to be a sort of Huffington Post-style website called Gush, Browsers finds four young interns joining the staff, full of spirit and passion and song. Yep, it's a musical. Browsers may be compared to Glee or Smash, the other two musicals on the air, but it shouldn't be. The songs, all originals from what I could tell, do not at all compare to the level of quality on those other shows. The singers are talented enough, but the melodies feel like the lesser http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1679/amazon-originals-browsers-review/ 2013-04-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Onion News Empire is the best of Amazon's new "Pilot" offerings. From the minds of the infamous satirical Onion comes a show that is part The Newsroom parody, part a lambasting of modern CNN, part political roast, part journalism criticism, and part just plain fun. Plus, though I like The Onion's shorts and former Comedy Central series, Onion News Empire boasts a casts of mostly proven actors, which helps the credibility of the franchise's latest effort, and the boosts the talent level involved. We are quickly introduced to quite a few characters in the "Pilot." Not just introduced, but told http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1676/amazon-originals-onion-news-empire-review/ 2013-04-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Glee - "Sweet Dreams" on Blogcritics. FOX's Glee is all about sweet dreams this week, as Rachel (Lea Michele), Finn (Cory Monteith), and Marley (Melissa Benoist) each realize a long-held desire. Mixed with mostly great music, "Sweet Dreams" manages to be a decent installment, even if there are some pretty big plot holes in one of the threads. First up, we'll go with the best story in "Sweet Dreams," and that belongs to Rachel. Rachel's Funny Girl audition is coming up, and she searches for the perfect song to sing. She considers doing http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1673/sweet-dreams-for-glee/ 2013-04-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Another of Amazon's new pilots is Betas. Set in Silicon Valley, four computer programming geeks attempt to build the next great bit of code and make their dreams come true. But while it is hard to catch a break, their own worst enemies may just be themselves. Betas reminds me a lot of The L.A. Complex, except about a different and specific slice of Americana. These are the young people who believe they can achieve fame and fortune through their own special skills, and then find that luck and networking plays as big a part as talent in this game. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1674/betas/ 2013-04-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com From the mind of Doonesbury cartoonist Gary Trudeau comes a new political comedy "Pilot" currently available through Amazon, Alpha House. Alpha House is about a bunch of Republican Senators who share an abode in the Capital during the week, and then return to their wives and children in their home state on the weekends. Together, the men deal with the rigors and ridiculousness of politics in Washington D.C. The story opens with one of their own, Vernon Smits (Bill Murray, Moonrise Kingdom), getting arrested, but totally unprepared for it because his scheduler screwed up. It's a funny scene, but Murray http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1675/alpah-house/ 2013-04-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Amazon has recently released a bunch of pilots they are considering picking up for series, depending on the public's reaction to them. One such entry is Zombieland: The Series. Based on the hit movie Zombieland, different actors play the four roles from the film, and the action continues not long after the events from that endeavor. I loved Zombieland: The Series's opening. It's two people sitting in an office. One of them, Ainsley (Tim Bagley, Web Therapy, Monk), thinks he is having a very bad day, and his sympathetic co-worker, Sheila (Rachel Cannon, Underemployed), is listening with a kind ear. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1671/zombieland-the-series/ 2013-04-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Among Amazon's recently released pilot offerings is Supanatural. At first glance, this looks to be the least promising, the animated characters not appealing to me in the slightest. But upon watching the episode, I actually found it quite humorous. Lucretia (Jameeliah Garrett) and Hezbah (Lily Sparks, Boyz Nite Out/Grrlz Nite in) do not look like your typical supernatural crime fighting duo. They dress a bit low class and work in the mall, Hezbah in a candle shop and Lucretia as a security guard. They don't talk with the best of grammar, act like divas, and have trouble making their rent. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1672/supanatural/ 2013-04-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com As MTV's Awkward. moves into its third season, changes are afoot. Jenna (Ashley Rickards) is now a junior and has been happy for months in her relationship with Matty (Beau Mirchoff). But upon returning to school, she finds herself out of step with both her friends and her new studies. And a death among the student body forces everyone to re-evaluate their priorities and feelings. Jenna is faced with a pregnancy scare, and confides in her mother, Lacey (Nikki Deloach). I love the scene where the two make the pregnancy seem like a good thing, psyching themselves up in http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1667/awkward-chachachachanges/ 2013-04-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The second season of TNT's Dallas draws to a close this week with two fresh hours, "Guilt By Association" and "Legacies." We finally find out what J.R.'s (Larry Hagman) master plan is, and, when the Ewings unite, Cliff (Ken Kercheval) and Harris (Mitch Pileggi) are taken down for good. Or are they? For a show like Dallas, the rules must constantly change, new secrets are continuously revealed, and the players that lose one battle will return for another stage in the war. Cliff and Harris are heavily involved with the Ewing family, and thus will probably get the chance to fight http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1668/dallas-honors-legacies/ 2013-04-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com BBC America recently presented the four part miniseries Spies of Warsaw, which is now available on Blu-ray and DVD. David Tennant (Doctor Who) stars in this tale of intrigue and romance in Europe during the late 1930s, as the build up to World War II rages on. Unfortunately, it is dreadfully dull. I was really looking forward to Spies of Warsaw. Tennant is "my Doctor," as the saying goes, and I couldn't wait to see the project he picked next. Yet, tied down by a rote, slow-moving plot and a restrained character, he lacks the spark and draw from his http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1669/spies-of-warsaw-not-so-sneaky/ 2013-04-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's Community celebrates Christmas this week with "Intro to Knots." Jeff (Joel McHale) throws a holiday party at his apartment for the study group and Chang (Ken Jeong). Annie (Alison Brie) invites Professor Cornwallis (Malcolm McDowell) when she learns he is giving them a poor grade. Hijinks ensue when Chang ties up Cornwallis, and Cornwallis begins playing mind games with the study group. I really dig the concept "Intro to Knots" is going for, even if the execution leaves something to be desired. Cornwallis, a wonderful professor to add to Community's recurring cast, getting into the heads of our main http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1670/community-christmas-in-april/ 2013-04-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com There's a lot that is familiar in SyFy's new drama Defiance. A loner hero blows into town just to get a bit of money, and then intends to leave. Instead, he is sucked into the plight of the rebels, and ends up risking his life for them. A small frontier town stands up against an army they couldn't possibly hope to beat, and wins. A leader who doesn't feel up to the challenge finds her way. Generational divides between parents and children tear families apart. But those small elements, used many times over in fiction before, don't seem all that http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1666/defiant-defiance/ 2013-04-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Glee - "Shooting Star" on Blogcritics. FOX's Glee broke far out of its comedy mold this week with "Shooting Star." After a couple of songs and the continuation of the normal plots, gun shots ring out in the halls of McKinley. Students and teachers alike are terrified, and wait with bated breath for the all clear. Glee is a light-hearted series, and "Shooting Star" betrays that tone, stretching viewers far outside of their comfort zones. I liked the hour very much  as an episode of television. It was very well made, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1665/glee-shoots-more-than-a-star/ 2013-04-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as Blu-ray Review: The Blue Planet: Seas of Life on Blogcritics. From the makers of Planet Earth, BBC Earth's Emmy-winning The Blue Planet: Seas of Life is an exploration of animal life in and around the oceans, including the ones frozen over. It goes deep into the... well, deep parts of the ocean, and also examines the creatures that thrive on the shores. For most of us, what lies under the waves remains an elusive mystery. Most of our planet is covered in water, but it's not easy or cheap to go explore much of that http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1662/dive-into-the-blue-planet-on-bluray/ 2013-04-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Plagued with doubt about herself after dumping her fiance, Lauren (Laura Benanti) turns her focus on making progress with the group in NBC's Go On season finale, "Urn-ed Run." It's not that she didn't pay attention to them before, but has now decided that she has more time and energy to give to the group, and so is going to make a difference. Yet, she apparently fails, with no one having made any break throughs lately, so Yolanda (Suzy Nakamura) and Sonia (Sarah Baker) stage a fake death in their work place so that Lauren can come in and quickly http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1663/go-ons-first-year-an-urned-run/ 2013-04-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Archer - "Sea Tunt: Part 2" on Blogcritics. FX's Archer completes its fourth season with "Sea Tunt: Part 2." Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) and the other ISIS agents journey to Sealab to stop crazy Captain Murphy (Jon Hamm, Mad Men) from firing weapons at the United States and other world powers. How appropriate that Archer's fourth season, which begins with a major play on Bob's Burgers, ends with another cartoon spoof, this time of Sealab 2012. While the first three seasons didn't have winks at other shows this blatantly, this new element http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1660/archer--seat-tunt-part-2/ 2013-04-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as Blu-ray Review: One Life on Blogcritics. Everyone knows that we only have one life to live on this planet, before giving way to the natural cycle. But how often do we stop and remember that human beings are not the only creatures to which that adage applies? What does this mean to the various animals that inhabit the globe with us? Now on a Blu-ray + DVD + Ultraviolet combo pack in a special Earth Day edition, BBC Earth's One Life attempts to answer that question. One Life is an 85-minute look at various http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1661/one-life-actually-a-repeat/ 2013-04-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's Community does a puppet-themed musical episode with this week's "Intro to Felt Surrogacy." The study group returns from an adventure oddly, regarding each other with awkward silence. Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) decides that the best way to help them work through their issues is to give them puppet versions of themselves, whom they can speak through to reveal uncomfortable things. It works. Community has done many outlandish episodes before, such as working with claymation or 8-bit animation. The puppet premise seems a logical way for them to continue that trend. As such, the idea of this installment is within http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1659/community-practices-felt-surrogacy/ 2013-04-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Cougar Town, having successfully relocated from ABC to TBS this year, wraps up their fourth season with the two parter "Don't Fade On Me; Have Love Will Travel." The Cul-de-Sac gang plans a trip to the Bahamas, but when Jules (Courteney Cox) learns that her father, Chick (Ken Jenkins), has Alzheimers, she convinces her friends to give him the dream trip he has always wanted to Los Angeles. Surely, it saves quite a bit on budget to film a "location" shoot in the same city the rest of the series is taped in, even though the show is set in http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1658/cougar-town-sweet-and-funny-in-its-old-age/ 2013-04-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Showtime's sixth season finale of Californication, entitled "I'll Lay My Monsters Down," is a joyous celebration, as well as a time for introspection. Charlie (Evan Handler) and Marcy (Pamela Adlon) are getting remarried. Now Hank (David Duchovny) has to decide whether to hit the road with a rock tour, or try to win back the heart of his lady love once again. The wedding is super sweet. Marcy and Charlie have been through many a rough patch, but they always belong together. The longer that they are apart, the harder it gets to watch them suffer. Once Marcy agrees to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1655/californication-cant-shake-the-monsters/ 2013-04-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Showtime's House of Lies has spent two years crafting a set of characters, known as The Pod, who viewers love. Even while the rest of the world, bosses and clients, conspire against them, these four slingers of bull stick together and triumph over any foes. It's an inspiring group, full of teasing and affection. They may not be professional, but they get the job done. That is, until the second season finale, "Til Death Do Us Part," when The Pod implodes in a spectacular and messy fashion. "Til Death Do Us Part" is an interestingly structured episode, beginning with http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1656/house-of-lies-implodes-in-season-finale/ 2013-04-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com As we go through "The Doorway" into Mad Men's sixth season on AMC, we can immediately see that a lot has changed. Some of it is surface, such as the hair styles, an excess of marijuana smoking, and the bustling, busy, successful, two-story Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce agency. But some of it goes deeper, as the unhappiness that has long-festered in several of the leads comes to the surface even more now, making "The Doorway" a pretty depressing and dark installment. Don (Jon Hamm) is our main character. As "The Doorway" opens, after a cut scene of an unknown man http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1654/mad-men-goes-through-the-doorway/ 2013-04-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Doctor Who - "The Bells of Saint John" on Blogcritics. Doctor Who begins the back half of its seventh season on BBC American with "The Bells of Saint John." The Doctor (Matt Smith), hiding away as a monk in the early 13th Century, gets a phone call from Clara (Jenna-Louise Coleman), who thinks he's tech support. But when he rushes to her side in modern day England, he discovers her Wi-Fi problems are only just beginning. It's interesting that The Doctor is living in seclusion among monks. Recently, we see he's spent a long time http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1651/doctor-who-hears-the-bells-of-saint-john/ 2013-04-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC begins a new sitcom late this season as it premieres How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) this week. Polly (Sarah Chalke, Scrubs) leaves her irresponsible husband, Julian (Jon Dore, The Jon Dore Show), and, with her daughter, Natalie (Rachel Eggleston, Summer Snow), in tow, moves back in with her mother, Elaine (Elizabeth Perkins, Weeds), and step-father, Max (Brad Garrett, Everybody Loves Raymond). If the premise seems simple enough, it is. There isn't much groundbreaking about the concept, or how the episodes play out. Skipping the first six months of the living arrangement, the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1652/who-would-want-to-know-how-to-live-with-your-parents-for-the-rest-of-your-life/ 2013-04-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This week's installment of NBC's Community achieves the great feat of giving something good to almost every main character in the series, and yet still misses the goal or greatness. The main plot is Britta (Gillian Jacobs) and the Dean's (Jim Rash) competition to throw the best school dance, while Abed (Danny Pudi) juggles two dates at said events. But it's the minor details and touches that make the episode, more so than the overall story, as moments soar, but overall, it fails to achieve. The Dean is often in on the fringes of the show, and rarely gets involved http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1653/community-tells-herstory-of-dance/ 2013-04-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's freshman sitcom The New Normal completed its freshman run with a pair of episodes this week, "Finding Name-O" and "The Big Day." While not exactly a two-part story, these installments do flow well together, as Bryan (Andrew Rannells) and David (Justin Bartha) talk about baby names and prepare for their wedding, and then see the birth of their son and say their vows. My issue with the episode, especially "The Big Day," is that The New Normal follows the traditional sitcom tropes. Right as Bryan and David are getting ready to say "I do," Goldie (Georgia King) goes into http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1649/the-new-normal-slightly-too-normal-in-season-finale/ 2013-04-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Justified - "Ghosts" on Blogcritics. "Ghosts" is the fourth season finale of FX's Justified, which aired this week. Does the title refer to the ghost of Raylan's father, Arlo (Raymond J. Barry), recently deceased, whom Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) has always had a complicated relationship with? Or does it refer to the friendship between Raylan and Boyd (Walton Goggins), the men they once were, and the very different men they have become? Justified works primarily because of the complex characters in the story. Raylan is a lawman, and only shoots the bad guys http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1650/justified-haunted-by-ghosts/ 2013-04-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com BBC America's latest venture, partnered with a Canadian production, is Orphan Black, a dark, twisty, genre series. As the pilot, "Natural Selection," begins, Sarah (Tatiana Maslany, World Without End) is returning to town, on the run from her drug-dealing boyfriend, Vic (Michael Mando, Les Bleus de Ramville), from whom she has stolen a stash. Sarah's intention is to get her daughter, Kira (Skyler Wexler, Alphas), whom she abandoned, back, and run away again with kid and money from the stolen drugs. But it doesn't work out quite that way. It isn't that Sarah's plan is flawed; it is, of course, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1647/orphan-black-finds-a-home/ 2013-04-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's 1600 Penn is considered a long shot for renewal, and after viewing this week's season finale, I can see why. "Marry Me, Baby" finds President Dale Gilchrist (Bill Pullman) making a disparaging comment about marriage. The cable news frenzy and his political opponents latch one, and one of them discovers that Dale and Emily (Jenna Elfman) may not be legally married. Since the blunder is Skip's (Josh Gad) fault, of course, he helps Winslow (Rene Auberjonois) throw them a White House wedding. How could a president possible get elected without someone discovering this before now? It's well established that http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1646/moving-out-of-1600-penn/ 2013-03-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The freshman season finale of ABC's wacky sitcom The Neighbors aired this week. Entitled "It Has Begun...," the episode takes the surprising tack of setting up a cliffhanger and plot for next season. Surprising, because the ratings have never been stellar, and the chances for renewal aren't good. Though, TVLine.com has upgraded The Neighbors from "A long shot" to "Could go either way," so I guess it has a chance. The Neighbors seems destined to become a forgotten footnote in the annals of television history. It has an interesting concept, a middle-class New Jersey family moves into a suburb populated http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1643/it-has-likely-ended-for-the-neighbors/ 2013-03-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's Whitney surprised many when it got picked up for a sixteen episode second season last spring. Now, sitting on the bubble again, hopefully it will defy the odds once more and get a third year's order. It has worked on correcting the initial flaws hard enough to deserve it. I really like Whitney. At the end of season one, I was of the opinion that only the stuff between Whitney (Whitney Cummings) and her boyfriend, Alex (Chris D'Elia), worked, while their friends should go. With a bit of retooling, though, I've ended up liking the other three that were http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1644/whitney-has-her-cake-cake-cake-and-eats-it-too/ 2013-03-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FOX's Raising Hope completed its third season with a pair of new episodes last night, "Burt Mitzvah: The Musical" and "Mother's Day." Both are truly excellent examples of a consistently great series, and unable to choose between them, this review will cover elements of each. In "Burt Mitzvah: The Musical," Burt's mother (Shirley Jones, The Partridge Family, The Music Man) tells her son that she's recently discovered she is Jewish, and by extension, so is he. She lays in a fitting Jewish mother guilt trip until Burt (Garret Dillahunt) agrees to have a Bar Mitzvah. However, Burt soon learns that http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1645/raising-hope-continues-to-raise-the-bar/ 2013-03-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's Psych presents a special 100th episode tonight. Titled "100 Clues," the installment is a tribute to the cult-1980s comedy film, Clue. In that spirit, the hour has many references to the movie, and guest stars three Clue alumni: Christopher Lloyd, Martin Mull, and Lesley Ann Warren. The premise looks familiar: Shawn (James Roday) and Gus (Dulé Hill) attend a mysterious dinner party at a spooky mansion. Once there, they learn they have been invited by a rock star named Billy Lipps (Steve Valentine, I'm in the Band), whom they helped put away for murder, and whom has recently been http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1641/psychs-100th-clue/ 2013-03-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Glee - "Guilty Pleasures" on Blogcritics. FOX's Glee explores "Guilty Pleasures" this week. We all have things that we are somewhat ashamed of liking. But because this applies to everyone, you should not feel embarrassed. And as the New Directions learn, if you are willing to share that hidden interest, you may just realize that others around you have the same love. This is a feel-good story, to be sure, but also an incredibly cheesy one. If there's one complaint I have about Glee overall is that every student in the club seems to know http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1640/glee-is-a-satisfying-guilty-pleasure/ 2013-03-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This week's installment of NBC's Community, "Economics of Marine Biology," encapsulate perfectly what is wrong with this fourth year of the series. The A plot, where the Dean (Jim Rash) asks the study group, which ends up being just Annie (Alison Brie), to help him land a rich, lazy whale (The Inbetweeners' Zack Pearlman) as a student, is actually quite a small part of the story. This is bad. Let me tell you why. Community inhabits a very specific world, namely, Greendale Community College. Greendale has long been a major part of the heart of the show. Only at a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1638/not-the-community-it-used-to-be/ 2013-03-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com As HBO's second season of Girls comes to an end in "Together," there are some resolutions, but there is also more mess. Which is par for the course. The girls at the center of this show are very flawed, but authentic, portraits of young women these days, who may not have been as prepared for the real world as they'd hoped, and, as the title of the show suggests, still straddle the line between child and adult. Some have criticized this series from the beginning, and some who loved the first season have turned on it in the second year. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1637/girls-still-not-getting-it-together/ 2013-03-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com In the latest installment of CBS's The Big Bang Theory, titled "The Closet Reconfiguration," Sheldon (Jim Parsons) organizes the extremely messy walk-in closet of Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) and Howard (Simon Helberg). Within the  clutter, Sheldon finds a letter Howard received from his father (who abandoned Howard as a child) on his eighteenth birthday. Not knowing how to file it, Sheldon opens and reads it, to Howard's dismay. I normally don't like Howard-centric episodes. The whole astronaut plot wears pretty thin, and kind of drags the series down by the end of his tenure in space. However, in delving into the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1636/the-big-bang-theory-finds-a-secret-in-the-closet/ 2013-03-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Glee - "Feud"on Blogcritics. Glee takes off the gloves this week and focuses on the "Feud" between Will (Matthew Morrison) and Finn (Cory Monteith). Will wants to forgive Finn for kissing Emma (Jayma Mays), but finds himself unable to do so, making the atmosphere of the glee club toxic. The students challenge their two directors to sing out the tension. It's a solid idea, I guess, to have Will and Finn battle it out musically. That's the kind of show Glee is, using music to express and solve everything, so it makes sense. But it does http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1634/feud-disrupts-glee/ 2013-03-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Setting aside my annoyance that BBC America is now spending money on original programming instead of bringing us more than a handful of British shows at a time, and that annoyance is great, their new series, Ripper Street, sort of an old-timey CSI, now out on Blu-ray and DVD, is pretty good. Ripper Street is the second such effort the network has made, following closely on the heels of Copper. On the surface, both shows seem pretty similar. They both follow cops more than a century ago, breaking rules because their moral codes are different than our modern ones, and http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1633/ripper-street-slashes-its-way-onto-bluray/ 2013-03-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as DVD Review: Doctor Who - The Aztecs Special Edition on Blogcritics. The Aztecs, the latest Doctor Who Special Edition released to DVD by the BBC originally aired towards the end of the show's first series. The serial consists of four half-hour episodes, which aired in May and June of 1964. It is now available on a two-disc set, complete with a wealth of extras. As The Aztecs opens, the TARDIS lands in a tomb in 15th century Mexico. Upon emerging from said tomb, Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) is mistakenly hailed as an incarnation of an ancient high priestess. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1631/doctor-who-messes-with-the-aztecs/ 2013-03-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as DVD Review: Doctor Who - The Ark in Space Special Edition on Blogcritics. Now available from the BBC is the two-disc Doctor Who - The Ark in Space Special Edition. The second serial in the 12th season, these four half-hour episodes have been called the best of the classic Doctor Who by both Russell T. Davies and Steven Moffat, both driving forces in the latest reincarnation of the show. Originally airing in January and February of 1975, The Ark in Space, opens with the TARDIS landing on a seemingly deserted, aged space station; it's http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1632/doctor-who-sails-on-the-ark-in-space/ 2013-03-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's Saturday Night Live has good episodes and bad. In recent years, after the 2008 election, the bad weeks have outnumbered the good by quite a few. But all it takes is a fantastic host and a bevy of wonderful guests to turn things around, and last week's episode, which features Justin Timberlake as both the host and musical guest, does just that. Right from the opening where Timberlake does a wonderful Elton John impersonation with a "Candle in the Wind" parody, the episode takes off. Timberlake is obviously a musician, having contributed to many of the best musical numbers http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1628/justin-timberlake-brings-back-saturday-night-live/ 2013-03-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The latest installment of NBC's Community is "Advanced Documentary Filmmaking." As in previous "Documentary" episodes, Abed (Danny Pudi) sets about to film something for Greendale, but ends up taking it in a totally different direction than originally intended, or what others might like him to do. This year's subject: Changnesia, as Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) tries to get the school a grant to help Kevin (Ken Jeong) battle his crippling "illness." The fly in the ointment, so to speak, is Jeff (Joel McHale). While everyone else buys Chang's changed behavior as "Kevin," Jeff is convinced it is all a scam, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1629/community-documents-again/ 2013-03-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This week's episode of NBC's Grimm, "Natural Born Wesen," gets business back to normal, kicks off a new arc, and winds down a past one, all at the same time. Banks are being robbed by crooks that appear to wear very realistic masks, but are actually Wesen, revealing their hidden faces to the general public. Nick (David Giuntoli) tries to bring them in as a cop would, but their actions threaten Wesen everywhere, and Nick isn't the only one dealing with the problem. I like that the cure for Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) and Captain Renard's (Sasha Roiz) condition is over http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1630/grimm-invaded-by-natural-born-wesen/ 2013-03-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's Grimm has really grown into something special in its second season. Sort of like a darker Buffy (at least compared to the early seasons of Buffy), Grimm is about a group of people, some with supernatural powers, some without, who fight the evil beasts who threaten their world. More and more people are brought in on the secret, gearing up for an epic battle. Unlike season one, which mainly focuses on a case every week, season two travels one long arc, as Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) loses her memory of Nick (David Giuntoli) and finds herself hopelessly and passionate attracted http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1626/grimm-will-tear-your-face-off/ 2013-03-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com TNT's Dallas says goodbye to a legend this week, JR Ewing, in the special episode "JR's Masterpiece." In the installment, several people from JR's past, family, lovers, business partners, and crushes, come together with those who are still in his life every day for a funeral tribute. They talk of how he touched the city of Dallas, the goods things he did, and the type of man he was. Evil or not, he had his charms. Even if one did not watch the original Dallas, as I unfortunately have not yet done, this episode is very moving. Even the theme http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1627/dallas-honors-jrs-masterpiece/ 2013-03-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as Blu-ray Review: Africa on Blogcritics. The latest BBC Earth nature special is Africa: Eye to Eye With the Unknown, now available on Blu-ray and DVD. It may seem a predictable subject, as so many productions about the continent have already been done. In fact, when I think of nature specials, I think of Africa. However, this Africa has plenty of fresh, new material to present, and should not seem boring or like its just re-covering popular topics. Africa is hosted by the legendary Sir David Attenborough, a frequent contributor to the BBC Earth series. His http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1623/take-a-trip-to-africa/ 2013-03-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Glee - "Girls (and Boys) on Film" on Blogcritics. FOX's Glee is certainly frustrating. After a great fall run, they completely dropped the ball during February sweeps, one of the most important times of the year for television, with several weak episodes in a row. Now, the ratings push being over, Glee returns with another good episode, "Girls (and Boys) on Film." Part of why this week's installment works so well is the music that is used. The episode features the 500th musical performance ever on the show, as well as http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1622/glee-goes-to-the-movies/ 2013-03-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's Community delivers the second consecutive solid episode of the fourth season this week with "Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations." It's Thanksgiving, and Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) invites everyone to her home for dinner. They accept, except Jeff (Joel McHale), who has a surprise - he's going to visit his estranged father, William (James Brolin, Castle, Catch Me If You Can), this holiday. Jeff is a shallow jerk of a man, or so we believe for the first couple of seasons. But at the end of season three, Community made a choice to begin to explore his psyche in a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1621/community-more-than-just-cooperative-escapism/ 2013-03-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC's newest "gripping" drama is Red Widow, which offered a two hour premiere this week of "Pilot" and "The Contact." In it,  Marta Walraven (Radha Mitchell, Silent Hill), the grown daughter in a crime family, asks her husband, Evan (Hell on Wheels' Anson Mount), to get her and their three children out of the family business. Evan promises to do so, after warning Marta that they will have to leave everything behind. But before that can happen, Evan is murdered and Marta is forced into being a criminal herself to pay off his debt. There are multiple sides to this http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1619/red-widow-surviving-not-thriving/ 2013-03-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's White Collar completes its fourth go-round this week with "In the Wind." Reese (James Rebhorn) warns Peter (Tim DeKay) not to trust Callaway (Emily Procter, CSI: Miami), who apparently is in the pocket of Senator Pratt (Titus Welliver, Lost, Sons of Anarchy). Since the FBI is closing in on the evidence box in the Empire State Building, and Peter doesn't think he can get around Callaway professionally, he asks Neal (Matt Bomer) to cross the line and get the evidence himself. "In the Wind" is an action-packed episode. There is a death by shooting, a couple of twists, some http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1620/white-collars-fourth-season-is-now-in-the-wind/ 2013-03-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com HBO's Enlightened brings its second season (and possibly series) to an end this week with "Agent of Change." The proverbial crap hits the fan as Jeff's (Dermot Mulroney) article about Abaddon becomes public knowledge. Amy's (Laura Dern) part in it is fully exposed, costing her her job. Before she goes quietly or triumphantly off into the night though, she burns a few more bridges. Amy is a polarizing character you tend to either love or hate. Despite enjoying the show, I don't like the lead very much. I don't know if this is a testament to Dern for creating such http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1617/enlightened-may-not-be-the-agent-of-change-it-hopes/ 2013-03-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's Community has floundered quite a bit in its fourth season, coming up with stories that generally fit in the tone and scheme of the series overall, but feeling a bit hollow underneath, the characters just not being as smartly written as they are before, and the plot not quite as tight. I'm happy to report that this week's installment, "Alternative History of the German Invasion," is the first episode to overcome these problems and deliver. I won't claim it's the most creative or funniest installment of Community, but it does get everyone right, is just weird enough to work, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1616/community-invaded-once-more-by-germans/ 2013-03-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Many scoff at NBC's Guys With Kids. At first, I was one of the many. But something spoke to me, perhaps because I am (emotionally, not financially) at the point in my life where I am ready to have kids myself, so I kept watching. And week after week, the series grew on me. By last night's season, likely series, finale, "Divorce Party," I realized I am going to miss this show. Now if the target audience is only wanna-be dads, I admit, this is a limited demographic. It's not like it's a particularly smart or high quality show. I http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1614/guys-with-kids-throws-a-divorce-party/ 2013-02-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com In the next episode of FX's ARCHER, "Live and Let Dine," the team goes undercover at a fancy restaurant when an Albanian diplomat is threatened. To make matters even more fun, the dining establishment is the setting of a reality TV series entitled Bastard Chef. Of course, there are a couple of twists, and when it's all said and done, the staff of ISIS is just proven as incompetent as ever. I like that ARCHER is always searching for new ways to spice up their comedy. The way that they excel in fresh settings and unexpected originality, even while doing http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1615/archer-dines-out/ 2013-02-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as Blu-ray Review: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome on Blogcritics. Now on Blu-ray and DVD, and downloadable, is Universal's Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome. Set 10 years into the First Cylon War, after the events of Caprica, and several decades before the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, Blood & Chrome follows young William Adama (Luke Pasqualino, The Borgias, Skins) on his very first mission, which goes horribly wrong. For those BG fans who complain that Caprica isn't action-packed enough (I am definitely not one of them), Blood & Chrome swings to the opposite extreme, a high-octane thrill ride http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1612/bluray-review-battlestar-galactica-blood--chrome/ 2013-02-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The characters in USA's Suits have had a rough season, what with Daniel Hardman (David Costabile) returning to the firm he helped found, trying to wrest control away away from the current partners, and then other firms smelling blood in the water and circling. In the season finale, "War," though, the biggest threat comes not from the outside of Pearson (Hardman?), but from the inside. It's hard to tell which person the threat lies with. Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres) thinks the best course for the firm that she runs is to merge with a British company run by Edward Darby (Conleth http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1611/suits-goes-to-war/ 2013-02-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as Blu-ray Review: Game of Thrones The Complete Second Season on Blogcritics. Season one of the HBO series Game of Thrones is a lot about setting up the world of the show, introducing us to the characters and their various positions and relations. Season two, though, which aired last spring, and is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Download, is about floundering for control in a major power vacuum, the world thrown into chaos, and enough uncertainty that anyone could come out ahead. Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) sits on the Iron Throne, the traditional place of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1610/bluray-review-game-of-thrones-the-complete-second-season/ 2013-02-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Justified - "Money Trap" on Blogcritics. Grade: 93% This week's episode of FX's Justified, "Money Trap," is mostly a break from the season-long hunt for Drew Thompson. Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) sets out to talk to his father, Arlo (Raymond J. Barry), in prison to see if he can convince Arlo to give him a new lead on Drew. But since it's a task Raylan doesn't want to do anyway, he jumps at the first distraction that will take him away from the task. Despite minimizing the large arcs, "Money Trap" is http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1607/justified-sidesteps-the-money-trap/ 2013-02-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Grade: 94% PBS completed its airing of Downton Abbey's third series this week with the hour-and-a-half Christmas special. While much of the drama does usually revolve around romance, this installment kicks it up a notch, and for awhile, it seems like everyone is coupling up. Which is a sweet note to end the year on, even if they all won't work out. Robert (Hugh Bonneville) Crawley, Cora (Elizabeth McGovern), and their closest relations are invited to Duneagle Castle, the home of Violet's (Maggie Smith) niece, Susan (Phoebe Nicholls, Brideshead Revisited). Unfortunately, during their stay, it becomes increasingly obvious http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1608/downton-abbey-celebrates-romantic-christmas/ 2013-02-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Grade: 82% In this week's episode of NBC's Community, "Conventions of Space and Time," Troy (Donald Glover), Britta (Gillian Jacobs), and Abed (Danny Pudi) attend a science fiction convention celebrating the guys' favorite television series, Inspector Spacetime. (If you don't know what Inspector Spacetime is, it's Community's take on Doctor Who, without having to worry about copyright issues). But, rather than just having a fun weekend, they are plagued by a test of their friendship and the tag-along of the rest of the study group. For those waiting for a good Abed / Troy / Britta relationship story, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1609/community-at-a-convention/ 2013-02-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Grade: 89% In tonight's episode of FX's ARCHER, "Once Bitten," Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) is bitten by a deadly snake in the middle of the desert. His jeep is stuck in the sand, and Ray (Adam Reed) and Cyril (Chris Parnell) can't get it out. Can they find help for Archer before he dies? Yes, yes they can. Sure, killing off the title character is certainly not going to happen, so their eventual solving of the problem is a given. That doesn't make the journey any less fun, as Cyril, Ray, and Archer bicker. It's like a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1606/archer-bitten-by-the-comedy-snake/ 2013-02-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Glee - "I Do" on Blogcritics The latest installment of FOX's Glee, "I Do," finally finds Will (Matthew Morrison) and Emma (Jayma Mays) heading for the altar, prompting all of the recent New Directions alumni to come home for the wedding. But before the bride can utter those two little words, she makes a run for it, ruining the event. This episode is mostly ridiculous. Yes, we know Emma has issues, and with Will having been out of town for most of the wedding planning, as well as her story about her childhood http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1603/glee-i-dont/ 2013-02-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Two episodes into the fourth season of NBC's Community, and I still feel like something is a little off. The idea that the characters will spend the evening in Pierce's (Chevy Chase) haunted mansion in "Paranormal Parentage" is a solid one, and knowing that he tricks them into coming because he feels left out is obvious, but makes sense. Some of the things that happen during this adventure are great. Others fall a little flat. For instance, why do we keep seeing shadowy figures following everyone around? We glimpse one behind Abed (Danny Pudi) in the control room, but neither http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1604/community-paranormal-parentage-a-little-too-normal/ 2013-02-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as DVD Review: Doctor Who - The Reign of Terror on Blogcritics. The BBC finally released the Doctor Who eason one finale, The Reign of Terror on DVD this month. Besides Marco Polo (which is lost, but has already been released as a condensed reconstruction), this is the last serial of the first year that hadn't yet been available on disc. The Reign of Terror begins with the Doctor (William Hartnell) attempting to take Ian (William Russell) and Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) home, but instead they land in France in the 18th Century, at the time of the French Revolution. It doesn't http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1601/doctor-who-cowed-by-the-reign--of-terror/ 2013-02-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com In ABC's Grey's Anatomy this week, the hospital is ready to be sold to Pegasys, the medical company that runs hospitals like factories. This fact weighs very heavily on Owen (Kevin McKidd), who doesn't believe in what Pegasys is doing, but feels like the deal is the only way to keep Seattle Grace Mercy West running, and protect the jobs of all of the employees. There is another way, put forth by Callie (Sara Ramirez), but we'll get to that in a moment. Owen is put in an incredibly difficult position in "Hard Bargain." He has a responsibility, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1602/greys-anatomy-drives-a-hard-bargain/ 2013-02-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com As Netflix successfully launches their new House of Cards, the original British version is now available on Blu-ray from the BBC. The premise is basically the same, though set in a different country at a different time. Some may wonder if a twenty year old British miniseries can compare to the premium offering of today. The answer is, yes. BBC's House of Cards Trilogy isn't just a historical footnote. It is an Emmy-winning political thriller that birthed the genre on television. It holds up incredibly well, with intrigue and twists, and some terrific acting. There are plenty enough differences from http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1599/house-of-cards-not-just-new-game/ 2013-02-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com I admit, I was growing tired of ABC's Scandal last fall. The case-of-the-week format was tedious, and the characters were growing less interesting to me by the minute. I had a hard time motivating myself to watch it. Then came the voter rigging scandal arc. A vast conspiracy among many of the top people in the presidential administration, steeped in lots of cover up and mystery, information being leaked to us only in tiny bits. As the plot gets thicker and thicker, and the focus moves to the offenders, rather than Pope's team and their regular job, the series gets http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1598/no-one-wins-in-a-scandal/ 2013-02-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Chapter 7" marks the halfway point of the first season for Netflix's House of Cards. All thirteen episodes dropped on February 1st, and I thought now would be a good time to check in, before finishing out the season. Expect my next review of the series to post next weekend, covering the season finale. By "Chapter 7," one of Frank's (Kevin Spacey) biggest missions in the early episodes has been completed. President Walker (Michael Gill) signs Frank's education bill into law. Frank stands behind him, proud as can be, knowing that he has earned himself more of the power that http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1595/house-of-cards--chapter-7/ 2013-02-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com AMC's The Walking Dead resumes its third season with "The Suicide King." The episode picks up right where last fall's mid-season finale left off, with the Governor (David Morrissey) forcing Merle (Michael Rooker) to fight his brother, Daryl (Norman Reedus), to the death to prove his loyalty to Woodbury. As the tussle begins, Merle knocks Daryl to the ground and begins kicking him. At first, I thought this meant that Merle intends to carry about the Governor's wishes. Then, he whispers words of reassurance to Daryl, before fighting back to back with him. If Merle is going to so quickly http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1596/the-walking-dead-king-of-cable-television/ 2013-02-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Glee - "Diva" on Blogcritics. This week on FOX's Glee, everyone tries to find their inner "Diva." Finn (Cory Monteith) uses this technique trying to motivate the students as they prepare for Regionals, since they don't seem enthusiastic, while Kurt (Chris Colfer) has to bring his diva back to knock an egotistical Rachel (Lea Michelle) down a peg. Do we really need an episode about divas in the fourth season of Glee? By this point, viewers know who is a diva and who isn't, and by encouraging outrageous behavior, it does no http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1597/glees-diva-days-are-numbered/ 2013-02-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com As NBC's The Office starts its wind down to the series finale in mid-May, the plot has turned really depressing. I expected to be taken through a more emotional segment of the journey, but maybe not for a sitcom to go quite as dark as it has. This week's episode, "Couples Discount," was absent of much joy, and yet, incredibly good. Andy (Ed Helms) returns to his post after being gone for three months. He wants to act like he never left, and to be caught up on all the latest going-ons, but is it because he cares, or because http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1593/the-office-turns-depressing/ 2013-02-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC played a cruel joke on Community fans this year when they removed October 19th from the fall calendar and moved it to between February 6th and 8th. Many long, dark months were spent waiting for the thirteen promised episodes, but now, in the middle of winter, the day has finally arrived for the Human Beings and their fans. As the premiere, "History 101," begins, after a spot-on gag with some glasses, the study group returns from their summer break as seniors and are ready to sign up for classes. Their first choice? The sole history course on the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1594/october-19th-has-finally-arrived-for-community-sixseasonsandamovie/ 2013-02-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FOX's New Girl has changed direction for two of its leads right as February sweeps begins in their sophomore year. Last week, Nick (Jake Johnson) finally kisses Jess (Zooey Deschanel), releasing some of the long pent-up tension between the roomies. Jess, being in a relationship doesn't take it well, and neither does Nick, as what he does scares him. Jess and Nick are not fully baked characters. They are in a state of flux, with Jess struggling to right herself during a career change, and Nick lacking, well, any direction. They aren't ready to be in a serious, committed relationship http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1592/new-girl-is-better-than-table-34/ 2013-02-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Glee - "Naked" on Blogcritics. The latest installment of FOX's Glee finds out many of our favorite characters getting "Naked." At McKinley, the guys are putting together a shirtless calendar to raise money to pay for their bus to Regionals in Indiana, while in New York, Rachel (Lea Michele) considers doing a topless scene in a student film. A few minutes into "Naked," this episode is looking pretty bad, one of the worst we've seen all season. It begins with the Warblers being charged for steroid abuse, prompting the local news to report http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1590/glee-gets-naked/ 2013-02-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com I was highly skeptical when CBS's Elementary premiered in the fall. We already have a great modern version of the Sherlock Holmes tale in the BBC's Sherlock, and CBS is not known for breaking new ground in their dramas, preferring to stick to a tried and true (and very boring) formula. However, in recent weeks, the story told in Elementary has begun to deepen. There are hints early in the fall at something better, an intriguing character study forming, making the case of the week bits less important. This comes to a triumphant crescendo with "M." a couple of weeks http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1591/elementary-proving-to-be-more-than-typical-cbs-procedural/ 2013-02-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Last night was the one hour series finale of NBC's 30 Rock. In a double length episode entitled "Hogcock!" and "Last Lunch," the cast that works behind the scenes at a late night sketch comedy show, in which we rarely see what the sketches are about, take their final bow, bringing us a few emotional payoffs along the way. Last week's episode, "A Goon's Deed in a Weary World," felt like a series finale. The Girlie Show is facing cancellation, and the cast and crew band together to make sure the show shuts down so that Liz (Tina Fey) could http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1589/30-rock-scarfs-down-its-last-lunch/ 2013-02-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com TNT's Dallas is back this week with two new hours, "Battle Lines" and "Venomous Creatures." The installments continue the story begun last summer, with the new Ewing Energies launched, family members battle for the direction of the company, and some more secrets brought out into the open. A pallor hangs over this season because most people know that Larry Hagman, who plays J.R., died mid-way through filming, meaning that his character won't be around much longer. J.R. really drives this program, and while lots of sentimental words have been said in the press recently, it is completely true that http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1588/dallas-draws-its-battle-lines/ 2013-01-31 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Glee - "Sadie Hawkins" on Blogcritics. The latest installment of FOX's Glee is called "Sadie Hawkins." Tired of being single, and with her eye on a boy, Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) pushes for a Sadie Hawkins dance at the school. She gets it, but it doesn't solve her problem the way that she hoped it would. With many of the fan favorite characters having graduated from McKinley last spring, sometimes Glee chooses to focus on the characters I consider the "B team." Tina is very much one of those characters, and unlike some, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1587/glee-attends-sadie-hawkins-dance/ 2013-01-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com In the lead up to London's hosting of the 2012 Olympics, there was a British-made sitcom entitled Twenty Twelve. The two series filmed take us behind the scenes of the fictional committee tasked with planning and implementing the event, and the foibles and pitfalls they encounter in their less-than-competent work. It's a goofy, but not too slapstick, comedy that just happens to tie in to a real event. It's now available as a two disc DVD set. My first impression of Twenty Twelve is that it's a lot like The Office. It's made in the mockumentary style, and features a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1585/twenty-twelve-lives-on/ 2013-01-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The season finale of NBC's Parenthood, entitled "Because You're My Sister," was very busy. The Braverman clan is a large family, and it takes quite a bit of time to serve each family member in their story. Not every episode makes it around to everyone, but this one did better than most at serving a large number of the cast. A huge part of the sweetness this week comes when Victor's (Xolo Mariduena) adoption is finalized. The entire family piles into a single courtroom, and many of them get to take turns telling Victor how glad they are that he http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1583/parenthood-has-its-rewards/ 2013-01-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: American Horror Story: Asylum - "Madness Ends" on Blogcritics. FX's American Horror Story: Aslyum brings its thirteen episode limited run to an end this week with "Madness Ends." With most of the main characters dead or out of Briarcliff, the primary setting, weeks ago, "Madness Ends" feels like an extended epilogue, combined with the previous installment or two. But it all ties together by the close. My early complaints about the second series of American Horror Story stem from the lack of character development. While the first season has a family as its heart, people http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1584/the-madness-ends-for-american-horror-story-asylum/ 2013-01-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC's Private Practice came to an end this week after six seasons on the air. Some of the plot arcs over the years were fantastic, others not so much. But there are some wonderful characters here, and some memorable stories, and thus, it's sad that it's over. Especially since it ran much shorter than the series it spun off from, Grey's Anatomy, still going strong nine seasons in. The main character of Private Practice has always been Addison Forbes Montgomery (Kate Walsh). Viewers meet her in Grey's Anatomy, the cheater in a bad marriage, and we watch her pull herself http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1582/private-practices-shuts-its-doors/ 2013-01-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as DVD Review: Doctor Who - Shada on Blogcritics. This month's Doctor Who DVD from the BBC is Shada. Originally intended to be the season 17 finale, only about half of Shada was ever filmed, owing to a strike, and it remains the only unaired Doctor Who serial. Now, for the first time on DVD, Shada sees the light of day. This release is a three-disc set. The first disc contains the six episodes that make up Shada. Because these episodes were never completed, in 1992, long after he'd given up his title as the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1580/doctor-who-finds-shada/ 2013-01-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The second season of the British series Misfits is now available on DVD and Blu-ray from the BBC. All five of the main characters from season one return, the same as ever, but their world is changing. They are approaching the end of their community service, and taking stock of what the powers mean to them and how they can be used in their lives. They aren't the only ones around with powers, though, and as the world begins to find out about people like them, it becomes harder to maintain control over what they want and who they are. Misfits is http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1581/mistfits-still-up-to-no-good-in-season-two/ 2013-01-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com I have been a fan of FOX's Fringe since day one. I liked the first season, and then grew to love the show as it deepened, building a rich, complex world, and making bold moves, constantly resetting themselves. And then came season five. Yes, the concept of jumping into a future where the Observers have taken over the world, virtually enslaving the entire human race, is supremely cool. But, somehow, our team found a way to get around in this world. Observers can jump to any place in seconds, but they couldn't find those deemed most dangerous to them, even though http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1577/on-the-fringe-no-more/ 2013-01-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The British series Being Human, not to be confused with the American remake that airs on SyFy, had a very dark fourth series last year. As the season begins, Nina (Sinead Keenan) and Mitchell (Aidan Turner) are dead, leaving an unraveling George (Russell Tovey) and Annie (Lenora Crichlow) to care for George and Nina's baby, Eve, as well as stop any forces that may seek to harm what's left of their small band. Unfortunately, since the baby is the first known to be born of two werewolves, there is an evil gang of vampires that would definitely like to get http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1578/being-human-series-four-scares-up-disc-release/ 2013-01-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Article first published as TV Review: Justified - "Where's Waldo?" on Blogcritics. FX's Justified continues its second season this week with "Where's Waldo?" Art (Nick Searcy) is drawn into the mystery of Waldo Truth, whose name and bag are found in Arlo's (Raymond J. Barr) wall. When Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) realizes that Arlo killed a man in prison just because he overheard Raylan talking about the bag, the Marshalls decide that they need to pay Waldo's family a visit. The tale of Waldo Truth, and his connection to Justified's characters, seems to be the main storyline this season. By http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1576/wheres-waldo-on-justified/ 2013-01-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com As BBC's The Hour begins its second season (recently released on Blu-ray and DVD), it has been over a year since we last left the characters. It's 1957, and in Freddie's absence (Ben Whishaw), Bel (Romola Garai) struggles to keep the show within a show living up to its potential, mostly failing, as even she will admit. Her mission is complicated by the fact that Hector (Dominic West), the face of the broadcast, has let his celebrity go to his head, and has become notoriously unreliable. Luckily, it isn't long before Freddie is back in town, and a new scandal http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1575/the-hour-returns-for-another-bout/ 2013-01-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This season, HBO's Enlightened is going dark, with Amy (Laura Dern) seeking revenge on her company, hoping to bring them down. Well, she claims in this week's premiere, "The Key," that she is not motivated by any need to get even, but I think that the lady doth protest too much. The question is, will her stated noble reasons to hurt her employer win out, or will her emotional state ruin the mission before it even gets started? As Amy approaches reporter Jeff Flender (Dermot Mulroney, New Girl, My Best Friend's Wedding) with information she obtained from hacking executive e-mail http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1573/still-not-enlightened/ 2013-01-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FX's Archer may very well be my favorite animated series on television. Setting aside its cartoon format, it's one of the best comedies, period. A mash up between workplace sitcom and spy adventure, Archer follows Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) and the staff of ISIS as they travel the globe, foiling bad guys, wrestling with ocelots, and sleeping with each other. Just before season four premieres this week, The Complete Third season has been released on DVD and Blu-ray. Note: I've previously written articles about several of the episodes mentioned. Click on the links in the episode titles for http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1570/archer-the-complete-third-season/ 2013-01-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Karl Pilkington is back for a second trip 'round the world in An Idiot Abroad 2. As in the first season, Karl hates just about every minute of his journey; he doesn't enjoy traveling or experiencing cultures that stretch him outside of his comfort zone. And also, like in the first bout, the results are hilarious for the television viewer who delights in watching the poor man suffer. Series one has Karl visiting the Seven Wonders of the World. In series two, Karl demands that he get to pick the adventures, choosing from among some of the most popular Bucket http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1569/dvd-review-an-idiot-abroad-2/ 2013-01-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It feels like the beginning of the end this week for NBC's 30 Rock. Jack (Alec Baldwin) engages in a final battle of the wits with Kaylie Hooper (Chloe Grace Moretz) for control of Kabletown. With the current CEO, Hank Hooper (Ken Howard), set to retire, Jack feels his chance to run the company slipping away to an evil teenage girl. Kaylie may be Jack's greatest foe yet, and the battle of wits between them becomes convoluted and full of deception. This is a really great plot because Jack is at his best when threatened, and he has to end http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1567/not-quite-game-over-for-30-rock-but-getting-close/ 2013-01-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com CBS's The Big Bang Theory, six seasons in, is having the best year of its run. Constantly setting viewing records, it is one of the most-watched shows on television. With episodes as funny and original as recent installments have been, it's no wonder, and it's gratifying that more and more people are discovering a sitcom I've found hilarious since the beginning. This week's entry, "The Bakersfield Expedition," finds the guys heading to a Comic Con in Bakersfield. Along the way, they stop at a desert locale where many Star Trek landing party missions were filmed, and decide to engage in http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1568/the-big-bang-theory-making-a-bigger-bang/ 2013-01-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Grade: 88%   ABC Family's Gilmore Girls 2: Bunheads returns to complete its freshman season this week with "You Wanna See Something?" It's the end of the summer, many months after the Nutcracker disaster, and no one is having a good time. Michelle (Sutton Foster) is hiding out in Henderson, Nevada, dancing for a ridiculous magician (yet another Gilmore Girls alum, Michael De Luise). Sasha (Julia Goldani Telles) is hiding out to avoid going home. Boo (Kaitlyn Jenkins) is caring for her pregnant, bed-ridden mother (Jennifer Hasty), while Melanie (Emma Dumont) cares for her very old, sick grandfather. Ginny (Bailey http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1566/you-wanna-see-something-watch-bunheads/ 2013-01-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Grade: 85% NBC's Deception is the network's foray into the genre of soapy drama. This is usually ABC's territory, as evidenced by Scandal and Desperate Housewives. Considering the field has plenty of this type of series already, with versions spreading throughout the cable landscape, can NBC provide something fresh and original enough to set itself apart? Yes, and no. Deception benefits from the best cast assembled in awhile for such an effort. It also takes itself more seriously than the average prime-time soap, avoiding the cartoonish and over the top elements of its peers. It's an intricate murder mystery http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1564/deception-brings-nbc-into-the-soapy-drama-game/ 2013-01-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com American fans eagerly awaited the series three premiere of Downton Abbey on PBS. We finally got it this past Sunday night with a special, two-hour episode. In the first part, the guests arrive for the highly anticipated wedding of Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) to Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens). Among those attending are Grandma Martha Levinson (Shirley MacLaine, Steel Magnolias), who would like to help loosen up her stuffy British in-laws, and Lady Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay) and her "commoner" husband, Tom Branson (Allen Leech). Unfortunately, the guests aren't the only thing causing trouble, as Robert (Hugh Bonneville) gets some disturbing http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1563/return-to-downton-abbey/ 2013-01-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Game Change won five Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Miniseries/Movie, Outstanding Casting, Outstanding Directing, Outstanding Writing, and Outstanding Lead Actress. It was also nominated for seven other awards. Now it awaits its fate with multiple nominations for the Golden Globes, Writers Guild, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. If you haven't already gotten the chance to watch Game Change, you're in luck. On January 8th, the HBO movie will be released on Blu-ray and DVD. The story is based on a book of the same name by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, which tells the tale of the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Actually, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1560/game-change-on-bluray/ 2013-01-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com After a December winter special, IFC's Portlandia officially kicked off their third season this past Friday night. While it's hard to review a sketch series in general, Portlandia has enough recurring characters and very specific situations to garner something to say about it. It also manages to be funny to a great number of people, despite it's very narrow subject matter, namely, that all bits revolve around the strange residents of the city of Portland, Oregon. In the premiere hour, the Mayor (Kyle MacLachlan) has a mission for Fred (Fred Armisen) and Carrie (Carrie Brownstein). He would like them to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1561/back-to-portlandia/ 2013-01-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com When NBC's Guys With Kids began, I thought it was absolutely terrible. I still kind of do, in fact. The kids that the title refers to usually play only a supporting role in the story, and are, more often than not, seen, rather than heard. Also, the mothers in these relationships play a pretty large role, so it's weird that the title only mentions the fathers. Plus, the jokes are corny, the humor is frequently low brow, and there isn't really anything to keep drawing one back week to week. And yet, there is something about it that has kept http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1559/the-first-good-word-on-guys-with-kids/ 2013-01-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Parenthood - "Keep on Rowing" Grade: 88% NBC's Parenthood returns this week for the final few episodes of the fourth season with "Keep on Rowing." Kristina (Monica Potter) tries to reward her husband, Adam (Peter Krause), for putting up with her behavior lately. Crosby (Dax Shepard) considers helping out his mother-in-law, Renee (Tina Lifford). Julia (Erika Christensen) begins to have second thoughts about adopting Victor (Xolo Mariduena). And Hank (Ray Romano) helps Sarah (Lauren Graham) get over her ex. Parenthood has gone a little more melodramatic this season, taking the story into areas it doesn't necessarily need to go http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1558/parenthood-keeps-on-rowing/ 2013-01-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com On Christmas Day, the BBC (and BBC America) released the latest Doctor Who holiday special, "The Snowmen." Set in Victorian England, the Doctor (Matt Smith) matches wits with the Great Intelligence, who is trying to use smart snow and ice to take over the world. Luckily, our hero has some help in the form of a very familiar voice who should not be there. Normally, Doctor Who Christmas specials are nice, sweet, fluff pieces, not adding to major story arcs, just standing alone as a heart-warming story. "The Snowmen" chooses a different tack, picking up where "The Angels Take Manhattan" http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1557/doctor-who-isnt-afraid-of-the-snowmen/ 2012-12-31 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Homeland -"The Choice" Grade: 99% Showtime's Homeland handled their second season finale, "The Choice," which aired last Sunday, in a very unexpected way. The action of the season completes in the penultimate installment, giving lots of time for characters-driven moments in the final episode. Until the big shocker rocks everything, and reignites the intensity. Homeland is about terrorism, yes, but it's even more about the characters, and their relationships with one another. Obviously, a driving dynamic of the show is the one between Carrie (Claire Danes) and Brody (Damian Lewis). They have flitted around each other since day http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1555/homeland-makes-the-choice/ 2012-12-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Burn Notice - "You Can Run" Grade: 85% USA's Burn Notice is an interesting story. It started out as an intriguing mystery series about a spy who has been burned by the agency he works for, quickly became a procedural, and then lost steam in the middle seasons as the original premise grew thin. Each time Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan) got a step closer to learning who was behind his bad luck, that person would be taken out, and another layer peeled back, only to reveal more layers. Season six has been an interesting reinvention, though. There have been http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1556/burn-notice-keeps-on-running-and-changing/ 2012-12-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The CW aired the final Gossip Girl episode this week. Entitled "New York, I Love You XOXO," the episode wraps up the Bart Bass (Robert John Burke) storyline, reveals who is behind the titular character's website, and gives a glimpse into the future for all the main characters. It's an hour of cameos and romance. Gossip Girl has always been scandalous and overly dramatic. And yet, I feel like some parts of this episode go just a little too far. One can be shocking without the plot holes, and this series usually is. The scene where Bart falls to his http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1554/the-last-post-of-gossip-girl/ 2012-12-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com CBS's How I Met Your Mother has begun their wrap up, getting two major characters together in this week's hour-long installment, "The Final Page." Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) has been dating Patrice (Ellen D. Williams), and when he is ready to propose after only a few weeks, he tells only Ted (Josh Radnor). Ted can't stand to let Robin (Cobie Smulders) sit idly by, knowing she is still in love with Barney, and so drives her to the site of the proposal to interrupt. But when Robin gets there, she learns it has all been an elaborate scheme by Barney to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1553/how-i-met-your-mother-turns-the-final-page/ 2012-12-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Doing five separate vignettes that come together at the end, reminiscent of Love, Actually, is a solid idea for an hour-long television Christmas episode. Sadly, Glee's attempt, "Glee, Actually," falls short, not just because of the lack of a serious romance (other than for our favorite gays, on which we don't get any real movement anyway), but because things don't tie together in the end. Not that "Glee, Actually," is a bad episode; it just doesn't fulfill the mission statement given for the hour.The first section goes to Artie (Kevin McHale). In what has pretty much become a Christmas tradition, Artie wishes he could http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1552/glee-actually-not-that-great-an-episode/ 2012-12-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Grade: 95% ABC's Grey's Anatomy brings its fall run to a close with "Run, Baby, Run" this week. It's the day of Bailey's (Chandra Wilson) nuptials, and she is not ready for it. Does she love Ben (Jason George) enough to spend the rest of her live with him? Her first marriage ends badly, so she gets some doubts about whether entering into a second union is a good idea or not. This episode is a great one for the character of Dr. Miranda Bailey. We get to see her strengths, and her vulnerabilities. The way she asks Meredith (Ellen Pompeo), http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1548/greys-anatomy-still-running-strong/ 2012-12-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Elementary - "The Leviathan" Grade: 82% In my review of the first episode of CBS's freshman drama Elementary, I had more than a few complaints. Chief among them, CBS will be watering the iconic character of Sherlock Holmes down by making him fit into a very neat box, solving one case per week, following in the footsteps of the far-too-common crime procedural. These particular fears have not been eased, but much of the rest of my concerns no longer seem valid. For one thing, I complained that I wasn't sure Lucy Liu was up to the task of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1549/elementary-not-a-leviathan-to-crack/ 2012-12-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Scandal - "Blown Away" Grade: 88% ABC's Scandal has a clever concept, big scales stories, and a terrific cast. But it still fails to deliver on its potential week in and week out. The issue may be the episodes that tackle large issues, and then seek closure at the end of an hour, keeping the series from breaking out into a true serial. Or it could be that when larger tales do play out, the situation keeps seeming worse and worse. This week's fall finale, "Blown Away," is thankfully much more serial than procedural. Huck (Guillermo Diaz) is set http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1550/not-quite-blown-away-by-scandal/ 2012-12-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com CBS's The Big Bang Theory has gotten away a bit from its roots of four guys sitting around, being nerdy, dreaming about girls they could never have. Six seasons in, one is married, two are in serious relationships, and the fourth is feeling more and more isolated and lonely. This week's episode, "The Santa Simulation," brings a reminder of the old, but without forgetting the new. Sheldon (Jim Parsons), Leonard (Johnny Galecki), Howard (Simon Helberg), and Raj (Kunal Nayyar) plan a Dungeons & Dragons night, much to the disappointment of their lady friends. It's a little sad, because everyone needs http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1547/the-big-bang-theory-naughty-or-nice/ 2012-12-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Swan Song," the latest episode of FOX's Glee, is a mixed bag. Part of the episode is very good, and part of the episode stinks. Scenes and plot make a move for greatness, and then either embrace it, or chicken out. Interestingly, the setting of said scenes tend to be a good indicator as to which end of the spectrum they fall on. So the New Directions lose Sectionals. Last week's episode ended with them leaving the stage after Marley (Melissa Benoist) faints. Many assumed the club would pick up their performance at the start of the week's installment, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1545/swan-song-replaces-ugly-duckling-on-glee/ 2012-12-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's The Office continues the emotional journey of its final season. In "Dwight Christmas," Pam (Jenna Fischer) manipulates her co-workers into throwing Dwight's (Rainn Wilson) dream holiday celebration as a gift for Jim (John Krasinski). It works, and Jim is giddily amused. But when he cuts out early to head to Philadelphia for his new job, Dwight feels slighted, and calls off the celebration. "Dwight Christmas" makes obvious what many of us have long suspected, and what The Office has allowed small glimpses of from time to time: Dwight and Jim have a brother-style relationship, at least in Dwight's eyes. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1543/the-office-celebrates-a-dwight-christmas/ 2012-12-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Episode Grade: 95% At the beginning of this fall television season, my favorite new sitcom was The New Normal. What can I say? It spoke to me on an emotional level. But a close second was NBC's Go On. Featuring Matthew Perry back in fine form, the series presents a group of misfits, kind of like Community, but less weird. Not that weird is bad. Community remains my favorite currently running sitcom. It's just not necessary to go super-weird in every show, and for Go On, more moderate levels are appropriate. The point is, Go On exhibited seeds http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1544/go-on-over-to-falls-best-new-sitcom/ 2012-12-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com There is much to be thankful for in this week's episode of FOX's Glee, "Thanskgiving," even if it aired a week late. (I can gripe about that because Glee, unlike most shows, actually aired an episode on Thanksgiving, but it wasn't this one.) In the episode, most of the recent McKinley alumni return home to assist Finn (Cory Monteith) in getting the New Directions ready for Sectionals. They work with the newer students, helping to ease the transition. It's easy to complain about the frequent appearances by recent grads on the show this year. As I've said before, the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1541/give-thanks-for-glee/ 2012-12-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com So much happens in The Walking Dead episode "Made to Suffer" this week that is important. People die, a true villain is born, allegiances are tested and shift, a new major character makes his introduction... The list goes on and on. The hard part is knowing where to start. I'll just jump in. The opening of "Made to Suffer" unveils a new group of survivors. There isn't a clear leader among them, but one name will jump out to fans of The Walking Dead comic book: Tyreese (Chad Coleman, The Wire). In the books, Tyreese joins the group very early http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1538/the-walking-dead-fans-are-made-to-suffer-a-long-hiatus/ 2012-12-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC's Once Upon a Time ended its fall run this week with "Queen of Hearts." The various plots that have been playing out for the past few months all converge and mostly end, avoiding a dramatic, violent showdown (though we get a small taste of such a thing), instead playing more to the emotional depth of the characters. It's also an episode heavy on revelation, making it a tasty treat that should tide fans over until January. The biggest message to come out of "Queen of Hearts" is the power of true love. Emma (Jennifer Morrison) discovers her name written http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1539/once-upon-a-time-tugs-at-our-hearts/ 2012-12-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's Revolution brought its fall run to a close this week with "Nobody's Fault But Mine." Miles (Billy Burke), Charlie (Tracy Spiridakos), Aaron (Zak Orth), and Nora (Daniella Alonso) finally make it to Philadelphia. It doesn't take long for them to be found out by Tom (Giancarlo Esposito) and his men, though, which in turn leads them to discover that Rachel (Elizabeth Mitchell) is still alive. As expected, this installment ends with a big showdown against Monroe (David Lyons). Revolution continues to struggle to find its way. There are some things it does correctly. The concept behind the story - http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1534/revolution-is-nobodys-fault/ 2012-12-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Overall, I have been disappointed with season two of FX's American Horror Story, subtitled Aslyum. Season one had awesome characters that I really cared about, the Harmon family. They were what drove the plot, and kept me returning week after week, even as all the craziness went on around them, constantly adding new players to the story, much as this season is doing. They were decent people (for the most part), who didn't deserve what happened to them. By contrast, the characters that populate season two make much of their own trouble. I'm not saying that Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson) http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1535/dark-cousin-visits-american-horror-story-asylum/ 2012-12-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Halfway through the final season, NBC's 30 Rock does the unthinkable: marries off Liz Lemon (Tina Fey)! In the episode that aired this week, entitled "Mazel Tov, Dummies!" perpetually single and goofy Liz goes to City Hall and ties the knot with her soul mate, Criss (James Marsden). It isn't a smooth ride, of course. Liz wants to do it in jeans and a t-shirt, with no fanfare. But the two men in her life, Criss and Jack (Alec Baldwin), know her better than that. Criss does everything he can to sabotage Plan A, and Jack waits on standby, ready http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1536/liz-lemon-ties-the-knot/ 2012-12-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The third season of Treme comes to a close this week in "Tipitina," and with only an abbreviated run next year left before the series bows out forever, there is a lot of closure. It's been some time since the storm now, and everyone is trying to resume a normal life. This means that there are ups and downs, as most people experience, but the catastrophe figures less and less into the residents' every day lives. Many of the characters are at great peaks, doing very well, having persevered, despite the odds. Toni (Melissa Leo) is probably the happiest. It http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1532/treme-ends-at-tipitina/ 2012-11-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Just about the only series to air a brand new episode on Thanksgiving, Glee avoided the holiday completely in the uneven "Dynamic Duets." Instead, the "Thanksgiving" episode is scheduled for next week. Did presidential politics screw up the schedule? And, if so, why not just air two episodes on Thanksgiving, getting things back on track, and filling the holiday void, especially since there were no other new episodes of anything else airing to compete with? Weird move, guys. Sectionals is only a week away, so new interim director Finn (Cory Monteith) tries to figure out a theme for the New http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1529/dynamic-duets-do-battle-on-glee/ 2012-11-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's Covert Affairs just keeps getting better and better. So much happens in the recent season finale, "Lady Stardust," that it will be difficult to cover it all in one, standard-length review. Instead, I am going to focus on a few key points, and feel free to add to the discussion by posting a comment below. I love, love, love Eyal (Oded Fehr), and it has been such a pleasure to see him week after week this fall. Now that Annie (Piper Perabo) has repaid the debt of a saved life, disobeying her agency to rescue the friend that saved http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1530/covert-affairs-features-a-lady-stardust/ 2012-11-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's Go On has been one of the few pleasant surprises in a lackluster slate of new broadcast shows this fall. Buoyed by a strong lead actor and a very talented ensemble, it continues to be entertaining, funny, and heartwarming week in and week out. This week's Thanksgiving episode, "Dinner Takes All," is no exception. The set up to get the whole group together is slightly convoluted. Ryan (Matthew Perry) has feelings for his college chum, Amy (Lauren Graham, Parenthood, Gilmore Girls), but isn't ready to act on them, since he is still mourning the loss of his wife, Janie http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1527/dinner-takes-all-for-go-on/ 2012-11-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC's Castle has had a very satisfying and varied last few episodes. First, there was the geek-centric installment, wherein we learned of Beckett's (Stana Katic) cult obsession. Then, a documentary crew showed us what happens when the staff gets in front of cameras, throwing off their game. Finally, this past week, "After Hours" explores the romance between Castle (Nathan Fillion) and Beckett, which has finally been allowed to flourish this season, under scary circumstances. It used to be, series were too scared of the Moonlighting curse to put their leads together until the end of the run. Lately, shows such http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1528/what-happens-after-hours-for-castle/ 2012-11-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Unlike the Halloween special, which aired almost a month before the holiday, FOX let Bob's Burgers put out their Thanksgiving episode at an appropriate time, the Sunday before. Of all the animated comedies the network has on this night, Bob's Burgers is my current favorite. To see the family celebrate a holiday that is so much about family is heartwarming. And, this being Bob's Burgers, also funny. The story, "An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal," begins with the landlord, Mr. Fischoeder (Kevin Kline), bribing Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) to cook a meal for himself and a lady friend, and also hiring Bob's http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1525/bobs-burgers-gets-an-indecent-thanksgiving-proposal/ 2012-11-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com One conceit of television that sort of goes against reality is that Thanksgiving is a time for families, but usually casts of characters gather with friends instead. Sure, we get the occasional relative stopping by as a guest star. But it's not the same as the main characters each returning to their homes every year for the holiday, which is what most of us do in real life. I was surprised, then, that while The Mindy Project did not exactly divide up everyone, there were distinct groups who split up. The most realistic thread involved Betsy (Zoe Jarman) visiting her http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1526/the-mindy-project-celebrates-thanksgiving/ 2012-11-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com For those who missed the scant five episode of Doctor Who that aired this fall, you're in luck. The BBC has just been released on a two-disc Blu-ray and DVD set, Doctor Who Series Seven, Part One. And for those who didn't miss the season, you already know that these are five fantastic installments, so you might be interested as well. It will be something to tide fans over until the series returns for a longer run next year. As series seven begins, Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) are getting a divorce. That's right; the man who waited two thousand http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1523/doctor-who-back-for-more/ 2012-11-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Glease" is the word this week on FOX's Glee. Which is funny because it isn't actually a word. Nor does it deserve to be. In an entire episode that serves as a mashup between Glee and Grease, the music from the musical remains as classic as ever, but some of the performances are an inferior echo of the original, not because of lack of talent, but because it's such a blatant copy. It's a good thing that there's some actual Glee character development plot included, too. "Glease" works best when the cast isn't trying to recreate scenes from the movie. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1522/glease-is-the-word/ 2012-11-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This month, perhaps due to the release of a modern-day Doctor Who set, only one of the classic serials gets the DVD treatment, instead of the usual two. But it's a pretty good one, and a Special Edition, at that. Titled The Claws of Axos, these four episodes aired in the middle of season eight, way back in 1971. The most interesting thing about this, that will set it apart from many of the other old releases, is that season eight has a large arc, spanning multiple serials. As such, The Claws of Axos exists as a stand alone http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1521/doctor-who-fights-the-claws-of-axos/ 2012-11-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's Whitney may not be the most popular show out there, but gosh darn it, it has some serious heart, no matter how much it might want to make you believe that it doesn't. This is the attitude of the titular character, Whitney (Whitney Cummings), as we see in the season two premiere, "Bawl and Chain." She may be married to Alex (Chris D'Elia) now, but giving into those feelings of stability aren't really in Whitney's nature. For many shows, seeing the two lead characters married off to each other would be a late development. Or it would happen before the series http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1518/welcome-back-whitney/ 2012-11-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's The Office continues its great final season this week with "The Whale." Dwight (Rainn Wilson) is given the opportunity to double Dundler Mifflin's growth when a new potential client asks for a meeting. Learning the meeting is with a woman, and knowing how bad Dwight is with relating to women, several of his female co-workers try to intervene and improve upon his manners. But no one is prepared when they learn who Dwight is actually being sent to talk with, and it will take everything Dwight has to land this impossible account. Yep, Jan (Melora Hardin) is back! Jan http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1519/the-office-lands-the-whale/ 2012-11-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This week's installment of FOX's Bones is one of the best stand-alone episodes the series has ever made. I do not say this lightly, as despite it's procedural format, I highly enjoy the show most weeks. It may be the only procedural I hold in such esteem. The credit goes to a truly fantastic ensemble cast, and the quirkiness of the various characters. In "The Patriot in Purgatory," these people are taken to new levels of emotion. The hour begins with Dr. Brennan (Emily Deschanel) bringing together her five best interns so that she can try out some coaching skills http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1520/bones-honors-the-patriot-in-purgatory/ 2012-11-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com CBS's How I Met Your Mother, whether it does a ninth season next year or not, is undeniably drawing closer to the series finale. As such, it has been callously ending all of the non-final relationships of the main characters during a so-called "autumn of breakups," and setting up everyone for who they will be with in the end. This trend continues last night in "Splitsville." After Ted (Josh Radnor) dumps Victoria (Ashley Williams) last week, and Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Quinn (Becki Newton) end things a few episodes ago, that leaves only Robin (Cobie Smulders) and Nick (Michael http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1515/how-i-met-your-mother-draws-closer-to-conclusion/ 2012-11-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com TBS premiered a new hour-long dramedy series this past Saturday night called Wedding Band. Yep, the network known for Tyler Perry sitcoms and stale comedies, both new and in syndication, began a show of a different format on a night where virtually no one airs any new television episodes. It has to suck, right? Actually, quite the opposite. It's compelling! The characters are well thought out, the cast is terrific, fantastic music with interesting arrangements adds to the fun, and the first story is both entertaining and moving. Let's hope, with virtually no competition on Saturdays, save BBC America, Wedding http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1516/play-for-me-wedding-band/ 2012-11-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's Burn Notice returned this week with two hours of new episodes. The first, "Desperate Measures," is a follow up to the summer finale, "Desperate Times," centering on the team trapped in a foreign land. The second mostly moved on to another story, but kept some of the serial elements surrounding Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) this season as he seeks to get justice for his brother's death. "Desperate Measures" is an exciting, action-packed episode as the team attempts to get out of Panama. Having captured Tyler Gray (Kenny Johnson), the man who actually shot Nate, it is soon clear to both http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1514/burn-notice-gets-desperate/ 2012-11-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Glee returns from its baseball-induced hiatus with "The Role You Were Born to Play." It's time to audition for the fall musical, Grease, at McKinley High School. Some students are nervous about the roles they want to play, while others worry that a bad casting choice could hurt a relationship. But an alum, at pivotal moment of his life, returns to steer these young people in the right direction. "The Role You Were Born to Play" is a solid Finn (Cory Monteith) episode. Though I haven't always been a fan of the character, he has really http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1513/glee--the-role-you-were-born-to-play/ 2012-11-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com BBC America's first original series, Copper, recently finished airing, and already there is a DVD and Blu-ray release of the freshman season. The two disc set contains all ten episodes of the 1964 New York City-set crime drama, as well as audio commentary, a handful of featurettes, including a "making of," deleted scenes, and video profiles. Copper is the story of Irish-American Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones, World Without End), a tormented man who returns home from the Civil War to find his family gone, daughter dead, wife missing. He becomes obsessed with finding out what happened, but while he does http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1512/copper-arrests-a-bluray-release/ 2012-11-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Last night's installment of ABC's Once Upon a Time may have been called "Tallahasse," but not a single moment of the episode took place in that Florida city. Instead, "Tallahassee" is a dream. It represents home and family for Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison), a chance to be with the man she loves and raise a kid together. But this dream is dashed eleven years ago, as we see when Emma finally gets her own flashback. Yep, the backstory of "Tallahassee" tells a fairy tale in the real world. Thief Emma meets another criminal, Neal (Michael Raymond-James, Terriers, True Blood), and http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1508/once-upon-a-time-in-tallahassee/ 2012-11-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com After suffering through a number of episodes of season one of ABC's Last Man Standing, waiting for something to change, I finally gave up on the hope that it might get good. Still, Tim Allen has significant sitcom chops, and so I was curious enough to check back in on the premiere of season two to see if it had gotten any better. It has not. The problem is just a severe lack of funny. There are talented actors performing convincing roles, but that doesn't mean I want to laugh at them. Besides Allen the casts boasts Nancy Travis, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1509/not-voting-for-last-man-standing/ 2012-11-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com AMC's The Walking Dead takes the danger to a whole new level this week with "Killer Within." After two episodes where portions of the cast sat out, this episode jumped back and forth between the prison and Woodbury, illustrating a few very different dangers, and ultimately ending with the the deaths of two original cast members. And this wasn't even a season finale! No one (except maybe Rick) is safe. What an opening! It is an incredible, action-packed sequence, with walkers invading at the worst possible time! I thought Hershel (Scott Wilson) and his missing leg would be gone for http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1510/the-walking-dead-defeated-by-the-killer-within/ 2012-11-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Reba McEntire, these days known as just Reba, is a great singer and a capable actress. Who can forget her role in the classic (a term used only slightly tongue in cheek) sci-fi film, Tremors? And after a successful six year run of her previous sitcom, Reba, a new vehicle for the former country star seems like a no-brainer. Paired with another comedy comeback, Tim Allen's Last Man Standing, the time slot should work for it, serving as ABC's attempt to reach out to a demographic different from their norm. What might be over looked by some viewers, though, is just http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1507/malibu-country-might-catch-the-romneyryan-crowd/ 2012-11-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC's Don't Trust the B---- in Apt 23 returned for a second go-round last week with "A Reunion..." James (James Van Der Beek) is happy to once more blow off his former Dawson's Creek co-stars' request for a reunion show. That is, until June (Dreama Walker) tells him how much it will mean to millions of girls, and probably bring him new, young female fans. The problem is, as James soon finds out, Chloe (Krysten Ritter) is the one who has been sending the letters to manipulate her pal into giving her things, and James' cast mates want nothing to do http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1500/the-b-in-apt-23-still-deliciously-untrustworthy/ 2012-10-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This week, FX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which recently began its eighth season, celebrates Halloween with "The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre." Maureen (Catherine Reitman) is getting married, and Dennis (Glenn Howerton) crashes the ceremony to make sure that she goes through with it, so that he won't have to continue paying her alimony. The rest of the gang comes, too, some to support Dennis, others who want to ruin things so that he will stay miserable. But what they don't count on is encountering the McPoyle clan, who soon begin acting like a hoarde of zombies. I am not http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1501/its-always-sunny-plays-out-nightmares/ 2012-10-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Considering the cast and crew of NBC's Mockingbird Lane, created by Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies), I was super psyched for the series this fall. When it was held back, and decided that the "Pilot" would be aired as a stand alone Halloween special, without producing more episodes, disappointment set in. That is, until it actually aired. Then disappointment of a whole other kind appeared. It's not that Mockingbird Lane is bad; it's just that the first episode doesn't live up to its potential. The set and effects (save for the werewolf in the opening sequence) are spectacular, and glimpsing the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1502/dont-really-want-to-move-to-mockingbird-lane/ 2012-10-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Agatha Christie is regarded as one of, if not the, best mystery writers of all time. Among her popular characters is Hercule Poirot, a Belgian detective who solves cases in the early decades of the twentieth century. Keeping in the vein of Sherlock Holmes, Poirot has help, but it is he, himself, unraveling most of the crimes. By 2013, David Suchet (The Way We Live Now), considered by many to be the definitive Poirot, will have filmed all of Christie's novels and short stories featuring this lead character. This is not a small feat, there being over thirty novels and http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1503/acorn-media-releases-massive-poirot-set/ 2012-10-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com So FOX's House returned this week for its ninth season. In the episode, "Born Again," little snippets are revealed about what happened between seasons, and there is some serious emotional depth. Sure, a few obstacles have to be overcome to return things to the status quo, but as usual, House manages to do so without leaning too far out of the realm of believability. First, the tease. It's heartbreaking to watch Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) dying in that house on the beach. The beautiful scenery contrasting with his deathly pallor makes a real impact, and House's (Hugh Laurie) silent, stoic http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1499/house--born-again-season-9-premiere-review/ 2012-10-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FX has recently released It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia The Complete Season 7 on DVD and Blu-ray. Included in the two disc set are all thirteen episodes of last fall's run, as well as a few special features. Like a demented Seinfeld, where the characters live with little class and care even less about one another than in the popular network sitcom, It's Always Sunny has been amusing for years, and continues to deliver the same high quality as it ages. Season seven is fantastic, slightly playing off of pop culture, like when they visit the real Jersey Shore, but http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1494/its-always-sunny-in-the-seventh-season/ 2012-10-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FX's The League now has its Complete Season Three out on Blu-ray and DVD.  If you have missed this fantasy football-based comedy, with the all-around amazing cast, up 'til now, it's time to start watching, as it has become one of the most original, funniest shows on television. Season three is a great entry point, and after watching every installment on this two disc set, you'll probably be motivated enough to go seek out the other seasons. As season three begins, Ruxin (Nick Kroll) is still rubbing his victory from last year in everyone's face, being more insufferable than usual. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1495/the-league-scores-a-touchdown-with-the-complete-season-three/ 2012-10-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Sir Stephen Hawking may be the most intelligent living mind mankind has. A groundbreaking theoretical physicist, he first came on my radar after reading his book, A Brief History of Time, which explains quantum physics, black holes, and what makes up the universe to the lay person in an easily understandable, highly readable way. He is not only able to comprehend what the vast majority, if not all, of us can't, but he can also communicate this to everyone else without using his natural voice, having to speak through a computer because of a debilitating disease. Our time's Einstein, this makes http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1496/stephen-hawking-shows-us-a-brave-new-world/ 2012-10-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The BBC's answer to the long running, popular Canadian teen drama Degrassi is Waterloo Road. Premiering in 2006, Waterloo Road quick gained a following, leading to six additional seasons, with more being in production. Having been seen on BBC America in the states, now Waterloo Road Series 1 is available on DVD for the first time from Acorn Media, collecting the initial eight episodes of the series on a two disc set. Waterloo Road takes place at a fictional school in Rochdale, England, where students ages 11 to 18 attend. The building is not doing well, its students failing and http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1497/welcome-to-waterloo-road/ 2012-10-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com No, the title of ABC's Suburgatory season premiere does not refer to some lame high school football game or dance, as it almost always does when gracing an episode moniker of a television show. Instead, it means that Tessa (Jane Levy) returns to Chatwin from Manhattan, a place that is no longer home, as much as she might long for it to be. In the episode "Homecoming," Tessa struggles to figure out who she is. She has learned a bit about her mother during the summer, such as her musical ability, and inherited her coat. It's understandable that any kid http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1492/homecoming-to-suburgatory/ 2012-10-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Don't let the goofy poster fool you. The CW's new drama Emily Owens M.D. is good. It's very good. In fact, it's so good, that it feels like it belongs on another network. No offense to the CW, as I do enjoy much of their programming, but it's target viewing audience skews young, and Emily Owens could easily be enjoyed by people of all ages. I understand why it's on the CW. The concept is that a hospital is just like high school, with the various cliques filling in various departments, and peers treating one another just as meanly as http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1493/check-out-emily-owens/ 2012-10-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's Covert Affairs returns this week with "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" after a mercifully brief hiatus. Merciful because of the heck of a cliffhanger, with Annie (Piper Perabo) trapped in Russia, having just murdered Lena (Sarah Clarke). As season two picks up, it takes very little time for Annie to be caught and tossed into an underground secret prison. Annie's torture scenes are light, this being basic cable, sticking mainly to psychological discomfort. I think that USA does a pretty fair job of making the threat seem real, though, even while shying away from gratuitous violence. Perabo's handling of an http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1491/rockin-some-more-covert-affairs/ 2012-10-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC is not usually beholden to the procedural formula, preferring to specialize in soapy drama instead. However, there are exceptions. One such example is Body of Proof, a crime-of-the-week show following a medical examiner and her team. Body of Proof The Complete Second Season has recently been released on DVD. The main issue I take with Body of Proof is that it is rote. Week after week, Dr. Megan Hunt (Dana Delany) and her co-workers manage to figure things out before the cops (John Carroll Lynch and Sonja Sohn) do. The whodunnit may not always be predictable, but it http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1489/dig-up-body-of-proof-the-complete-second-season/ 2012-10-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com AMC's The Walking Dead, one of cable television's most popular shows, deservedly so, returned for a third season this week to record-breaking numbers. The premiere, "Seed," picks up months after last season ends, the little band of survivors having made it through a tough winter, scrounging for supplies and avoiding the walker herd that is still circling. But light might be at the end of the tunnel when they come across an abandoned prison they decide to make their new home. These characters have changed since we last saw them. Whereas before, they semi-panicked and scattered when faced with walkers, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1486/the-walking-dead-plants-the-seed-for-another-stellar-season/ 2012-10-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FOX presented a very strange show last year called Touch, the complete first season of which is now available on  DVD. It is mostly a procedural, with each episode finding Martin Bohm (Kiefer Sutherland, 24) following clues left by his autistic son, Jake (David Mazouz, Amish Grace), who doesn't talk, to help someone in need. But it is also an anthology series, with several plots going on around the world every week, oftentimes connected to one another in unexpected ways. And it is also a mystery, as we don't know why Jake sees the numbers, or who may be trying to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1488/touch-now-touching-on-dvd/ 2012-10-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The Care Bears, created by American Greetings has grown far larger than ever expected; the colorful bears have become a part of our cultural tapestry. With the Bears turning 30 years old, the company behind them have decided to do something to commemorate the anniversary. The result is Care Bears: The Original Series Collection. Care Bears: The Original Series Collection is a six-disc DVD set that brings together more than 60 episodes of the animated series that aired between 1986 and1988. This set is not the complete series, by any means, but it does contain a majority of the episodes http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1484/dvd-review-carebears--the-original-series-collection/ 2012-10-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death is one of the longer serials in the franchise. Running seven episodes, this tale originally aired from March through May in 1970, serving as the third story in season seven. It has recently been released as a two disc DVD set. The Ambassadors of Death is a tale on bigotry and the clash of cultures. Three astronauts return from space, but are taken captive by General Carrington (John Abineri). When the Doctor (Jon Pertwee), Liz (Caroline John), Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney), and the rest of UNIT investigate, it is discovered that there is more http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1485/doctor-who-looks-for-the-ambassadors-of-death/ 2012-10-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Acorn Media has recently released Vexed Series 1 on DVD. Previously unavailable in the United States, this single disc set contains all three, hour long episodes of the first series. (A second series recently aired in Britain). Vexed is the story of two police detectives, but unlike many crime dramas, it is not a procedural. There are cases in each episode that must be solved, but these by far take a back seat to the tale of the main characters. This is a show about personalities, and those personalities are entertaining and engaging. Plus, it's light-hearted, making it more a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1482/vexed-anything-but-vexing-to-watch/ 2012-10-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The television airwaves are flooded with police officers, doctors, and lawyers. It seems only a matter of time until fire fighters join their ranks. Sure, we had the cable series Rescue Me, but when was the last time those who put out the blazes found success on the broadcast networks? If it has ever happened, it certainly did so before my time. NBC tries its hand at making it work this week with Chicago Fire. Now, writers of shows featuring doctors, lawyers, and cops have it easy. They can effortlessly slide into a procedural where there is a mystery or http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1480/chicago-fire-burns/ 2012-10-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FX's comedy The League is one of the funniest shows around. With an extremely talented cast, who each knows how to deliver humor expertly, it is with great anticipation that I await each fall's new batch of episodes. "Training Camp," which aired this past Thursday, kicks off the latest round. The plot is basic. It's time for the fantasy league draft. Kevin (Stephen Rannazzisi) manages to keep his winning title from last year, despite the cheating that occurred, by letting Ruxin (Nick Kroll) become the commissioner. This is to everyone's extreme displeasure. To cope, they each give themselves new titles http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1481/training-camp-for-the-league/ 2012-10-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com CBS's How I Met Your Mother started out as one of the best sitcoms on television, and then sagged a bit in the middle. However, by season seven, owing to a deeper level of emotion, and some development in the characters' lives, the series had regained its momentum, beginning to build towards a climax (even though it's uncertain if that climax will happen in season eight, or nine, or...). Now, all twenty-three episodes of season seven, plus extras, have been released on a three disc set dubbed "The Ducky Tie Edition." As year seven commences in Ted's (Josh Radnor) search http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1479/how-i-met-your-mother-the-complete-season-7/ 2012-10-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Arguably last year's best new sitcom, FOX's New Girl The Complete First Season has arrived on DVD in a three disc set. All twenty-four episodes of the show's freshman run are included, along with special features. As the New Girl "Pilot" begins, Jess (Zooey Deschanel) leaves her boyfriend. Homeless, she finds a place with three bachelors who share a spacious apartment. Coach (Damon Wayans Jr., Happy Endings), the jock, Nick (Jake Johnson), the slacker bartender, and Schmidt (Max Greenfield), the douche whose rude exterior masks a good heart. Coach is gone by episode two, but in his place, the guys' http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1477/new-girl-the-complete-first-season-new-to-dvd/ 2012-10-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This week's Glee was heartbreaking, plain and simple. It was a sad tale of the dissolution of romance, splitting up all the major couples in the series at once. Glee, even when it gets dramatic, usually has goofy, upbeat parts. In "The Break-Up," though, the FOX dramedy really focused on the drama, making for a great, though very sad, installment that did not feel like Glee at all. Season four of Glee has brought a lot of maturity with it. A number of the characters have moved on to the real world beyond their small town and, because http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1476/glee-suffers-through-the-breakup/ 2012-10-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Recently released on DVD by Acorn Media, The Crimson Petal and the White is a tale of love, betrayal, and insanity. Set in Victorian England, it's a character-driven drama with an impressive cast, playing out as a heartbreaking miniseries. William Rackham (Chris O'Dowd, Bridesmaids, The IT Crowd) is heir to a perfume company, but would rather be a writer. Saddled with a father (Tom Georgeson, Bleak House) who wants William to face reality and give up on his dreams, and a wife, Agnes (Amanda Hale, Bright Star), so mentally unbalanced that she doesn't even recognize the existence of her own young daughter, Sophie http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1475/the-crimson-petal-and-the-white/ 2012-10-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com SyFy's Warehouse 13 has had a banner run this season. Minimizing the case of the week stories in favor of a longer arc involving Artie (Saul Rubinek) using an artifact known as the astrolabe, and the consequences of such a turn of events, there has been lingering mysteries, morality conflict, and issues of life and death. It's a step up for an enjoyable and popular series, raising the quality of the story. As interesting as villains can be, it's nice that Artie hasn't gone bad. He's way too lovable a character to lose, or to have turn evil for real. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1472/warehouse-13-falls-down/ 2012-10-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The CW's Hart of Dixie ended its freshman run last spring with Dr. Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson) in bed with Wade (Wilson Bethal), whom she finds annoying, but who has harbored a crush on her for some time. Then George (Scott Porter) cancels his wedding to be with Zoe, leaving the good doctor in quite the pickle. Season two picks up the next morning with "I Fall to Pieces." George is disappointed to hear that Zoe needs some time to think, as she does admit to having certain feelings for Wade, too. Wade, for his part, falls back into his http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1473/hart-of-dixie-falls-to-pieces/ 2012-10-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com With the final season of NBC's 30 Rock upon us, it's hard not to try to assign importance into everything that happens, looking for clues as to what the last arcs of the series will be, and trying to figure out how it will all end. This week's season premiere, "The Beginning of the End," leave ample opportunity for this (almost completely frivolous) exercise. At the start of the episode, there is a fake out with Liz (Tina Fey) and a baby. Is this just a gag? The revelation that Liz doesn't have a baby the last we'll ever see http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1474/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-30-rock/ 2012-10-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Volume Ten of FOX's Family Guy has now been released on DVD. The three-disc set picks up from where Volume 9 left off. The 14 installments begin with the fourth episode of season nine, which aired during the 2010-2011 season, and end just before the season nine finale, which happens to be the show's third Star Wars parody, already available on a separate DVD release. Family Guy's quality has been going down for a couple of years now, so fans might find Volume Ten a bit inferior to other sets. Overall, it just doesn't feel as fresh or original http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1470/family-guy-back-for-another-bout-with-volume-ten/ 2012-10-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC's Desperate Housewives finally came to an end last May after eight years on the air. The final batch of episodes is now available on DVD in a five-disc set, collecting all 23 episodes, plus bonus features. As season eight begins, the four titular housewives, Susan (Teri Hatcher), Bree (Marcia Cross), Lynette (Felicity Huffman), and Gabi (Eva Longoria) are covering up the murder of Gabi's abusive step-father, Alejandro (Tony Plano), by Gabi's husband, Carlos (Ricardo Antonio Chavira). They each handle their part in the shared secret burial in different ways. Carlos wants forgiveness from God, Susan becomes withdrawn. Bree is http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1464/desperate-housewives-final-season-now-available/ 2012-10-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com When American Horror Story premiered last fall on FX, it was immediately apparent that this was a different type of show. Going far creepier than most television ever dares to, it's about the Harmon family, who move into a haunted house in L.A. It is, strangely enough, from the team that brought us Glee and Nip/Tuck, Ryan Murphy and Brad Fulchuk, and we were promised the first season, now released on Blu-ray and DVD, was a stand alone story. What no one told us ahead of time is that it would be so darn good. For 12 hours, viewers http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1465/american-horror-story-scares-up-a-bluray-release/ 2012-10-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com   Glee undergoes a "Makeover" in the third installment of this fourth season. Blaine (Darren Criss), lonely without Kurt (Chris Colfer), the entire reason he transferred to McKinley, seeks to find his place at the school. He decides, after a soulful rendition of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" and a ridiculous montage of Blaine in various clubs, that maybe he should be class president. This puts him at odds with Brittany (Heather Morris), who is seeking a second term. Blaine and Brittany square off in a debate with their running mates, Sam (Chord Overstreet) and Artie (Kevin http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1466/glee-gets-a-makeover/ 2012-10-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The events of the latest Grey's Anatomy season premiere, "Going Going Gone," pick up months after the plane crash. This does a couple of things. One, it allows them to jump ahead in the story without having to be bogged down in months of suffering. Two, it lets the writers dole out one character at a time, keeping fans guessing about the fates of some of their favorites until late in the hour. But rest assured, next week will return the action to last spring for at least one episode, so some of the missing pieces will be filled in. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1467/greys-returns-with-a-big-gap/ 2012-10-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com CBS's The Good Wife returns with the episode "I Fought the Law." The episode title refers to an incident where Zach (Graham Phillips) is pulled over and subjected to a search under false pretenses, as so many have been before him, because he is profiled as possibly having drug money. He's clean, of course, but the event spurs Alicia (Julianna Margulies) to fight back in order to protect her son, which leads to the uncovering of this immoral practice. I liked the story because Zach rarely gets anything good to do on the series. Having him involved in a court http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1468/the-good-wife-fights-the-law/ 2012-10-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Most of the season premiere of ABC's Modern Family, set the day after last spring's finale, centers around everyone worrying what Jay's (Ed O'Neill) reaction will be when he learns that Gloria (Sofia Vergara) is pregnant. She tells several other relations first, worried and upset that her husband won't be happy. While the resolution is easy to see coming from a mile away, O'Neill still plays it so well that you will soon forget the writing isn't original. Why would a sitcom as brilliant as Modern Family re-use an old plot already found in a number of other sitcoms? The http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1463/modern-family-grows-a-little-bigger/ 2012-09-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FOX's New Girl presented the first two episodes of its sophomore season last night. In the first, "Re-launch," Jess (Zooey Deschanel) loses her job. She spirals into depression, and even though she tries to bounce back by being a Shot Girl for Schmidt's (Max Greenfield) penis cast removal party, it just isn't enough. Which is why, in the second installment, "Katie," she is on the prowl for sex, which she finds easily enough. New Girl could be tackling the political issue of school budget cuts, something plaguing the country right now, as there are tons of teachers like Jess right http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1459/new-girl-no-longer-new-but-still-funny/ 2012-09-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com CBS's 2 Broke Girls kicks off year two with "And the Hidden Stash." Caroline's (Beth Behrs) family possessions are up for auction. Her father, Martin (Steven Weber, Wilfred, Wings), insists that she attend the event and buy back her horse riding trophy. Max (Kat Dennings) assumes ulterior motives, convincing Caroline that there might be money inside the base of the cup. But in the end, it is only a message of perseverance that Martin is trying to get across. The "twist" in "And the Hidden Stash" is seen coming from a mile away. It's one thing to speculate that Martin http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1460/2-broke-girls-not-exactly-hiding-a-stash/ 2012-09-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The L.A. Complex, a Canadian series that airs on the CW in the states, finished off its second batch of episodes with "Don't Say Goodbye," the second consecutive hour of the series aired that night. Given its horrible ratings in the U.S., it may be that the network was just trying to burn off the episodes they had left. But "Don't Say Goodbye" ended with little resolution, and hopefully the popularity it has up north will be enough to garner it a third season. And hopefully it will continue to have a home to air on here. In "Don't Say http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1461/please-renew-the-lease-on-the-la-complex/ 2012-09-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com How I Met Your Mother began its eighth season premiere on CBS last night with "Farhampton." Much of the action was set in Farhampton, the place where Ted (Josh Radnor) will finally meet the titular mother. In fact, "Farhampton" brings viewers right up to the point where Ted is about to encounter her, and then stops just short of that fateful moment. The creators have said before that meeting the mother may not be the end of the show. But the last few seasons have started to tease this moment, the day of Robin (Cobie Smulders) and Barney's (Neil Patrick http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1458/farhampton-not-far-off-for-how-i-met-your-mother/ 2012-09-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC's Modern Family is one of the most lauded sitcoms on television. Awards are showered on them, and the adults win praises like Emmys. There is a reason for this. It's a very funny take on a family show, with the twist that said family has been updated for the current era. Three generations don't live under the same roof, but they do interact frequently, and the outcomes of those interactions are often hilarious. The Complete Third Season is now available on DVD and Blu-ray. It is a great year, beginning with a trip to a ranch for the entire http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1454/modern-family-third-outing-on-bluray/ 2012-09-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Glee dusts off the Britney Spears song book for a second time this week with "Britney 2.0." Is it a shameless plug for Britney herself, who doesn't cameo this time around, but is now a judge on the same-network singing competition series, The X Factor? Or does Glee do this because Britney really does have a lot of good songs, and it's easy to pick another batch to fill a second episode? Well, as many good songs as she has, and several are used in "Britney 2.0," it is a weak week, musically speaking. Only two stand out, and both are http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1455/oops-glee-does-britney-again/ 2012-09-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Now available on DVD is the second season premiere of the classic Doctor Who, originally airing in the fall of 1964. Entitled Planet of Giants, the story finds the Doctor (William Hartnell), Susan (Carole Ann Ford), Barbara (Jacqueline Hill), and Ian (William Russell) finally making it back to 1960s Earth. There's just one caveat: they've all been shrunk to only 1" tall. Yes, Planet of Giants is the inspiration for several stories that came after it in film culture, including the movie Honey I Shrunk the Kids. Our heroes encounter giant bugs and have trouble even getting around. Short distances http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1456/planet-of-giants-doesnt-intimidate-doctor-who/ 2012-09-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The latest Doctor Who Special Edition DVD is Vengeance on Varos. Part of the 22nd season, this two-part serial originally aired in January 1985. The Doctor (Colin Baker) and Peri (Nicola Bryant) travel to the planet Varos in search of a rare ore they need to properly run the TARDIS. There, they encounter the evil Sil (Nabil Shaban), who is trying to extort the planet for the mineral, not afraid to hurt or kill those who get in his way. Vengeance on Varos has some very funny parts. In the beginning, when the Doctor is having trouble fixing the TARDIS, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1457/doctor-who-exacts-vengeance-on-varos/ 2012-09-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The season finale of FX's Wilfred has many big events. Jenna (Fiona Gubelmann) and Drew (Chris Klein) get married. Ryan (Elijah Wood) is accused of being a mole within his former company, and selling trade secrets. Amanda (Allison Mack) is exposed as being completely insane. And Wilfred (Jason Gann) finds himself in a drawing that Ryan made as a child. The last is the secret with the biggest impact, at least as big a finale as last year's disappearing basement. The implications of such a find, a drawing Ryan doesn't even remember making, but finds proof that he did, as http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1447/the-secrets-come-out-on-wilfred/ 2012-09-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com MTV's Awkward. completes its sophomore season with two important decisions for Jenna (Ashley Rickards) in "The Other Shoe." The first, which guy she should be with, is one that is sure to be debated by fans and revisited by the writers in later seasons. The second, whether she should go to Europe, or stay home with that guy that she picked, has a much more clear cut answer. Despite how romantic it might be to stay, she should definitely go. Alas, Jenna is a teenage girl completely smitten, so of course she chooses the boy over the trip. It is http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1448/awkward-puts-the-right-shoe-on-the-wrong-foot/ 2012-09-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com For those who bought the Absolutely Fabulous: Absolutely Everything DVD set last year, you might have been disappointed to learn that, while the descriptor was true at the time, there have since been more entries into the series, so you no longer have Absolutely Everything. With the recent release of the single disc DVD Absolutely Fabulous 20th Anniversary Specials, there is now an opportunity to correct that. Absolutely Fabulous 20th Anniversary Specials is exactly what the title suggests. This DVD contains December's "Identity," January's "Job," and July's "Olympics." That's right, all three of the new episodes made this past year. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1449/absolutely-fabulous-completes-collection-again/ 2012-09-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's The Office returned this week with "New Guys," the final season premiere of the long-running sitcom. It felt like the end, too. Sure, there were a couple of new staff members at Dunder Mifflin, but others have moved on, and a couple of the leads are contemplating their next step for their future. I don't know if this final season can make up for the mess of last year, but "New Guys" gets them off to a promising start. Kelly (Mindy Kaling) is gone, whisked away to the glamor of Miami (Ohio) by her fiance, Ryan (B.J. Novak) trailing http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1446/last-day-at-the-office/ 2012-09-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's retooled Up All Night returned last night with "Friendships & Partnerships." Gone is the Ava show. Gone is the incredibly annoying character of Missy (Jennifer Hall). Gone is the family's financial security and their five year plan. With the end of the daytime talk show, gone is the familiar Up All Night, about half of which took place on set and in the offices around the set. This resets things for the three main characters, forcing major adjustments. Reagan (Christina Applegate) gets to spend a little more time with Amy, since she's off of work. Chris (Will Arnett) considers http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1445/up-all-night-for-new-reasons/ 2012-09-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's Covert Affairs sort of reaches their mid-season finale this week, with three weeks off before returning to finish up the third year. The episode is called "Let's Dance," and takes place a significant amount of time after the previous installment, with Annie (Piper Perabo) somewhat healed from her gunshot wounds. Filled with rage at Nina Lena (Sarah Clarke) because Lena not only shot Annie, but killed Jack's Annie's love, Terri Simon (Richard Coyle), Annie takes off for Russia, where Lena is holed up. I almost wish the previous week had been the mid-season finale. It would have been a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1443/lets-dance-with-covert-affairs/ 2012-09-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's mid-season finale of White Collar is not what I expected. Recently, White Collar finales have been marked by huge events, with a normal case-of-the-week disappearing in favor of larger-scale plots. Last night's, "Vested Interest," is a typical story, with a one-shot bad guy that must be caught. However, that can be overlooked because the episode does something important. It makes major progress on the trust that has been missing between Peter (Tim DeKay) and Neal (Matt Bomer). Over the first two years of the series, this central pair build a lasting bond of friendship. In season three, this is http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1440/a-vested-interest-in-the-success-of-white-colla/ 2012-09-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Weeds is done. Last night, Showtime aired the final hour of the popular series, entitled "It's Time." Rather than an action-packed, dangerous climax, leaving the characters in disarray, as most of the show's season finale have done, instead what is presented is a calmer, more introspective examination of the characters. No earth-shattering events happen, but fans check in with the Botwins years later and see how they end up, as well as the legacy they are leaving behind. "It's Time" takes place the week of Stevie's (Mateus Ward) Bar Mitzvah. Friends and family have gathered at Nancy's (Mary-Louise Parker) mansion http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1438/the-ashes-of-weeds/ 2012-09-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com   Rachel Berry is gone; long live Rachel Berry! Glee returns for a fourth season, and as the episode title makes clear, it's time for "The New Rachel." But does that mean that Rachel (Lea Michele) must find herself in the strange new world of New York City? Or does it refer to the New Directions' lack of a star, as several long-time members seek to fill the glaring whole in their lineup? Both, actually. At McKinley, the social balance has shifted, with the glee club seniors now allowed to sit at the same table with popular cheerleader Kitty (Becca Tobin) http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1436/glee-introduces-the-new-rachel/ 2012-09-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's new sitcom Guys With Kids does not belong on modern network television. It would have fit right in with the lineup twenty years ago. It would also work on a cable channel like TBS, which has similar series. But it isn't anywhere near fresh or edgy enough for most viewers nowadays, and it probably won't last very long in its current position, surrounded by higher quality fare. Guys With Kids follows three men who have a varied number of offspring. Chris (Jesse Bradford, Bring It On, Outlaw) has one infant, whom he battles to raise the way he wants http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1437/guys-with-kids-a-throwback/ 2012-09-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FOX's Terra Nova was a bold experiment. Beginning in the pollution-ridden future, groups of men, women, and children travel back in time to settle the past. There is adventure, action, conspiracy, and pretty good looking CGI dinosaurs. Sort of a family-friendly version of Jurassic Park, with a preachy twist, it should have provided viewing fun for years. Except, most of the episodes weren't very well written, which led to its quick cancellation after a mere 13 episodes. Now, the entire series has been released on a four-disc DVD set. In the premiere, "Genesis," Dr. Elisabeth Shannon (Shelley Conn, Mistresses) http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1430/extinct-terra-nova-found-on-dvd/ 2012-09-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Now available from Acorn Media in a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack is the comedic docudrama, Holy Flying Circus. Is this a sketch film? Is it a Monty Python parody? Is it a retelling of historical events? Is it purposely offensive to religious people? Yes, to all of these things, and more. The main focus of Holy Flying Circus centers around the release of the 1979 film, Monty Python's Life of Brian. For those who may not remember, Life of Brian follows a guy named Brian whose life parallels Jesus Christ, and is mistaken for the messiah, even as evidence stacks up http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1429/holy-flying-circus-alights-on-bluray-and-dvd/ 2012-09-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Showtime's Web Therapy, which mysteriously moved to Sundays a couple of weeks ago, ended its sophomore run last night with a delightful installment entitled "Electile Dysfunction." Robin (Julie Claire), to get even with a rude Fiona (Lisa Kudrow), released the sneakily recorded sex tapes featuring Kip (Victor Garber) and Ben (Michael McDonald). The result is that Kip is forced to drop out of the race. This is fine with Fiona, who is ready to be done with politics and her gay husband so that she can fly away with Austen (Alan Cumming). Unfortunately, there is a snag in that plan, too. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1426/web-therapy-has-no-trouble-getting-it-up/ 2012-09-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com In the season six premiere of Adult Swim's Robot Chicken, the show honors the DC Comic Universe, much in the way it has previously done for Star Wars. It's an interesting choice, given how DC's competitor, Marvel, is dominating the theaters right now. Perhaps it was hard to get the rights to Marvel, or maybe the Robot Chicken guys just saw more potential in characters that haven't been played with on screen as much lately. Or perhaps they thought that honoring DC in this way might drum up more interest in DC movies. Whatever the reason, the result is a very http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1427/robot-chicken-flies-high/ 2012-09-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The ending of this week's The L.A. Complex, which airs on the CW here in the U.S., seemd like a season finale. All of the characters are gathered in a feel-good sequence, where they share pizza beside the pool. And then Connor (Jonathan Patrick Moore) has a bombshell dropped on him. But there are still five episodes left in this sophomore run, and as heartwarming as the end of of "Stay" may be, it is far more interesting to examine what leads everyone to this point, and the things they will have to deal with when they wake up tomorrow. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1424/stay-with-the-la-complex/ 2012-09-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Showtime's Weeds is in its finale season, so one might think that the plot arcs would begin to develop towards final, happy endings for the characters. For the last few weeks, that's exactly what the show appeared to be doing. Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) has a good job and is dating a respectable rabbi named David (David Julian Hirsh, Hawthorne). Andy (Justin Kirk) longs for kids, and when he meets a hot, young woman, Joanna (Aubrey Dollar, Women's Murder Club), who is willing to marry him, he thinks he has it made. Silas (Hunter Parrish) is offered a lucrative deal to grow http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1417/weeds-reaches-the-threshold/ 2012-09-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com AMC's Breaking Bad pauses this week, a mere eight episodes into its finale season. There will be eight more installments, but they are being held until next summer to give the writers more time to figure out an ending for the popular, critically acclaimed series. This wait sucks, to be frank, but I guess it's worth it if the ending of the show delivers, as it almost always does, rather than trying to rush greatness. In this midseason finale, "Gliding Over All," Walter White (Bryan Cranston) takes stock of where he is. Walt has become a kingpin, controlling his own http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1416/breaking-bad-pauses-in-final-season/ 2012-09-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com As the five-part series Injustice begins, Barrister William Travers (James Purefoy, Episodes, Rome) lives in a small village. He used to be a successful lawyer who won murder trials for his clients, whom he always believed innocent. But after one particular case, William suffered a nervous breakdown and had to step away from the more intense proceedings. Now, a friend of his is accused of murder. William steps back up into it for the case, returning to the cutthroat world he left behind, with the caveat that he will quit if he stops believing his client's innocence. His wife, Jane http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1414/injustice-comes-to-dvd/ 2012-09-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is a hit kids' show in multiple countries. Still running in the United States today, roughly 20 years after its debut, there have been lots of different series featuring lots of different rangers battling lots of different monsters. But now, for the first time on DVD, you can see how it all began. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 1, Vol.1 collects the first 30 episodes, half of season one, onto a three disc set (sans bonus features, not that that matters to the target audience). These are the characters that started it all, and built the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1415/mighty-morphin-power-rangers-season-1-vol-1/ 2012-09-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com SyFy's Alphas continues to get marginally better in season two. There are recurring characters and larger themes, rather than just a case of the week. While each episode still feels like its own story, the stories do impact each other, each one a piece in a larger puzzle. How it all comes together will be the deciding factor on whether the show has improved enough from its lackluster first season to earn continued patronage, and we are still quite a ways off from that point. But this week's installment, "Alphaville," does give us a few things to ponder. Summer Glau http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1412/the-alphas-go-to-alphaville/ 2012-09-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com When fans completed the third season of Sons of Anarchy, many members of SAMCRO are in prison. Season four, now on Blu-ray and DVD, picks up fourteen months later. The gang is out, but they don't quite return home to the same place they left. There's a new sheriff in town, Lieutenant Eli Roosevelt (Rockmond Dunbar, Prison Break), who won't even allow them to wear their insignia anymore. Backed up by U.S. Attorney Lincoln Potter (Ray McKinnon, Deadwood), a case is being built against the parolees. Will SAMCRO stand for this? Will they toe the line to stay out of trouble? http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1413/sons-of-anarchy-season-four-roars-onto-bluray/ 2012-09-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com HBO's True Blood wrapped up their fifth season this week with "Save Yourself." Showdowns and stakings dominated the episode, with many of the season's arcs wrapping up, while others are just getting started, or taken to a whole new level. Characters we thought we knew turned out to be something else. And enough hints at season four stories are dropped to keep fans pleasantly in anticipation through next summer. This season's most prominent plot featured the Vampire Authority. As "Save Yourself" draws to a close, representative after representative of this government body bite the dust. As enjoyable as this mix http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1411/save-yourself-some-true-blood/ 2012-08-31 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com HBO's The Newsroom presented a season finale this week entitled "The Greater Fool." This episode is so layered, and jammed with so many references, that it's surely worth watching repeatedly to catch everything. The gist of the plot: Will (Jeff Daniels) loses hope, Mackenzie (Emily Mortimer) tries and fails to cheer him up, Charlie (Sam Waterston) saves the day in more ways than one, Neal (Dev Patel) oversteps and makes things worse, the Jim (John Gallagher Jr.) / Don (Thomas Sadoski) / Maggie (Alison Pill) love triangle comes to a head in an unexpected way, and News Night finds its voice. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1408/the-greater-fool-rules-the-newsroom/ 2012-08-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Showtime's Episodes completed their second season this week. Everything came to a head at Merc's (John Pankow) Man of the Year ceremony. The cheaters were exposed, someone got fired, and an estranged couple realized exactly how they felt about each other. It was like last season's car wreck, but bigger, more metaphorical, and affecting more people. Needless to say, Episodes deserves an as-yet-unordered third season. Merc took on a greater importance in season two, especially in how the women in his life felt about him. Carol (Kathleen Rose Perkins) grew more devoted, while Merc's wife, Jamie (Genevieve O'Reilly) became less, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1407/episodes-explodes/ 2012-08-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com   FOX's Glee recently released The Complete Third Season on DVD and Blu-ray. This is the final year of high school for many of the original members of the New Directions, and they would like to go out with a bang. That means winning Nationals, setting themselves up to achieve their dreams, and for at least two students, a walk down the aisle. Season three begins bumpy. Sugar Motta (Vanessa Lengies) tries to buy her way into the glee club, but given her lack of talent, she is rebuked by the existing members. But she soon finds friends when Mercedes http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1404/glee-the-complete-third-season-now-available/ 2012-08-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It is said that revenge is a dish best served cold. ABC's Revenge proved the opposite by delivering a steamy hot guilty pleasure drama. Beginning with a murder on a beach, much of the season flashed back and built up to the dastardly deed. With twist after twist, viewers were kept guessing as to what they really saw, and as the series eventually caught up and moved past that point, things only got juicier. The protagonist of Revenge is Emily Thorne (Emily Van Camp, Brothers & Sisters), whose real name is Amanda Clarke. She has come to the Hamptons to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1405/sweet-sweet-revenge-now-on-dvd/ 2012-08-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Doctor Who - Spearhead From Space begins with our titular character exiled on Earth and in a hospital. At the same time, meteorites are falling, one of which contains an intelligence that can manufacture Autons, which it plans on using to take over the world. UNIT could really use the Doctor's help in dealing with the invasion, if only they knew where he was. Spearhead From Space, the first serial of season seven, marks several important firsts. This is the first episode featuring Jon Pertwee as the Doctor, the Time Lords having forced the character's regeneration at the conclusion of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1406/doctor-who-ducks-the-spearhead-from-space/ 2012-08-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's Suits ended its summer run on a high note; "High Noon," to be precise. The votes are in, and Daniel Hardman (David Costabile) is the new managing partner at the firm. Jessica (Gina Torres) appears to accept these events, while icily plotting her revenge. Louis (Rick Hoffman), at Hardman's urging, begins goading Harvey (Gabriel Macht), trying to force him into quitting. And Mike (Patrick J. Adams) doesn't deal very well with the death of his grandmother (Rebecca Schull). The ten episodes of Suits this summer have been amazing, and "High Noon" is no exception. Seeing the game of politics http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1402/high-noon-for-suits/ 2012-08-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's Burn Notice has had a heck of a summer. Finally dropping a mandatory case-of-the-week in each episode format, the show commits to an arc and sticks with it, allowing much more movement in the story of Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan) than the first several seasons combined. This is gratifying, even when the onion, which we thought done, peels yet another layer into the conspiracy. In "Desperate Times," the CIA finds Nate's (Seth Peterson) killer. Tom Card (John C. McGinley) agrees to let Michael take his team down to Panama to hunt the shooter, but only sends them with one agent http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1403/desperate-times-for-burn-notice/ 2012-08-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com After a great penultimate episode, in which Charlie's (Charlie Sheen) father, Martin (Martin Sheen), came to visit, the only thing certain about the FX Anger Management season finale was that it couldn't possibly be as good. But, as a series should in its finale, the focus was on the relationship between two of the characters, rather than a terrific guest star, making it actually pretty good. Comparatively, that is. I'm not saying Anger Management is a wonderful show. It is much more watchable and enjoyable that Sheen's last sitcom, but it's hardly breaking any new barriers. The things it has http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1401/romanticising-anger-management/ 2012-08-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC Family's Bunheads completes its summer run with "A Nutcracker in Paradise." While things were looking up for most of the characters going into the week, this episode ends in disaster. Michelle (Sutton Foster) not only manages to run off Fanny's (Kelly Bishop) beau, but also mace the entire dance company in the middle of a performance of The Nutcracker. Not even a stunt straight out of Dead Poets Society can save her job now! By the way, are we expected to believe a bunch of teenage girls, especially ones obsessed with dance who have little time for films, are http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1399/bunheads-takes-a-bow/ 2012-08-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The second season finale of TNT's Falling Skies, "A More Perfect Union," evoked strong emotion. Striking several important moments, excitement coursed through viewers' bodies, and left them strung out. The ups and downs and twists and turns of the season came to a head in a highly entertaining and explosive way, ending the year on a series of big notes. But it still fell a little short of expectations. Falling Skies is a popcorn series, to be sure. It's the television equivalent of a summer blockbuster. There are lots of characters doing daring things, with special effects and battles. But http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1397/falling-skies-still-not-quite-hitting-the-mark/ 2012-08-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com MTV premiered The Inbetweeners this week. It used to be anything on this network could be written off. The fact that The Inbetweeners is a remake of a British series, a la Skins, would count even further against it. However, surprise surprise, The Inbetweeners is good. Very good. There are a lot of shows you can compare The Inbetweeners to. Some have said The Wonder Years, but I prefer the more modern references, like calling it a series version of Superbad or the guy (and loser-class) bend on Awkward. I might even see it as an American Pie prequel. All of these http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1398/pick-a-side-for-the-inbetweeners/ 2012-08-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The season finale of USA's limited series event, Political Animals, aired this week. The title of the episode is "Resignation Day." But to whom does this refer? Is it Elaine's (Sigourney Weaver) last day as Secretary of State, having promised President Garcetti (Adrian Pasdar) that she would step down? Or will Douglas (James Wolk) be the one quitting, having leaked sensitive information that will make him untrustworthy, and thus unemployable, in his chosen field? Or perhaps Susan (Carla Gugino) will be forced to leave the paper, having crossed more than one line in the pursuit of a story? Thankfully, although http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1396/political-animals-need-not-be-caged/ 2012-08-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Normally, I like the more emotional episodes of Comedy Central's Futurama better than the comedy-centered ones, though both have their merits. This week's entry, "Near-Death Wish," kind of balanced things out nicely, even if it stretched the believability of the universe a bit. There was some true character exploration, and throw backs to previous episodes, as well as good movie references. Obviously, the title of the episode is a play off of the movie Death Wish, though instead of a vigilante seeking revenge, Fry (Billy West) just connects with some old relatives who may soon pass away. You see, Fry http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1395/futurama-returns-to-the-matrix/ 2012-08-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Like many people, Ace (Sophie Aldred) hates clowns. So she isn't too pleased when the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) drags her to the circus in the season finale of the original Doctor Who's penultimate year. The events of this story, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, are enough to make anyone agree with the Doctor's companion! As usual, the Doctor and Ace travel somewhere to solve a mystery and probably save some lives. This time, it just happens to be at a circus. Other travelers are arriving, too, and soon everyone is made a part of the show. Sadly, they perform only for a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1394/doctor-who-attends-the-greatest-show-in-the-galaxy/ 2012-08-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com TNT's Franklin & Bash completed their sophomore run this week with "6:50 to SLC." Bash's (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) law license is suspended because he misses a payment, which makes representing his buddy, Tommy Dale (Chris Klein, Wilfred), who is having problems with his campaign for governor, difficult. Meanwhile, Leonard Franklin (Beau Bridges) of Franklin & Franklin would like to purchase Infeld Daniels, whether Stanton (Malcolm McDowell) likes it or not. It's a shame that Franklin & Bash has become such a procedural. Even in this episode, which spends at least half of its time focusing on firm politics, there is a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1393/unleash-the-franklin--bash/ 2012-08-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com TNT's The Closer ended much the same way as the show lived. In "The Last Word," Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick) investigates a murder that she is sure Phillip Stroh (Billy Burke, Twilight) is behind. She is reminded of her restraining order, but is allowed to pursue Stroh based on legitimate evidence. Brenda crosses the line a bit, maybe more so here than before, and then the bad guy is caught. But a few things are a bit different about "The Last Word." Brenda is fired / retires, depending on who is telling the tale. She has crossed the line many times. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1391/closing-out-the-closer/ 2012-08-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Jeff Ross is s roaster extraordinaire for Comedy Central during the annual event where comedians go after an "honored" celebrity. With frequent appearances, usually providing some of the funnier material in the specials, it seems natural for Ross to move on to his own show, roasting anyone that he wants to, whether they like it or not. Thus is born the new series that premieres last night, The Burn with Jeff Ross. The title tells you everything that you need to know about the series, really. Ross stands up on a stage and lays into famous people. Some deserve it, some http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1392/jeff-ross-will-burn-you/ 2012-08-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Freshman series Common Law brings its first season to an end with "Gun!" Travis (Michael Ealy) and Wes (Warren Kole) come to their senses, realizing that they need Dr. Ryan's (Sonya Walger) help after their new therapist (Ed Begley Jr.) has them going through his ex-wife's tax returns. To get back in her good graces, they finally open up about the events that led them to counselling, and with her guidance, they do something about the situation. I stopped watching Common Law early in the season when I realized that, sadly, this series was destined to be more procedural than the direction most http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1385/common-law-brings-a-gun-to-the-party/ 2012-08-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Adult Swim's Childrens Hospital returns for season four with "The Boy with the Pancakes Tattoo." A young boy comes into the hospital with the word 'pancakes' tattooed on his arm. The doctors quickly realize that this boy has also brought a form of airborne amnesia with him, and then they forget. Soon Glenn (Ken Marino) is left alone to figure out a cure before he, too, succumbs to the virus. Even though Childrens Hospital is only a ten minute show, a lot is crammed into "The Boy with the Pancakes Tattoo," including a ton of non-specific movie references. Glenn wakes http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1386/dont-forget-childrens-hospital/ 2012-08-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Right from the opening in the season two premiere of NTSF:SD:SUV, viewers knew that fun times were to be had. After all, the episode was rated F for Fun. And then we get labels for locations like the NTSF hallway and Kove's (Kate Mulgrew) office. What's not to like about that? The story of the premiere, entitled "16 Hop Street," finds Piper (June Diane Raphael) and Trent (Paul Sheer) sent undercover to Nick Cannon High School (wtf?), where the popular kids are being kidnapped. They are tapped because the President of the Navy's (Rob Riggle) son is one of the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1389/ntsfsdsuv-the-f-stands-for-fun/ 2012-08-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The latest import from the U.K. is Misfits Season One. While a fourth season is in production across the pond, we finally get the first six episodes of the saga on DVD. Five young people working community service are struck by lightening in an ice storm and end up with super powers. Figuring out how these new abilities affect their lives, which pretty much stay status quo, is difficult. Especially when trying to get away with murder. The quote on the front cover of Misfits compares the show to Heroes and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This is woefully inaccurate, as http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1384/misfits-season-one-crashes-onto-dvd/ 2012-08-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Back in the 1970s, in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Declaration on Independence, John Jake wrote a series of eight best selling novels. Collectively know as The Kent Family Chronicles, or The American Bicentennial Series, they tell the story of Phillipe Charboneau, a Frenchmen who travels through England and the New World in Revolutionary times, changing his name to Philip Kent, and interacting with a surprisingly large number of historical figures. The series continues with Philip's descendants, eventually ending in 1890. Given the books' popularity, it should come as no surprise that they would be adapted for the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1381/the-kent-chronicles-now-on-dvd/ 2012-08-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Well, it was nice while it lasted. After things briefly looked up for many of the Ewings and assorted gal pals, it all came crashing down in the first season finale for TNT's Dallas, "Revelations." Southfork is safe, as is Sue Ellen's (Linda Gray) run for governor. But everything else, from relationships, to business deals, to shady enterprises, to family members actually getting along, imploded in spectacular fashion. What else would one expect from the legendary TV soap? The biggest disappointment in "Revelations" is the falling out between Christopher (Jesse Metcalfe) and John Ross (Josh Henderson). All Bobby (Patrick Duffy) http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1382/dallas-faces-revelations/ 2012-08-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This week, TNT's Perception deals with the controversial topic of religion in "The Messenger." A dead body leads Daniel (Eric McCormack) and Kate (Rachel Leigh Cook) to the house of a deeply religious boy named Kyle, who thinks he talks to God. Daniel assumes the whole thing is a cult, as others show up and give all their money to Kyle. And, as the detectives learn, there is a scam going on here, but its not perpetuated by Kyle. No, good old fashioned greed isn't tainting the actual faithful. Instead, an IRS agent (Roger Bart, Political Animals, The Producers) has http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1380/perception-hears-the-message/ 2012-08-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Showtime's Episodes continues to provide chapters of a wonderful, ongoing story week after week. In the latest entry, Beverly (Tamsin Greig) and Sean (Stephen Mangan) finally reconnect, Matt (Matt LeBlanc) finds out what his former Friends co-stars really think of him, and Morning (Mircea Monroe) gets a fix to her problem. Poor Morning. It's interesting that Episodes takes someone so pretty and tarnish her so. On modern television, many of the actors are of above average beauty, and especially in Hollywood, looks mean a lot. Yet, Episodes is brave enough to not only screw up Morning's prettiness for a single http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1379/no-friends-for-episodes/ 2012-08-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FX's Louie is a strange show. It is consistently funny, but not consistent in just about anything else. There's isn't much continuity, each episode has different themes and goes down its own path. It would be nearly impossible to describe what the show is about in a single sentence or even a paragraph. But that doesn't take anything away from the wonderful, unique show. This week's episode is called "Barney/Never," and is actually two distinct stories. The first is done artistically, ditching the traditional theme song and replacing it with a solemn, black and white opening. Louie (Louis C.K.) stands http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1377/louie-goes-dark-stays-funny/ 2012-08-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This week, on FX's Wilfred, Ryan (Elijah Wood) encounters an old friend named James (Eugene Byrd, Bones) who betrayed him years ago. Ryan doesn't want to talk to James, but Wilfred (Jason Gann) thinks Ryan should really get James's side of the story. When Ryan doesn't seem receptive to this, Wilfred stages a situation to prove to Ryan that he's right. Things end all warm and happy, with friendships restored. Maybe it's just me, but this episode, entitled "Avoidance," didn't feel special. The formula of Wilfred has now been established. Wilfred gives Ryan advice, Ryan dismisses the advice, Wilfred hounds http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1375/wilfred-has-avoidance-issues/ 2012-08-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Now available on DVD is Michael Wood's Story of England. In this six part tale (which was edited down to four when PBS re-aired it), Wood explores a vast stretch of history by looking at a single village. Digging in the dirt, the townspeople come together to help him unearth secrets dating back hundreds, even thousands, of years. Story of England gets through a lot in six hours. Beginning in Roman times, it then moves through the Viking invasion, the Nordic occupation, a great famine, and the Black Death, which killed two thirds of the village people. From there, the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1374/michael-wood-tells-a-story-of-england/ 2012-08-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com HBO's The Newsroom is generally about a crusader and his gallant team championing the facts, standing up to those who would deceive and mislead the American public. But what makes the kind of man who becomes this kind of leader of the righteous army? That is the question at the heart of this week's episode, "Bullies." Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) can't sleep. He doesn't know why, and he doesn't want to know. But viewers do, and the only way Will can conquer his problem is to open himself up to inquiry. It's funny, but wholly authentic, how someone who can be so brave http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1373/the-newsroom-doesnt-put-up-with-bullies/ 2012-08-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Cartoon Network's Adult Swim isn't just for animated shows anymore. One of their best live action shows is Childrens Hospital. Originally a webseries doctored to deliver episodes running around 10 minutes each, The Complete Third Season, includes 14 installments from the first season created just for television. Childrens Hospital is a unique, odd comedy. Although all the doctors and patients are white and speak English without an accent, the setting is Brazil. The story revolves around a staff of health care professionals who heal sick people and sleep with each other. But despite being as good looking as the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1368/sunday-july-29-2012-childrens-hospital-the-complete-third-season-checks-in-to-dvd/ 2012-07-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This season, the final one for Showtime's Weeds, the show is going back to its roots. With the Botwins living in the suburbs once more, surrounded by upper middle class opulence and the wisp of a normal life, there is nothing Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) wants more than to stay there. That's why, in this week's episode, "Red in Tooth and Claw," she tries to get out of the the drug business. There is definitely something ideal about living this way. It's the American dream. Sure, one may have to donate a bit of money and kiss some butt, playing local http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1369/weeds-is-red-in-tooth-and-claw/ 2012-07-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Last night's instalment of USA's Burn Notice, "Shock Wave," was huge, in terms of plot development. The major characters are split up. Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) and a team go after Anson (Jere Burns), whom they have located. But when Michael's brother, Nate (Seth Peterson), who is accompanying the squad, gets reckless, he and Anson are both killed. Meanwhile, Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) avoids British intelligence long enough to earn her CIA-approved release, and Sam (Bruce Campbell) protects Barry (Paul Tei) from some of Fiona's former gun-running associates. Make no mistake about it. This is a game changer. Michael is devastated by http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1366/a-shock-wave-rips-through-burn-notice/ 2012-07-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com In the latest instalment of Comedy Central's Futurama, "The Six Million Dollar Mon," Hermes (Phil LaMarr) is disgraced after being rated the least valuable employee at Planet Express and fired, replaced by a machine. It doesn't matter that he is the one who does the firing to himself, it still hurts. Adding insult to injury, Hermes is almost mugged by crazy Roberto (David Herman). To cope with these events, Hermes begins getting robot implants, until there is nothing human left about him. "The Six Million Dollar Mon" is, overall, a very good episode. It really focuses on the characters of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1364/futurama-builds-the-six-million-dollar-mon/ 2012-07-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Fans might have missed the return of Cartoon Network's Aqua Teen Hunger Force on Adult Swim a few weeks ago. This is because it has, yet again, changed the title. The series, now known as Aqua Something You Know Whatever, has not lost a bit of its comedic charm, and after a couple of years of mediocre tales, has returned to its former glory. This is definitely apparent in this week's instalment, "The Granite Family." "The Granite Family" plot is simple enough. Master Shake (Dana Snyder) has trouble relating a Flintstones-esque cartoon on television, so he decides he needs to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1363/aqua-something-you-know-whatever-goes-back-to-the-stone-age/ 2012-07-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The Krotons is the fourth serial in the sixth season of the classic British series, Doctor Who. Originally aired in December 1968 and January 1969, this four-part serial featuring the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) has just been released for the first time on DVD. In The Krotons, the Doctor and his companions, Jamie (Frazer Hines) and Zoe (Wendy Padbury), land on a planet inhabited by two races, the Krotons and the Gonds. The Gonds are treated as inferiors, being taken care of by the Krotons. In exchange, the Gonds hand over the smartest of their people to be companions for http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1362/doctor-who-outwits-the-krotons/ 2012-07-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com TBS's newest comedy is Sullivan & Son, which kicked off with two episodes this week. The "Pilot" begins when Steve Sullivan (Steve Byrne) visits his hometown for his father, Jack's (Dan Lauria, The Wonder Years), retirement party. Though Steve is an attorney in the big city, he decides that he can't let his father sell the bar, which is an institution in the neighborhood, to a stranger. So he gives up his career and fiance to move home and take over. I have a lot of mixed feelings about Sullivan & Son. Let's start with the positives. First, there http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1359/come-on-down-to-sullivan--son/ 2012-07-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com After a (thankfully) brief hiatus, The L.A. Complex returns for a second season with "Vacancy." This episode picks up right after season one ends, and while some of the characters begin new arcs, others have to deal with the fallout from the old ones. At least in L.A., things are never boring! Nick (Joe Dinicol) gets an interview as a writer for Paul F. Tompkins' new series, even though Paul (himself) hates Nick. To overcome this bias and get on staff, Nick uses his chemistry with Sabrina (Georgina Reilly), who is also interviewing, and they are both hired. Then he http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1353/the-la-complex-has-a-vacancy/ 2012-07-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Television is in the throes of a revolution. Many young consumers watch their shows online. And with a number of studios, as well as countless individuals, releasing programming online, the line between what is and is not television is blurred. I say this because this review is actually of a web series, which I believe can now be clumped into the same category as traditional television. One of the best internet channels, a new invention by YouTube to get viewers regularly visiting, is Geek & Sundry, run by Felicia Day (The Guild, Eureka), which launched a new show this week http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1354/this-review-is-not-written-by-a-kid/ 2012-07-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com There is a character from the old serials known as Charlie Chan, The Amazing Chan. In 1972, Hanna Barbera transitioned Charlie to their animated realm in the one season, sixteen episode series The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan. Together with his ten children, whom Mr. Chan is raising as a single father, the Chan Clan solves mysteries. The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan will definitely be compared to Scooby-Doo. After all, there are kids in a van, with a dog, solving mysteries. Some of the music used in this series is a play off of Scooby-Doo music. Scooby http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1352/the-amazing-chan-and-the-chan-clan-on-dvd/ 2012-07-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com So, so much is going on in this season of HBO's True Blood! Six hours into the season, "Hopeless" is jam packed full of plots, with each of the main characters facing something big. Without further ado, let's get to it! Russell Edgington (Denis O'Hare) is back in a big way! Briefly captured by the Authority, thanks to Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Eric (Alexander Skarsgard), Russell quickly turns the tables on Authority leader Roman (Christopher Meloni), giving him the final death. What will Russell do with his new found power? Will he and the vampire movement known as the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1351/true-blood-is-far-from-hopeless/ 2012-07-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Death to the Daleks, the third serial in the eleventh season of Doctor Who, finally comes to DVD! In this four part story, the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) crash on the planet Exxilon, which just happens to be a battle site. Here, humans and Daleks fight over a rare mineral that cures a deadly space plague. But the humans and Daleks are not the only beings on Exxilon. There is also a savage native race, which practices sacrifice in their worship of a living city. This isn't good news for Sarah, who is soon captured http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1350/doctor-who-vows-death-to-the-daleks/ 2012-07-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Last night's Suits on USA was called "Discovery." Mike (Patrick J. Adams) mouths off to Harvey (Gabriel Macht), and in retaliation, Harvey assigns Mike to Louis (Rick Hoffman). Working a case together, Mike actually comes to respect Louis, forming a pleasant bond. That is, until Louis plants a recorder in Harvey's office and hears the pair calling him pathetic. Meanwhile, Harvey asks Donna (Sarah Rafferty) to dig into an old case when he is accused of forgery by Tanner (Eric Close, Without a Trace). "Discovery" has some of the best Louis scenes of the series so far. Here he is, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1342/suits-makes-a-discovery/ 2012-07-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's Burn Notice continues its bold sixth season with "Under the Gun." Michael (Jeffrey Donovan), Jesse (Coby Bell), and Sam (Bruce Campbell) are following a lead when the encounter Rebecca (Kristanna Loken, Painkiller Jane, The L Word), the member of Michael's CIA team that betrayed him. Rebecca takes Sam hostage, leading Michael and Jesse on a dramatic, high stakes chase. Applause to Burn Notice for continuing to chuck case of the week over interesting, longer story arcs! The return of Rebecca comes at the perfect time! Like Michael, Anson (Jere Burns) has some leverage over her, meaning there will have http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1343/burn-notice-is-under-the-gun-and-i-like-it/ 2012-07-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com HBO's The Ricky Gervais Show brought its run to a close last night with "The Year." This season three finale will also serve as the series finale, as Gervais stops all current projects to concentrate on new ones. Among the topics of the final installment? Insects getting smarter, a trimmed mattress, cutting avocados, and the negatives of dating twins. Dating twins, you say? Yes, Karl (Karl Pilkington) thinks it would be terrible to date twins, no matter how attractive they might be. He is of the opinion that if a bloke is lucky enough to get two of something, he is going http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1344/ricky-gervais-show-ends-the-year-and-the-series/ 2012-07-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This week's Franklin & Bash on TNT, entitled "Voir Dire," is an excellent, unique episode. The installment title lacks clear definition, but it has to do with jury selection, which is really what the hour is about. While "Voir Dire" is not the first jury trial to be featured on Franklin & Bash, it is definitely the first one where almost the entire episode is consumed with picking the jury, rather than trying the case. The case of the week involves a man named Sal (Gino Anthony Pesi, The Vampire Diaries), who beat up three other guys. Missing the partners' http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1341/franklin--bash-engage-in-voir-dire/ 2012-07-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC Family's Bunheads continues to delight this week with "Better Luck Next Year!" Fanny (Kelly Bishop) is devastated to learn that the Joffrey summer camp auditions have been moved to a different venue, away from her studio, with very little notice. Michelle (Sutton Foster), frustrated with her failed attempts to fix her own life, throws herself into Fanny's problem instead. In the end, it takes Fanny and Michelle working together to save the day, and they get the auditions back. There is something heartwarming about every episode of this series, and "Better Luck Next Year!" is no different. Fanny and http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1340/better-luck-next-year-bunheads/ 2012-07-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This week's installment of TNT's Falling Skies, "Love and Other Acts of Courage," sees a huge sea change for the show. The alien I nicknamed Scar in my previous review, but is now being referred to as Red Eye by the show's PR materials, is actually a good guy, who would like to team up with the human resistance! Viewers and the soldiers barely have time to digest this fact before the 2nd Mass must flee an attack, and Red Eye escapes from them, his captors and would-be killers. In retrospect, this turn of events makes sense. We previously learned http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1338/love-and-other-acts-of-courage-drive-falling-skies/ 2012-07-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com On this week's Saving Hope, "Out of Sight," Dr. Alex Reid (Erica Durance, Smallville) is almost shut out of an important surgery, a double hand replacement, because she falls asleep during a meeting. Her new boss, Dr. Kinney (Wendy Crewson, 24, ReGenesis), thinks Alex has lost her edge, grieving over fiance Charlie (Michael Shanks, Smallville, Stargate SG-1) in a coma, and assumes Alex is close to a total crash and burn. But Alex has Joel (Daniel Gillies, The Vampire Diaries) to look out for her, and with his help, she is able to prove herself again. Saving Hope isn't very http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1334/is-there-any-hope-for-saving-hope/ 2012-07-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com For those who wondered if the new TNT continuation of Dallas would unfurl the drama slowly, this week's episode, "Truth and Consequences," proves the answer to that is a resounding no. Only five hours in, J.R.'s (Larry Hagman) scheme to buy Southfork has come to fruition, leaving Bobby (Patrick Duffy) scrambling to save his family estate from his conniving brother. This can only be done if Bobby finds proof that J.R. knew about the fraud in the sale, which is pretty difficult, what with J.R. skipping town and all. To have Southfork trade hands from Bobby to J.R. so early http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1330/truth-and-consequences-rear-their-heads-on-dallas/ 2012-07-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FX's Wilfred was one of the big surprises from last summer. A much-changed American remake of a popular Australian show, it's about a guy named Ryan (Elijah Wood) who, after a failed suicide attempt, begins seeing his neighbor's dog, Wilfred (creator of both versions, Jason Gann), as a man in a dog suit. This dog smokes pot and encourages Ryan to do illegal things, causing trouble. Or does he? Maybe Wilfred is just getting Ryan out of his comfort zone, so that Ryan can improve as a person. No one else sees Wilfred a man. This can create some issues http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1331/wilfred-the-complete-first-season-bounds-onto-bluray/ 2012-07-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The latest chapter of MTV's Awkward. is "Sex, Lies and the Sanctuary." Jenna (Ashley Rickards) considers telling Jake (Brett Davern) about Matty (Beau Mirchoff) preemptively when a video camera is discovered outside of the Sanctuary, the secret hookup place for the school. If the video leaks and shows Jenna and Matty, their secret will be revealed. But Jake says he doesn't want to know who the other man in Jenna's life was. Should she tell him anyway? Ah, the drama of teenage love. These characters are incredibly authentic to their age group. Jake frets, admitting his jealousy over a mystery http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1332/awkward-confronts-sex-lies-and-the-sanctuary/ 2012-07-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Louis C.K. is a very special type of guy, and fans can finally see that in FX's Louie, which recently released its second season on Blu-ray and DVD. Impossible to summarize succinctly, each episode is its own short film, usually finding Louie (Louis C.K.) in a situation where his life is miserable and he tries to persevere, but only succeeds in a limited way, as he does not possess a cheery dispensation. Louie is a comedy, but the laughs are had at Louie's expense more than anything else. The situations that happen to him are humorous, in a schadenfreude fashion. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1333/commiserate-with-louie-the-complete-second-season/ 2012-07-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com I admit it. I wasn't a big fan of the first season of Showtime's Web Therapy. Perhaps that is because those early episodes were just shorter webisodes edited together, and didn't have as cohesive a story for each half hour. As season two begins last night, though, with "Getting It Straight," all that changes. Though the episodes are still based on web clips, a number of new characters are introduced, and the story immediately seems more comprehensive. Season two of Web Therapy is exactly what it should have been from the beginning, and sort of was, but really hadn't come http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1329/web-therapy-is-getting-it-straight/ 2012-07-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The latest episode of TBS's Men at Work is "Plan B." Neal (Adam Busch, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) hooks Milo (Danny Masterson, That '70s Show) up with his hot friend, Hannah (Laura Prepon, Are You There Chelsea?). Milo likes Hannah, but as Neal keeps intruding on their dates, Milo begins to wonder if Hannah is Neal's Plan B, should things not work out with his current girlfriend, Amy (Meredith Hagner, As the World Turns). Milo is right, and Hannah, thrilled to see Neal's interest, makes a play for him, leaving Neal with a tough decision to make. This is a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1328/men-at-work-is-plan-b-for-me/ 2012-06-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FX just premiered Anger Management, a sitcom loosely based on the film of the same name. The show is about a therapist named Charlie (Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men) who specializes in treating people with anger issues. This is appropriate, because Charlie also suffers from a rage affliction. He is seeking help in dealing with his own emotions from fellow therapist / best friend with benefits, Kate (Selma Blair, Kath & Kim), while trying to be a better father to daughter Sam (Daniela Bobadilla, Awake). For all the Charlie Sheen haters out there, Anger Management is not as http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1323/charlie-sheen-returns-in-anger-management/ 2012-06-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It's is very difficult to write a review about FX's Louie without it just sounding like several paragraphs of kissing Louis C.K.'s butt. There are a number of reasons for this. First, the show is absolutely freaking brilliant. It's hard to argue with any choice that Louis makes in terms of making the series, from the locations, to the low budget look and feel, to the genuine pathos pouring from the lead character. The entire thing is just dripping with originality and humor of a very high degree. For another thing, nothing ever happens on Louie. There is no continuity. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1324/something-is-wrong-with-louie--not/ 2012-06-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com One of the latest Doctor Who serials to get the Special Edition DVD treatment is the fifth serial of season six, "The Seeds of Death." Originally aired in six installments from January through March of 1969, "The Seeds of Death" is set only about a century into the future, at the end of the 21st century. On this Earth, transportation has become so simple due to the invention of the T-Mat, a teleporting device, that mankind has grown lazy, and stopped exploring space. This spells bad news when the T-Mat system goes down, stranding people on the moon. The stranding http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1320/doctor-who-plants-the-seeds-of-death/ 2012-06-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Season twenty-one, serial four of Doctor Who is Resurrection of the Daleks. Intended to be four half hour episodes, but aired as two full-hour installments because of the 1984 Olympics, the tale begins with The Doctor (Peter Davison), Tegan (Janet Fielding), and Turlough (Mark Strickson) dragged through a time corridor to London circa present day (present for when the episode aired). There, they encounter old enemies, the Daleks, who have come for their creator, Davros (Terry Molloy), hoping that he can save them from a deadly disease.. As the Doctor battles the Daleks, Davros isn't exactly looking forward to being http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1321/doctor-who-lives-to-see-the-resurrection-of-the-daleks/ 2012-06-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com HBO's Veep rounded up its freshman run with "Tears." Flying to Ohio (where else?) to endorse a gubernatorial candidate, Selina (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) learns that her poll numbers are bad. Suddenly, her endorsement is not needed, and in fact, Roger Furlong (Dan Bakkedahl, Community) threatens retribution if Selina does throw her weight behind him. Mike (Matt Walsh) gets the idea that Selina, overly emotional, could save face if she just shows a little emotion, so he manipulates her into crying during an interview. Suddenly, Furlong wants her by his side again. Then he doesn't. Then he does. The he vows vegeance. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1322/dont-cry-for-the-veep/ 2012-06-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Showtime's The Borgias concluded its second season last week with "The Confession." Rodrigo (Jeremy Irons) mourns the death of son, Juan (David Oakes), coming not long after losing a younger son, and is disturbed that his other children don't seem nearly as upset about the murder as he is. When Rodrigo vows to find the killer, Cesare (François Arnaud) realizes he must come clean, admitting to Rodrigo that he offed his brother, and asking for Juan's military command. While Rodrigo flounders with this revelation, Cesare goes a step furthering, taking control of the family and ordering that the wedding of his http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1319/the-borgias-make-the-confession/ 2012-06-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FX's Wilfred returns next Thursday to officially begin its second season. It's odd, then, that a brand new "preview" episode aired last night. Entitled "Progress," this latest installment finds Ryan (Elijah Wood) in a mental hospital, where he has been getting better under the care of Dr. Eddy (Robin Williams) while waiting for Wilfred (Jason Gann) to recover from his car accident. Ryan is shaken when Jenna (Fiona Gubelmann) brings Wilfred to visit, and Ryan still sees Wilfred as a man in a dog suit, believing that his treatment isn't working. It takes no time at all for Ryan to get http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1317/wilfred-makes-progress/ 2012-06-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com In this week's season three finale of Showtime's The Big C, the plot is all about getting away from the routine life so that one can finds oneself. Sometimes it takes stepping back to get a clear perspective, and that is the message of "Fly Away." The main cast has literally flown away to Puerto Rico for a much-needed vacation, where they blow the dust off and confront issues that have been brewing, as well as decide what direction to take their lives in next. Paul (Oliver Platt) is deeply saddened by the death of Joy (Susan Sarandon), and takes http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1318/fly-away-from-the-big-c/ 2012-06-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC Family tries really hard on its sitcoms. The latest, Baby Daddy, which premiered last night, should be good. After all, it's basically a serialized Three Men and a Baby, which I re-watched recently and am happy to report still holds up. Unfortunately, the writing is nowhere near the level of the classic film, and the acting is (probably purposefully) cheesy, and thus, Baby Daddy falls flat. In the pilot, Ben (Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Kyle XY) is very surprised when an infant girl named Emma is left on his stoop. Viewers may be even more surprised at the timing, considering that the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1312/dont-need-no-baby-daddy/ 2012-06-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Showtime's Nurse Jackie has had a rough year. Jackie (Edie Falco ) is going through a divorce which might cost her custody of her kids, all while struggling to stay sober after a too-brief stint in rehab. But things go from bad to worse in "Handle Your Scandal," the fourth season finale, as Jackie finally has the showdown with Dr. Cruz (Bobby Cannavale) that has been brewing. Dr. Cruz is cruel. Wonderfully balanced between total jerk and compassionate person by Cannavale, Cruz spends most of the year teetering a very fine line. But as the season wraps up, he shows http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1311/nurse-jackie-can-handle-your-scandal/ 2012-06-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com HBO's Girls has gotten a lot of attention this season, some positive, some not so much. As the freshman run draws to a close with "She Did," it's hard to see where the attacks come from. Jealousy? Insecurity? Lack of a frame of reference? Yes, the characters may not be completely likeable, but what a bold, fresh, realistic perspective! Girls may very well be the voice of a generation, and I don't make that claim lightly.   Maybe there are those that dislike the series because they are trying to compare it to other television. This is folly, as the writing and direction http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1309/she-did-it-girls/ 2012-06-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Now available from Acorn Media is the award winning miniseries, Washington: Behind Closed Doors. This six part story, spread across three discs, is the fictional tale of President Richard Monckton (Jason Robards, The Civil War, Magnolia), a paranoid and arrogant man, secretly plotting against many. Set mainly in the 1970s, Monckton comes under the influence of Frank Flaherty (Robert Vaughn, Coronation Street, Hustle), who isolates the president from his staff, and manipulates him to serve his purposes. All this, while the administration balances a Southeast Asian war and antiwar protests at home. Wait, you say. This doesn't sound fictional? It http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1310/behind-washington-behind-closed-doors/ 2012-06-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com AMC's The Killing faced a tough road in season two. Shedding impatient fans who are used to getting clear answers at the end of an hour, or at least at the end of the season, American audiences by and large just aren't ready for a series as complex and drawn out as The Killing. But even those who tuned out halfway through probably want to know how it ends. So with that in mind, "What I Know," the 26th and final installment in the Who Killed Rosie Larson? saga, brings it all together. SPOILER ALERT! Aunt Terry (Jamie Anne Allman) http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1308/what-i-know-about-the-killing/ 2012-06-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's Burn Notice recently began its sixth season. It is appropriate, then, that season five recently came out on DVD. Fans who missed the lead up to the great season six premiere will want to know that back story of how Michael (Jeffrey Donovan), Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar), and the others got to the point where they are. This four disc set answers those questions quite nicely. Season five, itself, is a wonderful story, with more ambitious arcs than earlier runs of the series. Picking up with Michael back in the CIA's good graces, hunting down the people that burned him, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1305/burn-notice-season-five-on-dvd/ 2012-06-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com  One of the most anticipated events of the summer is TNT's revival of the classic prime time soap drama, Dallas. Just over two decades since the fourteen season drama bowed off the air, it returns, a continuation to the original. This is not a reboot or a remake, but rather, continues the story started years ago, adding a new generation into an old rivalry, and it does not disappoint. As the first episode, "Changing of the Guard," begins, J.R. (Larry Hagman) is suffering from a deep depression, unresponsive to visitors. Brother Bobby (Patrick Duffy), happy in his own life http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1306/return-to-dallas/ 2012-06-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's Suits returned tonight with a game-changing premiere called "She Knows." Whereas season one is a two man show that often feels like a procedural, it's clear immediately that season two is a serial with a much more dynamic plot. More twists are packed into this episode than one would expect, and some really cool new stories are set up. First, the title of the installment must be addressed. Jessica (Gina Torres) is the epitome of cool as she deals with the revelation of Mike's (Patrick J. Adams) secret. Her conversation with Mike, fishing for info before ordering his termination, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1303/she-knows-about-suits/ 2012-06-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Did you ever have a really bad day, and then doing something reckless out of exhaustion, frustration, and possibly under the influence of alcohol? That is exactly the premise that Bunheads begins with. Michelle Simms (Broadway star Sutton Foster) is a Vegas showgirl who has given up on her more ambitious dreams. Failing yet another audition, she accepts the kindness of a dorky man who has long admired her (Alan Ruck, Spin City, Persons Unknown). Which leads to her marrying the guy, and moving in with him and his mother in a sleepy town. Yes, this sounds like the mistake to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1304/bunheads-aka-gilmore-girls-2/ 2012-06-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Sarah Rafferty plays Donna on USA's Suits, a legal drama that prizes exploration of morality and character drama over case-of-the-week procedural. Donna is Harvey's right hand (wo)man, who knows everything about him. Harvey may be a slick hot shot with an ego, which is well deserved, by the way, but Donna relates to him better than anyone, providing moments that humble and ground Harvey. She has a quick wit and a kind heart. She also serves as the gatekeeper, keeping the world away from her boss. Rafferty is nice, too. This is her day off, and she makes the trek to http://www.thetvking.com/news/404/talking-with-sarah-rafferty-of-usas-suits/ 2012-06-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "This is the year two thousand and twenty. The place is the Challenger Sea Mount, the top of an underwater mountain, a complex beneath the sea. Two hundred and fifty men, women and children live here. Each of them, a scientist pioneer. For this is our last frontier, a hostile environment which may hold the key to tomorrow. Each day, these oceanauts meet new challenges as they build their city beneath the sea. This is Sealab 2020." This is the voice over that opens every episode of Warner Brother's 1972 animated series, Sealab 2020. Not to be confused with Adult http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1300/sealab-2020-the-complete-series-now-on-dvd/ 2012-06-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Gina Torres is an actress I admire greatly. From Firefly and its spin-off movie, Serenity, to Alias, 24, and Angel, she has appeared in a number of projects that I absolutely love. In each, she has been fantastic, showing range and wit, perfectly capturing the character that she plays. So to get to speak with her is a dream come true. Gina's current project is starring in USA's Suits. In the show, a legal drama focusing more on characters that the cases, Gina plays Jessica Pearson, the senior partner of the law firm. For much of season one, her http://www.thetvking.com/news/402/talking-with-gina-torres-of-usas-suits/ 2012-06-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Gene Klein (I Just Want My Pants Back) is a producer for two USA shows: Suits and Covert Affairs. The series could not be more different, which has to make working on both at once, despite the fact that the sets are right across the hallway from each other, a challenge. Yet Klein seems completely relaxed as he spends time with us during a recent visit to the set of Suits. Not only does he provide his own discussion time, but also supervises some of the actors who come in, perhaps to make sure that they don't spill too http://www.thetvking.com/news/403/talking-with-suits-producer-gene-klein/ 2012-06-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com AMC's Mad Men characters have undergone quite a bit of change throughout the fifth season. Society around them continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and as one era ends, another moves forward. This can be unsettling to many, as the series embraces this new world order, as well as the differing reactions the characters have to it, with realism and skill. "The Phantom," this week's season finale, is a superb example of this, enhanced by the artistic, beautiful image of the five partners in their new, empty office space. Lane's (Jared Harris) suicide still haunts, but the firm moves http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1299/mad-men-continues-evolution-as-another-year-comes-to-an-end/ 2012-06-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Acorn Media has recently released Doc Martin Series 5 on DVD. The series centers on Doctor Martin Ellingham (Martin Clunes), a general practitioner in the scenic village or Portwenn. Grumpy by nature, it has taken a long time for the locals to warm up to the good doctor, but now that he finally has found his place, does he want to keep it? Series 5 finds him contemplating a move to London, now that he has pretty much mastered his fear of blood, making him much better at this job. Of course, there are plenty of things to keep Martin http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1298/check-out-doc-martin-series-5-on-dvd/ 2012-06-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com While on a recent visit to the set of USA's Suits, we got a surprise visit from Christopher Gorham! The series he stars in for the same network, Covert Affairs, houses its stages in the same building as Suits, and taking a break from filming some webisodes, Christopher is generous enough to stop by and speak with us. For those who don't know, Covert Affairs follows several CIA agents on various missions. Gorham's character's name is Auggie, a veteran who is blind from a war injury. Learning braille and being set up with his own, customized computer station, Auggie is a master at monitoring events and http://www.thetvking.com/news/399/talking-with-christopher-gorham-of-covert-affairs/ 2012-06-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com HBO's Game of Thrones ended its sophomore run this past Sunday. In the dramatic final two hours, the series proves that one can never get enough Game of Thrones, each season being far too short, and that the show has some of the best writing and acting on television. Those hooked back in season one are handsomely rewarded for going this far, as the stakes are raised even higher, and every fan should be left with much anticipation for the third go-round, coming next year. That being said, this review will not cover every character and every plot. There are http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1297/game-of-thrones-wrestles-season-two-to-a-close/ 2012-06-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's Suits is the lawyer show that is actually about the lawyers. While many series concentrate on cases and solving crimes, Suits takes the opposite tack, mainly using clients to further the examination and growth of the main characters. It's a fun twist on an old standard, making for an exciting serial worth watching regularly! Meghan Markle (Fringe, Horrible Bosses) plays Rachel Zane on Suits. Her character would very much like to be a lawyer, but still has a long way to go. To further this goal, she has become a respected and valuable member of the legal team http://www.thetvking.com/news/397/talking-with-rick-hoffman-and-meghan-markle-of-usas-suits/ 2012-06-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com If one drew up a list of films that should get a remake for the television screen, the campy Teen Wolf would likely not be near the top. Yet, last year MTV aired a series loosely based on the movie of the same name, and received pretty positive reviews. With season two airing this summer, those who missed it the first go-round may want to catch up with The Complete Season One DVD, on sale now. MTV's Teen Wolf differs from the movie in many ways. For one, the television series is much darker, building suspense, mystery, and mythology into http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1295/teen-wolf-the-complete-season-one/ 2012-06-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's White Collar started slow in season one, picked up in the second half of the first year, and then got even better in season two. It should come as no surprise, then, that The Complete Third Season features the best episodes of White Collar ever made - at least until season four premieres! The premise of White Collar is simple. An FBI man named Peter Burke (Tim DeKay) brings in career criminal Neal Caffey (Matt Bomer) to help him solve cases. At first, it's an unlikely pairing. As the episodes go by, Neal and Peter find a deepening trust http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1296/white-collar-the-complete-third-season-a-wild-ride/ 2012-06-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's Suits is the legal series that is NOT a case-of-the-week, standard procedural. Instead, it is character-driven, examining the morality and relationships between a group of people at a law firm. Moving into season two, big changes are afoot. This includes more development for side characters, including Herold Jakowski. You may not remember much about Herold. He is an associate that gets dumped on by Louis a lot. But that is going to change. Not the dumping, of course, but that lack of standing out. Max Topplin, the wonderfully charming, funny actor who portrays the character, has a lot to say about http://www.thetvking.com/news/395/talking-with-max-topplin-of-usas-suits/ 2012-06-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Starz's Magic City brought its first season to a close this weekend with "Time and Tide." Ike Evans (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is arrested for murder. Vera (Olga Kurylenko) has to try to save Ike's business deal, after he is escorted out of a meeting in handcuffs. Mob boss Ben Diamond (Danny Huston) catches Ike's son, Stevie (Steven Straight), having an affair with Ben's wife, Lily (Jessica Marais). Victor (Yul Vazquez) and Mercedes (Dominik Garcia-Lorido) deal with the death of a loved one. And none of this really excites. There is something lacking about Magic City that is hard to pinpoint. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1293/magic-city-fails-to-spark/ 2012-06-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com From Green Apple Entertainment comes Jules Verne's Mysterious Island. Directed by the fantastic Mark Sheppard (Warehouse 13, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly), this tale is adapted from the novel of the same name by the famous author. In it, Civil War soldiers end up on a chunk of land in the middle of the sea, threatened by deadly creatures they do not understand, running from pirates, and helped by an unseen friend. Whenever one sees something horrible, it's a difficult job to critique. This is the case with Jules Verne's Mysterious Island. Spending any time at all reviewing opens one's eyes to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1294/jules-vernes-mysterious-island-not-all-that-mysterious/ 2012-06-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Patrick J. Adams plays Mike Ross in USA's Suits, a sort-of legal drama, that is far more about the characters than the cases. One of the two real leads of the first season, though season two is moving more towards an ensemble series, Mike is a brilliant young man, who hasn't caught a break. Until now. In season one, Mike is chosen to be the mentee of expert attorney Harvey Specter, even though Mike doesn't have a law degree. This is everything Mike has dreamed of, and he struggles to keep his secret, as well as balance his new romantic http://www.thetvking.com/news/393/talking-with-patrick-j-adams-of-usas-suits/ 2012-06-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FOX's Touch ended its freshman run this week with the two part episode, "Gyre." Things come to a head as Sheri (Roxana Brusso, Southland) and the company make a play to take over full custody of Jake (David Mazouz). Knowing that the shady organization killed Arthur (Danny Glover) and made a little girl named Amelia disappear, Clea (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) helps Martin (Kiefer Sutherland) sneak Jake away. With pursuers hot on their heels, Martin and Jake flee New York. Touch is all about patterns in the world, and how things are fated to come together. For many weeks, this is simply http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1292/touching-on-the-touch-season-finale/ 2012-06-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's Suits is legal drama, or rather, a drama about lawyers. It's certainly not a typical legal procedural; Suits emphasizes character over case. Sure, there are clients, but the cases are not the focus of the episode, especially moving into season two. Instead, it is a series about morality and relationships, focusing more on the interaction of the principal characters than on their jobs, which just happen to be in a law office. Similar to The Good Wife, though completely different, Suits is an original, light-hearted, fun series with intriguing characters who will draw you in. Gabriel Macht plays Harvey Specter. One http://www.thetvking.com/news/392/talking-with-gabriel-macht-of-usas-suits/ 2012-06-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The Canadian show that has quickly become a must-see series, The L.A. Complex, brought its freshman run on the CW to a close this week. The sixth and final episode is appropriately titled "Burn It Down," seeing as how practically all of the characters either burn a bridge or face a dream destroyed. It's a tragic, downer ending, with just enough glimpses of hope to get viewers excited for season two. Raquel (Jewel Staite, in a terrific, moving performance) realizes that she cannot keep up her con on poor Gary (Rob Stewart, Nikita). She comes clean with him, breaking things http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1290/dont-burn-down-the-la-complex/ 2012-06-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Premiering to record breaking numbers for cable, it is clear that the History Channel has a hit on its hands with the new miniseries Hatfields & McCoys. It's not too late to catch the six hour saga, as it continues to repeat. And catch it, you should. This is what the History Channel should do more of! Bring the stories of the past alive in well scripted, well produced drama. In this goal, Hatfields & McCoys succeeds admirably. That's not to say the series is perfect. At times the dialogue seems hokey, though it could be authentic to the time. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1289/hatfields--mccoys-bring-history-alive/ 2012-05-31 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC's Cougar Town ended its third and final season on the alphabet network last night, before it moves to TBS next year. The full hour episode, entitled "My Life; Your World," felt nothing like a series finale, so it's a good thing that it will not serve as such. Instead, what is presented is a very transitional episode, setting up what next season might be like. Central to "My Life; Your World" is the marriage of Jules (Courteney Cox) and Grayson (Josh Hopkins). Though planned for four months from now, Grayson suggests eloping after growing frustrated that the rest of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1288/cougar-town-finally-goes-to-napa/ 2012-05-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Few series are as popular as the BBC's Sherlock, especially considering the impact that it has had internationally, including in the United States, where it just finished a run on PBS. From Doctor Who scribes Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, and based on the legendary tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock brilliantly blends a literary treasure with the modern world. Season one was highly successful, but the game is afoot even further in season two. Unlike in season one, which mostly deals with lesser known Sherlock Holmes stories, season two tackles three of the most infamous plots. Does it http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1287/investigate-sherlock-season-two-on-bluray/ 2012-05-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Recently, I was lucky enough to represent BlogCritics and TheTVKing on a visit to the Toronto set of USA's Suits, along with 18 other Internet media folks. This was an absolutely wonderful experience, getting a really cool view of things that few fans get the opportunity to see. The people involved, those organizing the trip, and those taking the time to sit with us for lengthy interviews, couldn't have been more gracious and generous. I would like to share some of the highlights of that visit with you now, and look for follow up articles from me soon that go more http://www.thetvking.com/news/390/a-visit-to-the-set-of-usas-suits/ 2012-05-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Already missing FOX's House? Well, then I have the series for you! Monroe, a British show about a genius, flawed, ego-driven neurosurgeon who goes by the same name as the series, comes to DVD in the United States tomorrow. Six episodes long, a second series has already been commissioned. Monroe (James Nesbitt, Murphy's Law, Cold Feet) is a complex character. He is described by ITV as "a brilliant and unusual neurosurgeon – a flawed genius who never lets anyone forget his flaws or his genius." It's an accurate description. The man who works on brains is awfully proud of his http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1286/monroe-series-1-on-dvd-tomorrow/ 2012-05-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC's Modern Family makes it clear from the beginning of this episode that baby news is on the way! Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) get a call from Mexico that the little boy they intend to adopt is about to be born. They rush off, with Gloria (Sofia Vergara) in tow to translate. The result is a twisty Mexican soap opera, and in the end, they don't get the baby. Doing "Baby on Board" in the soapy style is funny. Because it ties into a television drama that both Cameron and Sofia are fans of, it's even http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1284/modern-family-brings-a-new-baby-on-board/ 2012-05-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 brings its super short, seven episode, freshman run to an end this week with "Shitagi Nashi." It's an interesting end to the initial arc, with June (Dreama Walker) finally finding her new, hard-hitting lifestyle catching up to her. See, since she has befriended Chloe (Krysten Ritter), she has taken to doing what the cool kids do, which involves a lot of drinking. And poor June's liver isn't equipped to handle such copious amounts of alcohol. In a surprisingly realistic development, this lands June in the hospital, where she has to get her stomach pumped. Many http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1283/dont-trust-the-b-in-apartment-23-still-not-trusthworthy/ 2012-05-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Glee says "Goodbye" to its graduating seniors this week in an hour packed with tears and nostalgia. Right off the bat, Will (Matthew Morrison) approaches the choir room and hears the original members of the glee club singing the very first song they ever sang in the series, "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat." Images of them doing it horribly three years ago are mixed with this new, much improved performance. With this, "Goodbye" spells out its mission statement. For three years, things have remained relatively predictable at McKinley High. The kids grew the New Directions into a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1282/wave-goodbye-to-glee/ 2012-05-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com As "Everybody Dies," the series finale of FOX's House opens, Dr. House (Hugh Laurie) is lying next to the dead body of his patient of the week (or, POtW) in a burning building. Throughout most of the hour, House converses with hallucinations of some important people in his life, as he tries to decide whether he should live or die. "Everybody Dies" is dark. There is no denying that. It's obvious when the first image House sees is Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn), a fellow who killed himself. Strangely, though, Kutner is trying to talk House out of suicide, while http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1281/everybody-dies-in-house-series-finale/ 2012-05-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Dragonfire, a three-part classic Doctor Who serial, is now available on DVD. This adventure marks the finale of the 24th season of the show, and features some big events for the companions of the titular character. As Dragonfire begins, the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Mel (Bonnie Langford) arrive at Iceworld, a trading colony on the dark side of the planet Svartos. This is not a pleasant locale by any means, run by the evil Kane (Edward Peel), a man whose body temperature is as cold as ice. Kane controls the port with a frozen fist, forcing others to fall in http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1278/doctor-who-chills-out-with-dragonfire/ 2012-05-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The BBC has recently released the Doctor Who serial Nightmare of Eden on DVD. Aired at the end of 1979, this four part adventure finds the Doctor (Tom Baker), Romana (Lalla Ward), and K-9 (David Brierley) arriving to help two ships that have collided. The spaceships in question, a cruise vessel and a trader, seem to have little in common. But soon a mystery will emerge that not only connects the pair, but makes the job of separating them quite dangerous! Nightmare of Eden may be about two ships that have crashed and stuck together, but it's also about a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1279/doctor-who-dreams-a-nightmare-of-eden/ 2012-05-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This season of ABC's Grey's Anatomy doesn't end with happiness. In fact, it doesn't leave viewers with any good feelings at all. It's an uncomfortable hour of misery, with nothing resolved at the end. Which doesn't mean that it's bad by any means; the quality of the series is still quite high. The finale, "Flight," is just extremely unsettling. Seattle Grace Mercy Death, er, West, sends six of its doctors to another hospital to perform a tricky surgery. En route, the plane goes down. It breaks apart, and the people and pieces are strewn throughout a forest. One doctor does http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1280/greys-anatomy-takes-a-flight/ 2012-05-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Fade in on a girl... It's not secret that fan reaction to NBC's Smash has been mixed. But it's hard to call the series boring. With more twists than a red vine, this initial fifteen episode order has switched the star in its play within a play no less than three times. Possibly more, but three women have been involved. And with scant moments left in the season finale, the question still hangs in the air: Who is Marilyn? This is a question that lingers throughout "Bombshell." While one girl is named to be the lead early in the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1277/smash-drops-a-bombshell/ 2012-05-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's 30 Rock is drawing to a close, with only thirteen episodes left to air next year before going off the air forever. This knowledge hangs over last night's season finale, "What Will Happen to the Gang Next Year?" Several of the major characters begin new stories, or reaffirm old ones, that could lead to a complete ending for them. It's bittersweet, as it's great the series is going out before it loses what makes it so good, but it will be missed. With Avery (Elizabeth Banks) home, she and Jack (Alec Baldwin) decide to renew their vows. But neither http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1275/30-rock-poses-the-question-what-will-happen-to-the-gang-next-year/ 2012-05-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's Community had the rare opportunity last night to air not one, not two, but three episodes! Of course, not knowing this far ahead of time, each of the final three are stand alone stories, while still contributing to the larger whole. Also, not knowing if the series would be renewed or not, the final episode gives enough closure that it could serve as a series finale, with just a few seconds of content cut out. Thank goodness, this is not the case, and Community will return next year mid-season. #SixSeasonsAndAMovie In the first half hour, "Digital Estate Planning," the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1276/community-triple-dose-ends-season/ 2012-05-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com One of the latest Doctor Who releases is Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol. In this three-part serial, The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) arrive on a planet where everyone is happy. The music is happy; the clothing is happy; even the police are happy. They'd better be, or the villainous Helen A. (Sheila Hancock) will get rid of them. In fact, even the dreary blue TARDIS isn't happy enough, soon being painted pink to fit in! The incessant joy is enough to make anyone suspicious, and The Doctor isn't just anyone. He soon meets up with Trevor Sigma http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1271/doctor-who-laughs-at-the-happiness-patrol/ 2012-05-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It's Mother's Day in Chatwin on the season finale of ABC's Suburgatory, entitled "The Motherload."  As the neighborhood tries to outdo each other in honoring the moms, Eden (Alicia Silverstone, Clueless, Miss Match) wonders if perhaps Tessa (Jane Levy) isn't dealing with her feelings of abandonment, not having her mom in the picture. George (Jeremy Sisto) insists that he knows his daughter and Tessa is fine, but is she? Yes and no. Tessa is a fully developed person, who does just fine without a mother up til now. Then she and her dad move out of the city, and into http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1273/suburgatory-delivers-the-motherload/ 2012-05-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Glee went for the double dose last night, presenting two new episodes the week before its third season finale. Why make the penultimate week a two- hour special, and leave the finale a mere 60 minutes? Well, for one thing, the last episode will be paired with American Idol. And secondly, after an hour of high excitement Nationals competition, wouldn't the softer toned goodbyes seem to drag on? Glee made the right decision. To the episodes! The first, "Props," opens with an understated Rachel (Lea Michele) performance of "I Won't Give Up." It's a fantastic song, not in your http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1272/glee-ditches-the-props-for-nationals/ 2012-05-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Deciding to stay in Bluebell, as Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson) does in the penultimate episode of the season, proves harder than expected as "The Big Day" arrives on Hart of Dixie. She stays because of all the bonds she has formed. But one of those bonds, George Tucker (Scott Porter), who she cares a little more than she should for, is about to marry Lemon Breeland (Jaime King). And this is not a day for Zoe to hang around the town, which is totally devoted to the nuptials. So she borrows Lavon's (Cress Williams) vehicle and heads off. Circumstances force http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1274/disaster-strikes-on-the-big-day-in-the-hart-of-dixie/ 2012-05-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FOX's Bones does something unexpected with "The Past in the Present," this spring's season finale: it does not solve the case in one hour! As enjoyable as Bones is, mostly due to the colorful, talented cast of characters, it is still a procedural. Recently familial developments keep things moving along from week to week, but each episode still makes time to solve a murder. Except in "The Past in the Present." Christopher Pelant (Andrew Leeds, Major Payne), whom viewers might remember from this year's mid-season finale, returns. Pelant previously matched wits with the Jeffersonian team, still managing to mess with http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1269/broken-bones/ 2012-05-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com CBS ends this season of How I Met Your Mother with the two part episode, "The Magician's Code." It doesn't really make sense to list this as a two-parter because they really are two completely separate stories. None of the major plots continue from one half hour to the next. One wonders if, after deciding to grant 2 Broke Girls a full hour last week, someone just went and renamed the first of these two episodes. But the title "The Magician's Code Part 1" is not the only thing that doesn't work about the first half of the finale. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1270/how-i-met-your-mothers-trickery/ 2012-05-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Time is running out for both universes featured in FOX's Fringe in the climatic "Brave New World." William Bell (Leonard Nimoy) intends to play god, creating his own reality, but to do so, he is going to destroy everyone else. Not only that, he is using Olivia (Anna Torv) to power the destruction, so as September (Michael Cerveris) told them months ago, Olivia must die. Which is why Walter (John Noble) shoots her right between the eyes, in front of his son, Peter (Joshua Jackson), who loves Olivia. Could this have been a heart wrenching series finale for the strange http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1266/fringe-stops-a-brave-new-world/ 2012-05-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com As ABC's Desperate Housewives begins its two hour finale last night, there is still a lot going on. Bree (Marcia Cross) is standing trial for murder. Renee (Vanessa Williams) is days away from her wedding. Susan (Teri Hatcher) has to break some big news to her dearest friends. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) is facing a finalized divorce. Gabi's (Eva Longoria) marriage comes under new strain. Karen (Kathryn Joosten) is staring death in the face. And Katherine (Dana Delany) returns, stirring up trouble. That's a lot to cover in two hours, and yet, Desperate Housewives makes it look effortless. Sweeping through plots http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1267/desperate-housewives-desperate-no-more/ 2012-05-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Once Upon a Time there was a series on ABC. It featured fairy tale characters stuck in the real world. Despite a promising pilot, the next few episodes sucked, driving some viewers away. Then, like a magical spell that takes a little time to work, things began to come to life in the show. Bit by bit, it revealed the charming, fun and whimsy series it could, and deserves, to be. As the first season draws to a close, a heck of a finale proves that Once Upon a Time should get to live happily ever after. In the fairy http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1268/once-upon-a-time-is-a-land-with-magic/ 2012-05-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA's Common Law premiered this past Friday night. As with many USA pilots, the first episode is super sized, to give the show time to introduce the characters and the story, as well as complete the expected, procedural case of the week. The "Pilot" of Common Law does both, and manages to live up to its network peers. That's the problem. Just how many quirky twosomes can exist on the network, doing the same thing week after week, and still hold audience attention? Common Law draws comparisons to Psych, White Collar, and, to a slightly lesser extent, Royal Pains. But USA fans http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1263/common-law-commonplace/ 2012-05-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com In the season finale of CBS's The Big Bang Theory, "The Countdown Reflection," the time has arrived for Howard (Simon Helberg) to go into space. But as Howard awaits launch time in the shuttle with fellow astronauts Michael J. Massimino (himself, a real NASA astronaut) and Dimitri (Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Bent, Deadwood), he reflects back on the past few days, and his hurried, but special, wedding to Bernadette (Melissa Rauch). I'm not a fan of the way this episode is structured. Though it's always worth giving props to series for taking risks, The Big Bang Theory works better in its http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1261/the-big-bang-theory-observes-the-countdown-reflection/ 2012-05-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's Parks and Recreation has had a heck of a spring, as the characters work tirelessly to help Leslie (Amy Poehler) campaign for Pawnee City Council. It all comes down to this riveting series finale, as Pawnee citzens vote, and a winner is declared. Yep, it's Bobby Newport (Paul Rudd). But not so fast! A recount is triggered, and when the smoke clears, Leslie is, in fact, the ultimate victor! It's kind of hard to believe that "Win, Lose, or Draw" finds Leslie making a career advancement. The city council members have played very little role in Parks and Recreation http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1262/parks-and-recreation-election-results-are-in/ 2012-05-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's The Office presents "Free Family Portrait Studio," the season eight finale. All of the turmoil over who is in charge seems to finally be dying down. After a year of uncertainty, with Andy (Ed Helms) being selected as manager, only to lose the position to Nellie (Catherine Tate), who just takes it, Andy is left back in charge as the smoke clears. This probably won't change again, considering that David Wallace (Andy Buckley) now owns the company, having bought it back from Sabre. This is a relief. The Office has suffered this season from not having clear leadership. Whatever http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1259/the-office-ends-season-with-another-shakeup/ 2012-05-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com CW's The Vampire Diaries ends its season with "The Departed." Big bad vampire vampire hunter Alaric (Matt Davis) resists the others' attempts to fool him, and locates Klaus (Joseph Morgan). With the Original who turned the entire main cast of vampires staked, everyone awaits their deaths, and begins saying goodbye. This is surely the series finale, right? Not so fast. With the popularity of The Vampire Diaries, it's hard to ever build suspense over whether Stefan (Paul Wesley) and / or Damon (Ian Somerhalder) might die. They won't. Tyler (Michael Trevino), sure, and maybe even Caroline (Candice Accola), but never http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1260/the-vampire-diaries-says-goodbye-to-the-departed/ 2012-05-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com  This week's Glee, "Prom-asaurus," is lame. There is no other way to say it. With only four hours left in the season, four hours left total for many of the major characters, one of those hours is wasted. This is pretty darn odd, coming just after a couple of fantastic installments. Hopefully, this is because much effort was put into making the final three totally amazing. Hopefully. A huge part of the problem with "Prom-asaurus" is how casually senior prom is treated. Last year, junior prom is a huge event, with various couples putting much time and effort into selecting http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1256/promsaurus-comes-just-before-glees-senior-class-goes-extinct/ 2012-05-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC's Castle season finale is called "Always." Why? Is it because that, no matter how big a twist or change the writers throw in, Castle is "Always" going to stay the same? Let's hope not, after a heck of a season finale that throws all sorts of monkey wrenches into the mix! The plot of "Always" is relatively simple to explain. A clue surfaces about the man who shot Beckett (Stana Katic). Castle (Nathan Fillion) can't convince her to drop her investigation, even though he has been warned that she will be killed if she doesn't stop. When he tells http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1257/its-always-castle/ 2012-05-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The season finale of FOX's New Girl, entitled "See Ya," finds Nick (Jake M. Johnson) moving out of the apartment and in with rekindled love Caroline (Mary Elizabeth Ellis). But Nick gets cold feet, and drives himself, all of his stuff, Schmidt (Max Greenfield), and Winston (Lamorne Morris) out into the desert, where he tosses his keys into the wilderness. Jess (Zooey Deschanel), with Cece (Hannah Simone) in tow, comes to their rescue, but she pretends to toss her own keys when Nick seems set on returning to Caroline. Thus, the five friends are forced to spend the night in the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1258/see-ya-next-fall-new-girl/ 2012-05-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC's GCB brings its first season to a close with "Revelation." In the episode, pretty much all of the main characters head to unincorporated Juarez. Carlene (Kristin Chenoweth) leads the trip as a groundbreaking for her Christian condo project, but each of the others have their own agendas for coming, other than just friendship. Tension sparks bickering, especially when the women are briefly kidnapped, but in the end, all's well that ends well, right? Only on television would a large group of friends end up out of town in the same place at the same time for a bevy of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1254/gcb-finale-has-more-than-one-revelation/ 2012-05-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It's been quite awhile since I've reviewed CBS's 2 Broke Girls. Then again, it's been awhile since 2 Broke Girls was worth reviewing. What started as a promising new sitcom in the fall quickly grew stale. As winter turned to spring, Chestnut did not reappear, Max (Kat Dennings) was fired from the babysitting job viewers never saw her at anyway, and the total the girls are saving, displayed at the end of every episode, barely grew, even though they were working their butts off, and it should be going up week after week. Why wasn't Caroline (Beth Behrs) throwing a fit http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1255/2-broke-girls-meet-martha-stewart/ 2012-05-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This week's installment of HBO's The Ricky Gervais Show is called "Armed Forces." Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais are enthralled with Karl Pilkington's boast that, as a kid, he wanted to be a soldier, and thinks he could have been. Karl attempts to justify this view by speaking of his beloved elder brother, who did actually serve, Karl's attempts to keep a perfectly made bed at all times, and the tale of how he protected a pie from bad guys who weren't actually after the pie. The Ricky Gervais Show is often very, very funny. As many have said before, Karl has http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1253/the-ricky-gervais-show-armed-forces-exclusive-now-animated-for-all/ 2012-05-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com As of "Course Liting is Unavailable," Star-Burns (Dino Stamatopoulos) is dead, a professor has quit, and the study group, a.k.a. The Greendale 7, are forced to take summer school. So what is NBC's Community to do? Start a riot, that's what! And that's exactly what the students do. Chang (Ken Jeong) sees this as the perfect opportunity to make his move, sending his army of children to pepper spray the students. Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) and The Greendale 7 intend to appease the angry school board by throwing Chang under the bus, but before they can, Chang replaces Pelton with a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1252/communitys-next-course-listing-is-unavailable/ 2012-05-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Choke" is a word that can mean a handful of different things. FOX's Glee applies to the title to three different situations this week. In the first, Bieste (Dot-Marie Jones) struggles to find the strength to leave her abusive husband, a dark secret some of the New Directions girls inadvertantly bring to light. In the second, Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Rachel (Lea Michele) perform their NYADA auditons with pretty much polar opposite results. Thirdly, Puck (Mark Salling) decides not to drop out of high school, but that doesn't mean he will pass his classes and get to graduate this year. Among the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1251/choke-a-dramatic-triumph-for-glee/ 2012-05-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Don (Jon Hamm) is honored for his infamous Lucky Strike letter in this week's episode of Mad Men, "At the Codfish Ball." This is done at a dinner held by the American Cancer Society, and Don's family accompanies him. Marie (Julia Ormond, Law & Order: Criminal Intent) and Emile (Ronald Guttman, All My Children) Calvet, Megan's parents, come to town just for the ceremony. But Megan's parents don't think Don is right for her, and they are having some issues of their own. Which, needless to say, means that the night doesn't go smoothly. Megan (Jessica Paré) really comes into her own http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1249/mad-men-gets-a-reality-check-at-at-the-codfish-ball/ 2012-05-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Two of Lockhart / Gardner's greatest enemies, Patti Nyholm (Martha Plimpton) and Louis Canning (Michael J. Fox), form "The Dream Team" in their battle against the firm in the season finale of CBS's The Good Wife. Their goal? Bankrupt L/G! Can they do it? Meanwhile, Alicia (Julianna Margulies) inadvertantly allows Kalida's (Archie Panjabi) dangerous hubby to find her, and becomes confused concerning her feelings for Peter (Chris Noth) after he moves back into their old house. First, it must be said that the scene by the elevator, when Alicia sees both Will (Josh Charles) and Peter arrive together, and then http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1248/is-the-dream-team-a-match-for-the-good-wife/ 2012-05-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com For the second time NBC's 30 Rock tries live television with "Live from Studio 6H." Jack (Alec Baldwin) makes the decision that TGS won't be filmed live anymore, for financial reasons. It doesn't take much to get the cast and crew on board, but Kenneth (Jack McBrayer) proves more difficult. He locks a number of the staff in a dressing room, a la Twelve Angry Men, to convince them of the folly of the idea, which is done by showing "clips" of "classic" NBC shows. In the meantime, Hazel (Kristen Schaal) grows desperate to be on TV, and Paul (Will Forte) http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1246/live-from-studio-6h-its-30-rock/ 2012-04-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Cartman Find Love," the last episode of Comedy Central's South Park until next fall, finds Nichole, a new girl who happens to be African American, enrolling at South Park Elementary. She develops a crush on Kyle (Matt Stone), but Cartman (Trey Parker) decides that is not natural, and goes to great lengths to get Nichole together with Token (Adrien Beard). This involves locking the kids in a locker room all night, and claiming that he and Kyle are lovers. Leave it to South Park to remind everyone about racism in a new and interesting way. Sure, other shows still go http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1240/south-parks-cartman-interferes-in-matters-of-the-heart/ 2012-04-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Whitney Houston gets a tribute episode in this week's Glee on FOX. Entitled "Dance with Somebody," the characters, as well as the viewers, begin to feel the ending, as graduation draws near. Blaine (Darren Criss), already missing Kurt (Chris Colfer), who hasn't left yet, catches his boyfriend cheat texting on him. Will (Matthew Morrison) thinks he needs to rush a wedding in May, before his favorite students head off to college, fearing they won't return for a fall ceremoney. Rachel (Lea Michele) and Santana (Naya Rivera) finally find friendship with each other. Joe (Samuel Larsen) wrestles with his feelings for Quinn http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1239/glee-pays-tribute-to-whitney-houston/ 2012-04-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Money is King" is this week's installment of ABC’s Cougar Town. Jules (Courteney Cox) rushes off to her therapist (Nicole Sullivan) with Grayson (Josh Hopkins) in tow when the issue of money crops up. He wants to pool their funds together, which she can accept. But it becomes apparent that one of them needs to sell their house to make ends meet, and neither one wants to give up their own space. The answer? Ignore this issue for now. For most couples, this avoidance would be a relationship killer. Somehow, Cougar Town makes it seem as if this will not http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1238/it-boils-down-to-money-for-cougar-town/ 2012-04-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The CW launched The L.A. Complex last night, a Canadian series about young people who have come to Hollywood, and desperately want to be famous. The motel setting is sort of like Melrose Place, and the group have a variety of interests. One wants to be an actress, one is an 'agining' actress who can no longer get the parts. One mixes music, and one likes to dance. One wants to be a comedian, and another just landed a major TV gig. Do any of them have a chance? Despite this being a Canadian show, The L.A. Complex feels like it takes http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1236/the-la-complex-step-up-for-the-cw/ 2012-04-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com HBO's Veep begins with "Fundraiser." Viewers are introduced the Vice President Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Seinfeld, The New Adventures of Old Christine), who is having trouble getting supporters for her initiatives after she ticks off the oil industry by insulting plastics. Her staff isn't exactly the most competent, so it should be no surprise that their attempts to correct the situation, only keep makings things worse. Lucky for them, Dan Egan (Reid Scott, My Boys, The Big C), a bright, young jerk, wants to work for Selina, and he might just be able to help sort a few things out. In an http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1231/what-is-veep/ 2012-04-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "I Want My Baby Back, Baby Back, Baby Back" is the second part of FOX's Raising Hope two part-finale. In the episode, Lucy (Bijou Phillips), after revealing she survived her execution to Nancy Grace (herself), sues Jimmy (Lucas Neff) for custody of their baby, Hope (Baylie and Rylie Cregut), a.k.a. Princess Beyonce. When Lucy wins the court battle, Jimmy is faced with a tough decision: go with this crazy serial killer to Tibet to stay with his daughter, or stay with Sabrina (Shannon Woodward), the woman he loves. Jimmy chooses parenthood over romance. If a comedy series is hilarious enough, it does http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1224/baby-come-back-to-raising-hope/ 2012-04-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Saturday Night Glee-ver" is FOX's Glee's homage to the the classic John Travolta movie. Sue (Jane Lynch) and Will (Matthew Morrison) make the tunes from the film this week's theme, and try to use it to inspire three of their seniors who don't have any plans for the future yet. Their assigment: pick and perform a song, followed by a speech about what they want out of life. Of course, they all want to perform in some professional capacity. It seems pretty pointless this week to break down each musical number and talk about it on its own. That's because they each http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1219/glee-flashes-back-to-the-disco-era/ 2012-04-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 brings "Daddy's Girl" to the table for its second week. Chloe (Krysten Ritter, Breaking Bad, Veronica Mars) says she has the perfect guy to set June (Dreama Walker, The Good Wife, Gossip Girl) up with. His name is Scott (Michael Landes, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, 11-11-11), and June has lots of common with him. There are only two problems: Scott is Chloe's father, and he's married to Chloe's mother. It is hard to judge any series by its pilot, and having had the benefit of watching the first two episodes at http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1220/theres-a-real-b-in-that-apartment/ 2012-04-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The newest installment of FOX's House is "We Need the Eggs." A man named Henry (Kevin Christy) checks in. He happens to own a customized sex doll, whom he treats as a girlfriend. As the doctors search for what ails Henry, House (Hugh Laurie) points out to each of them in turn that they are almost as screwed up, and as unlucky in love, as Henry is. Of course, when they let House know he's in the same boat, especially watching him hold auditions to replace Emily (Noelle Bellinghausen), his regular hooker, he can't deny it. House is nearing the end of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1217/a-little-romance-in-the-house/ 2012-04-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com From producer Judd Apatow (The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up) comes a new drama on HBO entitled Girls. Though his influence is felt, Apatow is not actually the creator of this series. That falls to series star Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture). The plot of Girls is simple. It's a look at the lives of twenty-something females living in the Big Apple. But don't go into this thinking it's a Sex and the City remake. This clique has quite a few differences, and when one of the central gals starts making Sex and the City comparison, it's very clear that doesn't work. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1216/girls-pilot-something-new-for-tv/ 2012-04-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "The War Child" is the final episode of season four of BBC's Being Human, the series that gave birth to a SyFy remake. In this episode, Annie (Lenora Crichlow) knows that she must allow baby Eve to die, per the words of grown-up Eve (Gina Bramhill, Coronation Street), and really struggles to do so. Annie fails at first when she kills Cutler (Andrew Gower) during an attempt on Eve's life. But upon seeing Mr. Snow (Mark Gatiss, Sherlock) and hearing his plans to wipe out mankind, she finds the courage to blow up herself, Snow, and baby Eve. Annie's sacrifice http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1212/being-human-transition-complete/ 2012-04-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Big Brother" heralds the return of FOX's Glee. Quinn (Dianna Agron) is now in a wheelchair, owing to the car accident in the previous episode. She has a positive attitude, vowing to be on her feet again, though Artie (Kevin McHale) thinks she should accept her fate. At the same time, Cooper Anderson (Matt Bomer, White Collar, Chuck), Blaine's (Darren Criss) big brother, who is famous for being in a commerical, visits and wows the glee club. First, a complaint about local realism. Senior Skip Day, which has been outlawed in many, many high schools, though that is not mentioned http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1204/big-brother-pays-a-visit-to-glee/ 2012-04-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Heart to Hart," this week's Hart of Dixie on the CW, finds Dr. Ethan Hart (Gary Cole, The Good Wife, Office Space) visiting as a favor to Zoe (Rachel Bilson). After Zoe gets her father's help, she plans on chewing him out for ignoring her lately, but is surprise to hear he'd like to be friends. This isn't exactly the arrangement she hopes for. But they have it out at Lemon's (Jaime King) dinner party, and all is well again. What makes a father? Is it DNA, or being there to raise a child? Most people would probably say the latter, but http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1202/father--daughter-time-on-hart-of-dixie/ 2012-04-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To" finds a dark cloud hanging over the Being Human trio. Josh (Sam Huntington) decides he must kill Ray (Andreas Apergis) to save Nora (Kristen Hager) from the werewolf curse. But Nora shows up to save Josh, and the three end up in a stand off. Aidan (Sam Witwer) quickly loses his face off with Mother (Deena Aziz), who murders her own daughter, Suren (Dichen Lachman), and buries Aidan in the ground. Meawhile, feeling guilty about all the ripping she did, Sally (Meaghan Rath) destroys herself so that she can go to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1203/being-human-ends-in-death/ 2012-04-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "The Bump in the Road" concerns parenthood on FOX's Bones. Cam (Tamara Taylor) is none too happy when Michelle (Tiffany Hines) begins seeing Finn (Luke Kleintank) in a romantic capacity. Should Cam interfere with her daughter and the new-ish intern? Also, Brennan (Emily Deschanel) tries to compartmentalize her career and child, but it isn't easy with the baby's daycare so close by. Will these moms pass the test? In the fall batch of Bones episodes, the new dynamic between Brennan and Booth (David Boreanaz) does not hurt the series at all. If anything, Bones becomes energized by the shake up. However, the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1201/bones-a-little-off-of-its-game-lately/ 2012-04-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Thin Ice" kicks off the third season of Showtime's The Big C. Dr. Sherman (Alan Alda) gives Cathy (Laura Linney) the wonderful news that some of her tumors have disappeared, and the rest are shrinking. Unfortunately, cancer is not Cathy's only concern. Paul's (Oliver Platt) is in a fragile state after his deathly experience, and she worries about who will take care of Adam (Gabriel Basso), should he loose both his parents. So she appoints Sean (John Benjamin Hickey) Adam's guardian and starts a secret second life as Alexis. It's quite a relief that The Big C did not kill off Paul. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1193/thin-ice-not-a-concern-for-the-big-c/ 2012-04-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Kettle-Kettle-Black-Black," the fourth season premiere of Showtime's Nurse Jackie, finds the poop hitting the fan. Jackie (Edie Falco) gets more erratic, even picking up an addict (Greenday's Billie Joe Armstrong) and intending to sleep with him, until he dies in her house. She tells Eddie (Paul Schulze) that the sex they had may have an ulterior motive. And then she admits that she might actually need help. Dr. O'Hara (Eve Best) proves that, despite what Jackie has done, they are still friends, delivering Jackie to rehab. Jackie's drug problems have been a major arc on the series since episode one. It's not http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1194/pot-this-is-nurse-jackie/ 2012-04-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Created by Jessica St. Clair (Bridesmaids, Worst Week) and Lennon Parham (Funny or Die Presents..., Confessions of a Shopaholic), NBC's Best Friends Forever, a brand new sitcom, premiered last night. Jessica plays Jessica Black, a woman who gets divorce papers from her spouse. Upset, she flies home where her best friend Lennon (Parham) can make her feel better. But Lennon doesn't live alone anymore. She has a guy named Joe (Luka Jones), who immediately clashes with Jessica. Best Friends Forever is an interesting set up. In most sitcoms, a visiting friend is in an annoyance who soon leaves. If a significant other http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1187/best-friends-forever-might-last-that-long/ 2012-04-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Fiona Interrupted" serves as the finale for season two of Showtime's Shameless. It's a transitional episode, with many considering making some changes. Jimmy / Steve (Justin Chatwin) declares his love for Fiona (Emmy Rossum), as she starts to let him back in. Frank (William H. Macy) is disappointed his kids don't want to help him break into the mental hospital to free their mother, Monica (Chloe Webb, China Beach, Twins). Sheila (Joan Cusack) is forced to choose between her infant grandson or her daughter, Karen (Laura Slade Wiggins). Lip (Jeremy Allen White) is feeling restless and unhappy. What does Karen expect when she makes Sheila http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1185/shameless-is-interrupted-and-not-just-for-fiona/ 2012-04-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Reflections" and "My Lucky Day" are the first two episodes of the second season of AMC's The Killing, and both aired this past Sunday night. Linden (Mireille Enos) stays in Seattle, but no longer trusts Holder (Joel Kinnaman) or her boss, Lieutenant Oakes (Garry Chalk). This means she has to begin her own investigation, which soon clears Councilman Richmond (Billy Campbell) from the suspect list. Holder is also going solo, frustrated that he was used in the conspiracy, but despite his attempts, Linden won't hear him out. Holder and Linden's relationship as partners is such a strong component of season one of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1184/the-killing-comes-back-to-finish-the-case/ 2012-04-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "The North Remembers" as HBO's Game of Thrones returns for a second season. Cersei (Lena Headey) is not pleased when Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) comes to King's Landing, sent to bring Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) under control, which Cersei has failed to do. Joffrey is in a dangerous position, as many seek to contest his place on the Iron Throne, and are building armies to help them with that purpose. Far up North, the Night's Watch learns of yet another threat to the realm. To no one's surprise, Joffrey is a terrible king. Sansa (Sophie Turner) is walking on pins and needles, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1182/game-of-thrones-hopes-you-remember-as-the-north-does/ 2012-04-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "The Mayan Apocalypse" is the first season finale for Showtime's House of Lies. The episode begins with the MetroCapital acquisition party, and this scene continues to appear as a framework, with the rest of the plot unfolding in flashback. Greg Norbert (Greg Germann) gives The Pod hope of stopping the merge when he says that Marco (Griffin Dunne) has left himself open to a huge class action suit concerning sexual harsassment. The team searches high and low, looking for one girl to step forward, figuring the others Marco has slept with will fall in line. But it's Jeannie (Kristen Bell) who http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1178/house-of-lies-faces-the-mayan-apocalypse/ 2012-04-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be" for the fifth season finale of Showtime's Californication. After all, as Hank (David Duchovny) envisions it, his old friend Lew Ashby (Callum Keith Rennie), long dead, is the bartender there. But waking up, Hank's life is far from damned. He may not be happy with his loved ones at the moment, but taking the time to help them out before he leaves town repairs all of his relationships. In fact, he even has the chance to get back together with Karen (Natascha McElhone). But then Carrie (Natalie Zea) drugs Hank. Why is Lew the bartender http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1179/californication-tries-to-avoid-hell/ 2012-04-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Something Black, Something Blue" is the season finale, and also, likely, the series finale, for NBC's Whitney. Alex (Chris D'Elia) suggests that he and Whitney (Whitney Cummings) go to City Hall to tie the know. But nothing goes right, from Whitney breaking her finger, to her ID being expired, to them being handed the paperwork for a divorce. In the end, it's pretty clear to both that they don't need to be married in the eyes of the law to be happy together. Perhaps due to a mediocre start, Whitney never took off with viewers. That's a shame, because it has become a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1171/something-black-something-blue-doesnt-keep-whitney-from-the-altar/ 2012-03-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "A Little Kiss" ends the year and a half drought for AMC's Mad Men. Megan (Jessica Paré) decides to throw new husband Don (Jon Hamm) a surprise party for his 40th birthday complete with sexy dance. Everyone enjoys it except for Don. Roger (John Slattery) takes things a little too far when baiting a rival, leading to hires the firm can't afford and an upset Joan (Christina Hendricks). Meanwhile, Pete (Vincent Kartheiser) decides Roger isn't doing enough for Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce and begins machinations to oust him, starting with making a play for his office. "A Little Kiss" is a little http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1170/a-little-kiss-for-mad-mens-return/ 2012-03-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "The Coup" is the latest installment of NBC's Smash. Tom (Christian Borle) and Julia (Debra Messing) are shocked to discover that Derek (Jack Davenport) has had a new song comissioned for Marilyn without their knowledge. Ivy (Megan Hilty) is equally upset when she sees that Derek chooses Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) instead of her to star in said secret song. Eileen's daughter, Katie (Grace Gummer, yes, Meryl Streep's daughter), comes to town, seemingly just to make sure Eileen stays on the right path, and gets a little money from her ex, Jerry (Michael Cristofer). And Ellis (Jaime Cepero) abandons Tom to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1165/smash-does-not-deserve-the-haters/ 2012-03-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Tommy Madsen," the second of two new hours to air this week, is the season one capper of FOX's Alcatraz, not that it does anything to bring closure. Rebecca (Sarah Jones) tracks down her grandfather, the man who killed her partner, Tommy Madsen (David Hoflin). But catching him doesn't go so well when he stabs her and escapes. Nor does any mystery become clearer, as more and more questions are raised throughout the hour. Those expecting the answers to a few questions in the season finale of Alcatraz will be disappointed. Yes, a handful of clues are given as to who is http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1166/alcatraz-catches-up-to-tommy-madsen/ 2012-03-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com HBO's Luck ends after a mere nine episodes. In the finale, Gus (Dennis Farina) has to deal with the hit man that Michael (Michael Gambon, Harry Potter) sends for Ace (Dustin Hoffman). This is further complicated by the fact that Brent (Jake Hoffman, Dustin's actual son), the grandson Ace went to jail to protect, shows up in town, and says he was invited by Gus. Gus persevers, and Ace's horse wins the race. But Michael is not done with them yet. This is a bittersweet victory. Ace stays safe, and manages to keep Brent from harm, too. Ace's plans for the horse http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1162/luck-not-an-apt-name-for-this-series/ 2012-03-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Is "47 Seconds" about all Castle can get right? This week, on ABC's Castle, a bomb goes off at an rally. The feds allow the NYPD to help them determine who set off the explosion. It isn't long before Beckett (Stana Katic) and her crew identify a suspect (Tim Guinee, The Good Wife). Too bad they get the wrong guy. Castle (Nathan Fillion), the ultimate story teller, tries to figure out exactly what happened in the "47 Seconds" leading up to the explosion, hoping that will tell them who the real bad guys is. It does. The case of the week in "47 http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1164/47-seconds-is-about-all-castle-can-do-right/ 2012-03-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Instead of the standard half hour, FX's Archer goes for a two-parter to bring its third season to a close. In "Space Race," the ISIS field agents and Malory (Jessica Walter) are asked to travel to a space station and subdue a mutiny. But the real bad guy is Commander Drake (Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad), the one who hires them, and who plans to start a colony on Mars, using Lana (Aisha Tyler) as the settlement's baby maker. Can ISIS stop Drake before it's too late? Yes. Yes, they can. Sometimes the show has to stretch things a bit to keep the entire http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1154/space-race-takes-the-archer-crew-into-orbit/ 2012-03-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's Bent kicks off with a pair of episodes, "Pilot" and "Smitten." The first half hour finds Alex Meyers (Amanda Peet, Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip, 2012) charmed enough by the semi-irresponsible Pete Riggins (David Walton, Perfect Couples, 100 Questions) to hire him and his crew to work on her kitchen. The tension between them is palpable, and Alex "forgets" to mention that she has a boyfriend named Ben (Matt Letscher, Eli Stone, Brothers & Sisters). Which could be why Alex seems put out when she realizes Pete is sleeping with plenty of girls, and she's not even having sex http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1151/bent-out-of-shape/ 2012-03-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com In this week's Up All Night on NBC, Chris (Will Arnett) becomes an on-air personality on the show. Which means he gets to spend a lot of time around his wife Reagan (Christina Applegate). She's fine with it at first, helping him become more comfortable on the TV. But soon, it starts to driver her crazy, and she has him fired. As you may have surmised, the episode's title, "Daddy Daughter Time," does not have anything to do with Chris spending time with Amy. "Daddy Daughter Time" actually refers to Ava's (Maya Rudolph) father, Marty (Henry Winkler, Childrens Hospital, Royal Pains), who http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1152/up-all-night-brings-in-another-daddy/ 2012-03-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com With only three episodes left, FX's Justified begins ramping up for a climatic finale with "A Guy Walks Into a Bar." Quarles's (Neal McDonough) backing of the sheriff isn't good enough, as  Boyd (Walton Goggins) finds a legal loophole to death him. Needless to say, Quarles's reaction is anything but calm, dosing himself on pills and threatening Raylan (Timothy Olyphant). Raylan, feeling more than a bit reckless himself, is prepared for a showdown with Quarles. Luckily, Lindsey (Jenn Lyon) the bartender diffuses the situation, then sleeps with Raylan. After this near miss, though, both Quarles and Raylan begin to act more http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1147/justified-begins-season-finale-build/ 2012-03-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Eight episode is all the first season of ABC's The River gets, though it is clearly planned that way. In the show, Lincoln Cole (Joe Anderson, Across the Universe) and his mother, Tess (Leslie Hope, The Mentalist, 24), lead a team to look for Lincoln's missing dad, TV personality Dr. Emmet Cole (Bruce Greenwood, Star Trek, John from Cincinnati, Knots Landing). He is lost somewhere in the Amazon, and being the star of his own nature show, the production company is only too happy to fund the expedition - if cameras are allowed to travel with the Coles. Unfortunately, the team http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1148/the-river-winds-through-its-first-season/ 2012-03-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Beside the Dying Fire" brings the second season of AMC's The Walking Dead to a close with excitement, revelations, and a lot of death. Returning to the farm house after twice slaying Shane (Jon Bernthal), Carl (Chandler Riggs) and Rick (Andrew Lincoln) are soon surrounded by walkers, which overrun the property. The rest of their group springs into action, hoping to draw the walkers away from the house, but there is simply far too many of them. Splintered, and losing friends, the survivors escape in twos and threes. Most of them reconnect on the highway, but the debrief doesn't unfold smoothly. Many http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1138/beside-the-dying-fire-rests-the-walking-dead/ 2012-03-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "1912." Serial killings were sweeping Mystic Falls. Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) meet up again for the first time, and are set on a new path by a mysterious vampire named Sage (Cassidy Freeman, Smallville). But back in 2012, on the CW's The Vampire Diaries, the murders are happening again. Sheriff Forbes (Marguerite MacIntyre) arrests Alaric (Matt Davis) when the evidence points to him, and Alaric's friends spring into action. Elena (Nina Dobrev) gets Matt (Zach Roerig) to help her beak into Dr. Fell's (Torrey DeVitto, Pretty Little Liars, One Tree Hill), sure that she's the real murderer. But http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1134/the-vampire-diaries-looks-back-to-1912/ 2012-03-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The sixteenth season of Comedy Central's South Park kicks off with "Reverse Cowgirl." Clyde (Trey Parker) leaves the toilet seat up, even though his mother has told him a thousand times not to, and she falls in and dies. The debate over whether it is a man or a woman's job to put the seat down engulfs the town, causing much debate. To prevent any other such incidents, the TSA comes in and starts regulating all bathroom use, including in a private home. Seeing that Clyde feels guilty, the boys take him to meet a lawyer, who leads them in a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1130/reverse-cowgirl-a-compromising-position-for-south-park/ 2012-03-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Clarence Montgomery" (Mahershala Ali, Treme, Alphas, The 4400) is said to be the only one wronglyfully locked up in Alcatraz. On this week's episode of FOX's Alcatraz, Clarence goes on the run, and begins killing for real in 2012. In the 1960s flashbacks, it is revealed that Clarence killed fellow inmates then, too, thanks to the cruel experiments of Dr. Beauregard (Leon Rippy, Saving Grace, Deadwood). He may not have deserved to be there, but now he must be stopped. The case of "Clarence Montgomery" is a moving one, indeed. Here is a man that was accused of a crime that he didn't http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1123/alcatrazs-innocent-man-on-the-lamb/ 2012-03-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "After the Lovin'" returns NBC's Harry's Law to where it belongs: on air. Adam (Nathan Corddry) is upset when Harry (Kathy Bates) accepts a settlement from her former colleage, Sam (Christian Clemenson, Boston Legal, CSI: Miami), after he completely reverses position. Has Sam reevaluated his priorities due to a nail in the head, or is it brain damage? Tommy's (Christopher McDonald) girlfriend, well, one of them, learns that they aren't monogamous, and decides to take him to court. And a creepy ex-husband (Jay Harrington, Better Off Ted, Private Practice, in a chillingly awesome performance) threatens Cassie (Karen Olivo) and his former http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1120/after-the-lovin-comes-harrys-law/ 2012-03-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Long Way Home" is this week's episode of CBS's The Good Wife. Colin Sweeney (Dylan Baker) is back, having Alicia (Julianna Margulies) represent him against sexual harassment charges. But he's shifty with his lawyer, commits perjury, and there's a kid involved, leaving Alicia on gray moral ground. But Colin isn't Alicia's only problem. She is dealing with an ambitious mentee, Caitlin (Anna Camp), whose uncle Alicia can't afford to upset, and Alicia learns that she will soon be kicked out of her apartment. Baker's Sweeney is always a pleasure. He's a manipulative, borderline psychotic troublemaker, so it's not like he's a nice http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1122/its-the-long-way-home-for-the-good-wife/ 2012-03-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Belchies" kicks off the long-awaited second season of FOX's Bob's Burgers. Learning that the soon-to-be-destroyed taffy factory might contain a secret treasure, Louise (Kristen Schaal, the true star of the show) enlists her reluctant siblings to help her search. To Louise's dismay, their party gets large when Tina (Dan Mintz) invites along Jimmy Jr. (Jay Johnston, The Sarah Silverman Program), who brings a few more kids. Louise gets stuck, and the demonlition work begins, so it's lucky that parents Linda (John Roberts) and Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) notice their children are gone so they can stage a rescue, even if the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1119/bobs-burgers-returns-with-new-episodes/ 2012-03-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Eye of the Storm," the mid-season finale of FOX's new dramedy, The Finder, sees a hurricane hit The Ends of the Earth bar. While most of the characters are ready to hunker down and weather the storm from the warm safety of the establishment, a news story about a missing girl catches Walter's (Geoff Stults) eye. Using Isabel (Mercedes Masohn)'s, who is still outside, help, and the resources he has on hand, Walter figures out what happenes to the teen, and she is found. OK, so finding a missing girl in a hurricane is a little far fetched. Making light of it http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1118/a-hurricane-strikes-the-finder/ 2012-03-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Full Moon Fever" comes to the cul de sac this week, as bike-riding kids drive the main characters crazy on ABC's Cougar Town. Both Jules (Courteney Cox) and Andy (Ian Gomez) declare themselves King of the Neighborhood, but only one of them can fix the problem. Too bad he needs her permission to do so. Elsewhere, Laurie (Busy Philipps) gets involved with a soldier online, and Travis's professor (Sarah Chalke, Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother) has a thing for Bobby (Brian Van Holt), Andy is often not the most featured character on Cougar Town. He is usually a supporting player for http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1116/cougar-town-comes-town-with-a-fever/ 2012-03-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com breaking_in, or Breaking In, the more DVR-friendly version of the title, finally comes back to FOX this week. Seemingly certain for cancellation last year, the series got a last minute renewal, and after a very long wait, fans have been rewarded with a new batch of episodes. First up? "The Contrad Club." Veronica (Megan Mullally, Will & Grace, Chrildrens Hospital, Parks & Recreation), a new kooky, annoying, creepy, mess of a secertary begins at Contra Security. She seems a ripe victim for the pranks of the staff, but Oz (Christian Slater) forbids any hazing. Getting suspicious, the employees dig a little and http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1117/breaking-in-returns-to-tv/ 2012-03-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com GCB, the latest ABC drama, began this week. It's original title was Good Christian Bitches, but that upset some of the censors, so it is now known only by the initials. However, the meaning is still clear. The "Pilot" begins as Amanda Vaughn's (Leslie Bibb, Iron Man, Crossing Jordan) husband is killed in a car wreck while receiving oral sex from a woman who is not Amanda. Not only is he a cheater, but turns out, he ran a Ponzi scheme, which means Amanda losing everything. Forced to pack up and move home to Texas, living with her mother, Gigi (Annie Potts, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1109/gcb-has-many-bs-not-so-many-cs-and-is-only-g/ 2012-03-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Dreamy" is the latest installment of ABC's Once Upon a Time. It's yet another love story for the show, but happy endings don't appear to be in the mix for anyone. Well, kind of. In fairy tale land, Dreamy (Lee Arenberg, the Pirates of the Caribbean movies), a recently hatched dwarf, bumps into Nova (the wonderful Amy Acker, Angel, Dollhouse), a clumsy fairy. It's love at first sight, and soon they plan to run off and see the world together. But Bossy (Ken Kramer) and the Blue Fairy (Keegan Connor Tracy, Battlestar Galactica), the bosses of the pair, don't like their http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1107/dreams-are-good-for-once-upon-a-time/ 2012-03-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The final season of ABC's Desperate Housewives  continues as each of the women deal with the latest happenings in their various lives. The most recent episode, "She Needs Me," isn't particularly special or groundbreaking, but sort of feels like the calm before the storm. As the show prepares to ramp up for the final arcs and storylines, "She Needs Me" allows a degree of normalcy to rule the lane. It's a solid, typical episode that exemplifies the normal parts of the series. This week, Susan (Teri Hatcher) and Lynette (Felicity Huffman) concern themselves with Porter's (Charlie Carver) impending baby. Lynette refuses to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1108/she-needs-me-like-i-need-desperate-housewives/ 2012-03-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The "Pilot" of NBC's Awake, a new drama, has been widely available online, and finally hits the airwaves tonight. The show follows Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs, Case Histories, the Harry Potter films), who, after a horrible car wreck with his family, is living two separate lives. In one, he is a widower to his son Rex (Dylan Minnette, Saving Grace, Men of a Certain Age), while in the other, his wife Hannah (Laura Allen, Terriers, Dirt) on, sans child. One of these is probably a dream, or so Michael's two therapists tell him. But which one? And does he even want http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1097/awake-starts-tonight-on-nbc/ 2012-03-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com ABC's Revenge is now up to the future events shown in "Pilot," so everything that will come is a complete mystery. In "Scandal," Daniel (Joshua Bowman) is arrested for the murder of Tyler (Ashton Holmes). The Graysons rally around Daniel to support him. Of course, Daniel is innocent, but only Emily (Emily VanCamp) is aware that Takeda (Hiroyuki Sanada) is the one who pulled the trigger. Looking for someone other than Daniel to blame, the Graysons' lawyer singles out Jack (Nick Wechsler) as a likely candidate. Ashley (Ashley Madekwe) takes advantage of the situation, leaking photos, and serving a public spokesman http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1100/revenge-great-example-of-modern-day-scandal/ 2012-03-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com NBC's Parenthood usually ends their season before most other shows, and this year's finale, "My Brother's Wedding," continues that trend. Jasmine (Joy Bryant) and Crosby (Dax Shepard) decide to put together a wedding in just a few days. Good thing they have helpful families! Tarnishing the happy occasion, though, is Crosby's fight with Adam (Peter Krause) over whether to sell the recording studio or not. In the meantime, Joel (Sam Jaeger) and Julia (Erika Christensen) try to pick up the pieces after their adoption falls through, and various other family members deal with their romantic lives. Crosby and Jasmine getting married is http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1095/parenthood-celebrates-my-brothers-wedding/ 2012-03-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Judgment Day" brings a startling close to the third season of USA's White Collar. Neal's (Matthew Bomer) commutation hearing has arrived, but before a decision can be made, Agent Kramer (Beau Bridges) makes it his mission to get Neal into trouble. If Kramer can get Neal's sentence extended for another crime, he can take him back to DC and make Neal work for him indefinitely. Peter (Tim DeKay) and the rest of Neal's friends spring into action, hoping that together they can outsmart Kramer. However, when Peter realizes that they have failed, he signals to Neal to run, which Neal does, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1096/judgment-day-comes-for-white-collar/ 2012-03-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This past weekend, Being Human began its fourth series on BBC America with "Eve of the War." It has been a few weeks sincethe startling events of series three's finale. During the that time, George (Russell Tovey) kills Wyndam (Lee Ingleby), and in revenge, Wyndam's replacement, Griffin (Alex Jennings, Whitechapel, The Queen), slaughters Nina (Sinead Keenan). To cope, George becomes a shut in, keeping his unnamed baby girl confined to the nursery. That is, until Tom (Michael Socha) stops by with Griffin's whereabouts, and the two set out to take him down. Tom and George have their work cut out for them http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1084/eve-of-the-war-a-whole-new-direction-for-being-human/ 2012-02-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Karma" is the latest installment of CBS's How I Met Your Mother. Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) searches for Quinn (Becki Newton, Love Bites, Ugly Betty), only to realize she's a stripper named Karma at a club that he frequents. He tries to ask her out, but having seen Barney around, Quinn assumes he's insincere, and plays him out of much cash. Seeing Barney is genuinely hurt, though, she reconsiders, and decides to get to know him. Meanwhile, Robin (Cobie Smulders) finds the suburbs are not to her liking, and Ted (Josh Radnor) struggles to find a use for the empty room http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1089/how-i-met-your-mother-finds-good-karma/ 2012-02-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "The End of All Things" isn't exactly what the title implies for FOX's Fringe, thank goodness. Olivia (Anna Torv) is missing and her friends have no clue as to where she is. That is, until the central Observer in the Fringe story, September (Michael Cerveris), appears in Walter's (John Noble) lab. September doesn't provide much help before collapsing due to a gun wound. But Peter ventures into September's head, learning of his son with Fauxlivia (also Torv) and who the Observers are. Septermber also tells Peter that he must go home, a phrase that likely has two meanings, before dying and http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1081/fringe-contemplates-the-end-of-all-things/ 2012-02-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "The Butterfly Effect Effect" is the latest installment of ABC's Happy Endings. Jane (Eliza Coupe) and Brad (Damon Wayans Jr.) think they can avoid their annual fight, but think that their friends need it, so they fake an argument. Everyone is thrilled, but things feel a little off, and no one it satisfied. Because of this, winter does not come to an end, as expected. That is, until Brad and Jane have a real fight, and that restores balance to their group. And then friends are there to help them fix things. It's a little weird that everyone is so involved in http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1079/the-butterfly-effect-effect-not-happy-endings-finest-moment/ 2012-02-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com FOX's Glee uses "On My Way" to finish off this winter's batch of episodes. Karofsky (Max Adler) is tired of being bullied for being gay, and attempts suicide. This obviously shocks everyone, and the New Directions and Warblers pull together to honor him at Regionals. It also puts things into perspective for some, spurring Rachel (Lea Michele) and Finn's (Cory Monteith)  to push their wedding up to just after the competition, much to their parents' dismay. Unfortunately, on the way to the ceremoney, Quinn (Dianna Agron) is in a terrible car crash. Blame texting. Glee will never be blamed http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1080/glee-is-on-my-way/ 2012-02-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Sheer Madness" is achieved by FOX's Raising Hope this week. Jimmy (Lucas Neff) and Sabrina (Shannon Woodward) ease into their relationship, hiding habits, such as passing gas, from each other. Virginia (Martha Plimpton) butts in and tells them that is no way to conduct a relationship. She should talk considering that she doesn't know that Burt (Garret Dillahunt) shaves his feet! And Burt isn't sure how to tell her, asking Andrew (Ethan Suplee) for advice. But Sabrina takes the advice, and goes off of her meds, which leads to her revealing her habit of wearing pantyhose on her head at night http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1078/sheer-madness-reigns-on-raising-hope/ 2012-02-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com From the creators of The Office and Extras comes on a brand new series to HBO this week. Life's Too Short is a mockumentary about the life of Warwick Davis (played by, coincidentally, Warwick Davis), Britain's "go-to dwarf." Famous for his parts in the Star Wars and Harry Potter movies, and less famous for starring in the film Willow, this version of Davis has spent all his money, and facing an ugly divorce, needs more. That's where old pals Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant come in, or so Warwick hopes. The pair aren't so thrilled about it. Life's Too Short blurs the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1074/lifes-too-short-very-very-funny/ 2012-02-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Leslie's (Amy Poehler) former boyfriend, Dave (Louis C.K., Louie), returns to Pawnee in this week's Parks and Recreation on NBC. Dave would like to pick up where they left off, which is not an option for Leslie, who is quite happy with Ben (Adam Scott). However, she could use Dave's help in securing an endorsement from the chief of police. In the meantime, Tom (Aziz Ansari) tries to continue to develop a relationship with Ann (Rashida Jones), and Andy (Chris Pratt) takes on the task of making a theme song for Leslie's campaign. Dave was a fantastic character on Parks and Recreation, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1071/parks-and-recreation-brings-back-a-familiar-face/ 2012-02-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Heart" is the theme of this week's Glee on FOX. Hiram (Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park, Law & Order: Criminal Intent) and Leroy (Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell), Rachel's (Lea Michele) never-before-seen dads, learn of their daughter's engagement to Finn (Cory Monteith). With Finn's parents, Burt (Mike O'Malley) and Carole (Romy Rosemont), they hatch a plan to use reverse psychology on the young couple. Unfortunately, this plan fails, and Rachel and Finn decide on a May ceremony. Rachel and Finn are too young to marry. They haven't known each other, or been together, long enough to take this step. They are http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1072/heart-glossed-over-on-glee/ 2012-02-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Lo Scandalo" is a fine example of a bottle story (where all of the main characters are in one location for pretty much the entire episode) for FX's Archer. Malory (Jessica Walter) makes her son, Archer (H. Jon Benjamin), come over to help her get rid of the prime minister of Italy's body. The dead man is in Malory's living room, dressed in bondage gear, and Malory claims some armed men attacked them during sexual play. Archer asks for help, and soon, the whole ISIS team is present to assist. As the others work on taking care of the problem and http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1069/lo-scandlo-doesnt-faze-archer/ 2012-02-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Aunt Mommy," the latest episode of ABC's Modern Family, takes its title from a plan cooked up during an alcohol-infused dinner between Cam (Eric Stonestreet), Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), Phil (Ty Burrell), and Claire (Julie Bowen). You see, Mitchell and Cam are getting impatient to have another child. Friends of theirs used a surrogate, a quicker route. The guys also regret that their baby can't genetically be related to both of them. The solution? Claire will donate an egg to mix with Cam's sperm. This sounds great in the drunken haze, but not so much the next morning, as three of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1070/aunt-mommy-a-little-too-modern-of-a-concept-for-modern-family/ 2012-02-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Ain't Love Strange" finally returns Cougar Town to ABC after a very long absence. Jules (Courteney Cox) tells Grayson (Josh Hopkins) that he should always strive to surprise her. To make her happy, Grayson stages an elaborate ruse, where Jules thinks skateboarders "shark" her car, and she TPs a vacant house in revenge. Grayson is at the house, with all of her friends, and he proposes. She says yes! Also, Andy (Ian Gomez) and Ellie (Christa Miller) think that Stan, their son, is a demon child, and Travis (Dan Byrd) reluctantly takes Dog Travis from Bobby (Brian Van Holt). It is hard http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1066/aint-love-strange-on-cougar-town/ 2012-02-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com AMC's The Walking Dead begins the second half of its second season with "Nebraska" this week. Hershel (Scott Wilson) orders the group off of his land, after breaking down emotionally in regards to the Walker slaughter. He goes back to a friend he hasn't seen in years - alcohol. Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Glenn (Steven Yeun) find Hershel drunk in a local establishment, and try to convince him to come back to his house. Hershel resists, and just when he is bending, two guys (Aaron Munoz and Michael Raymond James, Terriers, True Blood) show up and start acting threatening. Back at http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1061/the-walking-dead-ponders-nebraska/ 2012-02-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com After two short seasons, IFC's The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret ended its series with "Conclusion." Todd (David Cross) finally goes on trial, as hinted out in a framework story during season one. Brent Wilts (Will Arnett) tries to serve as his lawyer, but ends up making a mockery of the process, and when things go south, he bails. Alice (Sharon Horgan) is Todd's best hope, having found evidence to clear their names, but sadly, she is killed when Todd accidentally sets off a truck bomb. At the last minute, Dave's father (Mark Heap, Friday Night Dinner, Lark Rise to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1059/todd-margaret-ends-with-much-disappointment/ 2012-02-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Tarantella" is the latest episode of NBC's Grimm. The cops think a serial killer is on the loose after discovering a mummified body, on which acid was used to liquefy the organs, and then they were sucked out through the belly. Ick! Nick (David Giuntoli) suspects this is the work of more than just an average human, and he's right. He learns of a spider species that must kill three victims every give years in order to avoid aging really fast. The trail leads him to a suburban housewife (Amy Acker, Angel, Dollhouse) who is much more than she appears to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1055/grimm-battles-tarantella/ 2012-02-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Valentine's Day is observed by NBC's 30 Rock  in a special, one hour episode called "Hey, Baby, What's Wrong?" After years of being miserable, Liz (Tina Fey) thinks she might actually enjoy the day, now that she's with Criss (James Marsden, X-Men). But before they can begin their romance, they must survive a trip to IKEA to buy a table, and that's not easy. Meanwhile, Avery's mother, Diana (Mary Steenburgen, Bored to Death, Curb Your Enthusiasm), arrives. She is unexpectedly attracted to Jack (Alec Baldwin), and he finds himself feeling the same way. Brought together by loneliness, they try to fight http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1054/30-rock-has-plenty-wrong-this-week/ 2012-02-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "The Spanish Teacher" is the latest episode of FOX's Glee, unfortunately. Will (Matthew Morrison) learns from Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba) that he could possibly get tenure, but his lack of Spanish skills, considering that Will is the Spanish teacher, hurt his chances. To correct that, Will signs up for an evening class, which turns out to be taught by David Martinez (singer Ricky Martin). Will takes David's lessons the heart, inviting the guy to help give the New Directions some Latin flair. Faced with true passion, Will realizes he is in the wrong position, and transfers to the history department, making http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1053/glee-attempts-a-multicultural-bend-and-fails/ 2012-02-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "The Devil You Know" is the latest installment of FX's Justified. Dickie (Jeremy Davies) and Dewey (Damon Herriman) escape from prison with the help of Ash (Todd Stashwick, The Riches, Men of a Certain Age), who wants Dickie's family's money. Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) searches for them, and to stay ahead, looks to the keeper of said fortune, Ellstin Limehouse (Mykelti Williamson, 24, Forrest Gump). Unfortunately, most of the money is gone, or so says Limehouse, and as the bad guys get into a power struggle, with few believing Dickie's insistence of poverty, Ash is gravely injured and Dewey is killed. Dickie http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1050/justified-battles-more-than-just-the-devil-you-know/ 2012-02-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This is a review of tonight's "Pilot" of the new NBC drama Smash. It has been free online, so there's been plenty of time to see it before the airdate. If you have not watched it yet, though, this is a review, not a preview, so stop right now. Come back and read the article AFTER you watch the show. The "Pilot" of NBC's Smash finds Julia Houston (Debra Messing, Will & Grace, The Starter Wife) taking a well-deserved break from Broadway in order to adopt a baby. But her writing partner's, Tom Levitt (Christian Borle), new assistant Ellis (Jaime Cepero) thinks http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1047/smash-about-to-hit-big/ 2012-02-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com What happens what a case goes horribly wrong? That's what occurs on FOX's House last night in the new episode "Nobody's Fault." Dr. Walter Cofield (Jeffrey Wright, Quantum of Solace) is brought in to assign blame after a doctor is hurt. The story is told in flashback, as Cofield interviews each member of House's (Hugh Laurie) team. Knowing if House is blamed, he will return to jail, the others try to leave out the parts of the story that make House look the worst, and rally around their boss. Wright uncovers the truth anyway, and is about to rule against House, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1048/house-insists-that-its-nobodys-fault/ 2012-02-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This week, on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, "If/Then," Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) ponders how her life would be different if her mom, Ellis (Kate Burton), didn't get Alzheimer's, as well as if Richard (James Pickens Jr.) married Ellis and raised Meredith as his daughter. Which means a full hour of trippy, alternate reality, seeing the familiar characters in whole new light. With Ellis serving as Chief of Seattle Grace, Meredith is the daughter of the boss, and leads a sunshiney life, wearing pink, hanging out with April (Sarah Drew), and engaged to Alex (Justin Chambers), who is Chief Resident, and a rising star. But http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1040/greys-anatomy-ponders-different-reality-in-ifthen/ 2012-02-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com This week's FOX Glee episode is called "Michael," which means that the hour is filled with songs from the late King of Pop. And also, with plenty of great story, too. Sebastian (Grant Gustin) attempts to injure Kurt (Chris Colfer) by lacing a slushie with rock salt. But the dangerous beverage hits Blaine (Darren Criss) instead, causing serious eye injury. Santana (Naya Rivera) wants revenge, but Kurt advises taking the high road. Rachel (Lea Michele) flips, jumping to the wrong conclusion when Kurt gets his acceptance letter from NYADA and she doesn't. That leads to her saying yes to Finn's (Cory Monteith) http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1039/glee-tackles-michael-jacksons-playbook/ 2012-02-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Jess & Julia" aren't getting along too well on FOX's New Girl, as explored in this week's episode. Julia, who is Nick's (Jake M. Johnson), just doesn't gel well with the free-spirited Jess. Julia agrees to help Jess deal with a traffic ticket, but her attitude about it leads Jess to tell Nick about Julia's insecurities. At the same time, Schmidt (Max Greenfield) is very upset and perplexed at his always-damp towel, and Winston (Lamorne Morris) learns from a former lover (Kali Hawk, Bridesmaids) that he doesn't have any game. It's cool that New Girl finally dwells on female relationships. Much of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1038/new-girl-allowing-more-women-on-board/ 2012-02-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Many characters inhabit HBO's new drama Luck, a show about the various people in the world of horse racing. The central characters of the show is probably Ace (Dustin Hoffman, I Heart Huckabees, Tootsie), though, who just finished three years in prison, taking the blame for others' actions. With his pal and driver Gus, a.k.a. The Greek (Dennis Farina, Law & Order, Snatch) serving as a front, Ace is getting back into the game. Which leads to a pretty tense exchange with an old colleague (Alan Rosenberg, The Guardian, Cybill). Though without more explanation of the circumstances, it's hard to figure http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1037/luck-may-have-struck-hbo-again/ 2012-02-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "G.G." marks the milestone 100th episode for the CW's Gossip Girl, and the episodes pulls out all the stops. Eleanor (Margaret Colin) recruits Chuck (Ed Westwick) to help stop Blair's (Leighton Meester) wedding when mother senses daughter doesn't really want to go through with it. But Blair surprises all by choosing to marry Louis (Hugo Becker) anyway, rejecting Chuck once more, though admitting to strong feelings for him. Gossip Girl's (voiced by Kristen Bell) attempts to ruin things also meet with failure, and the union happens. But the even bigger surprise is that Louis is not at all who he has http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1036/gossip-girl-hits-100-episodes-with-gg/ 2012-01-31 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "There Goes the Neighborhood" is the latest episode of FOX's The Cleveland Show. The wind is taken out of Cleveland's (Mike Henry) sail when his new new in-law, Choni (Rosie Perez, Lipstick Jungle, Pineapple Express), builds a new McMansion right across the street from him. They do the battle of words thing, with Choni accusing Cleveland of racism. Cleveland fights back, learning about Latino culture, and trying to repair his reputation with his neighbors.      Last night's episode of FOX's The Cleveland Show is called "There Goes El Neighborhood." Junior's  aunt by marriage, Choni (Rosie Perez, Lipstick Jungle, Pineapple Express), builds http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1033/there-goes-el-neighborhood-adds-spice-to-the-cleveland-show/ 2012-01-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Chuck Versus the Goodbye" marks the end of the NBC series Chuck. It aired as the second hour in a two hour final, but this review focuses mainly on that second hour. Chuck (Zachary Levi) and Morgan (Joshua Gomez) help Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) as she goes after Quinn (Angus Macfadyen, Californication, Braveheart), who has been exposed as a liar. Quinn is killed, but Sarah resists Chuck's attempts to spark her lost memories. Chuck has a plan to help Sarah involving tweaking the Intersect, but that falls apart when, trying to stop Quinn, Chuck must download the program into himself ti http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1031/chuck-says-its-goodbye/ 2012-01-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      NBC's 30 Rock did two new episodes this week. In the second, "The Ballad of Kenneth Parcell," Jack (Alec Baldwin) replaces the Page Program with a smart machine (voiced by Rachel Dratch), Kenneth (Jack McBrayer) is very upset. Kenneth's worth is proven when, after Jack is embarrassed by a mistake he makes in front of his boss, Hank Hooper (Ken Howard), concerning a businessversary present, Kenneth is reinstated and able to take the blame. This also deflects Lutz (John Lutz) and the other TGS staffers, who sense Jack's weakness, and pounce.      Writing a review of nearly any 30 Rock episode http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1027/30-rock--the-ballad-of-kenneth-parcell/ 2012-01-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "The Beta Test Initiation" picks up right where last week's episode of CBS's The Big Bang Theory left off, plot-wise, not time-wise. Penny (Kaley Cuoco) gets a little annoyed with Leonard (Johnny Galecki), so he suggests they make lists of the things about each other that bug them. She is not amused. Raj (Kunal Nayyar) gets a girlfriend! Sort of. He falls for his iPhone's Siri voice program. Amy (Mayim Bialik) does her best to help Sheldon (Jim Parsons) realize his dream of hosting a video series on flags. Yes, flags.      After the amazing 100th episode last week, The Big http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1024/the-beta-test-initiation-not-the-best-of-the-big-bang-theory/ 2012-01-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Though it will not officially premiere until March, FOX went ahead and aired the "Pilot" of Touch last night. The show follows Martin Bohm (Kiefer Sutherland, 24), the single dad of an autistic son, working very hard to make ends meet and take care of his boy on his own, having lost his mother on 9/11. However, the son, Jake (David Mazouz, Amish Grace), doesn't speak, and won't allow Martin to touch him. After a few incidents on a cell tower, a social worker, Clea Hopkins (Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Undercovers, Doctor Who), is called in to remove Jake from Martin's home. At http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1022/touch-will-surely-touch-you/ 2012-01-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      The Canadian series Lost Girl has been so popular that, as it nears the end of season two, a third year has already been ordered. Last week, SyFy began airing the episodes in the states, starting at the beginning, so only two have been shown. Last night's, "Where There's a Will, There's a Fae," finds Bo (Anna Silk, Being Erica) helping a wronged will-o'-the-wisp (Richard McMillan, The Fountain). Turns out, however, the thief, Michael (Elias Toufexis, Assassin's Creed II) has beef of his own with 'Will," involving parentage, and ensuing showdown is dangerous and tricky for Bo.      Lost Girl is http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1019/lost-girl-might-not-be-worth-searching-for/ 2012-01-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      The Finder, a new FOX drama that is a spin-off of the hit show Bones, began last week. "Bullets," this week's entry, is the second episode. Dr. Lance Sweets (John Francis Daley), who is a main character in Bones, is sent to Miami to determine the mental competency of Walter Sherman (Geoff Stults, October Road, 7th Heaven). The reason for this evaluation is to decide if government agencies, including frequent Walter collaborator Deputy U.S. Marshal Isabel Zambada (Mercedes Mashon, Chuck, Quarantine 2: Terminal), should be using him to help solve cases. Following Walter as he looks for a couple of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1018/bullets-prove-hard-to-find-for-the-finder/ 2012-01-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com     Not missing a beat from the mid-season finale, "Countdown," USA's White Collar picks up right where that episode leaves off with "Checkmate." Keller (Ross McCall) has Elizabeth Burke (Tiffani Thiessen) and wants the Nazi treasure in exchange for her life. Neal (Matt Bomer) wishes he could do just that, and not only because Peter is furious at him. But Mozzie (Willie Garson) is missing, and so it the loot. Finding both, Neal and Peter hand the valuables over to Keller...sort of. They stall, and attempt to help him steal them once more, as Diana (Marsha Thomason) and Jones (Sharif Atkins) http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1012/a-checkmate-for-white-collar/ 2012-01-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "Yes/No" is the perfect return for FOX's Glee! Coach Beiste (Dot-Marie Jones) reveals that she has gotten married, sparking Emma's (Jayma Mays) desire to do the same. Will (Matthew Morrison) takes her wish to heart, and asks the New Directions to help him prepare the perfect proposal. But Will also makes the mistake of talking to Emma's parents (Don Most and Valerie Mahaffey) first, and their words leave him with doubt, because of Emm'a condition. At the same time, Finn (Cory Monteith) thinks about a possible future with Rachel (Lea Michele), Mercedes (Amber Riley) is torn between two guys, and http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1013/glee-asks-yesno-about-love/ 2012-01-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      A huge milestone, that of the 100th episode, was reached by CBS's The Big Bang Theory last night. In the half hour, titled "The Recombination Hypothesis," Leonard (Johnny Galecki) asks Penny (Kaley Cuoco) out on a romantic date. It's a horrible experience, and despite leading to angry sex and a secret relationship, neither are happy, and it's clear the renewed relationship won't last. Except, everything just seen only occurred in Leonard's mind. And despite the fact that Leonard can't even imagine a happy ending for himself and Penny, he asks her out anyway, for real.      What a fantastic episode! Not http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1003/the-recombination-hypothesis-makes-the-big-bang-theorys-100th-more-than-memorable/ 2012-01-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Turn This Mother Out" hearlds the second season launch of SyFy's Being Human. Aidan (Sam Witwer) tries to protect the new vampires when the Council and Mother (Deena Aziz) comes to town, but she demands they be culled anyway. Aidan still gets promoted to Second of Boston, under Mother's daughter. And one council member, Hegeman (Terry Kinney), hunts Josh (Sam Huntington). Meanwhile, Nora (Kristen Hager) still hasn't told Josh about her upcoming change, and Sally (Meaghan Rath) attends her high school reunion, where she chats up a couple of dead classmates.      At first, it appears that Being Human might choose http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/996/being-human-does-its-best-to-turn-this-mother-out/ 2012-01-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Over three hundred prison employees and inmates disappear from Alcatraz prison in 1963. Or so says FOX's new series, Alcatraz, in its "Pilot." In the present, one of those prisoners returns, causing trouble, and not looking like he has aged a day. Despite being pushed out of the investigation by a fed named Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill, The Tudors, Jurassic Park), Detective Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones, Sons of Anarchy, Big Love) recruits her own Alcatraz expert, Doctor Diego Soto (Jorge Garcia, Lost, Becker), and figures a few things out. Hauser hires them, but doesn't give them too many details about http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/994/the-mysterious-island-of-alcatraz/ 2012-01-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      The Social Network gets The Simpsons treatment last night on FOX with an episode called "The D'oh-cial Network." With no friends to play with, Lisa (Yeardley Smith) creates a huge social media site called SpringFace that sucks the whole town in. Soon, no one is paying any attention to others, getting car wrecks as their faces stayed stuck to the screens. Hauled into court, Lisa volunteers to take down SpringFace, regretting what she has done to her friends and neighbors.      Taken by itself, the plot in "The D'oh-cial Network" runs a little thin. Who exactly hauls Lisa in before the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/990/the-dohcial-network-unfriends-the-simpsons/ 2012-01-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "The Crack in the Code" brings FOX's Bones's short initial run this season to an end. A head and spine are found on a statue of President Lincoln, and the disfigured spine has an important code. Using that code, the team discovers the murder scene and the rest of the body, and are certain they know how the killer is. Sadly, said killer, Christopher Pelant (Andrew Leeds), has an airtight alibi in his house arrest ankle monitor, though it's also obvious that he is tricking it somehow. Unfortunately, that means Pelant will get to continue carrying out his plans. Meanwhile, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/986/bones-doesnt-quite-find-the-crack-in-the-code/ 2012-01-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Dance Like Nobody's Watching" returns NBC's 30 Rock to the air after a more than eight month hiatus! Not everything is the same when it returns, as Liz (Tina Fey) is relaxed and happy. A suspicious Jack (Alec Baldwin) thinks he knows why, but it surprised by the truth. Jenna (Jane Krakowski) is finding roaring success as the mean judge on a very popular reality competition show for singing kids, which doesn't sit well with fairly-new-dad Jack. Kenneth (Jack McBrayer) prepared for the end of the world by finally doing the things on his "dream chores" list.      30 Rock has http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/981/dance-like-nobodys-wacthing-30-rock/ 2012-01-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Gorilla My Dreams" brings moral issues to the forefront of NBC's Harry's Law. On a duck hunting trip, Tommy (Christopher McDonald) and Harry (Kathy Bates) are approached by a young woman (Emily Rose, Haven, Brothers & Sisters) who wants them to help her win custody of a gorilla that escaped from the local zoo. With an IQ of almost 90, and easy visible signs of intellifence, awareness, and the ability to communicate, Harry argues that the ape belongs somewhere kinder than behind bars. Meanwhile, Adam's (Nathan Corddry) teenage dream (Smallville's Erica Durance) is on trial for being a vigilante for http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/980/gorilla-my-dreams-found-in-harrys-law/ 2012-01-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com     Shameless heralds the start of its second season with "Summertime." Kevin (Steve Howey) has a monster pot harvest, derailed by V (Shanola Hampton) and a big power bill. The Gallghers have their various money making schemes going on, but their savings are wiped out when Frank (William H. Macy) loses a huge bet, and the people he owes them to hold Liam (Blake Alexander Johnson and Brennan Kane Johnson) for ransom.      "Summertime" finds the family almost exactly as they were last left, still getting into the same types of trouble, which is great for fans who love the snow's story http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/978/summertime-comes-to-shameless/ 2012-01-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Desperate Souls" brings ABC's Once Upon a Time back to the airwaves after a brief hiatus. In fairy tale land, Rumpelstiltskin (Robert Carlyle), a simple, poor man, is afraid of losing his son (Dylan Schmid) to the army as the Duke (Michael Phenicie, Angel, Knot's Landing) goes around collecting soldiers. The Duke has a formidable weapon in the Dark One, a mahical being. Tricked by a beggar (Brad Dourif, Deadwood, Lord of the Rings) into killing the Dark One, Rumpel becomes the new keeper of dark magic, which saves his son, but leaves him tormented and forever changed.      After a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/975/once-upon-a-time-there-were-desperate-souls/ 2012-01-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      IFC kicks of season two of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret this weekend with "Todd's Terrible Day Ends and His Next Terrible Day Begins." The story continues exactly where season one ends. with Alice (Sharon Horgan) fleeing from Todd's (David Cross) 'rape kit.' The titular characters does admit to some untruths as he tries to right things with Alice. But then also has another run-in with the terrorists, who trick him, and Todd goes on the lam due to the dead body found near he was. Dave (Blake Harrison), now revealed to viewers to be rich and behind http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/969/the-increasingly-poor-decisions-of-todd-margaret-returns/ 2012-01-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Suddenly" ABC's Grey's Anatomy is back from their hiatus! Alex (Justin Chambers) and Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) are found, but their victims of the car that hit their ambulance don't do so well. Meredith tries to offer support to the family's oldest child (Stella Maeve), who is mostly unhurt, and who happens to be turning eighteen today. At the same time, Cristina (Sandra Oh) must help Teddy (Kim Raver) with a tricky surgery, but cannot tell her mentor that Teddy's husband, Henry (Scott Foley), has passed away because of Owen's (Kevin McKidd)  decision. As soon as it is safe to, Cristina http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/963/greys-anatomy-suddenly-awesome/ 2012-01-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      ABC's Revenge returns with "Duress." Emily (Emily VanCamp) and Nolan (Gabriel Mann) learn that Tyler (Ashton Holmes) is, indeed, clinically insane, and now off of his meds. Before they can get Tyler's brother to pick him up, though, Tyler stabs Nolan and crashes Daniel's (Joshua Bowman) birthday party with a gun. Also in this episode, Conrad (Henry Czerny) is determined to gain sole custody of Charlotte (Christa B. Allen), a term of the divorce that Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) has no intention of meeting, and will go to lengths to prevent.      ABC needs to stop spoiling things. Not only is Tyler's http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/962/duress-for-revenge/ 2012-01-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Driving Miss Dalia" returns ABC's freshman sitcom Suburgatory to it's rightful place: on the air. Dalia (Carly Chaikin) flunks her driving test yet again, so she hires newly licensed driver Tessa (Jane Levy) to ferry her. The destination? Stalk hottie Scott Strauss (Thomas McDonell). But Scott isn't an airhead, and prefers the more layered Tessa over blond bimbos. Elsewhere, Noah (Alan Tudyk) acts like a spoiled brat when George (Jeremy Sisto) decides he would like to join Noah's country club, even though Noah has been letting him use his guest pass.      "Driving Miss Dalia" is the first episode with any http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/961/suburgatory-continues-with-driving-miss-dalia/ 2012-01-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Tailgating" finds CBS's How I Met Your Mother celebrating the New Year. While Marshall (Jason Segel) visits the grave of his father, Marvin(Bill Fagerbakke), he recounts the gang's recent holiday. Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Ted (Josh Radnor) open their dream bar in the apartment, with a little help from Kevin (Kal Penn). Sandy (Alexis Denisof) has a break down, leaving Robin (Cobie Smulders) to go on the air and rescue the special. Lily (Alyson Hannigan) is quite surprised by the reaction her father (Chris Elliott) has to the news of her pregnancy. And Marshall remembers his dad's generosity, seeking to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/954/tailgating-a-solemn-occasion-for-how-i-met-your-mother/ 2012-01-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Zeek (Craig T. Nelson) takes his entire clan on a "Road Trip" in the first 2012 episode of NBC's Parenthood. The mission? To visit Zeek's mother (Frances Sternhagen, The Closer, ER, Sex and the City) on her birthday. This being a family drama, of course things start bumpy, then get worse, before everyone comes together in the spirit of love. It starts when Max (Max Burkholder) calls his mom, Kristina (Monica Potter), the B-word, and ends when Zeek's mother tells her son that she loves him. Aw!      "Road Trip" is a fine filler episode of Parenthood. It has the essential http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/956/road-trip-strains-parenthood/ 2012-01-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "And the Secret Ingredient" marks the mostly triumphant return of CBS's 2 Broke Girls. Caroline (Beth Behrs) discovers that "coupons" are synonymous with "free money," and becomes obsessed. But her shopping spree leads to her finding out Max's (Kat Dennings) secret cupcake ingredient: boxed cake mix! It also keeps Caroline away from Chestnut, whom Max has been planning to visit. Thank goodness Caroline is soon able to see her mistakes, and correct her priorities.      Caroline has a very strong personality, and never does anything half way. This is a very obvious trait from the very beginning, and thus, when she http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/953/2-broke-girls-find-love-for-a-horse-and-the-secret-ingredient/ 2012-01-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Chuck Versus the Baby" is the latest episode of NBC's Chuck final season. Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) goes back to being secretive and wanting to work alone when her evil ex-handler (Tim DeKay, White Collar) reappears. Luckily for Sarah, though, Chuck (Zachary Levi) insists on being involved, anyway, and saves Sarah's life. Together, they stop the bad guy from killing Sarah's mom (Cheryl Ladd, Las Vegas, Charlie's Angels).      The final season of Chuck has been phenomenal, even though this reviewer has not managed to write up an article each week. "Chuck Versus the Baby," however, will stand out even among the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/948/emotional-impact-high-for-chuck-versus-the-baby/ 2012-01-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      FOX's Family Guy is always released by volume, instead of season, so episodes from multiple years end up in the same set. The latest, Volume Nine, collects almost all of the episodes that aired from December 2009 through October 2010, including entries from seasons eight and nine. I say almost all, because there are two big omissions: the second Star Wars parody which served as season eight's finale, and "Partial Terms of Endearment," which aired in Britain, but not the U.S. Both exclused episodes have been released on their own DVDs, but it brings down the Volume system to leave http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/949/episodes-missing-in-family-guy-volume-nine/ 2012-01-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      No more American Horror Story Wednesday nights on FX, since the season finale aired last week. :( But I was behind so now, seven days later, here is my review of the final episode of the freshman run, "Afterbirth."      As "Afterbirth" starts, Ben (Dylan McDermott) finds grieving for dead wife, Vivien (Connie Britton), and daughter, Violet (Taissa Farmiga) so difficult that he considers taking his own life. Ghost Vivien asks him to stay alive for their baby, and he does, but soon Ben's jilted lover, Hayden (Kate Mara), ends things for Ben anyway. That turns out OK, as http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/945/the-afterbirth-of-american-horror-story/ 2011-12-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      FOX's The Simpsons releases the fourteenth season, the one that ran on television from November 2002 through May 2003, on Blu-ray! These episodes may be older, but it's great to finally get them in this high definition set. Five of the installments were actually intended for the previous season, but are included among the 22 here. Season fourteen is notable for a number of reasons, not least because of the awards it garnered, including "Gays of the Condo"s Outstanding Animated Program Emmy. Actor Hank Azaria was also honored for "Moe's Baby Blues," and season fourteen marks the first time The http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/937/new-bluray-release-for-the-simpsons-the-fourteenth-season/ 2011-12-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Portlandia is an IFC sketch comedy series, which premiered at the beginning of 2011. It is produced by Lorne Michaels, of Saturday Night Live fame, so it's probably no surprise that it stars Fred Armisen, famous for playing Joy Behar, Barack Obama, and many other characters on SNL. Fred is joined by musician Carrie Brownstein, the sole other star or Portlandia. Each of the six season one episodes has a number of segments featuring some of the oddest characters on television. Some of these personalities are one shots, and some pop up multiple times in the run. With understated jokes, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/938/bluray-adds-portlandia-season-one-to-its-format/ 2011-12-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Ab Fab, also known as Absolutely Fabulous, is coming back to television very, very soon. What better way to prepare for this event than to purchase Absolutely Everything, a comprehensive DVD set that contains every episode and special so far. It would be well worth your time to marathon your way through the adventures of two of the funniest women to ever grace the television screen, and this is a great way to do so.      The story by now is familiar the world over. Edina "Eddy" Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders, French and Saunders) is a PR agent who wants http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/936/got-christmas--buy-absolutely-fabulous-absolutely-everything/ 2011-12-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      The third season of FX's The League comes to an end, not uncoincidentally, just as the fantasy football season closes out. "The Funeral" is actually the second of two new episodes from last night. While Ruxin (Nick Kroll) recovers from his stroke, Andre (Paul Scheer) manages Ruxin's team, though Rafi (Jason Mantzoukas) wants a say, too, and is willing to use a knife to get one. Pete (Mark Duplass) refuses to throw the Sacko Bowl, even though Ruxin vows to toss out the entire season if he loses. Which means that Kevin (Stephen Rannazzisi), who finally wins the Shiva, doesn't http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/932/the-funeral-grim-ending-of-the-league/ 2011-12-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Marine One" has a double meaning in the special hour and a half long season finale for the first year of howtime's Homeland. Carrie (Claire Danes) is discovered off her meds and fired, but still figures out that Brody (Damian Lewis) is in on Abu Nazir's (Navid Negahban) scheme involving Tom (Chris Chalk). In a desperate move, Carrie tries to recruit Brody's daughter, Dana (Morgan Saylor), to talk her father down from being a suicide bomber. Dana doesn't believe Carrie, exactly, but does accomplish the goal. However, that doesn't mean that Brody won't try something else sinsister on another day. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/926/homeland-threatened-by-marine-one/ 2011-12-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Occupation" and "Resistance" draw to a close the first season of FOX's Terra Nova. A bunch of greedy miners with few scruples follow Lucas Taylor (Ashley Zukerman) into the past, where they quickly subdue the colony. Commander Taylor (Stephen Lang) and a group of soldiers stay outside the walls, and are soon contacted by Jim (Jason O'Mara), who was injured and missed the invastion. A resistance is launched, and Jim goes to the future and blows up the portal, just making it back in time. The bad guys just pull out, confusing the settlers, until they realize that an old http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/922/the-occupation-of-terra-nova-requires-resistance/ 2011-12-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Neil Simon's Lover's Retreat" finds Shawn (James Roday) whisking Juliet (Maggie Lawson) away on a romantic weekend in the mid-season finale of USA's Psych. Of course, the couple's blissful vacation is marred by robbery and murder, with the prime suspects for both being Barbie and Clive (Jennifer Finnigan, Better With You and Jason Priestley, Call Me Fitz), who pretend to befriend them. At the same time, Lassiter (Timothy Omundson) and Henry (Corbin Bernsen), both lonely, tag along with Gus (Dulé Hill) to a club, where Henry picks up a crazy girl named Chelsea (Arden Myrin, MADtv, Suburgatory), whom he can't http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/902/neil-simons-lovers-retreat-not-exactly-relaxing-for-psych/ 2011-12-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      FOX combines Christmas special with fall finale in the standalone episode, "Extraordinary Merry Christmas." Sue (Jane Lynch) recruits the New Directions to sing at a homeless shelter. Sadly, when Artie (Kevin McHale) is asked to direct a local televised holiday special on the same night, most of the group chooses to ditch Sue. It's a spectacular mash up of The Judy Garland Show's Christmas episode and Star Wars, but in the end, Rory the Elf (Damian McGinty) reminds the group the true meaning of the holiday. As soon as the taping is over, they head over to sing for Sue. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/901/glee-tries-and-fails-to-have-an-extraordinary-merry-christmas/ 2011-12-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      CBS brings The Good Wife's fall run to a close in "What Went Wrong." Judge Dunaway (Kurt Fuller, Psych, Better With You) encourages Lockhart/Gardner to bring him evidence to overturn a jury's ruling when they lose, and he thinks it unfair. Which opens up Dunaway tothreats from Wendy Scott-Carr (Anika Noni Rose), still apparently on the hunt for corruption in their firm. Kalinda (Archie Panjabi) and Alicia (Julianna Margulies) can't find evidence, but do expose that Dunaway accepted a friend request from a jury member during the trial, leading him to angrily toss out the ruling. Alicia also learns that http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/891/the-good-wife-ponders-what-went-wrong/ 2011-12-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Leslie (Amy Poehler) goes on trial in last week's Parks and Recreation on NBC, and is sentenced to two weeks of (paid) suspension for dating Ben (Adam Scott). This week's episode is the aftermath of those events, as Leslie tries to find something to do. Her campaign tanks because of the "scandal," so campaigning is out. She decides to form PCP, a poorly named political action committee, that she can use to lobby Chris (Rob Lowe) for better parks funding. Chris responds by getting Leslie's suspension lifted. Meanwhile, Ben considers a new accounting position following his "resignation in disgrace," but http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/889/parks-and-recreation-meets-citizen-knope/ 2011-12-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Christmas is Cummings" brings the fall run of NBC's Whitney to an end. Alex (Chris D'Elia) and Whitney (Whitney Cummings) would like to celebrate the holiday with their friends, instead of their annoying families, so Whitney lies to her parents about her plans. But Dad Vince (Peter Gallagher, Covert Affairs, The O.C.) and Mom Patti (Jane Kaczmarek, Raising the Bar, Malcolm in the Middle) arrive seperately, and the lies get to Whitney. So she goes to confess, only to learn the divorced pair are secretly sleeping together.      Kaczmarek is a delight in her second appearance as Patti, and Gallagher really http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/887/whitneys-christmas-is-cummings/ 2011-12-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      As a Glee parody, NBC's Community presents "Regional Holiday Music" for their Christmas special. With the Greendale glee club out of comission, Cory Radison (Taran Killam, Saturday Night Live), the director, sets his sights on the study group as alternates.  But none of the main characters want anything to do with that annoying persky music, and especially not Regionals, so they try to stay strong. However, Abed (Danny Pudi), concerned at a lack of holiday spirit, thinks Cory's idea might be nice, and so begins to recruit the others. Abed is successful, but when he learns that Cory's scheme will http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/888/community-celebrates-with-some-regional-holiday-music/ 2011-12-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Hold on to Sixteen" finds FOX's Glee facing Sectionals once more. With Rachel (Lea Michele) benches, she and Finn (Cory Monteith) seek out help in the form of Sam (Chord Overstreet), who is now a stripped in Kentucky. Sam jumps at the chance to go home, but Blaine (Darren Criss) has a very negative reaction. Finn makes peace with Blaine, and the New Directions go on to win Sections again. Quinn (Dianna Agron) gets Will (Matthew Morrison) to promise the Troubletones a solo song in any future competitions, and the girls return to the club. Quinn also decides, relictantly, to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/878/hold-on-to-sixteen-glee/ 2011-12-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Letter Never Sent," the second season finale of USA's Covert Affairs, finds Annie (Piper Perabo) and a betrayed-by-her-husband Danielle (Anne Dudek) on vacation in Stockholm. Danielle meets up with a former flame whom she has been e-mailing, and inadvertantly screws up the last mission Joan (Kari Matchett) assigns to Annie. This leads to the sisters being hunted down by a bad man with a gun, running for their lives. Back in the States, Jai (Sendhil Ramamurthy) is the subject of an inquiry, and Auggie (Christopher Gorham) finds out if his blindness might be cured.      On the surface, "Letter Never Sent" http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/880/covert-affairs-has-a-letter-never-sent/ 2011-12-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Hairdos and Holidays" may be the CW's fall capper for Hart of Dixie, but it's Christmas themes are only vague. Zoe (Rachel Bilson) takes Rose (McKaley Miller, The Gates) under her wing in preparing for a beauty pageant. Their main rivals? Lemon (Jaime King) and her sister Magnolia (Claudia Lee, Zeke and Luthor). But Lemon has bigger things to worry about that a small town contest, as she goes to find her mother (Meredith Monroe, Dawson's Creek, Criminal Minds). In the process, she remembers how learning her mother's secret last year brought her very close to Lavon (Cress Williams). Lavon, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/877/hairdos-and-holidays-weak-sauce-for-hart-of-dixie/ 2011-12-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Riding In Town Cars With Boys" brings everything together for the CW's Gossip Girl. Dan (Penn Badgley) lets Blair (Leighton Meester) hide out at his place as she tries to decide whether to marry Louis (Hugo Becker), or leave the prince for Chuck (Ed Westwick). Nate (Chace Crawford) leanrs his grandfather, William (James Naughton), mainpulated many recent events in Nate's life. Serena (Blake Lively) decides she would like to be with Dan again, and fearing that Dan is going to make a play for Blair, helps Louis track the two down. Ivy (Kaylee DeFer) worries a determined Max (Brian J. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/876/gossip-girl-goes-off-riding-in-town-cars-with-boys/ 2011-12-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Putting It Together" serves as the last midseason finale cliffhanger for ABC's Desperate Housewives. The noose is closing in on the girls, thanks to Chuck (Jonathan Cake), who questions each at the police station, except for Bree (Marcia Cross). He even discovers that Gaby's (Eva Longoria) stepfather is the victim, Alejandro (Tony Plana). This tension causes the qives to begin to splinter, and Bree is left friendless because of her connection to Chuck. Susan (Teri Hatcher) considers taking a job in New York, effectively fleeing town. Lynette (Felicity Huffman), on the other hand, tells Tom (Doug Savant) everything, asking him not to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/875/putting-it-together-about-the-desperate-housewives/ 2011-12-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Guardians" brings the CW's Nikita fall run to a close. Leaving Birkhoff (Aaron Stanford) to mend and Michael (Shane West) connecting with his son, Nikita (Maggie Q) sets off on her own to replace the black box she lost. She becomes stressed, realizing just how hopeless her ultimate mission is, and wishing she could get out of the game. But Owen (Devon Sawa) is there to remind her just what she is fighting for, and bolsters her spirits. Using Gogol to try to find the box, they are startled to learn that Percy (Xander Berkeley) has a new plan in http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/874/guardians-a-target-for-nikita/ 2011-12-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Missing" brings NBC's Parenthood fall run to a close. After Kristina (Monica Potter) and Adam (Peter Krause) cancel a trip to the museum with Max (Max Burkholder) because they both have to work on a Saturday, Max sneaks away from Haddie's (Sarah Ramos) watch to go anyway. Kristina has her phone off because of the fight she is having with Adam, but Adam and Haddie panic, looking frantically for the lost boy. The police recover Max, and he's fine, but Haddie is extremely upset by the situation, and Max's inability to understand the turmoil he causes them. On the plus http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/873/dont-be-missing-parenthood/ 2011-12-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "I Kissed a Girl" is the latest installement of FOX's Glee. Santana (Naya Rivera) is outed as gay, and a worried Finn (Cory Monteith) does his best to make her feel accepted at school. Sadly, Santana isn't the only girl facing something this week, though her issue is arguably the biggest. Quinn (Dianna Agron) wants Puck (Mark Salling) to give her another baby, but he isn't into it. Rachel (Lea Michele) rigs a class election, which results in her being banned from Sectionals. And Sue (Jane Lynch) begins dating Cooter (Eric Bruskotter), which hurts Beiste (Dot-Marie Jones) greatly.      Glee http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/871/glee-explores-what-happens-when-i-kissed-a-girl/ 2011-12-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      The latest installment of FOX's Terra Nova is "Now You See Me." Taylor (Stephen Lang) looks for Lucas (Ashley Zukerman, Rush), his son, in the jungle, but is still instead surprised by Mira (Christine Adams). The two struggle for the upper hand, only to have to work together when a deadly dinosaur seeks to claim the territory they are in. Back in the settlement, Jim (Jason O'Mara) is close to finding the Sixers' mole, but viewers will no longer want him to, since they know Skye (Allison Miller) is the culprit, and is only doing so to help her ill http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/864/terra-nova-says-now-you-see-me/ 2011-11-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      A lawyer (Vincent Spano) is the patient of the week in "Perils of Paranoia," the midseason finale of FOX's House. Adams (Odette Annable) and Park (Charlyne Yi) find a secret closet full of big guns in the lawyer's house, about which his wife (Amanda Foreman, Parenthood, Private Practice) is clueless. Is the man paranoid, thinking he needs this much protection if, or when, the U.S. government collapses? Whether he does or not, it gets House (Hugh Laurie) playing with Park's paranoia, telling her that he co-workers don't like and respect her.      How can one judge paranoia? Everyone is afraid of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/867/house-plays-with-perils-of-paranoia/ 2011-11-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Pretty Much Dead Already" the sixth season two episode of AMC's The Walking Dead, brings this batch of installments to an end, with an additional six schedule to begin in February. Hershel (Scott Wilson) considers letting Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the others stay, even after the group learns Hershel keeps Walkers in his barn. But he insists they respect his view of the Walkers as sick people, rather than something to kill. This doesn't sit well with Shane (Jon Bernthal), who gets the others to take out the barn dwellers before Rick can stop them. The big surprise come when http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/863/pretty-much-dead-already-not-apt-for-the-walking-dead/ 2011-11-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Now on Blu-ray and DVD is Doctor Who The Complete Sixth Series. In this sixth series, the Doctor (Matt Smith) is concerned about a date when he is supposed to die in Utah, while also curious about River Song's (Alex Kingston, ER) still mysterious story and the Silence. Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill, Swimming With Sharks) and Amy Pond (Karen Gillan, The Well) return as the Doctor's companions, and the team journeys through time and space to make sure things stay right in the universe.      Season six begins big, with the companions being entrusted with a secret that the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/861/bluray-of-doctor-who-the-complete-sixth-series-available-now/ 2011-11-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      NBC's Saturday Night Live comes closer to a funny episode this week than usual, though it has plenty of rough spots, too. The opening hook involves Mitt Romney trying to be "Raw & Unleashed," followed by a monologue visited by Muppet backup singers. After that, a repeat of the Red Flag perfume commerical, then celebrities audition to take Regis Philbin's hosting chair, then another parody commerical. The kissing family unfortunately pops back up, follows by a wonderful Weekend Update with Seth Meyers, Jon Huntsman, and Kermit the Frog. A retirement party sketch is next, followed by a New Jack Swing http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/846/saturday-night-live-visited-by-jason-segel/ 2011-11-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Virtual In-Stanity," FOX's latest installment of American Dad!, finds Stan (Seth MacFarlane) coming to the realization that he has missed almost all of Steve's (Scott Grimes) major milestones. But Steve is past wanting Stan to make up for it, only being interested in pretty girls. Thus, Stan decides to use a busty blond avatar named Phyllis ((Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ringer) to get close to Steve. This works, until, annoyed by Phyllis's lack of physical intimacy, Steve's head is turned by an interested geeky redhead (Alyson Hannigan, How I Met Your Mother), and Stan must contemplate unspeakable acts to win his http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/848/american-dad-faces-virtual-instanity/ 2011-11-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      ABC's Private Practice: The Intervention is the name given to the final two fall episodes, "Who We Are" and "The Breaking Point." The first hour is almost all about an intervention for Amelia (Caterina Scorsone), who has gone off the deep end with her drugs, has been missing for twelve days, and also found time get engaged. Everyone bonds together to try to convince her to go to rehab. At first, she won't, but after her fiance dies of an overdose, she changes her mind. The other episode finds Addison (Kate Walsh) trying multiple times to get pregnant, Cooper (Paul Adelstein) http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/843/an-intervention-for-private-practice/ 2011-11-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      The fall finale of FOX's Fringe is called "Wallflower." Pigmentation is being stolen from bodies, and the Fringe team tracks the bad guy, who is unintentionally killing himself in his attempts to be visible. You see, he was the subject of many a lab experiment, and now he is transparent, with barely at outline evident. Nor can he trust anyone after the trauma. He escapes, but dies before he can continue to hurt people. Also, Olivia (Anna Torv) keeps having severe migraines, Lincoln (Seth Gabel) can't sleep because of the new weirdness in his life, and Peter (Joshua Jackson) investigates http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/844/the-wallflower-eludes-fringe/ 2011-11-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com     This week on NBC's Chuck, "Chuck Versus the Business Trip," Beckman (Bonita Friedericy) is able to remove the Intersect from Morgan's (Joshua Gomez) brain, so they tell Decker (Richard Burgi) to take Morgan off of his hit list. Decker does, but reveals that the Viper, a super deadly killer, cannot be called off. Chuck (Zachary Levi) puts himself up as bait at a Buy More retreat, and thinks he catches the Viper. But the real Viper is Jane (Catherine Dent, The Shield), who seems innocent enough at first, and she is barely stopped in time. Casey kills Jane and her http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/845/chuck-versus-the-business-trip-finds-work-following-chuck-home/ 2011-11-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Borgen, airing on Link TV in the states, continues with "100 Days." An anonymous source within the military leaks classified information involving the CIA and illegal detainees to Katrine (Birgitte Hjort Sørensen). Thule Air Base in Greenland is the site of the controverst, and Katrine takes the story to the airwaves. For Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen), who is looking for a win to promote now that she is hitting one hundred days in office, the timing couldn't be worse. Nyborg goes to Greenland and discovers the root cause of much misery, vowing to help as much as she can. This http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/840/100-days-milestone-hit-by-borgen/ 2011-11-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition" jumps into an issue the fans debate all the time about CBS's The Big Bang Theory: what is going on with Amy (Mayim Bialik) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons)??? Leonard (Johnny Galecki) approaches Sheldon at the behest of Stuart (Kevin Sussman) to see if its OK for Stuart to ask Amy out. Sheldon is completely indifferent, and continues to be after Amy accepts, despite everyone else's worry over Sheldon's feelings. However, it's all a show, As Sheldon cannot help but crash the date in order to make Amy officially his girlfriend.      Comments over the past year, especially http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/829/the-flaming-spittoon-acquisition-adds-to-the-big-bang-theory/ 2011-11-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com     "Mash Off," the newest episode of FOX's Glee, finds Shelby (Idina Menzel) and Will (Matthew Morrison) staging a Mash Off to encourage friendly competition, rather than animosity, between the two glee clubs. Santana (Naya Rivera), unhappy with the whole thing, picks on Finn (Cory Monteith) more than usual. But then Finn snaps and loudly tells Santana she needs to come out of the closet. The wrong person overhears the exhange, and soon an opponent of Sue's (Jane Lynch) Congressional run puts Santana in an attack ad. Kurt (Chris Colfer), on the other hand, runs a clean campaign in his bid http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/823/glee-engages-in-a-mash-off/ 2011-11-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      A neighbor's house burns to the ground on this week's Modern Family on ABC. Claire (Julie Bowen) springs into action, rallying the family to help out "After the Fire." Manny (Rico Rodriguez) and Luke (Nolan Gould) steal a toy going to the fire victims. Cam (Eric Stonestreet) practically demands to drive a big truck, but proves he shouldn't. Jay (Ed O'Neill) hurts his back, and while Phil (Ty Burrell) is massaging him, Jay blurts out "I love you." But Phil doesn't hear Jay, because he is reading a text concerning an exciting job offer. Claire gets jealous that Gloria (Sofia Vergara) http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/825/after-the-fire-on-modern-family/ 2011-11-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Deb (Jennifer Carpenter) breaks the news to Dexter (Michael C. Hall) that Trinity Killer has struck again, murdering his wife and daughter, in this week's Dexter on Showtime. That doesn't sound quite right to Dexter, since he murdered Trinity. So with the ghost of his brother, Brian (Christian Camargo), in tow, Dexter heads to Nebrasks after Jonah (Brando Eaton, The Secret Life of the American Teenager), Trinity's son who somehow "survived" the attack. Jonah did hurt his mother while arguing with her immediately following his sister's suicide, and wants Dexter to take his life. Since Jonah is not a monster, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/822/dexter-finds-self-in-nebraska/ 2011-11-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Chuck Versus the Frosted Tips," the latest installment of NBC's Chuck, is a showcase of Morgan (Joshua Gomez) in disaster mode. He not only frosts his tips, as the title suggests, but dumps (Mekenna Melvin) in a text message, quits the Buy More, and steals Carmichael Industries's CIA mission to give to Verbanski (Carrie-Anne Moss). It's Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) that thinks something might be seriously wrong with Morgan, while Chuck (Zachary Levi) just assumes ego has gotten the best of Morgan. But when it is proven that a malfuncitoning Intersect is to blame, Sarah, Chuck, and Casey (Adam Baldwin) must http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/818/high-stakes-in-chuck-versus-the-frosted-tips/ 2011-11-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Dark Was the Night" is the ninth and finale episode of ABC's Grey's Anatomy fall run. Things go wrong for all the main characters in the depressing hour. Avery (Jesse Williams) and Callie (Sara Ramirez) are shocked to learn that a patient they operated on has complications because of them. Derek (Patrick Dempsey) and Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) are told to move on, as they will not be getting baby Zola back. Then Meredith and Alex (Justin Chambers) get hit by a vehicle while sitting in a broken town ambulance with a baby. Lastly, the biggest thing is that Cristina (Sandra http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/819/greys-anatomy-finale-dark-was-the-night/ 2011-11-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "The First Time" one has sex is supposed to be special. As FOX's Glee tackles this topic for Blaine (Darren Criss) and Rachel (Lea Michele), the results are mixed. Finn (Cory Monteith) doesn't want to be used by Rachel, and Kurt (Chris Colfer) is less than impressed with Blaine's lack of romance. But, of course, things work out for both couples, who end up doing the dirty deed by hour's end. Who's next to cross that line? Might it be Coach Beiste (Dot-Marie Jones), who is surprisingly still a virgin, but current being wooed by Cooter Menkins (Eric Bruskotter, Six http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/808/the-first-time-for-glee/ 2011-11-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "Cherokee Rose," the newst episode of AMC's The Walking Dead, finds Rick (Andrew Lincoln) pleading with a very reluctant Hershel (Scott Wilson, CSI) to let the group settle on his farm. He says he'll think about it. But does one want to settle in a place where a zombie is found in a well? Well, Glenn (Steven Yeun) may still want to, after a steamy encounter with cute farmer's daughter, Maggie (Lauren Cohan, Chuck, The Vampire Diaries), even after she tells him it's a one-time thing. Anyway, now that the survivors (temporarily, at least) have a base, a thorough search http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/803/cherokee-rose-a-metaphor-on-the-walking-dead/ 2011-11-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "The Confession" brings things back to normal on FOX's House. Taub (Peter Jacobson) and Chase (Jesse Spencer) return to the team just in time to treat a small town hero named Bob (Jamie Bamber, Battlestar Galactica, Law & Order: UK). Sadly, Bob becomes much less beloved when, before letting his neighbors test themselves to donate a piece of a liver to him, he confesses cheating them, and even murder. Chase doesn't think this sounds quite right, and discovers that Bob's "confessions" are a symptom of his illness, and not even true.      It is fantastic to have House settle back into http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/805/the-confession-stirs-up-settled-house/ 2011-11-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "The Good Solider," the newest installment of Showtime's Homeland, finds Carrie (Claire Danes) managing to get polygraphs ordered for anyone who talked to the now-dead prisoner. Saul (Mandy Patinkin) fails the test, but chalks it up to the emotional impact of his wife, Mira (Sarita Choudhury, Kings), leaving him, and passes a retake. The focus of Carrie's play, though, is Brody (Damian Lewis), who passes, put also lies and tricks the machine. Carrie knows this, but it would get her into big trouble to reveal that she engaged in drunken sex with Brody, so she cannot expose him.      The delicate http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/798/the-good-solider-is-a-debatable-label-for-homeland/ 2011-11-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Sports kept FOX's Fringe off the air too long, but rather than rant about it, let's focus on "Novation," the fantastic return episode. No one is quite sure what to do with Peter (Joshua Jackson), since they don't remember him, so they lock him up. Peter asks for Walter (John Noble), but their reconnection doesn't go too well, as Walter's guilt keeps him from being happy about Peter's appearance. Then shapeshifters pop back up, and Peter proves his value, showing Fringe Divison how to track them. The team rescues the scientists the shifters kidnap, but the shifter gets away with http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/795/fringe-gets-a-double-novation/ 2011-11-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Chuck online.      "Chuck Versus the Bearded Bandit," this week's installment of NBC's Chuck, finds Chuck (Zachary Levi) tasked by Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) with being Morgan's (Joshua Gomez) new handler. Morgan thinks this is just another way to sideline him, hiding the abilities that he wants to show off. When their latest client, Karl Sneijder (Jeff Fahey, Lost), tries to kill his brother Wesley (Justin Hartley, Smallville). whom he hires the team to "rescue," Morgan becomes even more erratic, and goes after Karl himself. Chuck follows, and both end up captured. With little http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/794/heroism-pondered-in-chuck-versus-the-bearded-bandit/ 2011-11-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Parenthood online.      The newst Parenthood from NBC is "Forced Family Fun." Kristina (Monica Potter) worries that her clan is growing apart, so she forces a night spent together. But when they complain, she drives off, leaving them stranded in the street. Jabbar (Tyree Brown) plays with Dr. Joe (DB Woodside), much to Crosby's (Dax Shepard) dismay. Julia (Erika Christensen) catches Zoe (Rosa Salazar) eating sushi, and frets over how to broach healthy pregnancy diet without offending. Sarah (Lauren Graham) is there for Seth (John Corbett) during rehab.      Kristina is right that a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/782/parenthood-engages-in-forced-family-fun/ 2011-11-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Glee online.      "Pot O' Gold" marks the long-awaited return of FOX's Glee.  The new Irish exchange student living with Brittany (Heather Morris), Rory Flanagan (The Glee Project co-winner Damian McGinty), just wants to fit in. Santana (Naya Rivera) uses the fact that Brit believes he is a leprechaun to manipulate her into switching to Shelby's (Idina Menzel) glee club. This brings the total defectors of the New Directions to three. Santana and Brittany, now happy girlfriends, leave poor Rory alone, until Finn (Cory Monteith)  decides he might be an asset http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/779/glee-searches-in-vains-for-a-pot-o-gold/ 2011-11-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Desperate Housewives online.      Just in time for Halloween, ghosts invade ABC's Desperate Housewives in "Witch's Lament." Bree (Marcia Cross) learns that Ben (Charles Mesure) plans to build condos on the site where the girls buried Alejandro (Tony Plana, who also directed this episode), so she recruits Gaby (Eva Longoria) and Lynette (Felicity Huffman) to help her move the body. At the same time, Carlos's (Ricardo Antonio Chavira) alcoholism worsens. He goes to an AA meeting and meets Allen (Scott Lawrence, JAG), who offers to be his sponsor, but Carlos is still in http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/774/desperate-housewives-terrified-of-witchs-lament/ 2011-11-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of The Vampire Diaries online.      "Ghost World" is the latest episode of the CW's The Vampire Diaries. Mason Lockwood (Taylor Kinney), whom Damon (Ian Somerhalder) killed last year, surprise the vampire by showing up and attacking him. And Mason is just one of many ghosts returning to Mystic Falls, including the evil tomb vampires. Lexi (Arielle Kebbel) is actually a happy sight for Elena (Nina Dobrev), who needs her help to fix Stefan (Paul Wesley), still anti-humanity because of Klaus (Joseph Morgan). Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) grows even closer to deceased ex Anna http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/767/ghost-world-haunts-the-vampire-diaries/ 2011-10-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Borgen online.      Borgen is a Danish series, also known as Government internationally. The first episode, "Decency in the Middle," finds Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knundsen, Proof, Juletestamentet), the Moderate Party leader, unable to continue her party's support of the Labour Party's Michael Laugesen (Peter Mygind, 4-stjerners middag, Anna Pihl) after he makes racist remarks. The other serious opponent to Laugesen, Liberal Party incumbent Lars Hesselboe (Søren Spanning, Park Road, At the Faber) appears dirty, too, when Birgitte's "spin-doctor," Kasper Juul (Johan Philip Asbæk, R, Worlds Apart), finds an incriminating receipt. Birgitte refuses http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/768/decency-in-the-middle-foreign-in-borgen/ 2011-10-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Chuck online.      The fifth and final season of NBC's Chuck begins with "Chuck Versus the Zoom." Now that Morgan (Joshua Gomez) has the Intersect, Chuck (Zachary Levi) starts to feel useless, a fact evident on their latest missions. The problem is, Chuck fears that he cannot make Carmichael Industris suceed without having the Intersect themself. Soon, Chuck must find his inner hero to save the day. That doesn't stop Clyde Decker (Richard Burgi) from freezing all of the group's funds, leaving the profits of Buy More as their only source of finance. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/769/season-premiere-finds-chuck-versus-the-zoom/ 2011-10-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Grimm online.       NBC's Grimm premiered last nigh. The "Pilot" begins with Detective Nick Burckhardt (David Giuntoli, Priveleged) confused at the sight of people transforming into monsters. Before he checks himself into the hospital though, his Aunt Marie (Kate Burton, Grey's Anatomy, Law & Order), who raised him and is now dying, tells Nick he is the latest in a long line of 'Grimms,' whose job it is to hunt supernatural baddies. Nick is getting the powers now because she won't be around much longer. The new ability is necessary immediately, as Nick http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/757/grimm-lives-up-to-its-title/ 2011-10-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy online.      Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) is the new chief on ABC's Grey's Anatomy. His latest task? Putting together a softball team that stands a chance against a rival hospital. Luckily, Henry (Scott Foley) is willing to assist, so Hunt temporarily hires him. Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Bailey's (Chandra Wilson) simmering hostility erupts during the game, much to their teammates' dismay. Cristina (Sandra Oh) learns how to be a team player. Also, Alex (Justin Chambers) does his best to help speed up Zola's adoption, Derek (Patrick Dempsey) performs a brain surgery http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/758/greys-anatomy-says-put-me-in-coach/ 2011-10-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of How I Met Your Mother online.      "Noretta," the latest episode of How I Met Your Mother, deals with the chemistry of relationships. When Barney's (Neil Patrick Harris) brother, James (Wayne Brady), comes to town, he is disgusted at how similar Barney's girlfriend, Nora (Nazanin Boniadi), is to Loretta (Frances Conroy, Six Feet Under, American Horror Story), their mother. Kevin (Kal Penn) proclaims this as normal, and says that people often end up with romantic partners similar to one's parents. Sexual attraction dissipates among all the couples as this sinks in.      Is http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/750/noretta-comes-to-how-i-met-your-mother/ 2011-10-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Boss online.      Politics in Chicago is the topic of Starz's newest drama, Boss. The first episode, entitled "Listen," finds Mayor Tom Kane (Kelsey Grammer, Frasier, Back to You) giving a rousing speech about working against corruption. Too bad it's all talk. Kane has a terrible disease that will render him unable to perform the duties of his office, and he is hiding it. And this speech is made at a rally to support Governor McCall Cullen (Francis Guinan, Hannibal), even though Kane is preparing Ben Zajac (Jeff Hephner, Hellcats) to run against http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/747/the-boss-demands-that-you-listen/ 2011-10-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Once Upon a Time online,      Fairytales are brought ABC's Once Upon a Time. In the "Pilot," Prince Charming (Josh Dallas, Thor) and Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin, Big Love, Ed) have their nuptials interrupted by the Evil Queen's (Lana Parrilla, Swingtown, Miami Medical) threats of a horrible curse. Happy endings come to an end as her delivers, though Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle, SGU Stargate Universe) helps the couple save their daughter. The young girl, Emma, is destined to be the savior when she turns 28, and can, thanks to Geppetto's (Tony Amendola, Stargate SG-1) http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/748/once-upon-a-time-begins-a-fantastical-story/ 2011-10-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Bones online.      Bones The Complete Sixth Season is now available to buy on DVD and Blu-ray. "The Mastodon in the Room" begins year six with the team split for many months. They recombine to assist Cam (Tamara Taylor) with a vital case. Brennan (Emily Deschanel) realizes during her time apart that she'd like to be with Booth (David Boreanaz). Sadly, it may be too late, as Booth is now with Hannah (Katheryn Winnick). A jilted Sweets (John Francis Daley) also rebuffs Daisy's (Carlo Gallo) attempts at reconnection. The team soon realizes that, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/749/bones-the-complete-sixth-season-now-on-bluray/ 2011-10-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of The Secret Circle online.      A new addition joins the cast of the CW's The Secret Circle  in this week's episode, "Wake." As the characters mourn Nick's (Louis Hunter) passing, especially the in-love-with-Nick Melissa (Jessica Parker Kennedy), Jake (Chris Zylka, 10 Things I Hate About You) older brother comes to town. He isn't warmly welcomed, as he previously stole from Adam's (Thomas Dekker) family and broke Faye's (Phoebe Tonkin) heart. But Cassie (Britt Robertson) soon appreciates Jake when he saves her from a witch hunter. Unknown to the other members of the Circle, who http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/738/the-secret-circle-holds-a-wake/ 2011-10-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Person of Interest online.      In the newest installment of CBS's Person of Interest, entitled "Judgment," Finch (Michael Emerson) gets the social security number of a judge (David Costabile, Breaking Bad, Damages). While Reese (Jim Caviezel) is still trying to figure out the threat, the judge's young boy is abducted. Reese goes to the judge and offers to help him, much to Finch's dismay, who would rather Reese help from the shadows. The random demanded for his son is that the judge throw a case. Reese isn't able to stop the case from http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/743/person-of-interest-makes-a-judgment/ 2011-10-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of The Walking Dead online.      AMC"s drama The Walking Dead was a smash hit in season one, but its season two premiere, "What Lies Ahead," smashed basic cable viewing records. In the season premiere, Dale's (Jeffrey DeMunn) RV needs repairs while the central characters are en route to an army base, and happen to be in the middle of a swarm of wrecked vehicles. Dale begins repairs, while the rest gather supplies, but they are surprised by a huge herd of zombies. Most of the group hides, but a terrified Sophia (Madison Lintz) runs http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/734/the-walking-dead-looks-to-what-lies-ahead/ 2011-10-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Ringer online.      The mysteries in the CW's new Ringer only get deeper after six hours. The latest episode, "The Poor Kids Do It Everyday," finds both Henry (Kristoffer Polaha) and Bridget (Sarah Michelle Gellar) suspicious of each other when Gemma (Tara Summers) goes missing. Things get more complicated when Bridget adds her fingerprints to the crime scene evidence that Henry discards, then anonymously phones the cops. Additionally, Machado (Nestor Carbonell) has no luck in his seach for the also missing Malcolm (Mike Colter), and Mr. Carpenter (Jason Dohring, Veronica Mars, Moonlight) helps http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/735/ringer-claims-that-the-poor-kids-do-it-everyday/ 2011-10-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Hart of Dixie online.      "In Havoc and in Heat," this week's installment of the CW's Hart of Dixie, brings a miserable heat wave to the town of Bluebell, which leads the citizens to lose inhibition. Even new doc in town Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson) can't resist for long, giving into a sexual attraction towards Wade Kinsella (Wilson Bethel) that she's been denying. Lavon Hayes (Cress Williams) is on the mind of Lemon Breeland (Jaime King) once Lemon sees him with another woman. This complicates Lemon's evening of trying to impress George Tucker's http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/730/in-havoc-and-in-heat-in-hart-of-dixie/ 2011-10-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Terra Nova online now.      "The Runaway" is this week's episode of FOX's Terra Nova. An apparent runaway orphan Sixer (Emelia Burns) is found in the forest near the settlement. Jim (Jason O'Mara) and Elisabeth (Shelley Conn) take her into their home. They aren't happy when Sixer leader Mira (Christine Adams) shows up and demands the girl back, holding Alicia (Simone Kessell) as a hostage. Weirdly, though, Mira returns Alicia unharmed, and leaves without the girl, who says she wants to stay.      Taylor (Stephen Lang) grows suspicious, and they catch the girl trying http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/731/terra-nova-finds-the-runaway/ 2011-10-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Psych online.      To kick off season six on USA's Psych, Shawn (James Roday) rescues Darth Vader. Which is appropriate, since the episode title is "Shawn Rescues Darth Vader." If one wants to get technical about it, Shawn sneaks into the residence of a diplomat to retrieve a kid's rare Darth Vader action figure. However, the toy is overshadowed by the dead body that Shawn discovers. Faking his way as usual, Shawn is soon over his head. Lassiter (Timothy Omundson) gets close to confirming that Shawn isn't a real psychic while outing Shawn and http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/724/psych-finds-that-shawn-rescues-darth-vader/ 2011-10-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Enlightened is a new dramedy from HBO. In the "Pilot," Amy Jellicoe (Laura Dern, Jurassic Park) meltsdown majorly at work. Damon (Chip Esten, Big Love), her co-worker / lover, just dumped her, so that might have something to do with it. Plus, she is losing her position. To recover, Amy stays at a clinic in Hawaii for three months, the goal being to achieve inner peace. Her positive attitude stays with her when she returns home, and scores a new position with her company, who are afraid she might sue them if they fire her.      It's hard to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/720/enlightened-is-a-state-of-mind/ 2011-10-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Breaking Bad online.      "Face Off," the double-meaning title of the fourth season finale of AMC's Breaking Bad, features the big showdown fans have been waiting for. Jesse (Aaron Paul) suggests involving Tio Hector (Mark Margolis) in his and Walt's (Bryan Cranston) plan to take out Gus (Giancarlo Esposito). Hector is more than willing to assist, even volunteering to be a suicide bomb. This works well, and Walt comes to Jesse's rescue, as the younger partner is being held at gun point. They burn down Gus's superlab. But, big twist, unknown to Jesse, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/718/breaking-bad-engages-in-final-face-off/ 2011-10-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of The Good Wife online.      "Get a Room" is the latest installment of CBS's The Good Wife. Will (Josh Charles) and Alicia (Julianna Margulies) face off in mediation against Celeste (Lisa Edelstein, House, American Dad!), a former fling of Will's. While Celeste tries to use her history with Will to get the upper hand, Alicia plays a little more against the rules than normal. She earns the mediator's sympathy, and they win, but she feels bad when the mediator exposes her legal, but sneaky, tactics.       Alicia is a "good girl," as well as http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/715/the-good-wife-must-get-a-room/ 2011-10-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Modern Family online now.      Modern Family The Complete Second Season is now out on Blu-ray and DVD from FOX Studios. The release contains all twenty-four episodes that aired last season, spread across three discs. There are many great episodes, but some of the favorites include "Bixby's Back," a Valentine's Day special, "Someone to Watch Over Lily," where Cam (season one Emmy winner Eric Stonestreet) and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) pick a guardian for Lily, and "Strangers on a Treadmill," which finds Mitchell and Claire (Emmy winner Julie Bowen) making a deal to break hard http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/708/bluray-now-boasts-modern-family-the-complete-second-season/ 2011-10-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Click here to watch the latest episode of Free Agents online.      Last night, the original, 2009 British series Free Agents premiered their first two (of six) episodes on BBC America. The story is this: Alex (Stephen Mangan, Episodes, Billy Elliot), a depressed, sad, man going through a messy divorce ends up sleeping with his co-worker Helen (Sharon Horgan, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret). Helen isn't exactly stable herself, her guy having died two years ago, and she avoiding commitment ever since. But she's drawn to Alex, and even though she kicks him out of bed when he weeps, an http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/709/original-free-agents-arrives-stateside/ 2011-10-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      The first season Glee episode "Laryngitis" actually reaches a little far with the title. Rachel (Lea Michele) does, indeed, have laryngitis, that is, when she's not calling it tonsillitis. And for some reason, she can talk fine; her singing is just out of tune. So somehow that thin excuse justifies titling the episode "Laryngitis," but don't ask me to explain how.      Now, of course, Rachel goes into full fledged panic. Why wouldn't she? Singing is the talent she prides herself on the most. It's her life, and the key to her planned future. Which is why Finn http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/628/glee-gets-a-case-of-laryngitis/ 2011-10-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of House online.      Season eight of FOX's House finds Dr. House (Hugh Laurie) in jail. In "Twenty Vicodin," he is about to be paroled after serving a year, but only if he can stay out of trouble for the next five days. That gets difficult when a medical mystery arises, as House can't stay away, no matter how much he has sworn off medicine. He helps the reluctant prison doctor, Jessica Adams (Odette Annable, Breaking In, Brothers & Sisters), and they end up solving the case together after she trusts him, which gets http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/699/twenty-vicodin-for-house/ 2011-10-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Glee online.      FOX's Glee's third episode of the third season, "Asian F," comes just before taking three weeks off. This week, Mercedes (Amber Riley) battles Rachel (Lea Michele) for the part of Maria in West Side Story. They are double cast, which does not sit well with Mercedes. Her anger continues in booty camp, causing Will (Matthew Morrison) to kick her out of the New Directions. Luckily for Mercedes, Shelby (Idina Menzel) now has a rival group at McKinly. Will goes against Emma's (Jayma Mays) wishes when he invites parents to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/700/glee-does-not-get-an-asian-f/ 2011-10-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of American Horror Story online.      American Horror Story has been called the opposite of Glee. The comparison is drawn because both series were created by the same guys,  Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Before the "Pilot" begins, Vivian Harmon (Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights) gave birth to a baby that she was seven months pregnant with. To cope with the tradgedy, she gets a dog.      Feeling rejected, Vivian's husband Ben (Dylan McDermott,The Practice) cheats on her, and she catches him. To try to save their crumbling marriage, they move across the country and http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/703/american-horror-story-worth-screaming-at/ 2011-10-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Warehouse 13 online.     "Emily Lake" and "Stand" make up a very special, two hour season finale of SyFy's Warehouse 13. Walter Sykes (Anthony Michael Hall, Dead Zone, The Breakfast Club) goes after H.G. Wells (Jaime Murray), who the team finds living as another person entirely. Sykes gets H.G., and restores her memories. The gang also learn that Jinks (Aaron Ashmore) is working for Sykes, albeit while undercover for the Regents. Sykes kills Jinks and destroys the Warehouse. Soon after, Frederic (CCH Pounder) turns to dust. Now Artie (Saul Rubinek) may hold the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/704/a-stand-for-warehouse-13-concerning-emily-lake/ 2011-10-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Hung online.      "Don't Give Up on Detroit or Hung Like a Horse" is the third season premiere of HBO's Hung. Happiness Consultants is now a successful storefront for Tanya (Jane Adams) and Ray (Thomas Jane). But their success didn't appear overnight. Most of the episode is told in flashback, showing how Tanya and Ray convince a couple of bank employees to grant them a small business loan to get started. But now that it all works out, Ray fixes his burnt house, among other things. Jessica (Anne Heche) may or may not http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/693/dont-give-up-on-detroit-or-hung-like-a-horse-marks-the-return-of-hung/ 2011-10-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Homeland online.      Only two days ago, Showtime launched an awesome new drama called Homeland. Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis, Life, Band of Brothers) is found after going missing eight years ago while serving as a Marine in Iraq. The hero returns home, much to the delight of everyone. Well, almost everyone. Jessica (Morena Baccarin, V, Firefly), his wife, seems happy to see him, but was just beginning to move on. And Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes, Temple Grandin, My So-Called Life) is a CIA anaylyst who suspects that Brody might just possible be a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/694/is-our-homeland-secure/ 2011-10-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Dexter online.      Season six of Showtime's Dexter premieres with "Those Kinds of Things." The titular character (Michael C. Hall) works on getting his young son, Harrison (Evan George Kruntchev and Luke Andrew Kruntchev), into an excellent pre-school. Dexter considers a religious school, but finds himself lacking in any sort of faith. He doesn't even know how to begin to think about such things. Dexter also goes to his big twentieth high school reunion to kill an abusive husband, but finds the job hard to do when he is suddenly very popular among http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/692/those-kinds-of-things-plague-dexter/ 2011-10-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Nikita online.      The second episode of CW's Nikita is "Falling Ash." Nikita (Maggie Q) doesn't agree when Michael (Shane West) wants to clean up an old Division mess, rather than continue to hunt Oversight, but goes along with it. They soon find that Owen (Devon Sawa) is working the same case, hoping that it might hold the answer of breaking his Division-caused addiction. Also, Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca) is sent to look into it by Amanda (Melinda Clarke). When Alex declines to take a shot at Nikita, she raises Pierce's (new series regular Dillon http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/689/nikita-ducks-falling-ash/ 2011-10-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Awkward. online.      The season one finale MTV's Awkward. "Fateful," finds Jenna (Ashley Richards) giving up on Matty (Beau Mirchoff) acting how she'd like him to. Instead, she goes to formal with Jake (Brett Davern), which makes Matty just a little too late when he tries a big apology to her. Sadie (Molly Tarlov) repeatedly goes too far, motivating Valerie (Desi Lydic) to stand up to her, and Lissa (Greer Grammer) to end their friendship. Lissa is upset because Sadie cost her Jake. Tamara (Jillian Rose Reed) the drama queen finally gets what she wants from Ricky http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/684/awkward-finale-is-fateful/ 2011-10-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Private Practice online.      "God Laughs," ABC's Private Practice premiere, begins and ends with Addison (Kate Walsh) talking to a therapist about her life. Of special note, the discovery that her new fertility doctor is recently object of flirtation, Jake (new series regular Benjamin Bratt, Law & Order, The Cleaner). But the main story is about Pete's (Tim Daly) heart attack, Violet's (Amy Brenneman) decision to return to Peter, and her conversation with an abused wife, and Amelia's (Caterina Scorsone) boozy night.      The title is excellent, even if you do not http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/685/private-practice-thinks-that-god-laughs/ 2011-10-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Glee online.      "I Am Unicorn" is this week's installment of FOX's Glee. Auditions begin for West Side Story after the directors are announced. Kurt (Chris Colfer) has his heart set on playing Tony, but suddenly has to worry about being manly enough for the role. Shelby Corcoran (Idina Menzel) takes a part-time job teaching at McKinley, which will have major implications for Quinn (Dianna Agron), Puck (Mark Salling), and Rachel (Lea Michele), for obvious reasons. Those members of the New Directions who struggle with dancing (cough) Finn (Cory Monteith) (cough) will be http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/675/i-am-unicorn-applies-to-glee/ 2011-09-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Terra Nova online.      "Genesis", FOX's Terra Nova premiere, starts the series in 2149, on an Earth that humans have nearly killed. But there's hope! A new colony is formed in an alternate timeline about 85 million years in the past. Among the recruited for the tenth wave of settlers is Dr. Elisabeth Shannon (Shelley Conn, Mistressess). Elisabeth decides this is the perfect oppourtunity to reunite her family, split because her husband, Jim (Jason O'Mara, Life on Mars), has been in jail. He's not a violent criminal, but attacked some cops when their http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/677/terra-novas-genesis/ 2011-09-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of The Good Wife online.      "A New Day' marks the start of season three for CBS's The Good Wife. Alicia (Julianna Margulies) has a new haircut and a new office that bring her lots of confidence. But perhaps too much so, as she allows Cary (Matt Czuchry) to trick her into helping her hate crime-accused client face a murder trial. This sure doesn't seem like Peter's (Chris Noth) clean office philosophy that he spouts to Cary and staff. Alicia does manage to win the trial, but not on her own. Kalinda (Archie Panjabi) http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/669/the-good-wife-embraces-a-new-day/ 2011-09-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Desperate Housewives online now.      "Secrets That I Never Want to Know" is the final season premiere ever of ABC's Desperate Housewives. Agreeing to keep Carlos's (Ricardo Antonio Chavira) killing of Alejandro (Tony Plana) a secret has different effects on each of the five people that know about it. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) seeks physical comfort in the arms of her estranged husband, Tom (Doug Savant). Bree (Marcia Cross) gently tries to find out what Chuck (Jonathan Cake) might know.  Susan (Teri Hatcher) isolates herself from Mike (James Denton) and her friends. Carlos seeks absolution http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/670/secrets-that-i-never-want-to-know-about-desperate-housewives/ 2011-09-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy online.      "Free Falling" and "She's Gone" open up the eighth season of ABC's Grey's Anatomy. Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) faces losing her job, her baby, and her husband, all because of screwing up Derek's (Patrick Dempsey) clinical trial. Richard (James Pickens Jr.) tries to help her, since she did it for him, and Alex (Justin Chambers) does, too, but because he's the one that got her caught. Bailey (Chandra Wilson) is frustrated by residents who will not stop fighting. Owen (Kevin McKidd) contemplates if freezing Cristina (Sandra Oh) out was the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/664/free-falling-greys-anatomy-means-shes-gone/ 2011-09-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Community online.      "Biology 101" kicks off season three of NBC's Community. The class referred to in the title is taught by Professor Kane (Michael Kenneth Williams, Boardwalk Empire, The Wire), who takes an instant disliking to Jeff (Joel McHale) and kicks him out. Pierce (Chevy Chase), who wanted to get back in the group, takes his spot, and thus succeeds. In the end, though, Pierce and Jeff help each other out, and both get to be included, keeping them around the "magic table" for another year.      It's nice to have Pierce back. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/666/biology-101-new-class-on-community/ 2011-09-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of The Office online.      "The List" is the season premire of NBC's The Office, and finally answers the question of who will be the new boss. Failed salesman Andy (Ed Helms) wins the title, with new CEO Robert California (James Spader, Boston Legal) moving into the conference room, and continuing the management shakeup. Robert leaves a list of the staff lying around, and they find it, worrying why they have been placed into two columns. Robert takes one column to lunch, and those left behind begin to panic. But Andy proves that he http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/660/the-list-must-include-the-office/ 2011-09-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Parks and Recreation online.      "I'm Leslie Knope" kicks off the fourth season of NBC's Parks and Recreation. Leslie (Amy Poehler) hesitates dumping Ben (Adam Scott), even though she must, as her campaign begins. An e-mailed penis photo causes a scandal. After Ann (Rashida Jones) diagnoses an illness from the picture, she gets more pics of genitalia that she could ever want. Ron (Nick Offerman) svoids Tammy One (Patricia Clarkson, Six Feet Under, Shutter Island), who is going to audit him, by hiding in his cabin. April (Aubrey Plaza) fills in for Ron, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/661/im-leslie-knope-on-parks-and-recreation/ 2011-09-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Modern Family online.       Back to back episodes begin the third season of ABC's Modern Family. In the first one, the family vacations at a "Dude Ranch," where Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) tries to figure out if he is manly enough to raise a son. Phil (Ty Burrell, who recently won an Emmy for the role) continues his quest to prove to Jay (Ed O'Neill) that he's a catch of a son-in-law. Dylan (Reid Ewing) proposes to Haley (Sarah Hyland), driving Claire (Julie Bowen, who also won the Emmy) absolutely bonkers when she http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/657/modern-family--dude-ranch-when-good-kids-go-bad/ 2011-09-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Hawaii Five-0 online.      "Ha'i'ole" is the second season premiere of CBS's Hawaii Five-0. Picking up a mere one week after last May's finale, the episoe finds Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) behind bars. Then old foe Victor Hesse (James Masters) stabs him, not to kill McGarrett, but to give him the opporunity to escape and kill Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos), before the boss has them both whacked. A wounded McGarrett goes on the run. His friends come to his aid, of course, and manage to not only clear McGarrett's name, but get Five-0 http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/654/hawaii-five0-begins-season-two-with-haiole/ 2011-09-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      "The Purple Piano Project" kicks off the third season of FOX's Glee. Will (Matthew Morrison) reveals a trio of purple pianos that he will periodically drop different places in the school, expecting the kids to perform when they see them. The hope is that these impromptu sing-alongs will uncover other music obsessed students they can recruit. The New Directions are down a few members, since Quinn (Dianna Agron) went bad girl, and others moved away or quit. Sue (Jane Lynch) decides her best chance at winning a Congressional seat is to campaign against funding arts education. She also assigns her http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/655/the-purple-piano-project-invades-glee/ 2011-09-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Raising Hope online.      "Prodigy" is the name of the second season premiere of FOX's Raising Hope. That's appropriate, because Jimmy (Lucas Neff) finds a video that reveals he was once a singing and piano playing genius. But through happenstance, he has forgotten all about the period of his life, and the skills he once had after being tutored by MawMaw (Cloris Leachman). Both of his parents feel guilty for different reasons. Burt (Garret Dillahunt) is the one that caused the brain damage, though he has never told anyone. Virginia (Martha Plimpton) pushed http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/656/raising-hope-uncovers-a-prodigy/ 2011-09-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of How I Met Your Mother online.      "The Best Man" is the first of two new episodes presented by CBS for the season premiere of How I Met Your Mother. The gang attends Punchy's (Chris Romano) wedding, which Marshall (Jason Segel) ruins after drinking a lot. No, he's not becoming an alcoholic. Instead, Lily (Alyson Hannigan) is pregnant, and they worry about telling everyone too soon. Though after oogling over everyone else's infants, they can't resists. Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) considers the best way to ask Nora (Nazanin Boniadi) to give him another http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/650/how-i-met-your-mother-double-premiere-the-best-man-and-the-naked-truth/ 2011-09-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Castle online.      Beckett (Stana Katic) was shot in the season finale of ABC's Castle last May. "Rise," the fourth season premiere, begins immediately where season three leaves off. Castle (Nathan Fillion) rides to the hospital with Beckett, but when she wakes up, days later, she tells Castle she doesn't want to see him for awhile. Reluctantly, he agrees to it.      Three months later, Beckett returns to work, having never called Castle. While investigating a new murder, she learns that Castle is working tirelessly to find her shooter, though the new boss, Captain http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/651/castle-looks-to-rise/ 2011-09-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com       It's with both relief and sadness that the summer of season one Glee reviews reaches its end. The finale of the FOX hit, "Journey to Regionals," sometimes wrongly listed as "Journey," is just about a perfect episode, and thus provides some closure for the first year of one of television's most original series. In the finale, the New Directions compete in Regionals, and lose. Romance is explored, and a baby finds a loving home. Sue (Jane Lynch) even grows a heart. In the tradition of Glee, it's all about feeling good.      As the episode begins, the New http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/641/glee-finishes-the-journey-to-regionals/ 2011-09-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Now out on DVD, as of today, is ABC's Castle: The Complete Third Season. Last night was the season four premiere, but if you are behind, it's time to catch up. These are the episodes that originally aired from last September until May. There are a bunch of stand-alone cases, of course, as is expected from Castle, but there are also some really meaty episodes that play into longer story lines. In short, it's a solid season.      As season two ends, Castle (Nathan Fillion) heads off to the Hamptons with his second wife and editor, Gina (Monet Mazur), just after http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/644/complete-third-season-of-castle-now-on-dvd/ 2011-09-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      We continue with season one episodes of FOX's Glee, this week, "Sectionals." This episode is iconic for a number of reasons. Coming as a winter finale just before a four-month hiatus, it is the first hour to feature the New Directions in performance competition, something the initial thirteen episodes all build towards. "Sectionals" not only finds the group having to come together as never before. With the outing of Quinn's (Dianna Agron) baby daddy, Finn (Cory Monteith) must find his heroic qualities to save his friends. Plus, Will (Matthew Morrison) and Emma (Jayma Mays) make big decisions about their romantic lives. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/600/glee-competes-in-sectionals/ 2011-09-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Next up for my look back at Glee's first season is "Hell-O." The question is whether "Hell-O"'s theme is "Hello" or "Hell?" It's hard to tell.      Rachel (Lea Michele) and Finn (Cory Monteith) struggle to make their new relationship work. Finn realizes too late that he wants to be with Rachel, as she meets and falls for Jesse St. James (Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff). Jesse is actually the star of rival glee club, Vocal Adrenaline, sparking unease between Rachel and her fellow group members. Will (Matthew Morrison) goes to speak to Jesse's coach, Shelby Corcoran (Idina http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/603/hello-to-the-glee/ 2011-09-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      On the surface, Glee's season one episode "The Power of Madonna" is a lot of fun. It's the first full episode tribute to a singer; Madonna is a legend for a reason. As far as quality of music in the episode, as well as how well the actors performed the pieces, this installment is top notch. Look a little further into the story, though, and it's actually a mess of an episode, plot-wise.      The plot in "The Power of Madonna" pertains very much to the songs being used, rather than the character arcs and personalities of the main players. Example http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/610/glee-channels-the-power-of-madonna/ 2011-09-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      The episode of FOX's Glee entitled "Home" is about various characters trying to find a place where they fit in. In other words, a home. Mercedes (Amber Riley) thinks she might find one on the Cheerios squad, but learns it's hard to meet Sue's (Jane Lynch) high demands. Will (Matthew Morrison) helps a relapsed April Rhodes (Kristin Chenoweth) find her self-worth, so she can move on to an appropriate home. With Kurt's (Chris Colfer) father, Burt (Mike O'Malley), dating Finn's (Cory Monteith) mom, Carole (Romy Rosemont), all four try to figure out what kind of home they want. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/618/glee-looks-for--home/ 2011-09-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Season one's "Bad Reputation" finds the characters on FOX's Glee either wanting to attract or shed their bad reputations. Sue's (Jane Lynch) mojo is hit hard when Kurt (Chris Colfer) steals and uploads a self-made music video of her singing "Physical," which quickly goes viral. To get even, when no kids steps forward to take the blame, Sue tells Emma (Jayma Mays) about Will's (Matthew Morrison) trysts with Shelby (Idina Menzel) and April (Kristin Chenoweth), and encourages her to stage a public confrontation. Rachel (Lea Michele) is so desperate to get some cred that she drives away all three http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/621/glee-has-a-bad-reputation/ 2011-09-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      The season one Glee episode "Dream On" is about dreams, obviously. An old nemesis of Will's (Matthew Morrison), Bryan Ryan (Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother) is the newest member of the school board. After having his own dreams of being a performer dashed, Bryan decides that the glee club should be cut, as a favor to the kids who are in it. Will fights him on it. Jesse (Jonathan Groff) encourages Rachel (Lea Michele) to seek out her mother, while Artie (Kevin McHale) struggles anew with his crippling condition.      Neil Patrick Harris is amazing http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/636/dream-on-glee/ 2011-09-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Theatricality is hands down one of the best episodes of FOX's Glee to date. It embraces the inner freak, encouraging the kids to be true to themselves. It also begins tackling the serious issue of gay bullying, reunites a mother and her daughter, and dwells on the emotions behind giving a child up for adoption, both before and after it takes place. There are serious, dramatic moments that bring tears to your eyes, triumphant bits to make you feel good, and several fantastic musical performances.      Who better to bring out the freak in everyone than Lady Gaga? While http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/637/glee-celebrates-theatricality/ 2011-09-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      There's a reason FOX's Glee stays away from funk music most of the time. It doesn't go very well with the characters or tone of the series. Yet, in "Funk," the penultimate episode of the first season, funk music is smashed into Glee throughout the episode, regardless of the low quality of much of the resulting material. There's a reason the "Funk" numbers do not end the Volume 3 soundtrack, despite airing last. And that's only part of the problem with a mostly lackluster episode.      Perhaps the best, most interesting story happening in "Funk" is that Jesse http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/638/glee-goes/ 2011-09-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of The Vampire Diaries online.      Elena's (Nina Dobrev) 18th birthday kicks off the third season of the CW's The Vampire Diaries. Caroline (Candice Accola) tries to help Elena celebrate with a big party, something Elana would rather not have, worried as she is about the still missing Stefan (Paul Wesley). But when Elena learns that Damon (Ian Somerhalder) has been secretly tracking Stefan, and not telling her about the pile of bodies in Stefan's wake, she likes the party even less Meanwhile, Caroline hooks up with Tyler (Michael Trevino) at the party, but http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/635/elenas-18th-birthday-on-the-vampire-diaries/ 2011-09-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia online.      "Frank's Pretty Woman" marks the long-awaited season premire of FX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Frank (Danny DeVito) introduces the gang to his girlfriend, Roxy (Alanna Ubach, Men of a Certain Age, Hung), who just happens to be a crack-addicted prostitute. The others want to make her a little classier, like in Pretty Woman, because they don't want to become the "gross group." Too late for that. However, while talking with Roxy, Dee (Kaitlin Olson) begins to consider a new line of work. The guys http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/631/franks-pretty-woman-isnt-exactly-so-on-its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/ 2011-09-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of The Secret Circle online.      The Secret Circle is the CW's newest drama. From some people behind The Vampire Diaries, another network hit, this one is all about witches. The story begins with Cassie Blake (Britt Robertson, Swingtown), whose mother (Emily Holmes) is murdered, though Cassie doesn't know foul play is involved. Cassie moves in with her grandmother Jane (Ashley Crow, Heroes, who doesn't really look old enough to play a grandma), and soon discovers a few of the secrets that her mother fled from. Namely, there are six magical families of witches, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/632/the-secret-circle-premieres-on-the-cw/ 2011-09-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Body of Proof online.      Dana Delaney starred in Desperate Housewives on ABC, and also did a stint on Castle for the same network. So it seems appropriate that ABC is the station that gave her her own series last spring with Body of Proof, coming out on DVD next Tuesday, September 20th. Delaney's character is that of surgeon turned medical examiner Dr. Megan Hunt, the victim of a car accident that forces her career change. Plus, her hand goes numb, and she suddenly finds guilt and sympathy for her patients, er, corpses.      http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/624/the-complete-first-season-of-body-of-proof-coming-soon-to-dvd/ 2011-09-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Ringer online.      The CW's Ringer brings Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar back to television. The first episode is called "Pilot," and it finds an ex-stripper named Bridget (Gellar) who witnessed a brutal murder in the protective custody of Victor Machado (Nestor Carbonell, Lost). But Bridget is scared of the murderer, and isn't confident that Victor can protect her, so she gives him the slip. Arriving at her estranged twin sister, Siobhan's (also Gellar), house, Bridget is startled when Siobhan suddenly disappears and assumes she is dead. Bridget assumes Siobhan's http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/627/shes-a-dead-ringer-for-sarah-michelle-gellar/ 2011-09-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Parenthood online.      "I Don't Want to Do This Without You" kicks off NBC's third season of Parenthood. Crosby (Dax Shepard) tries to convince Adam (Peter Krause) to buy a music studio with him, which is soemwhat tempting, since Adam isn't having much luck locating employment in the current job market. Of course, if they do buy the place, it's quite a risk, and Adam will soon have a third child to consider. Amber (Mae Whitman) moves into her own apartment, and barely stops by her mother, Sarah's (Lauren Graham), 40th birthday party, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/629/parenthood-returns-with-i-dont-want-to-do-this-without-you/ 2011-09-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Entourage online.      "The End," the series finale of HBO's Entourage, gives all of your favorite characters their happy endings. For a show that has always focused on friends, family plays an important part in the finale. Figuring out that Melissa (Perrey Reeves), better known as Mrs. Ari, just wants love and attention, Ari (Jeremy Piven) gives up his job to spend time with her and save his marriage. With a little convincing from his friends, Sloan (Emmanuelle Chriqui) decides to give E (Kevin Connolly) one more chance. Vince (Adrian Grenier) surprises everyone http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/620/the-end-of-entourage/ 2011-09-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of True Blood online.      "And When I Die," this year's season finale of HBO's True Blood, is quite busy. It all starts when Marnie (Fiona Shaw) possesses Lafayette's (Nelsan Ellis). She murders Jesus (Kevin Alejandro) and stakes his dark, demon abilities. Then she goes after Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) with the same killer spirit. But Sookie (Anna Paquin), Tara (Rutina Wesley), and Holly (Lauren Bowles) decide they cannot let that happen, and manage to raise the dead. This includes Sookie's grandmother (Lois Smith), and together, they convince Marnie to cross http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/615/true-blood-wonders-what-happens-if-and-when-i-die/ 2011-09-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Burn Notice online.      "Dead to Rights" is the summer finale of USA's Burn Notice. Finally, Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan) is able to prove himself innocent of Max's (Grant Show) murder. But the real killer (Andrew Howard) ends his own life, and Larry (Tim Matheson), the criminally insane recurring thorn in Michael's side, shows up. It's chaos, and by the time it's over, a tragic mistake is made by Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar), and Michael has a new boss, one of the men who started the company that burned Michael, named Anson Fullerton (Jere http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/611/dead-to-rights-not-quite-on-burn-notice/ 2011-09-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Suits online.      "Dog Fight" marks the twelfth and final episode of USA's Suits this year. After Harvey's old mentor (Gary Cole, Family Guy, The Good Wife) is found to be burying evidence in a previous episode, Harvey (Gabriel Macht) is determine to right some wrongs, beginning with an innocent kid who spent a dozen years in jail for murder. The district attorney on the case (Chi McBride, Pushing Daisies, Human Target) isn't sympathetic, though, and comes at Harvey with all guns blazing. Mike (Patrick J. Adams) is tasked with helping Harvey, but http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/612/dog-fight-threatens-suits/ 2011-09-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Torchwood online.      The fourth season of the British series Torchwood, dubbed Torchwood: Miracle Day, and airing on Starz in the US, ended their season with "The Blood Line." Buenos Aires and Shanhai are the focal points of whatever is causing the Miracle, so the team splits and goes to both locations. A mole blows up their CIA contacts, and threatens their take down of the Blessing. But Jack's (John Barrowman) blood holds the key, and with it flowing through Rex's (Mekhi Phifer) veins as well, the two are able to end the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/613/the--blood-line-concludes-torchwood-miracle-day/ 2011-09-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy on DVD.      Grey's Anatomy: The Complete Seventh Season will be released next Tuesday, Septermber 13th on DVD. As season six ended with a special double episode featuring a shooter in the hospital, which meant several characters got shot, season seven spends time showing fans how their beloved doctors deal with the trauma, each in very different ways. Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) has trouble telling Derek (Patrick Dempsey) that she was pregnant and lost the baby. Derek begins to act like he's nearly invincible. Cristina (Sandra Oh) can't even be in an http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/606/coming-soon-greys-anatomy-the-complete-seventh-season/ 2011-09-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Wilfred online.      In "Identity," the first season finale of FX's Wilfred, Wilfred (Jason Gann) leaves out some drug-laced candy at Ryan's (Elijah Wood) house. Jenna (Fiona Gubelmann) eats said candy, and because of the way it makes her act, loses her job. Ryan has to once more act a lawyer to help Jenna, and digs up dirt on her boss (Ray Wise, Chuck, Reaper), letting blackmail win the case.      Because Ryan touches the dark side of himself, left behind until now, he begins to be sneakily manipulative in other parts of his http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/608/wilfred-ends-season-searching-for-identity/ 2011-09-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Futurama online.      What do Steamboat Willie era animation, anime, and an 8 bit video game have in common? Usually, almost nothing. But in "Reincarnation," the season six finale of Futurama, there are all used to reimagine out favorite characters. Season six is the first season to air on Comedy Central, after FOX cancelled the show five seasons in, and four straight-to-DVD movies were released. These three stories are all connected somehow by a comet, though that's not important, nor relevant. Instead, enjoy two really fine pieces of art, and a third one http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/609/reincarnation-times-three-for-futurama/ 2011-09-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Private Practice online.      On Tuesday, September 13th, next week ABC's Private Practice: The Complete Fourth Season will be released on DVD. The series tends to be uneven in quality, sometimes almost unwatchable. But this fourth season has a really fine plot, among the best the series has ever done, and one of the top stories on television last year. Beginning with "Did You Hear What Happened to Charlotte King?" Private Practice deals with a graphic rape and its very real aftermath. If you only buy one season of Private Practice, this is http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/604/catch-the-complete-fourth-season-of-private-practice-on-dvd/ 2011-09-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Web Therapy online.      In last week's episode of Showtime's Web Therapy, Fiona (Lisa Kudrow) discovers that her husband Kip (Victor Garber) is a homosexual. Thus, one would think that this week's episode title, "Exposed!," involves Fiona outing Kip. But no, she doesn't. Instead, Fiona is concened with her mother Putsy (Lily Tomlin), who thinks she has found a long lost son. This "son," Tic, is ripping Putsy off, and Fiona can do nothing to stop it. But she sure tries to get Tic "Exposed!"      Too bad Putsy isn't willing to listen to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/596/exposed-the-unexpected-on-web-therapy/ 2011-09-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Glee online.      One episode of FOX's Glee that seems pretty bizarre is "Mattress." That's likely because there's a lot of sadness and anger in the episode, not your typical Glee fare. As such, it's a little unclear whether it fits in appropriately with the series overall, or if it's a stand alone oddity. Pathos are fine on Glee, and often done well. But when the whole episode revolves around depressing material, it tends to almost seem out of tone.      "Mattress" aired just before winter break, so a lot of it builds http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/585/glee-jumps-on-a-mattress/ 2011-08-31 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Breaking Bad online.      "Problem Dog" is the title of this week's episode of AMC's Breaking Bad. Jesse (Aaron Paul) is suffering mightily with guilt and other things over killing Gale (David Costabile), so he has to tell someone. At his Narcotics Anonymous group, he tells the tale of the murder, but changes the story so that Gale is a dog. Jesse is trying to decide if he should kill his boss, Gus (Giancarlo Esposito), as Walt (Bryan Cranston) asks him to, or not. Jesse says he will do it, but hesitates when http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/590/breaking-bad-deals-with-a-problem-dog/ 2011-08-31 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Warehouse 13 online,      This week's episode of SyFy's Warehouse 13 is "The 40th Floor." The team catches Sally Stukowski (Ashley Williams, How I Met Your Mother, Saving Grace), but she has already implemented her plan. Mrs. Frederic (CCH Pounder) tortures Sally to try to find out what is going down, much to the chagrin of Jinks (Aaron Ashmore), who pulls a gun out to stop her. While the two argue, Sally escapes. MEanwhile, Myka (Joanne Kelly) and Artie (Saul Rubinek) go to protect some Warehouse regents, and are trapped in a building http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/591/the-40th-floor-presents-a-problem-for-warehouse-13/ 2011-08-31 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Right off the bat, the new MTV show Death Valley is a disappointment. It takes place near Hollywood, not Death Valley, as the title hints it. It's a mockumentary about the cops on the Undead Task Force (UTF) who patrol the streets for zombies, vampires, and werewolves.      Yep, that's right, the supernatural featured on many, many, many books, television shows, and movies right now. There is no attempt to explain why these creatures are in this area. Apparently, they've only been publically known for a year, and there is a high concentration of them near Hollywood. Perhaps they came to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/586/death-valley-should-die/ 2011-08-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Desperate Housewives online.      Tuesday, August 30th will see the release of Desperate Housewives The Complete Seventh Season on DVD from ABC Studios. While the set is subtitled "Wild, Wild Westeria Edition," this doesn't really mean anything. All of the DH season sets have odd subtitles. But the set does contain all twenty-three episodes of season seven, which will be the next to last season of the entire series. Season seven explores the show's roots, bringing back some faces that have not been seen on the lane in quite some time, and recpaturing http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/580/on-dvd-this-tuesday-desperate-housewives-the-complete-seventh-season/ 2011-08-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Cougar Town online.      ABC's Cougar Town has undergone many significant changes since the first handful of episodes of the series. It's become quite a hilarious show about adult friends who love each other and get into goofy situations while they hang out, drink wine, and play Penny Can. Yep, long gone are the days when the terrible title meant something, and the premise was a 40-something year old Jules (Courteney Cox) looked for a younger guy to be with. Do yourself a favor and give it another chance.      Cougar Town The Complete http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/579/on-dvd-this-tueday-cougar-town-the-complete-second-season/ 2011-08-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Awkward. online.      "Queen Bee-atches" is the latest episode of MTV's Awkward., and it delivers on its title. Lacey (Nikki Deloach) would very much like to get into an elite charity group, and ropes daughter Jenna (Ashley Richards) into helping her out. But the thing is, the group is run by Darlene Saxton (Heather Mazur, Crash), who happens to be the mother of Jenna's biggest tormentor, Sadie (Molly Tarlov). While at Sadie's house, Jenna comes across Sadie's secret food journal and swipes it, giving her the leverage she needs to get Lacey in http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/576/queen-beeacthes-invade-awkward/ 2011-08-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Louie online.      "Duckling" is the first hour-long episode of FX's Louie, but it needs that long to tell the larger-scope story with artistic vision. In the episode, Louie (Louis C.K.) goes to Afghanistan on a USO tour, only to discover, once he's already there, that his youngest daughter has sent a duckling along for the ride. It's a class pet that Louie was watching just before he left the country, and the titular character is startled to find the stowaway, to say the least. Along with the duck is a note expressing http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/577/louie-takes-a-duckling-into-a-war-zone/ 2011-08-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Alphas online.      "Catch and Release" is a very special episode of SyFy's Alphas. That's because it guest stars the awesome Summer Glau (Serenity, Dollhouse, The Cape, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)! Glau plays Skylar, an alpha who is an acquaintance of Nina's (Laura Mennell). When Skylar is hunted down, Nina gets Dr. Rosen (David Strathaim) to try to help her. But soon, Nina and Rosen's goals clash with that of Agent Sullivan (Valerie Cruz, Off the Map, True Blood) and Cley (Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Treme, The 4400), who might just be the corrupt http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/572/dont-catch-and-release-summer-glau-alphas/ 2011-08-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Glee online.      FOX's Glee continues season one with "Hairography." Hairography is, as the episode tells us, using swinging hair to distract from the lack of talent in the performing club. This is appropriate, as the word 'distraction' is used in "Hairography" a zillion times, give or take a few. Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig) wants to distract Will (Matthew Morrison) so he doesn't realize that she's not pregnant. Quinn (Dianna Agron) wants to distract Finn (Cory Monteith) so she can spend some time with Puck (Mark Salling) while she considers switching boyfriends. Both http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/565/hairography-distracts-glee/ 2011-08-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      HBO's Entourage has an episode this week whose title is censored almost everywhere you see it. Unfortunately, there is no agreement on where *'s should go in profanity, nor how many of them are necessary in particular words, so it's different everywhere you look. For the purpose of this review, I will be calling it "Motherf***er," as it seems the safest, and I think you'll still get the intended word.      In "Motherf***er," Sloan's (Emmanuelle Chiriqui) ex-step mother Melinda (Melinda Clarke, Nikita) approaches  Eric (Kevin Connolly) for representation. Eric is a bit torn; he is not over Sloan, and isn't sure http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/570/entourage-has-its-own-motherfuker/ 2011-08-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Off the Map online.      I was really hoping that ABC's Off the Map would run for a long time. Created by Jenna Bans, and produced by Shonda Rhimes, both women who make Grey's Anatomy so good, it seemed like a no-brainer. Taking the doctors out of the hospital setting and dropping them in a jungle leads to a unique series with some really cool medical emergencies. Add in backstory that the doctors all have things they are escaping from, because why else would Americans agree to this arrangement, and there's a cool http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/571/now-available-on-dvd-off-the-map-the-complete-series/ 2011-08-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Glee episode online.      This summer, I'll be going back to review the season one episodes of FOX's Glee. These are fresh reviews, not reposts, and I hope you will enjoy reliving the first season with me.      FOX's Glee presents "Mash-Up," which actually features not a single mash-up song. But it does have several clashes, or mash-ups, between characters. Will (Matthew Morrison) helps Ken (Patrick Gallagher) and Emma (Jayma Mays) prepare for their wedding dance. Ken gets angry about being a consolation prize to his bride, so he forces the football players to choose http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/465/glee-makes-a-mashup/ 2011-08-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Glee online.      Episode nine of FOX's Glee is "Wheels." Themes of equality and fair treatment are prevalent throughout Glee, but "Wheels" is the first episode that centers on the issues. From Artie (Kevin McHale) needing more wheelchair access, to Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Burt (Mike O'Malley) dealing with homophobia, to Tina's (Jenna Ushkowitz) stutter, to Becky Jackson (Lauren Potter) joining the Cheerios, to a girl on the wrestling team, "Wheels" is bursting with such stories. It's also a great episode for story, acting, and music.      Equality is a tricky http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/560/glee-finds-its-wheels/ 2011-08-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Glee online.      The season one episode "Ballad" finds the New Directions tackling the all important staple of ballads. Rachel (Lea Michele) gets a crush on Will (Matthew Morrison) after they sing together, and Will tries to discourage her. Speaking of relationships that will never happen, Kurt (Chris Colfer) likes Finn (Cory Monteith). The boys grow closer as Kurt helps Finn figure out how to tell Quinn's (Dianna Agron) parents about her pregnancy. Unfortunately, this backfires, as Quinn's father (Gregg Henry, Hung, The Riches) kicks Quinn out. And her mother (Charlotte Ross, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/564/glee-sings-a-ballad/ 2011-08-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm online.      "The Bi-Sexual," this week's episode of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm involves Larry (Larry David) and Rosie O'Donnell (playing herself) both meeting a girl whom they really like and have chemistry with. Sadly for them, it's the same girl. Jane (Amy Landecker, Dan in Real Life) is apparently bi-sexual, and neither Rosie nor Larry will back down. In an unrelated plot, Larry decides he doesn't want to eat lunch with a guy he barely knows, saying they aren't friends. But eating alone, the guy begins choking and ends up http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/562/the-bisexual-stirs-up-curb-your-enthusiasm/ 2011-08-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Wilfred online.      The first of two new episodes this week, "Compassion" is a vital clue to the secrets behind FX's Wilfred. In the episode, Ryan's (Elijah Wood) mother (Mary Steenburgen, Curb Your Enthusiasm) is released from a mental institution after twenty years, and comes to stay with her son. It isn't long before Ryan grows tired of being embarassed by his still eccentric mother and wants her to go back. But Wilfred (Jason Gann) loves having Mom around, and sets up Ryan for treatment with the doctor (John Michael Higgins, Happily Divorced) by leaving out http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/559/is-there-compassion-in-wilfred/ 2011-08-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      In the pilot of ABC Family's The Lying Game, Emma Becker (Alexandra Chando, As the World Turns) is accused of a theft that she didn't actually do, so she flees her horrible foster mother and creepy foster brother to go and find her identical twin. Yes, Emma has an indentical twin named Sutton (also Chando) who was adopted by a rich family. Sutton is fine with the visit, because she uses it as an excuse to replace herself with Emma so she can search for their birth parents. Unfortunately for Emma, Sutton leaves quite a bit in her lap without http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/550/not-worth-playing-the-lying-game/ 2011-08-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of The Hour online.       BBC America's The Hour begins its story in 1956. Bel Rowley (Romola Garai, The Crimson Petal and the White) and Freddie Lyon (Ben Whishaw, Criminal Justice, Layer Cake) are tired of their job at the BBC, where they put together newsreels that are more tabloid than journalism. But they know Clarence Fendley (Anton Lesser, Primeval) is putting together a new program called The Hour that will be right up their alley. After interviewing, Bel is named producer of The Hour, while Freddie almost gets no job at all. Thanks http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/552/the-hour--pilot/ 2011-08-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of The Nine Lives of Chloe King online.      "Beautiful Day" is the season finale of ABC Family's The Nine Lives of Chloe King. The episode finds Chloe (Skyler Samuels)  helping Brian (Grey Damon) find his grandmother Olivia, whom he hasn't seen in many years. But while the duo are out of town, Simone (Jolene Andersen) orders hits on Chloe's friends to begin. Jasmine's (Alyssa Diaz) new boyfriend (Daniel Sharman) takes out Jasmine and Jasmine's mother, Valentina (Alicia Coppola). Jolene herself waits for Chloe, who is lured into thinking her missing father is waiting http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/553/not-exactly-a-beautiful-day-for-chloe-king/ 2011-08-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Weeds episode online.      This week on Showtime's Weeds, Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) must wear a wire on a date with her boss (Aidan Quinn), whom the SEC is investigating. The wire actually backfires against Nancy, though, as when she returns home, Silas (Hunter Parrish) and Andy (Justin Kirk) are arguing about their cover business for moving drugs. To make matters worse, Nancy's former cellmate / lover Zoya (Olga Sosnovska) AND Demetri (Pablo Schreiber), Zoya's brother, who Nancy is sleeping with, both show up, too. Nancy tries desperately to keep the incriminating words unhearable, but most http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/548/plenty-of-synthetics-on-weeds/ 2011-08-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of The Big C online.      "The Last Thanksgiving" is the dark title of the latest installment of Showtime's The Big C. The question loomings is, to whom does the title refer to? Probably not Cathy (Laura Linney), because her treatment seems to be working, though Lee's (Hugh Dancy) isn't. It's also perhaps not Mykailo (Boyd Holbrook) and Andrea's (Gabourey Sidibe) last one together, considering they ends the episode in a good place.      But it turns out there are not one, but two deaths before the end of the episode. The first http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/549/its-the-last-thanksgiving-for-someone-on-the-big-c/ 2011-08-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Covert Affairs online.      The summer finale of USA's Covert Affairs is called "World Leader Pretend." Supposedly, Annie (Piper Perabo) has been in contact with Chinese dissident Shen Yue (Benedict Wong, Moon) for months, and now she is assigned to help he defect. But before they can escape, he is poisoned. It is too late to save Shen Yue, but as Annie searches for his killer, she realizes she needs to be honest with sister Danielle (Anne Dudek) about her job. Needless to say, Danielle is surprised and hurt. Meanwhile, Joan (Kari Matchett) attempts, and http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/531/world-leader-pretend-closes-out-covert-affairs/ 2011-08-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest White Collar online.      USA's White Collar summer finale is "Countdown," and intense showdown without full resolution. Peter (Tim DeKay) has suspected Neal (Matt Bomer) of stealing a Nazi treasure, and when a painting from that trove surfaces, Peter wants an answer about Neal's involvement one way or the other. To help Peter, his old mentor Agent Philip Kramer (Beau Bridges, Brothers & Sisters, My Name Is Earl), an art crimes expert, arrives. Mozzie (Willie Garson) and Neal manage to get to the painting before Peter and Kramer, barely, but then Keller (Ross McCall) also http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/532/white-collar-braces-for-a-countdown/ 2011-08-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Switched at Birth online.      Switched at Birth, ABC Family's freshman drama, uses "The Homecoming" to cap its summer run. In the episode, Angelo (Gilles Marini, Brothers & Sisters), Bay's (Vanessa Marano), biological father, shows up. Funny, since Bay recently decided to stop looking for him. But no one is happy to see Angelo except for Bay, even as he tries to explain why he walked out on Regina (Constance Marie), and why he is back now. Meanwhile, Emmett (Sean Berdy) learns that long-time crush Daphne (Katie Leclerc) has feelings for him. Emmett chooses to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/530/the-homecoming-shakes-up-switched-at-birth/ 2011-08-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Falling Skies online.      TNT's Falling Skies ends its freshman season with "Mutiny" and "Eight Hours," two episodes aired back to back. The first hour is focused on Tom's (Noah Wyle) doubts about Weaver's (Will Patton) ability to lead with a clear head. But all of that is resolved by the end of the episode, because the second hour is purely the battle with the alien invaders. Tom's middle son, Ben (Connor Jessup), ends up being invaluable when he helps Scott (Bruce Gray) block the aliens' communication frequency. The aliens retreat. While they could likely wipe out the whole 2nd Mass http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/529/falling-skies-faces-mutiny-in-the-final-eight-hours/ 2011-08-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Torchwood online.      Starz's Torchwood: Miracle Day explores what happens when governments get to decide who has the right to live and who doesn't. In this week's episode, "Categories of Life," Gwen (Eve Myles) and Rhys (Kai Owen) go undercover into a government-set up medical compound to rescue her father (William Thomas, Alys). At the same time, on the other side of the world, Captain Jack (John Barrowman) and the other Torchwood team members in California, get into a very similar facility. Both groups soon learn what happens to those that are classified as if they are dead - they are http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/527/categories-of-life-are-sinister-on-torchwood-miracle-day/ 2011-08-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Franklin & Bash online.      "Go Tell It On the Mountain" is the season one finale of TNT's Franklin & Bash. The body of Infeld's (Malcolm McDowell) best friend, missing for years, is found on the mountain where Infeld killed him. The boss taps Franklin (Breckin Meyer) and Bash (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) to represent him, though he admits his guilt, saying it was done in defense of the rest of the climbing party. A senior partner from New York (Tricia Helfer, Battlestar Galactica) takes advantage of Infeld's situation to try to wrest control of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/526/go-tell-it-on-the-mountain-to-franklin--bash/ 2011-08-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of True Blood online.      The latest episode of HBO's True Blood finds many a character roaming through the dark woods near Bon Temps under the light of a full moon. Tommy (Marshall Allman) discovers he can shift into his brother, Sam (Sam Trammell), a skill he uses to sleep with the girl Sam likes, Luna (Janina Gavankar). Debbie (Brit Morgan) convines Alcide (Joe Manganiello) to check out their new local wolf pack. Jason (Ryan Kwanten) thinks he is about to experience his first shift as a werepanther. Luckily, he has Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/517/i-wish-i-was-the-moon-on-true-blood/ 2011-08-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest White Collar episode online.      With White Collar's summer run set to end next week, the USA series continues its fairly serial arc with "On the Fence," the penultimate installment. Matthew Keller (Ross McCall), Neal's (Matt Bomer) former evil partner, comes back to New York, intent on getting the missing Nazi treasure that he is sure Neal has. Keller is convinced by a spending spree Neal went on, though unknown to Keller, that was with a criminal's money, not Neal's own. This is not a good time for Keller, and NEal and Peter (Tim DeKay) http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/520/not-on-the-fence-about-white-collar/ 2011-08-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Friday Night Dinner episode online.      Friday Night Dinner is BBC America's newest sitcom. The series begins with episode two, "The Jingle," with episode one set to air next week. As you may expect from the title, the series is about a family getting together to dine at the end of the week. The main characters are the Goodmans, a Jewish couple and their two grown sons. "The Jingle" finds an excited Adam (Simon Bird, The Inbetweeners) eagerly anticipating hearing a jingle he wrote on the radio. Brother Jonny (Tom Rosenthal) doesn't make the wait http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/510/the-jingle-is-missing-at-friday-night-dinner/ 2011-08-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Outnumbered online.      After series in Britain, Outnumbered finally came to BBC America this week. In the first episode, called "The School Run", Sue (Claire Skinner, Life Begins) and Pete Brockman (Hugh Dennis, My Hero) make their absolute best effort to get all three of their children ready for school on time. It isn't easy. Jake (Tyger-Drew Honey, The Armstrong and Miller Show), isn't very excited about his first day at a new school. Ben (Daniel Roche, Just William), seven, has a problem telling the truth. Karen (Ramona Marquez, The King's Speech) has many questions http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/511/the-school-run-results-in-chaos-on-outnumbered/ 2011-08-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Burn Notice online.      "Enemy of My Enemy" is the week's episode of USA's Burn Notice. In it, Pearce (Lauren Stamile, Community, Grey's Anatomy) lets Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) try to find a stolen military warhead that some Serbians have taken. Michael's plans? Send Sam (Bruce Campbell) into Carmelo's (Todd Stashwick, Men of a Certain Age, Heroes) gang. Carmelo deals in heroin, and Sam convinces Carmelo that the Serbians have stolen some drugs, therapy turning the bad guys against each other. Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) and Madeline (Sharon Gless) are furious at Michael, accusing him of putting http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/508/enemy-of-my-enemy-attacks-burn-notice/ 2011-07-31 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest NTSF:SD:SUV online.      In the vein of Childrens' Hospital, Cartoon Network's Adult Swim presents NTSF:SD:SUV, a cop show parody. Takinbg every cliché and turning it on its ear for laughs, the brilliant teams behind NTSF:SD:SUV, or National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle, has created a show well worth your time. Starting as a commerical during an early Childrens' Hospital episode, a few changes were made, including how wears an eye patch, and the concept is now a weekly TV show. Continuity is not the point, but the actors and writers will do http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/507/lots-of-laughs-in-ntsfsdsuv/ 2011-07-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here for the latest Awkward. online.      MTV's latest series is Awkward., airing Tuesdays nights. Centering around Jenna Hamilton (Ashley Richards, One Tree Hill), the show begins with a girl who isn't comfortable in her high school, which, as most are, is dominated by the popular kids. But she wants to be. One of those popular kids, Matty (Beau Mirchoff, Desperate Housewives), is a long-time crush, and gets her virginty, only to then reject being seen with her in pulic. Upset, Jenna takes to her blog, pouring out her feelings. But an accident in the bathroom, knocking unfortunate items around, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/499/awkward-thankfully-not-a-bit-awkward/ 2011-07-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Web Therapy began as a series of brief online webisodes, but Showtime has now ordered it to series. What is airing is a compiliation of the previously filmed bits, with connectors edited in to make complete episodes. The main character is Fiona Wallace (Lisa Kudrow, Friends), who, it can be assumed, mostly out of laziness, has decided that she should conduct 3 minute therapy sessions via webcam rather than see patients for fifty minutes in an office. Fiona starts this new "modality" by contacting people she already knows, hoping she can use them to attract investors and make lots of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/500/web-therapy-is-online/ 2011-07-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Wilfred online.      On this week's episode of FX's Wilfred, the series finally introduces viewers to Jenna's (Fiona Gubelmann) boyfriend Drew (Chris Klein). On the original version, the main guy and girl were living together when the series starts, but in the American version, Ryan (Elijah Wood) must compete with another guy. "Conscience" sees Wilfred (jason Gann) goad Ryan into breaking up Jenna and Drew. But Ryan is later struck by guilt, and when he tries to fix things, Wilfred decides perhaps Ryan should also be taken out of the picture. Permanently.      The Wilfred character, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/501/a-conscience-for-wilfred/ 2011-07-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Breaking Bad online.      Breaking Bad was off the air waves for more than a year, but is finally back on AMC as of roughly ten days ago. The first two hours, "Box Cutter" and "Thirty-Eight Snub," take the often-violent happenings to a whole new level of gruesome and terror, delivering one of the most brutal scenes to ever grace basic cable. The villain behind the butchering is Gus (Giancarlo Esposito), who is none too happy with Walt's (Bryan Cranston) ruse to save his own life and that of his partner, Jesse (Aaron Paul). Luckily http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/490/thirtyeight-snub-and-box-cutter-threaten-breaking-bad/ 2011-07-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here for the latest episode of Entourage online.      HBO's Entourage kicks off its last season in "Home Sweet Home." The main group of boys are facing many changes. E (Kevin Connolly) and Scott (Scott Caan) are now partners, having wrestled control of the management agency they worked for. But all is not well for E, as Sloan (Emmanuelle Chriqui) mails back his engagement ring. Ari (Jeremy Piven) also suffers the ills of a romance gone wrong, as Mrs. Ari (Perrey Reeves) has not only kicked him out, but is sleeping with someone else. Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon) does his http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/489/entourage-home-sweet-home-is-sweet/ 2011-07-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Click here to watch the latest Friday Night Lights online.      As Friday Night Lights comes to an end, after five years, Christmas arrives in Texas. The Lions, who will not be a team much longer, still have the state championship to play. But before they leave, the Panthers would like to secure Eric (Kyle Chandler) as their new coach for the soon-to-bo "super team." Tami (Connie Britton), furious that Eric isn't considering her job offer, goes cold every time Eric talks about the contract. Matt (Zach Gilford) proposes to Julie (Aimee Teegarden), then finds it difficult to get her parents on http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/479/friday-night-lights-will-be-remembered-always/ 2011-07-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Louie online.      "Joan" is the latest installment of X's Louie. In the episode, Louie (Louis C.K.) happens to be performing in a Trump hotel and casino lounge at the same time that comedic legend Joan Rivers (herself) is on the stage. Louie runs into Joan and tells her how much he loves her act, leading to her inviting him upstairs for a conversation and very awkward sexual encounter. Before that, though, there is examination of a classic comic's dilemma, and one Louie is currently facing.      Louie often explores Louis's life in funny and interesting http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/476/louie-runs-into-joan/ 2011-07-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Alphas online.      Alphas is the newest series from SyFy, and it began this week. Cameron Hicks (Warren Christie, Happy Town, October Road) uses his superhuman precision to kill a man in custody. Dr. Rosen (David Strathaim, Temple Grandin) is asked the find the killer, and he puts his team on it. It doesn't take them long to find Cameron, as well as determine he was brainwashed, and does not even know what he did. As such, they use Cameron to try to catch the real bad guy. They are, of course, successful, eventually. With http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/468/alphas-lacks-a-special-quality/ 2011-07-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Warehouse 13 online.       "The New Guy" is the third season premiere of SyFy's Warehouse 13. Steve Jinks (Aaron Ashmore, Smallville) is hired to replace Myka (Joanne Kelly), who won't return to her old job. Jinks has a hidden talent - he can tell when people lie. Pete doesn't see how that's very useful, and when Jinks fails to get his unique brand of humor, Pete is ready to write him off. Their latest case proves to have literary connections, so Pete manages to bring in Myka, who, after helping close the case, still resists http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/467/the-new-guy-joins-warehouse-13/ 2011-07-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Falling Skies online.      In "Silent Kill," the fifth episode of TNT's Falling Skies, Tom (Noah Wyle) tries once again to rescue son Ben (Connor Jessup), who is enslaved with an alien harness, and this time, he actually suceeds. Older son, Hal (Drew Roy), actually deserves at least as much credit, since he does the dangerous part, and Margaret (Sarah Carter) also deserves thanks for her valuable intel. Plus, Anne (Moon Bloodgood) not only cuts off the harness from Ben, but tests a very risky method of subduing the aliens. But still... Sadly, and the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/463/silent-kill-deadly-on-falling-skies/ 2011-07-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm online.      HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm begins its eighth season with the episode "The Divorce." Yep, that's right. Larry (Larry David) and Cheryl (Cheryl Hines) finally call it quits many months after season seven ends, though "The Divorce" does begin with the fight shown in the previous season finale. Larry is in good shape once he hires a fantastic lawyer (Paul F. Tompkins). But, of course, the series cannot allow Larry to win, so after finding out the lawyer only implies that he is Jewish, Larry replaces him with an http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/464/the-divorce-hangs-over-curb-your-enthusiasm/ 2011-07-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Torchwood online.      Season four Torchwood is called "Miracle Day," and has just begun on Starz. In the first episode, "The New World," every human being on the planet Earth becomes immortal. They can be harmed, but not killed. Even a bomb strapped to one's chest and having one's head removed does not stop life or consciousness. Among the spared is Oswald Danes (Bill Pullman, Independence Day, Too Big to Fail), a convicted murdering pedophile who is about to be executed when the miracle begins. This phenomenon does not include any form of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/461/the-new-world-of-torchwood-miracle-day/ 2011-07-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Friday Night Lights online.      Less than a week now until the lights go out for good on NBC's Friday Night Lights. "Texas Whatever" is the penultimate entry, which conentrates on setting up the finale arcs, as well as closing out some ongoing plots. Facing a town with only one football team next year, the Lions feoriciously try to save themselves, to no avail. As the Panthers are given the renewal. they work to recruit Buddy (Brad Leland) with the hope that he will get Eric (Kyle Chandler) and Vince (Michael B. Jordan) http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/456/dont-say-texas-whatever-to-friday-night-lights/ 2011-07-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Childrens' Hospital online.      Childrens' Hospital, part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, takes a trip back to the 1970s this week in "The '70s Episode." This is a story hinted at in flashes during other episodes, but for the first time, an entire installment is devoted to the past. Dr. Brian (Jordan Peele) is the connecting factor, having recently returns to Childrens' Hospital in the present. "The '70s Episode" features the first day or work for Dr. Lola Spratt (Erinn Hayes), a (gasp!) lady doctor, and Glenn (Ken Marino), who is just back from Vietnam. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/460/the-70s-episode-of-childrens-hospital/ 2011-07-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Wilfred episode online.      "Fear," the third episode of FX's Wilfred, is a sequel to the first episode, "Happiness." In the earlier entry, Ryan (Elijah Wood) breaks into Spencer's (Ethan Suplee, My Name is Earl, Mallrats house at the urging of Wilfred (Jason Gann), and they not only steal the man's weed, but also poop in his boots. Wilfred goes back later to drop Ryan's wallet at the scene, which is why in "Fear," Spencer angrily confronts his neighbor. Luckily, Spencer isn't very smart, and Ryan is able to convince him that he is also http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/453/wilfred-confronts-fear/ 2011-07-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Men of a Certain Age online.      The second season of TNT's Men of a Certain Age ends with "Hold Your Finish," only the sixth episode aired this summer, as the first six episodes of the season aired last winter. In the hour, all three central characters face some challenges in their lives. Joe (Ray Romano) decides he wants to compete to get in the Senior Golf Tour, after all, and though his placing is more luck than ability to hold up under pressue, he reaches his goal. Owen Sr. (Richard Gant) decides http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/452/men-of-a-certain-age-ends-with-hold-your-finish/ 2011-07-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      This summer, I'll be going back to review the season one episodes of FOX's Glee. These are fresh reviews, not reposts, and I hope you will enjoy reliving the first season with me.      "Throwdown" is a nice, solid episode of FOX's Glee, with enjoyable musical numbers, and interesting, dramatic plot. Will (Matthew Morrison) and Sue (Jane Lynch) attempt to be co-directors of the New Directions. Sensing some of the students are feeling neglected, Sue splits off all of the minorities into an "elite" glee club. This does not sit well with Will. Quinn (Dianna Agron) faces a tough http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/451/a-throwdown-erupts-on-glee/ 2011-07-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Treme episode online.      HBO's Treme season two finale is titled "Do Watcha Wanna," which is a song very much in the New Orleans style, and the number is featured in the episode. This season covered a large portion of a year, and it's been a long one, as the federal aid fails to come through, leaving people still stuggling in the remains of the once proud city. The nation's eyes begin to turn away, and little help is left. Which is the perfect environment for crime to flourish and treasure hunters to come in http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/448/do-watch-wanna-in-the-treme/ 2011-07-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest Ugly Americans online.      "Wet Hot Demonic Summer," surely a play on the film Wet Hot American Summer, serves as the season two premiere for Comedy Central's Ugly Americans. In the episode, Mark (Matt Oberg) is tricked into being a summer camp counselor at a hastily set up camp by the demons, who wish to use Mark's friendship with Leonard (Randy Pearlstein) to find a hidden entrance to a wizards' convention and slaughter all of the wizards. Led by Twayne (Michael-Leon Wooley), they manage to do just that, though their killing spree is interrupted by http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/445/a-wet-hot-demonic-summer-for-ugly-americans/ 2011-07-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Please click here to watch Glee - "Vitamin D" online. This summer, I'll be going back to review the season one episodes of FOX's Glee. These are fresh reviews, not reposts, and I hope you will enjoy reliving the first season with me.      Glee's sixth episode, "Vitamin D," is light on music, but heavy in furthering the recurring arcs in the beginning of this season. With the New Directions growing complacent (after only six weeks as a group!), Will (Matthew Morrison) decides to evoke a competitive spirit by pitting the guys vs. the girls in a mashup contest. Finn (Cory Monteith) finds http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/446/glee-takes-a-dose-of-vitamin-d/ 2011-07-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Love Bites - "Firsts" online. NBC's Love Bites has had its premiere date changed over and over. It was supposed to start last fall, then winter, and now it's summer before the first episode hits the air waves. Not usually a good sign. But if you tune in, you might be surprised at this fresh little treasure of a show! The very first episode ic called "Firsts," and if the rest of the series is anywhere near as good, Love Bites looks to be a well made, original show. Unfortunately, "Firsts" got terrible ratings, so it's far http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/389/love-bites-starts-with-appropriate-enough-firsts/ 2011-07-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Falling Skies - "Live and Learn" online.      Falling Skies is TNT's newest drama series, and it happens to be produced by movie legend Steven Spielberg. Earth is conquered by invaders from outer space, and the story begins six months later, long after the major cities and strategic military bases lay in ruins. A few thousand surviving humans band together in Boston, Massachusetts, but worried about being detected in such large numbers, they split up into 300 members groups. All of the main characters in the show are part of The 2nd, and it follows them as http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/419/falling-skies--live-and-learn-and-the-armory/ 2011-07-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest State of Georgia online.      State of Georgia is ABC Family's newest attempt at half hour comedy. In the pilot, we are introduced to Georgia (Raven-Symoné, That's So Raven), who'd like to make it as a stage performer. Up for her favorite lead role, a jerk casting director criticizes everything about her, ending by saying she could never seduce anyone like the character she's up for needs to. Georgia is dejected, but she has best friend, Jo (Majandra Delfino, Roswell), and her loving Aunt Honey (Loretta Devine, Eli Stone, Grey's Anatomy) to cheer her up, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/440/state-of-georgia-not-some-place-to-visit/ 2011-07-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Suits's latest episode online now.      Two episodes in, USA's Suits is a tricky thing to define. In this week's episode, the second of the series, Mike (Patrick J. Adams, Extreme Movie) is once more unable to do his job, so in asking a colleague for help, he gets taken advantage of. Things get worse when Louis (Rick Hoffman, Samanatha Who?) also fools Mike, and Mike's mentor, Harvey (Gabriel Macht, The Others), is left disappointed in him. Mike struggles to not only fix the case he is working on for Harvey, but also get out from under http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/443/suits-has-a-few-errors-and-omissions/ 2011-07-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Necessary Roughness online.      Necessary Roughness, which aired its "Pilot" this past Wednesday, is USA's newst drama. The show revolves around a therapist named Dr. Dani Santino (Callie Thorne, Rescue Me, The Wire). Dani kicks out her husband, Ray (Craig Bierko, Boston Legal, Damages), after discovering he's been cheating on her with many woman. Worrying about money, she is pleased to meet a stranger in a bar named Matthew (Marc Blucas, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), who soon introduces her to a football team who wants her to work with their star player. T.K. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/442/pilot-of-necessary-roughness-fumbles/ 2011-07-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of The Big C online.      "Losing Patients" starts off Showtime's The Big C's second season by having Cathy dealing with a variety of emotional eruptions from various members of her inner circle. Paul (Oliver Platt) is furious to learn that Dr. Todd (Reid Scott) kissed his wife. Adam (Gabriel Basso) decides excessive flatulence is a good way to express himself. Rebecca (Cynthia Nixon) lets slip to Cathy's brother, Sean (John Benjamin Hickey), that his his sister has cancer before Cathy finds a way to tell him. So all in all, not a good http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/439/losing-patients-with-the-big-c/ 2011-06-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch True Blood - "She's Not There" online.      True Blood begins a new, fourth season on HBO with "She's Not There." The episodes begins with Sookie (Anna Paquin) having just crossed over to the fairy realm, where she is surprised to discover her grandfather (Gary Cole, The Good Wife, Entourage) who went missing many years ago, but thinks he's only been there for a few hours. Sookie refuses to eat the glowing fruit, and begins to see the fairies as they reall are. Her granddaddy gives his life to help her escape. As Sookie returns to Bon http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/436/shes-not-there-no-matter-how-hard-true-blood-searches/ 2011-06-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Weeds - "Bags" online.      It's time for season seven of Showtime's popular series, Weeds, and the premiere, called "Bags," does not disappoint. In it, Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) is freed after spending the past three years in prison, well before her sentence is supposed to be up. She is behind bars because she took the fall for a murder one of her children committed, and has been helping the FBI pin her husband, Esteban (Demián Bichir), to a number of crimes. But with Esteban dead, the feds decide to be done with her, dropping her into a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/437/bags-of-weeds/ 2011-06-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee - "The Rhodes Not Taken" online.      This summer, I'll be going back to review the season one episodes of FOX's Glee. These are fresh reviews, not reposts, and I hope you will enjoy reliving the first season with me.      "The Rhodes Not Taken" introduces recurring character April Rhodes (Kristin Chenoweth, The West Wing, Pushing Daisies). April was a senior when Will (Matthew Morrison) was a freshman in glee club, and he always admired her. After Rachel (Lea Michele) quits the New Directions, Will discovers April never officially graduated, and convinces her to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/434/glee-explores-the-rhodes-not-taken/ 2011-06-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Nurse Jackie - "...Deaf Blind Tumor Pee=Test" online.      The third season finale of Showtime's Nurse Jackie is "...Deaf Blind Tumor Pee-Test." By far, the most unexpcted event in the episode is when Jackie (Edie Falco) kicks out her husband, Kevin (Dominic Fumusa), just after he confesses to an affair. But there are plenty of other things going on, too, as is typical for a NJ episodes. Cooper (Peter Facinelli) is left at the alter during his wedding with the woman he has been dating only briefly. Akalitus (Anna Deavere Smith), perhaps in a generous mood after http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/424/deaf-blind-tumor-peetest-is-nurse-jackies-season-finale/ 2011-06-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch United States of Tara - "The Good Parts" online.     Three years after it began, Showtime's United States of Tara comes to an end with "The Good Parts." Clearly not intended to be a series finale, but it will serve as such. Tara (Toni Collette) kills Bryce, her homocidal alter who has already taken out all of the various other personalities Tara has. Instead of feeling relief that only Tara is left, though, her husband Max (John Corbett) can no longer control his frustration as Tara prepares to leave for Boston to seek treatment, and explodes at http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/425/united-states-of-tara-looks-at-the-good-parts-in-series-finale/ 2011-06-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Killing - "Orpheus Descending" online.      AMC's The Killing stirred plenty of controversary with the ambiguous season one finale, "Orpheus Descending." Linden (Mireille Enos) and Holder (Joel Kinnaman), the eager detectives, finally get the goods on Rosie Larsen's (Katie Findlay) killer, and they discover it is Councilman Richmond (Billy Campbell), who is also the seedy online persona Orpheus. Or is he? By the end of the episode, Linden gets word that the evidence nailing Richmond has been faked, and Holder lets a person just off camera know that the forged clues worked. Linden is on a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/420/orpheus-descending-does-little-to-wrap-up-the-killing/ 2011-06-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Game of Thrones - "Fire and Blood" online.      There are no shortage of loose ends in "Fire and Blood," the first season finale of HBO's Game of Thrones. After Ned Stark (Sean Bean) is beheaded by the new king, Joffrey (Jack Gleeson), Ned's eldest, Robb (Richard Madden), leads his army against the offenders. While not reaching King's Landing, at least not yet, Rob bdoes capture Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), Joffrey's uncle (as well as biological father). Joffrey, too, has a hostage in Sansa (Sophie Turner), Ned's daughter whom he still intends to marry. No one knows http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/423/fire-and-blood-consume-game-of-thrones/ 2011-06-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Come Fly With Me - "Episode 1" online.      New to BBC America is the British mockumentary Come Fly With Me. From the brains behind Little Britain and Little Britain USA, Matt Lucas and David Walliams. is their newest sketch show, this one entirely focused on the airline industry. Said to be a parody of British documentaries Airline and Airport, it's small bits with odd characters. The two stars make up just about all of the characters, frequently switching hair and makeup for unconnected scenes, though a handful of other actors do appear. The series is narrated by http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/418/episode-1-of-come-fly-with-me-on-bbc-america/ 2011-06-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Friday Night Lights - "Gut Check" online.        "Gut Check" is the first of the final five episodes left of Friday Night Lights to air on NBC, ever. After that, the lights go dark permanently. "Gut Check" is the episode in the season where things are most depressing, and characters find themselves in really tough struggles. By next week, they will surely begin to pull out, but for now, things look rough. The episode begins by revealing the Lions lost a game, their first loss of the season. Coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) can handle losing, but http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/415/a-gut-check-for-friday-night-lights/ 2011-06-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee - "Preggers" online.   GLEEKONOMICS By Jerome Wetzel        This summer, I'll be going back to review the season one episodes of FOX's Glee. These are fresh reviews, not reposts, and I hope you will enjoy reliving the first season with me.      The Glee fourth episode, "Preggers," is when I started to actually like the series, because there is real heart in it. This is a really moving story about a father and son, and that relationship has become one of the best parts of the entire series. I was less than impressed with the campy http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/414/someone-is-preggers-on-glee/ 2011-06-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Franklin & Bash - "Jennifer of Troy" online.        This week's entry of TNT's Franklin & Bash is "Jennifer of Troy." A young woman is let go of her job at a men's magazine because, she claims, she is simply "too beautiful." The woman is Jennifer (Saturday Night Live writer Jillian Bell), and upon hearing the details of the case, Franklin (Breckin Meyer) and Bash (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) jump at the chance to defend her. Then they see her, and are suddenly questioning if there is any merit at all. The duo also try to help out their http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/412/jennifer-of-troy-astounds-franklin--bash/ 2011-06-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Nine Lives of Chloe King - "Pilot" online.        The Nine Lives of Chloe King is ABC Family's newst drama, and premiered this past Tuesday night. With hints of former ABCF series Kyle XY, and a healthy dose of Buffy the Vampire Slayers, mixed with actual cats, not the musical, it's quite exciting! On her 16th birthday, Chloe (Skyler Samuels, The Gates)  learns she is not human, and is, in fact, hunted by huamsn. She's a Mai, an ancient race with super agilitiy and retractable claws. However, Chloe is a very special Mai, foretold to be http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/413/pilot-of-the-nine-lives-of-chloe-king-premieres/ 2011-06-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Memphis Beat - "At the River" online.        Memphis Beat is back on TNT for season two. In the premiere, "At the River," the body of a cop is found, appropriately enough, at the river. Internal Affairs is investigating the slain officer as a possible dirty copy, so Lt. Rice (Alfre Woodard) asks Dwight (Jason Lee) to help out the IA officer assigned to the case, Claire Ryan (Beau Garrett, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior). Dwight meets the dead man's son, and remembers how his own father met an untimely death while on the job. He is determined http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/410/memphis-beat-finds-a-body-at-the-river/ 2011-06-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Hawthorne - "For Better or Worse" online.        As the third season of TNT's Hawthorne begins, Christina (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Tom (Michael Vartan) are getting married! Too bad they only have time to quickly say their vows before a neighbor wrecks his car and they have to reush off to the hospital. That all goes fine, but as Christina attempts to go home, she is attacked and badly beaten. Nick (Marc Anthony, now a series regular) vows to track down the man who hurt her, and he does. Tom does everything he can to save Christina's http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/411/hawthorne-immediately-tests-for-better-or-for-worse/ 2011-06-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Glee Project - "Individuality" online.   GLEEKONOMICS By Jerome Wetzel        Fans of FOX's Glee can have an early look at a new cast member by watching Oxygen's The Glee Project, a reality competition series. Twelve performers are currently competing, and one will be sent home ezch week until there is one winner, who will get to be in seven episodes of Glee next season. The first two hours of this series premiered Sunday night. In the first part, auditions were held and MySpace videos purused as the field shrank from about 40,000 to the twelve featured, ending http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/408/the-glee-project-searches-for-individuality/ 2011-06-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Switched at Birth - "This Is Not a Pipe" online.        Newly premiering on ABC Family last night is the drama Switched at Birth.In this heartwarming tale, a young girl who feels like something just doesn't fit between her and her family is proven right by a school blood test during science class. The hospital confirms Bay Kennish's theory (Vanessa Marano, Gilmore Girls, The Young and the Restless), and reveals that Bay was switched at birth with another baby. The second child involved is Daphne (Katie Leclerc, Flying By), who is raised by her mother, and is http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/399/this-is-not-a-pipe-begins-switched-at-birth/ 2011-06-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watchTeen Wolf - "Wolf Moon" online.        While Teen Wolf has already been a movie and a short-lived TV series, MTV decided to give it the darker treament with a new version, which aired this Sunday and Monday. There are a few similarities to the 1985 movie Teen Wolf starring Michael J. Fox, including the look of the half-transformed title character, but it's only loosely based on the film. Scott McCall (Tyler Posey, Lincoln Heights, Doc) is the new wolf, who, while looking for half of a deas girl's body in the forest with his best friend Stiles http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/401/sunday-and-monday-kick-off-mtvs-new-teen-wolf/ 2011-06-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee - "Acafellas" online now.        This summer, I'll be going back to review the season one episodes of FOX's Glee. These are fresh reviews, not reposts, and I hope you will enjoy reliving the first season with me.      FOX's Glee's third episode is "Acafellas." In it, Rachel (Lea Michele) insults Will's (Matthew Morrison) choreography skills, so he turns his attentions to forming a boy band called Acafellas. The New Directions set out to hire a new dance teacher, except Finn (Cory Monteith), who understands that Will just has bruised feelings, and they should fix http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/406/glee-introduces-the-acafellas/ 2011-06-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Covert Affairs - "Begin the Begin" online now.        Annie Walker (Piper Perabo) and Ben Mercer (Eion Bailey)  get their happy ending on the season premire of USA's Covert Affairs. Too bad it doesn't last very long. Within the first few minutes, they are running from would-be killers with guns, then escaping back to D.V., where Ben is whisked off, and not allowed to see Annie again. Arthur (Peter Gallagher), who is also building a defense with the help of his wife, Joan (Kari Matchett), sends Ben back to work under the radar. Annie goes home to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/403/begin-the-begin-begins-covert-affairs-season-2/ 2011-06-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Men of a Certain Age - "The Pickup" online now.        "The Pickup" is quite a depressing episode of TNT's Men of a Certain Age. Both Joe and Terry's lives take a turn for the worse. Terry's problems are set off by Erin (Melinda McGraw) dumping him, and he begins to look for one night stands, all the while not paying much attention of care to his job. A surprise 50th birthday party thrown by his friends does nothing to cheer him up. Terry takea a lot of his bad feelings out on rival co-worker Marcus (Brian http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/404/men-of-a-certain-age-208--the-pickup/ 2011-06-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 - "Freedom Cobra" online.        Looking forward to the start of the new season of Aqua Teen Hunger Force? It's already four episodes in, but it may have fooled you, as it is now airing under the title Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1. Besides the theme song, the two shows, both part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, is identical. While some reports seemed to point to a return to the detective work shown very early in on the series and not since, this premise is quickly abandoned in the first of the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/394/aqua-unit-patrol-squad-1-is-exactly-like-aqua-teen-hunger-force/ 2011-06-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Killing - "Missing" online.        In this week's episode of AMC's The Killing, you may have noticed a few differences. Gone are Richmond (Bill Campbell), Mitch (Michelle Forbes), and Stan (Brent Sexton), as well as virtually any mention of Rosie Larsen (Katie Findlay) or her murder, save for a few minutes at the beginning and end of the episode. Instead, "Missing" handles an entirely different situation, one that springs up suddenly, and Detectives Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) and Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) are free to devote themselves to because they're waiting on a warrant anyway. Sarah's http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/396/a-lot-is-missing-from-this-weeks-episode-of-the-killing/ 2011-06-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com   Please click here to watch Glee - "Showmance" online.        This summer, I'll be going back to review the season one episodes of FOX's Glee. These are fresh reviews, not reposts, and I hope you will enjoy reliving the first season with me.      I'm only just beginning the look back at Glee's first season, but I am confident that "Showmance" will number among the better episodes. It has many laugh-out-loud moments, as well as some fantastic musical numbers. Sue (Jane Lynch) is at the top of her game, trying to sabotage the New Directions and handing out zingers. The story http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/392/in-a-showmance-with-glee/ 2011-06-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Friday Night Lights - "Fracture" online.        The final season of NBC's Friday Night Lights has been strong, but stumbles slightly in this middle with "Fracture." Many of the stories threading their way through the first half of this season begin to unravel in big ways this week. Vince's (Michael B. Jordan) ego continues to grow, shown in a very self-centered interview he gives. He takes it further when he skips practice to visit a college that it trying to lock him. Remembering the bad experience of her abortion, Becky (Madison Burge) cools her just rekindled romance http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/388/a-fracture-on-friday-night-lights/ 2011-06-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Franklin & Bash - "Pilot" online.        Franklin & Bash is TNT's newest series, a part drama, part comedy about two men who share the title's name. Breckin Meyer (Robot Chicken, Road Trip) is Jared Franklin, who instead of taking a job for his dad, chooses to spend his days bucking the system and goofing off in general.  Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Saved By the Bell, Raising the Bar) is Peter Bash, who would like a real job, and is more than willing to follow the rules and be reputable, if not for his partner's bad in fluence. In http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/385/franklin--bash-airs-a-pilot/ 2011-06-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Men of a Certain Age - "The Great Escape" online.        Returning last night to TNT is their hit drama Men of a Certain Age. If you weren't pleased with the meandering first season of the show, all of those problems have been fixed as the series begins its second half of season two with "The Great Escape." Joe has more than one person needing his TLC, as Manfro (Jon Manfrellotti) wants to let loose the night before he is to begin chemo, and ex-wife and mother of his kids Sonia (Penelope Ann Miller) has ended things http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/386/the-great-escape-made-by-men-of-a-certain-age/ 2011-06-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee - "Pilot" online.      This summer, I'll be going back to review the season one episodes of FOX's Glee. These are fresh reviews, not reposts, and I hope you will enjoy reliving the first season with me.      Many things had to happen to set up the story in FOX's Glee "Pilot," which originally previewed in May 2009, then re-aired in September as the series went weekly. Glee is hinged on musical numbers, but with no glee club to speak of as the series begins, the first episode is very light on them. Instead, two major http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/382/a-look-back-at-the-glee-pilot/ 2011-06-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the season finale of Body of Proof, "Broken Home," online now.        The newest ABC drama in the medical genre is Body of Proof, which began this past March. I reviewed the pilot, but then I let the rest of the episodes just sit on my TiVo, figuring it was probably just like so many other medical and crime procedurals already on the air. While some series in that genre, especially Bones and to some extent Castle are fairly well made, most end up being the same thing week after week, and not worth watching. To be http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/379/a-look-at-body-of-proofs-first-season/ 2011-05-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Game of Thrones - "You Win or You Die" online.        HBO's Game of Thrones brings many of the conflicts it has been brewing to a head as the battle for control of the Seven Kingdoms between a number of opposing forces flares up. In "You Win or You Die," this week's episode, plans are revaled and begin to unfold. Daenerys (Emilia Clarke), who recently coldly watched her brother Viserys (Harry Lloyd) die at the hands of her husband, Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa), decides she would like to carry on Viserys's mission for herself and her unborn http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/380/you-win-or-you-die-in-the-game-of-thrones/ 2011-05-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Modern Family - "The One That Got Away" online.        ABC's Modern Family did not disappoint with their season finale, "The One That Got Away." It's Jay's (Ed O'Neill) birthday, and all he'd like to do is go fishing, finding peace and quiet. But, of course, given his large and needy family, that doesn't happen. Instead, he is stuck rescuing his kids and picking up his own cake. Cam (Eric Stonrestreet) wants a break from caring for baby Lily, so he dumps her on Floria (Sofia Vergara), but doesn't seem to mind giving romantic advice to her http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/376/modern-family-presents-its-season-finale-the-one-that-got-away/ 2011-05-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee - "New York" online.   FOX's Glee takes the New Directions all the way to New York City in the season finale, "New York," as they sing at Nationals. The students are supposed to be writing some new songs to perform, but instead, find themselves drawn to exploring the greaqt city they are in. Finn (Cory Monteith) makes his move by setting up a very romantic date for Rachel (Lea Michele), but the diva thinks their future paths may diverge, and so resists his advances. Kurt's (Chris Colfer) tour with Rachel is more productive, helping her to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/375/glee-takes-the-show-to-new-york/ 2011-05-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Borgias - "Nessuno (Nobody)" online.        Nine episodes is Showtime's The Borgias gets for its first season. But the season finale does not disappoint. It finds the French army marching through the fates of Rome. Rodrigo Borgia (Jeremy Irons), otheriwse known as Pope Alexander, is in a simple robe when King Charles (Michael Muller)  finds him, garnering surprise and a bit of respect from the monarch. This doesn't exactly fit into Cardinal Della Rovere's (Colm Feore) plans. After reaching an agreement with Charles, Rodrigo invites his cardinals to return, in a truly humiliating manner. Charles departs http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/369/the-borgias-declares-nessuno-nobody-is-the-winner/ 2011-05-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch House - "Moving On" online.        What a season finale for FOX's House  seventh season! As the episode begins, we see Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) and Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) being intereviewed by policeman, a bit that serves as framework story for the larger episode. Viewers are left waiting until the final moments to see what the problem is. House (Hugh Laurie) is in the hospital as a patient, after slicing open his own leg last week while trying to remove a few tumors. He chooses a peformance artist (the great Shohreh Aghdashloo) as his team's patient of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/365/house-begins-the-process-of-moving-on/ 2011-05-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Private Practice - "...To Change the Things I Can" online.        ABC's Private Practice  brings its fourth season to a close with some pretty big developments, both personally and professionally. In an episode titled "...To Change the Things I Can," the words prove apt. Addison (Kate Walsh) meets a handsome stranger (Benjamin Bratt, Law & Order, The Cleaner), and though she doesn't take the time to learn his name, she considers going on a trip with him, before deciding it is more important she stay back for the practice. Violet (Amy Brenneman) doesn't have the same qualms, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/356/private-practice-wants-to-change-the-things-i-can/ 2011-05-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Saturday Night Live - "Justin Timberlake / Lady Gaga" online.        As NBC ended its 36th season of Saturday Night Live, they used one of the most popular hosts and guests, Justin Timberlake and huge pop star  Lady Gaga to draw viewers. Opening the show, Justin proclaims that he won't be singing tonight, in song, naturally, a rule he breaks many times over the next hour and a half. Many of the sketches in the season finale are recurring sketchs, such as a new "Secret Password", Timberlake in a costume advertising something, another Herb Welch report, a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/360/saturday-night-live-ends-36th-season-strong-with-justin-timberlake-and-lady-gaga/ 2011-05-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Grey's Anatomy - "Unaccompanied Minor" online.        Creator Shonda Rhimes likens this year's season finale of ABC's Grey's Anatomy, "Unaccompanied Minor," to last year's shooting massacre finale. However, this time around, the bullets are metaphorical instead of physical. It's an apt analogy, as many of the main characters suffer serious emotional pain in the episode. Derek (Patrick Dempsey) is disgusted to learn that his wife, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo), tampered with his Alzheimer's trial. Chief Webber (James Pickens Jr.) goes easy on Meredith once he realizes Meredith has acted to help his wife, but Derek can't bring himself http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/353/greys-anatomy-finds-an-unaccompanied-minor/ 2011-05-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Office - "Search Committee" online.      NBC's The Office ended its season last night with a special one-hour episode entitled "Search Committee." In it, Jim (John Krasinski), Toby (Paul Lieberstein), and Gabe (Zach Woods) interview a wide variety of candidates vying for the manager position at Dundler Mifflin Sabre. Jo (Kathy Bates, whose NBC series Harry's Law was just renewed) returns to check on the process, but gives little input on who should be chosen. Jo does send Gabe back to Florida, though, when it's clear that he has gotten too personally involved in office drama, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/354/the-office--search-committee/ 2011-05-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Good Wife - "Closing Arguments" online.        For the second season finale of CBS's The Good Wife, the series combines an important case with a number of personal developments. Will (Josh Charles) works to clear a man of murder. The odds are against him, even though the prosecution has a shaky case. Alicia (Julianna Margulies) is forced to work with Kalinda (Archie Panjabi) to assisst Will, even though Alicia still isn't speaking with her on a personal level. Meanwhile, Eli (Alan Cumming) wants to move his consulting business into Lockhart / Gardner, a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/349/the-good-wife-makes-closing-arguments/ 2011-05-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Big Bang Theory - "The Roommate Transmogrification" online.        For the season finale of CBS's The Big Bang Theory, the writers went for shakeups. Tired of listening to Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and his sister, Priya's (Aarti Mann), sounds of lovemaking, Raj (Kunal Nayyar) goes to stay in Leonard's apartment with Sheldon (Jim Parsons). When Leonard and Raj agree that they should make the arrangement semi-permanent, Sheldon naturally makes Raj sign a complicated roommate agreement. But everyone is happy with the arrangement, including Sheldon, who considers Raj a much more accommodating roommate than Leonard. Then Leonard and http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/350/the-big-bang-theory-accomodates-the-roommate-transmogrification/ 2011-05-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Gossip Girl - "The Wrong Goodbye" online.        Like almost every season, the CW's Gossip Girl chooses to its major plots a little early so the various characters can scatter for the summer. Also like every year, a few major bombshells must be dropped before they go. In Gossip Girl's finale, "The Wrong Goodbye," Chuck (Ed Westwick) saves Blair (Leighton Meester), and they reconnect. Blair is willing to leave her fiance, Prince Louis Grimaldi (Hugo Becker), for Chuck, but in a rare moment of maturity, Chuck steps aside, giving http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/338/gossip-girl-says-the-wrong-goodbye/ 2011-05-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee - "Funeral" online.        FOX's Glee goes for the emotional reaction in its second penultimate episode. Sue's (Jane Lynch) beloved sister Jean (Robin Trocki), who has Down syndrome, dies, leaving Sue more cranky and vindictive than usual. Finn (Cory Monteith), who is looking to retake a leadership role in the New Directions, offers to help Sue pack up Jean's things, as well as plan the funeral. The New Directions perform at the well-attended ceremony, singing one of Jean's favorite songs, "Pure Imagination," from the film Willy Wonka & http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/341/glee-attends-a-funeral/ 2011-05-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch break_in - "21.0 Jump Street" online.        FOX's breaking_inwas recently canceled after a mere half dozen episodes, the last of which aired this week. The episode "21.0 Jump Street," which will serve as the series finale, found most of the team assigned to work for Mike Tyson (guest starring as himself), while Cam (Bret Harrison) is supposed to help a high schooler being cyber-bullied. But Cam finds the assignment harder than expected, and after asking Cash (Alphonso McAuley) to assist with a photo http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/346/breakingin-goes-to-210-jump-street/ 2011-05-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Raising Hope - "Don't Vote for This Episode" online.        For the season finale of FOX's Raising Hope, the series goes back in time five years. Jimmy (Lucas Neff) is a goth, attracting the attention of a the new awkward, braces-wearing cashier at the grocery store, Sabrina (Shannon Woodward). Maw Maw (Cloris Leachman) still seems fully lucid, and is tired of supporting her immature granddaughter, Virginia (Martha Plimpton), and Virginia's equally clueless husband, Burt (Garret Dillahunt). So on Jimmy's 18th birthday, which is also Maw Maw's 80th, she kicks the trio out on http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/347/raising-hope-asks-dont-vote-for-this-episode/ 2011-05-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch How I Met Your Mother - "Challenge Accepted" online.        CBS's How I Met Your Mother closes the sixth season with a twist and a mystery in "Challenge Accepted." The wedding framework story, which has popped up several times throughout this year, is revealed to be Barney's (Neil Patrick Harris) ceremony, though the bride is still, as yet, unknown. Signs point to either Robin (Cobie Smulders) or Nora (Nazanin Boniadi). Back in the present, Ted (Josh Radnor) considers giving his relationship with Zoey (Jennifer Morrison) another shot, while Lily's (Alyson Hannigan) food poisoning http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/333/how-i-met-your-mother-says-challenge-accepted/ 2011-05-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Hawaii Five-0 online.        As CBS's Hawaii Five-0 wraps up its freshman year, a lot goes down in "Oia'i'o." The biggest surprise is that the governor (Jean Smart), the woman who founded Five-0, isn't who she says she is. Once Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) learns her secrets, he becomes a wanted man, on the run from both the law and criminal mastermind Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos). Only Danno (Scott Caan), who is supposed to be leaving the island forever with his family, can likely clear Steve's name. Unfortunately, one http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/334/hawaii-five0--oiaio/ 2011-05-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Chuck - "Chuck Versus the Cliffhanger" online.        NBC's Chuck is the little show that could, chugging along long after its been assumed dead, multiple times. With next season just announced as Chuck's fifth and final, last night's season finale, "Chuck Versus the Cliffhanger," should be yet another game changer for a series known for such. It does not disappoint. Fired from the CIA, and with the Intersect computer removed from his brain while trying to save Sarah's (Yvonne Strahovski) life, Chuck (Zachary Levi) also takes the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/337/chuck-in-chuck-versus-the-ciffhanger-for-the-final-time/ 2011-05-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Smallville - "Finale" online.        Ten years in the making, the CW's Smallville finally comes to a close this weekend. Clark Kent (Tom Welling) realizes that to become the Superman the world needs him to be, he must embrace the past and both of his fathers, as well as what they have taught him. It is not a realization reached easily, but once discovered, his destiny is achieved hard and fast, in time to stop Darkseid from destroying the world. As Clark is doing this, Oliver (Justin http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/330/smallville-presents-the-series-finale/ 2011-05-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of Desperate Housewives online now.        Seven seasons in, ABC's Desperate Housewives doesn't need the big finale build up. In fact, despite the fact that the season finale is billed as a two hour special event, unlike in the past, both hours are separate episodes, with their own arcs and stories. In the first, "And Lots of Security...," the Paul Young (Mark Moses) / Felicia Tillman (Harriet Sansom Harris) feud is resolved once and for all. In the second, "Come On Over for Dinner," a new intrigue begins http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/331/desperate-housewives--and-lots-of-security-come-on-over-for-dinner/ 2011-05-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Community - "For a Few Paintballs More" online.        NBC's Community presented their second season finale in two parts. In the first part, "A Fistful of Paintballs," Greendale became the scene of a Western when an ice-cream company convinced the Dean (Jim Rash) they would offer a small prize for a paintball tournament, and then announced the winner will receive $100,000 cash. The students went crazy, much as happened last year when the Dean held his own paintball tournament. But when a mysterious stranger known http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/324/community--a-fistful-of-paintballs--for-a-few-paintballs-more/ 2011-05-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Nikita - "Pandora online.        In the CW's Nikita first season finale, "Pandora," things come to a head in a lot of personal struggles, and allegiances are revealed or reformed. Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca) now knows that Nikita (Maggie Q) is the one that pulled the trigger on her father, though Nikita disobeyed orders to save Alex, so the feelings are mixed, to say the least. Bottom line, Alex will no longer be working for Nikita for the time being. Understandable, given the circumstances. Percy (Xander Berkeley) struggles http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/326/nikita-opens-pandora/ 2011-05-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Outsourced - "Rajiv Ties the Baraat" online.        NBC's Outsourced ends its freshman year with a bang. Literally, lots of bangs, because there are fireworks at the end of the one-hour wedding episode. Rajiv (Rizwan Manji) finally walks down the aisle with his love, Vimi (Noureen DeWulf). All of Rajiv's co-workers are there to witness, as well as alternatingly hinder and help the ceremony happen. Happen, it does, and while the series may not return for a second season, at least it doesn't end quietly. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/325/outsourced-shows-how-rajiv-ties-the-baraat/ 2011-05-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to wacth Blue Bloods - "The Blue Templar" online.        CBS's Blue Bloods ends its first season with "The Blue Templar." Jamie (Will Estes), who has secretly invesitgated the police organization that killed his brother, hands the ball off to brother Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) at the end of the penultimate episode. In "The Blue Templar," Danny lets in father Frank (Tom Selleck), Grandpa (Len Cariou), and sister assistant district attorny Erin (Bridget Moynahan). Frank takes charge from the dining room table, keeping most of the cops in the dark, and leaving only Jamie, who brought http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/327/blue-bloods-takes-on-the-blue-templar/ 2011-05-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Vampire Diaries - "As I Lay Dying" online.        The CW's The Vampire Diaries did most of its blood shedding last week, killing off four characters, including poor Aunt Jenna (Sara Canning, who will be missed), an original series regular. So what was left for the season finale, "As I Lay Dying," last night? Instead of massive amounts of death, Damon (Ian Somerhalder) slowly grows weaker as the poison of the werewolf bite consumes him. His brother, Stefan (Paul Wesley), goes to evil original vampire/werewolf hybrid Klaus (Joseph Morgan), http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/321/the-vampire-diaries--as-i-lay-dying/ 2011-05-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee - "Prom Queen" online.        In this week's episode of FOX's Glee, "Prom Queen," the kids go to prom! But they don't just attend the dance, they are asked to provide the musical entertainment. An old foe returns to stir things up. Three members of the New Directions continue to battle it out for Prom Queen. Several students question whether they can finally come out about their sexuality. Others consider that the anti-homosexual attitude may be disappearing. At the dance, drama, fights, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/320/glee-crowns-a-prom-queen/ 2011-05-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Brothers & Sisters - "Walker Down the Aisle" online.        ABC's Brothers & Sisters ended its fifth season with an eventful episode. Sarah (Rachel Griffiths) marries Luc (Gilles Marini). Kitty (Calista Flockhart) learns she is pregnant, and wants to keep the baby, despite the health risks. Saul (Ron Rifkin) accepts a proposal from Jonathan (Richard Chamberlain). Tommy (Balthazar Getty) puts in an appearance. And Sarah makes peace with her father, Brody (Beau Bridges).      While season five has certainly been a weak season overall, there are some really great elements in this episode http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/317/brothers--sisters-walker-down-the-aisle-in-season-finale/ 2011-05-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Better With You - "Better With the Baby" online.        ABC's Better With You ended its freshman run with "Better With the Baby." By the title, it's easy to predict the main event in the episode: Maddie (Jennifer Finnigan) searches for her next career path. Oh, and Mia (Joanna Garcia-Swisher) also goes into labor. Everyone rushes to the hospital to be there for her birth, which is complicated when she suddenly decides she must be married before the baby comes. Casey (Jake Lacy), a.k.a. the most patient boyfriend in http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/318/better-with-you-greets-the-baby/ 2011-05-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Fringe - "The Day We Died" online.        Last night, FOX's Fringe delivered a truly game changing finale. "The Day We Died" is set in 2026, with the alternate universe long destroyed, and "ours" rapidly deteriorating. Fringe Division is led by Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), and her agents include husband Peter (Joshua Jackson), niece Ella (Emily Meade), and Astrid (Jasika Nicole) with a new hair do. A terrorist by the name of Moreau (Brad Dourif, Deadwood) is setting off explosives in New York City, and the team soon discovers that the villain behind http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/304/fringe-shows-us-the-day-we-died/ 2011-05-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Please click here to watch 30 Rock - "Respawn" online.        NBC's 30 Rock completed its fifth (already!?) season with "Respawn," in which a number of characters try to make it through the summer. Liz's (Tina Fey) dream is to stay in the Hamptons, learning Spanish and spending time doing brainless tasks outside. Her peace is interrupted when Tracy (Tracy Morgan) moves in next door to her. Jack (Alec Baldwin) doesn't even try to think of any way he might rescue Avery (Elizabeth Banks). Instead, he tries to carry on without http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/299/30-rock-tries-to-respawn-with-mixed-results/ 2011-05-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Justified - "Bloody Harlan" online.        FX's Justified ends season two with "Bloody Harlan," which has a lot of death, and no shortage of action. All of the various plot threads come to a head, and tie up nicely, without much cliffhanger. The feud between the Bennetts and Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) explodes in a big way, with each group doing damage to the other. Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) risks his life and his relationship with Winona (Natalie Zea) to try to save Loretta (the unexpectedly very talented Kaitlyn Dever), who rushes http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/297/justifed-ends-in-bloody-harlan/ 2011-05-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch United States of Tara - "The Road to Hell is Paved With Breast Intentions" online.      This season of The United States of Tara finds Tara (Toni Collette) dealing with her alters more directly. No longer are they just using her body, but she is communicating with them, and making agreements with them. But this week’s episode, “The Road to Hell Is Paved With Breast Intentions,” finds Tara touching on something else that may be going on. For the first time, it occurs that Tara may actually http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/289/united-states-of-tara-and-the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-breast-intentions/ 2011-05-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee - "Rumours" online.        FOX's Glee episode last night, "Rumours," is heavy on Fleetwood Mac, using the drama among various members of the New Directions to connect to the troubled band's album by the same title (hence the odd spelling). It is a tightly packed hour, with lots of development among various relationships, including one long-time-coming breakup, major trust issues, and a very tough decision for Mr. Schuester (Matthew Morrison). It is also perhaps one of the more emotionally moving episodes to date, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/290/glee-spreads-rumours/ 2011-05-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Killing - "What You Have Left" online.        AMC's The Killing is now six hours into the investigation of the murder of Rosie Larson (Katie Findlay). In the sixth episode, "What You Have Left." which chronicles the sixth day after the police opened the case, much time is spent gathering evidence for a theory found in day five, as well as dealing with the ramifications of said theory. It also appears that Detective Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) will be missing her nonrefundable flight http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/285/the-killing--what-you-have-left/ 2011-05-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Nurse Jackie - "When the Saints Go" online.      Showtime's Nurse Jackie continues its third season with "When the Saints Go." Sadly, the day has finally arrived when the moving truck comes and empties out All-Saints's sacred room. No one is more depressed than Akalitus (Anna Deavere Smith), though several others pay homage to the quiet space. As a favor to Akalitus in her day of mourning, Jackie (Edie Falco) lets new obnoxious nurse Kelly (Gbenga Akinnagbe) walk all over her. Most of the nurses are enthralled with Kelly, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/287/nurse-jackie--when-the-saints-go/ 2011-05-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Office - "Goodbye, Michael" online.      Last night, Michael Scott (Steve Carell) did his final episode of NBC's The Office, appropriately titled "Goodbye, Michael." Michael tells everyone his last day is a day after his real one, to avoid drama and tears. He subtely make sure he spends a moment with each member of the staff so they have a goodbye they can remember, and gives many gifts. Jim (John Krasinski) is the only one who picks up on the deception, as Michael keeps asking for Pam (Jenna http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/273/the-office-says-goodbye-michael/ 2011-04-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch South Park - "HUMANCENTiPAD" online now!      Trey Parker and Matt Stone, fresh from Broadway success, return to their animated comedy, South Park with a new episode called "HUMANCENTiPAD." In it, Kyle is kidnapped by Apple after agreeing to iTunes's new terms and conditions without reading them. Kyle has given his permission to be part of a surgical experiment; Kyle's father, Stan, and the others try to rescue him. Meanwhile, Cartman begins telling everyone that his mother f***ed him when she refuses to buy him an http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/274/south-park-builds-a-humancentipad/ 2011-04-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee - "Born This Way" online.      FOX's Glee presented a special hour-and-a-half-long episode last night. Among the big events are the return of Kurt (Chris Colfer), and Emma (Jayma Mays) finally seeing a medical professional (Kathleen Quinlan, Prison Break, Family Law) about her problems. The Warblers may also have given their last performance. Besides these, Santana (Naya Rivera) forms an alliance with a chastised Dave Karofsky (Max Adler), and Brittany (Heather Morris) encourages Santana to embrace who she is. All of the New Directions try to convince Rachel (Lea Michele) not to get a http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/270/glee-is-born-this-way/ 2011-04-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Voice online.        NBC launched its answer to FOX's American Idol last night The Voice. The Voice is a singing competition where four "coaches" listen to singers with their backs turned, then chose who they would like on their team. If more than one coach chooses the singer, then the performer gets to pick which coach they would like to work with. The Voice's coaches are all professional musicians, and the freshman run's lineup consists of "F*** You"'s Cee Lo Green, pop princess Christina Aguilera, country crooner Blake Shelton, and Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine. The http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/265/the-voice-stinks-up-nbc/ 2011-04-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Cinema Verite online.      HBO's latest TV movie is Cinema Verite. It's a look at the making of An American Family, which is widely considered to be the first reality television show. In An American Family, camera crews follow around the Louds of Santa Barbara, California in 1971, though it did not air until the beginning of 1973. The Louds went on to appear on the cover of Newsweek and on various talk shows as they combated the negative image the series showed of their family. In Cinema Verite, HBO attempts http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/259/cinema-verite-and-the-birth-of-reality-tv/ 2011-04-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Treme - "Accentuate the Positive" online.      HBO's Treme begins its second season with "Accentuate the Positive." This episode is set fourteen months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, and about seven months after the end of season one. The sprawling cast of characters continue to try to rebuild their city and lives, while new people arrive in town. Other New Orleans residents, who have left the city for various reasons, try to forge new identities outside of their beloved home, but find themselves http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/260/treme-likes-to-accentuate-the-positive/ 2011-04-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee - "A Night of Neglect" online.      FOX's Glee returned last night with an all new episode. In it, the members of the New Directions decide to stage a "Night of Neglect" to raise money to get themselves to Nationals, as well as to pay for several of their group to participate in an academic contest. Sue (Jane Lynch), newly determined to destroy the club, forms a Legion of Doom to combat them. Meanwhile, Will (Matthew Morrison) and Holly (Gwyneth Paltrow) have problems when Holly suspects that Will is still http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/247/glee-hosts-a-night-of-neglect/ 2011-04-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Parenthood - "Hard Times Come Again No More" online.      NBC's Parenthood kicked off season early last night as its second season came to an end with "Hard Times Comes Again No More." The episode picks up with Sarah (Lauren Graham) getting a late night phone call telling her that her daughter, Amber (Mae Whitman), has been in a car wreck, as seen at the end of last week's episode. The entire Braverman clan gathers at the hospital to support each other in a scene reminiscent of the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/249/parenthood-ends-season-two/ 2011-04-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Chuck - "Chuck Versus the Wedding Planner" online.      Although last night was NBC's Chuck's 21st episode this season, three more outings remain: Chuck's longest season to date. Not many shows get 24 episodes anymore. In last night's, "Chuck Versus the Wedding Planner," Chuck (Zachary Levi) and Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) are swindled out of over $20,000 by their wedding planner. On advice from Sarah's con man father, Jack (Gary Cole), they use CIA resources to track down the woman, earning them both a suspension. But when Chuck http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/241/chuck-versus-the-wedding-planner/ 2011-04-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Game of Thrones - "Winter Is Coming" online.      Last night, HBO premiered the first episode of its adaptation of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. Called Game of Thrones, the tale centers on a power struggle for control of the Seven Kingdoms. Various characters and factions engage in covert and overt rebellion, each trying to win the Iron Throne. Among the contenders are the current king and his protectors, the queen's brother, and an army supporting the disposed prince, who wishes http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/236/game-of-thrones-tells-us-winter-is-coming/ 2011-04-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Friday Night Lights - "Expectations" online.      One of the best shows on television began its final season last night on NBC. For those lucky viewers with DirecTV, it already aired and came to an end in February. It is also already out on DVD, so there is no need to hold off twelve weeks for the finale if you're so inclined. However, for those waiting for the NBC broadcasts, the countdown to the end has begun. This refers, of course, to Friday Night Lights.      http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/232/friday-night-lights-lives-up-to-expectations/ 2011-04-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Smallville - "Kent" online.      Four weeks are left until the CW's Smallville series finale. The show has been on there air for a decade. Ten full years. There aren't many series that can boast such a long run, and the show now is drastically different from the way it began. With a primary cast of only four characters (five, if counting Allison Mack's Chloe, though she is only doing a handful of episodes this season), the focus has shifted fully into Clark Kent (Tom Welling) becoming Superman. Sure, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/233/smallville-explores-what-it-means-to-be-a-kent/ 2011-04-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Vampire Diaries - "The Last Dance" online.      CW's The Vampire Diaries is a fantastic show. It has been having a wonderful year. The cast is great, plot twists come fast and heavy, the threat of death permanently hangs in the air, character growth continues, and twists abound. Yet, last night's episode, "The Last Dance," is definitely a weak point of the season and the series. SPOILER ALERT. If you have not seen last night's episode, do not read this until you do, unless http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/228/the-vampire-diaries-has-the-last-dance/ 2011-04-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Being Human (US) - "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Me Killing You" online.      It's going to be hard to write a review based solely on this episode after so recently watching all three series of the British version. Comparisons are easy to make, such as that the American Being Human on Syfy goes a little more for the humor than its counterpart. Look at the episode titles, and it's apparent. So perhaps a little look at the differences before the real reviewing of the episode's own merits http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/223/being-human-us--a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-me-killing-you/ 2011-04-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Click here to watch Happy Endings - "Pilot" online.      ABC's Happy Endings is reminiscent of many short-lives series that have come before it. It revolves around a group of friends who are involved in each other's lives. They hang out in various combinations and get into funny situations. It's a little Friends with a bit of How I Met Your Mother and a dash of Perfect Couples. Thus, it is not completely original. It's late premiere date also gives it a much smaller chance of sticking around than most shows. That http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/224/happy-endings-may-not-have-one-of-its-own/ 2011-04-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch House - "The Dig" online.      So much is going on in last night's 150th episode of FOX's House, that's it's hard to know where to begin. The episode is entitled, appropriately enough, "The Dig." Each of the various stories, some large, some small, many intersecting, deal with layers. There is always something beneath what is being talked about and obviously going on. Many of these layers deal with emotions and relationships. Some deal with disease. Some with morality. All allow serious insight into the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/219/house-718--the-dig/ 2011-04-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click to watch Brothers & Sisters "Olivia's Choice" or "Never Say Never" online.      Last night, ABC's Brothers & Sisters returned for a two hour special broadcast. Like much of this uneven season, there were good scenes and bad scenes, with the second hour definitely being much stronger than the first. Still, both were better than a lot of other episodes, and hopefully they continue to improve. Especially if this is their last season, which is a possibility, as the show has not been renewed for next year yet.      First, the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/215/brothers--sisters-two-hour-return-mostly-weak-signs-of-life/ 2011-04-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Being Human - "The Wolf-Shaped Bullet" online.      The British show Being Human ended its third series last night on BBC America. Not to be confused with the American version on Syfy, which ends its first season Monday (check back Tuesday for that review). The finale is amazing, quite possibly the best episode they've done yet, at least the final ten minutes or so. It is a real game-changer, taking the characters and plot to unexpected places. It's hard not to wonder if the American version http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/209/being-human-fires-the-wolfshaped-bullet/ 2011-04-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Nikita - "Covenants" online.      Note: Spoilers will not be until late in this article, and I will warn you before I reveal anything. I promise not to spoil any big twists. It is safe to begin reading, even if you have not seen tonight's episode.      TV Guide calls the CW's Nikita one of the "Seven Show You Should Be Watching". Overwhelmed with the amount of television running, and unsure if it was even worth checking out new shows, when many are so quickly canceled, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/205/nikita--covenants/ 2011-04-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Mr. Sunshine - "Ben and Vivian" online.      ABC's Mr. Sunshine ended its freshman run last night with "Ben and Vivian," which I feel is probably its best episode yet. Things really flowed well, and chemistry was improved by the addition of a great guest star. While a decision about renewal has not yet been handed down, things aren't looking that great for the series. That's too bad, because like many new sitcoms, I think Mr. Sunshine just needs a little time to really work http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/204/mr-sunshine-ends-with-ben-and-vivian/ 2011-04-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Harry's Law - "Last Dance" online.      NBC's Harry's Law just completed its first season this past Monday night. Only twelve episodes in the freshman season, not atypical, considering it did not premiere in the fall, though it is ending its run over a month before most of the spring finales. That's bad news, because it's been an enjoyable ride. At first, I thought it a lesser sibling to David E. Kelley's other awesome legal dramas, The Practice and Boston Legal, but it began to come into http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/201/harrys-law-dances-its-last-dance-of-the-season/ 2011-04-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Killing - "Pilot" online.      It's not often that a network can make several hit series in a row. Most new shows do not last into a second season. Yet, perhaps because they take their time, and only add series sparingly, AMC has yet to have a miss. First there was Mad Men, which was followed up by Breaking Bad. Last fall, The Walking Dead set the bar even higher, but this past Sunday The Killing did not disappoint. Four very different shows, but each amazing in http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/199/the-killing-lives-up-to-amcs-reputation/ 2011-04-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode of The Borgias online.      Ever since last spring, when Showtime's The Tudors made its final curtain call, television viewers looking for rich historical dramas, saturated with greed, betrayal, manipulation, adultery, and lots and lots of sex have been out of luck. But even as The Tudors was ending, the network announced a suitable replacement would be on the airwaves next year. Next year has arrived, and last night presented the first two episodes of Showtime's latest foray into the genre: The Borgias.      Both shows do http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/197/the-borgias-premiere-makes-you-say-the-tudors-who/ 2011-04-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Chaos - "Pilot" online.        The first thing that struck me about CBS's Chaos is that it does not feel like a CBS show. I say that as a compliment. CBS is known for its crime procedurals, which tend to follow the same formula most weeks. While the network has some truly excellent series that break the mold (for example, The Good Wife and The Big Bang Theory), Chaos is not what I expect from them. It feels more like a FOX offering, or perhaps NBC. As such, I http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/196/chaos-gives-a-fun-pilot-that-doesnt-feel-like-cbs/ 2011-04-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Grey's Anatomy - "Song Beneath the Song" online.      Surely, reviews about the musical episode of ABC's Grey's Anatomy will be mixed, as they often are for any type of big risk that isn't hands down brilliant. Grey's did a lot of things right. They stuck to the style of music their fans are accustomed to, indeed, using many of the songs made famous by Grey's promos. They also let their strongly gifted actors sing, while not forcing the entire cast to participate musically. As for complaints, I could see some http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/194/greys-anatomy-sings-the-song-beneath-the-song/ 2011-04-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Body of Proof - "Pilot" online.      When we last saw Dana Delany, she was leaving Desperate Housewives' Wisteria Lane with a female lover, not long after she matched wits with Castle on Castle. I guess it should be no surprise, then, that the star is popping back up on ABC. This time, in Body of Proof, Delany plays Dr. Megan Hunt, a medical examiner who used to be a neurosurgeon, until she was in a car wreck, and could no longer live with the guilt of killing anyone. Plus, her http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/192/body-of-proof--pilot/ 2011-04-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch United States of Tara - "...youwillnotwin..." online.      Lots of changes are occurring as United States of Tara begins its third season on Showtime. Season two ended a number of subplots pretty completely, so it's time to move on, though some of the new directions may take some getting used to. The biggest change may be the abandonment of the theme song, at least in the season premiere. It needs an update if they're going to continue to use it, anyway. Also, it appears that several minor http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/186/united-states-of-tara-says-youwillnotwin/ 2011-03-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Californication "And Justice For All" online.      Showtime's Californication season four finale: It starts with a surreal courtroom scene. Hank (David Duchovny) is read the verdict after being charged with statutory rape, a plot arc that started way back in the pilot, more than four years ago.      For a startling few moments, it appears that Hank is going to prison to be locked up and kept away from friends and family. Hank is not a bad man, and it seems gigantically unfair. After all, he had been http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/179/californication-delivers-and-justice-for-all/ 2011-03-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Shameless (US) - "Father Frank, Full of Grace" online.      What an exciting season finale that Showtime's Shameless gave us Sunday night! So much development, and some nice endings to a few plots. Unlike other shows, Shameless doesn't so much have little stories or mysteries that must be summed up in an episode, or even a couple of weeks. It's more a series of events in the lives of the Gallagher family. As such, the finale doesn't feel too much different than a regular episode, not feeling obligated to do http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/182/shameless-ends-with-father-frank-full-of-grace/ 2011-03-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Nurse Jackie - "Game On" online.      There are some shows so freakin' awesome that you await their new seasons with anxious anticipation. Showtime's Nurse Jackie is one of those shows. Though I am usually getting ready to go to sleep around the time that Nurse Jackie comes on, I was too excited for the third season premiere last night, "Game On," to slumber without watching it. Am I glad I did! The episode did justice to the high expectations I hold for the show as it kicked off a whole http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/184/nurse-jackie-declares-game-on/ 2011-03-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      Please click here to watch Community "Critical Film Studies" online.     Someone over at NBC's Community must love ABC's Cougar Town. Or more likely, lots of someones. I was looking forward to the Pulp Fiction homage in last night's episode celebrating Abed's (Danny Pudi) birthday, but what I didn't expect was a love fest for the sometimes-struggling, though already-renewed, Cougar Town. As Cougar Town is also one of my favorite sitcoms, and the cast and writers have the best Twitter feeds of anyone (follow @VDOOZER @ChristaBMiller @CougarTownRoom @kbiegel @BusyPhillips25 and @MrJoshHopkins), I was excited for http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/178/community-has-a-cougar-town-love-fest-in-critical-film-studies/ 2011-03-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Justified "Save My Love" online.      I should review FX's Justified more often, as it is one of the best shows currently running. Quite arguably, the best. I don't, though, because it is so, so good, and I like to just relax and enjoy it, without sparing to effort to analyze too much. And how much fun is it to read a review that keeps repeating, 'perfect!'? But we're halfway through season two, so it is time for some sort of update, so time to put on my thinking http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/174/justified-will-save-my-love/ 2011-03-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Modern Family "Boys' Night" online.      Who knew that Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neill) would enjoy hanging out with a bunch of gay guys so darn much? In this week's episode of ABC's Modern Family, that's exactly what is revealed, as Jay ditches his wife, Gloria (Sofia Vergara), and the symphony, for a bar. He happens to pick the bar where his son, Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), Mitchell's partner, Cameron (Eric Stonestreet), and their friends are enjoying cocktails. Jay gets a frilly drink and joins in the fun, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/173/modern-family-has-a-boys-night/ 2011-03-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please clikc here to watch Hawaii Five-0 - "Ne Me'e Laua Na Paio" online.      On this week's episode CBS's Hawaii Five-0, Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) gets another piece of the mystery concerning his father's death when he learns Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos) may have ordered the hit. McGarrett is now being aided by C.I.A. analyst Jenna Kaye (Larisa Oleynik), who has a personal vendetta against Wo Fat, and after finding his location, takes a leave from the agency to track him. Steve isn't fooled as Kaye claims to be http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/168/hawaii-five0--ne-mee-laua-na-paio/ 2011-03-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Big Love "Where Men and Mountains Meet" online.      It ended with the wives. Of course, it had to. After five seasons, HBO's Big Love finished with a startling, powerful climax, and with a family held together by deep love, no matter what judgments society makes about them. I do not know what most viewers' reaction is to the death of patriarch Bill (Bill Paxton) yet, but I thought that, combined with the group hug and remix of the original theme song, is the perfect ending to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/162/big-love-takes-us-where-men-and-mountains-meet/ 2011-03-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Chicago Code "Black Hand and the Shotgun Man" online.      FOX's The Chicago Code had a great pilot, but to my surprise, it continues to deliver extremely well-made episodes every week. Those expecting just another cop show are mistaken, as this series is certainly much, much better than most of its peers on television. The series gets into some real human drama, the heart of the people that make up the city of Chicago. The main characters struggle with moral compromises and how far to go http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/164/the-chicago-code-faces-black-hand-and-the-shotgun-man/ 2011-03-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Parks and Recreation "Harvest Festival" online.      It is finally here! So far this season, much of the action on NBC's Parks and Recreation has been geared towards prepping for the Harvest Festival. It is a be all, end all event that could save or kill the Pawnee Parks Department, so the stakes are high. I am not surprised at all that Leslie (Amy Poehler) is able to pull off the event with much success, as if she hadn't, the show would have a hard time continuing; the show's http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/158/parks-and-recreation-holds-harvest-festival/ 2011-03-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch V (2009) "Mother's Day" online.      What an exciting finale ABC's V delivered! While the show is frequently uneven, and suffers from major plot holes, more so than almost any other show on television, when things work, they really work. The second season finale, entitled "Mother's Day", has few problems. In fact, it is probably one of the strongest episodes to date. Considering the steadily increasing quality, I am really holding out hope for season three, as the series may hit its stride given one http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/154/v-celebrates-mothers-day/ 2011-03-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee "Original Song" online.      When FOX's Glee announced it would be tackling original songs this week, I knew it would either be amazing or horrible. I didn't really see an in between happening. It is the former, by the way. What I did not expect is the volume of new songs! SIX! I expected two or three for the Regionals competition, and of course we get those, but we also got more in the middle of the episode. Here is a ranking of the original songs http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/151/glee-writes-an-original-song/ 2011-03-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Simpsons "A Midsummer's Nice Dream" online.      It was high time Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, better known as Cheech and Chong, got to guest star as themselves on FOX's The Simpsons. I was stoked to see them. They were smokin'! OK, enough with the pot puns. This episode has enough drug references for a season's worth of episodes. But they weren't just stereotypical chariactures, thank goodness, so it ended up being a fairly funny.      Apparently Cheech and Chong are from Springfield, go figure. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/147/the-simpsons-has-a-midsummers-nice-dream/ 2011-03-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Chuck "Chuck Versus the A-Team" online.       We didn't have to wait very long to see what Jane Bentley (Robin Givens) is up to: she is heading up a new Intersect program! I was wondering what the rest of this season of NBC's Chuck is going to be about, and now I have my answer. Bentley is turning other agents into new Chucks, tweaking and downloading the computer program into more heads. Anyone else see a creepy parallel to Dollhouse and its series finale, where brains could be taken over remotely? Scary stuff! http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/149/does-chuck-belong-on-the-ateam/ 2011-03-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch An Idiot Abroad - "Karl Comes Home" online.      Eight weeks after it started, the Science Channel's An Idiot Abroad has come to an end. Karl Pilkington has come home, and in the final episode, he sits down with his chums and the show's producers, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, to discuss his travels and what, if anything, he learned.      I think I like this episode at least as much, if not better than, the seven where Karl is shown traveling the world. I am a big fan of The Ricky http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/146/karl-an-idiot-abroad-finally-comes-home/ 2011-03-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Being Human "The Pack" online.        The third series of Being Human, airing on BBC America in the states a few weeks behind England, is shaping up to be very exciting, owing mainly to a series of interesting guest stars. The main characters each have their own stories, too, but on the whole, they don't seem as dangerous or urgent as past plots. In the last few weeks, we have met a young vampire named Adam, a 'type four' (zombie?) named Sasha, and the father http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/144/being-human-searches-for-the-pack/ 2011-03-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch White Collar "Under the Radar" online.      The season finale of USA's White Collar this week was as frustrating as just about anything I've ever watched. USA is known for a certain type of show: procedurals that are a bit better on character development than the average network offering of the genre. I admit, I find about half of USA's shows unwatchable because of how strong the procedural elements are, but White Collar is one of the better ones. Or it usually is. The season finale left me confused http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/140/white-collar-goes-under-the-radar/ 2011-03-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee "Sexy" online.      As expected for an outing that returns Holly Holliday (Gwyneth Paltrow) to the halls of McKinley High, and as a sex ed substitute, no less, last night's episode of Glee was fantastic. The songs were great, the story moved along, relationships developed, and the series finally gave voice to the lesbian feelings of two certain glee clubbers. Other than some highly inappropriate things going on that would never be allowed at a real high school, I have no complaints. And there is more to talk http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/139/glee-is-bringing-sexy-back/ 2011-03-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch this episode of The Event online.      NBC's The Event returned last night with a special-two hour episode. The hours had different titles, but it felt like they were always intended to run together. I was worried about forgetting how the series left things when it disappeared months ago, but it was pretty easy to catch up. That is a sure sign we do not have another Lost on our hands, unfortunately. While I do not have a lot to say about the show, (this http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/137/the-event--and-then-there-were-more-inostranka/ 2011-03-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Desperate Housewives "Searching" online.      With the Oscars last weekend, several Sunday night shows aired their final episode before a month of reruns a week later than other series. ABC's Desperate Housewives entry was less shocking than some of their previous cliffhangers, but still contained quite a bit of good drama, especially in finding purpose, a theme for the episode appropriately titled "Searching".      Susan (Teri Hatcher) collapses in the episode before this, and this week her doctor does not have good news. Dialysis isn't working, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/133/the-desperate-housewives-are-seaching/ 2011-03-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Click here to watch Breakout Kings "There Are Rules" online.      After an extremely disappointing first foray into scripted television with The Glades, A&E is trying its hand again with a rejected FOX pilot, Breakout Kings. The differences between the two are enormous. Breakout Kings would be better compared to Leverage, except the pilot has me thinking Kings will be a darker, edgier, better developed version. Which is good, because I got bored with Leverage and stopped watching awhile ago. Unlike Leverage, the main characters are immediately given some real depth. Plus the cast is just plain better.      The http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/136/breakout-kings-delivers-respectable-pilot/ 2011-03-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Click here to watch The Ricky Gervais Show "Night Club" online,      Every episode of HBO's The Ricky Gervais Show is hilarious. I have yet to see a half hour where I didn't laugh out loud at least a few times. However, this week's outing struck me as particularly good for a number of elements. Time to discuss.      First, Karl Pilkington somehow dances around a delicate subject without really being insulting. Stephen Merchant mentions that Karl should meet Warwick Davis, and Karl goes on a little tangent about short people. But while I kept http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/129/the-ricky-gervais-show-goes-to-a-night-club/ 2011-03-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Parenthood "Qualities and Difficulties" online.      How do you tell a child that he or she has Asperger's Syndrome? That is the question NBC's Parenthood is clearly attempting to answer this week (the last new episode for awhile, based on their promos). Did they accomplish that feat? It's debatable, but we get both a good example and a bad example of how to tell a child, and the emotional journey of the parents involved is heart wrenching. So whether or not the episode is educational, at least we http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/126/parenthood-has-qualities-and-difficulties/ 2011-03-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Hellcats "Don't Make Promises (You Can't Keep)" online.      Usually when a show is about to take a month or so off, they offer some kind of big finale, often ending with a cliffhanger. Not so this time with the CW's Hellcats. I won't say that last night's episode is bad, but it certainly isn't one of the best. In fact, the episode I would have wanted going into the hiatus aired two weeks ago. It's a shame they couldn't have switched those around. Ah, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/127/hellcats-should-know-dont-make-promises-you-cant-keep/ 2011-03-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Despite the Good Morning America and Today clips I caught, and radio plays of recent quotes, I tried to keep an open mind going into last night's 20/20 special interview with Charlie Sheen. Oh, who am I kidding? Like most viewers, I tuned in to watch a bright star's career crashing down in flames, and I am not disappointed. Andrea Canning is tough, but fair. She pushes him when he avoids answering her questions, or gives her pat responses that reveal nothing. She keeps a straight face, and stays cool, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/121/charlie-sheen-a-mess-on-2020/ 2011-03-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com   Please click here to watch The Good Wife "Great Firewall" online.      CBS's The Good Wife is having a stellar season. While their arcs play out slower than many other shows, they do it with such talent and intensity, that anyone who tries the same method may likely be put to shame. The show still does some case-of-the-week stories, but much of the concentration is on larger, unfolding arcs.      Last week, the series tackled religion, teenage rebellion, introduced Natalie (America Ferrera, Ugly Betty, who will be doing several episodes), and brought back http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/123/the-good-wife-at-the-great-firewall/ 2011-03-02 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch How I Met Your Mother "A Change of Heart" online.      CBS's How I Met Your Mother is riding a wave of creative resurgence, turning out better quality episodes these past couple of months than they have in the past couple of years. A large part of this success can be attributed to the fact that they've gotten more dramatic. While comedy has been the show's strong suit, playing just for laughs doesn't a great sitcom make. Pathos are needed to care for the characters and develop http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/120/how-i-met-your-mother-has-a-change-of-heart/ 2011-03-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Vampire Diaries "The House Guest" online now.        The CW's The Vampire Diaries is taking about six weeks off, as many shows do at this time of year. As such, the series decided to make sure they went out with a bang before their break, and did they ever deliver! Unexpected deaths, secrets revealed, relationship pathos, a singing vampire, and a surprise at the end that perhaps no one saw coming. Oh my!      While much of the last weeks have been spent dealing with http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/116/the-vampire-diaries-invites-in-the-house-guest/ 2011-02-27 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee "Blame It on the Alcohol" online. "Ke$ha has been a cultural icon for weeks and I really want to do her justice." ~ Brittany Pierce (Heather Morris)      The best word that comes to mind to sum up last night's episode of FOX's Glee, entitled "Blame It on the Alcohol", is weird. That's Weird with a capital W. Don't get me wrong; I still enjoy it. There are some fantastic one-liners, as always. Santany and Artcedes - best nicknames ever, delivered in such a casual way. And Brittany's http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/107/glees-blame-it-on-the-alcohol-needs-to-blame-something/ 2011-02-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch House "Two Stories" online.      I always love it when FOX's House departs from its standard formula and does a different format episode. This week's "Two Stories" was the latest example of this, and it did not disappoint in the enjoyment factor. Framed by House (Hugh Laurie) talking to two fifth grade students, events are told disjointed and out of order, and often times, House is just downright lying. Add to that, parts of the episode involve House telling the young couple about him telling http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/106/house-tells-two-stories/ 2011-02-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Being Human "Lia' online.      While you blokes across the pond are already halfway through Being Human's eight-episode third series, those of us in the States just got the series premiere this past Saturday night. I'm not complaining; other than incessant reruns of Top Gear, BBC America has become my new favorite obsession, though I suspect we do get edited versions of the show. We have our own (lesser) version of Being Human now on SyFy, of which season one will deliver 13 episodes, enough to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/98/being-human-meets-lia/ 2011-02-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Californication "The Recused" online.      Why does Hank (David Duchovny) have to be such a womanizing screw up? Things take a much darker turn this season on Showtime's Californication when Hank faces both assault and underage sex allegations, the latter of which leads to Karen (Natascha McElhone) finding out about Hank's one night stand with step-daughter Mia (Madeline Zima), which happened all the way back in the first episode. Hank's teenage daughter, Becca (Madeleine Martin), who usually stands by her father and overlooks his flaws, doesn't even want anything to do with him. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/100/californication--the-recused/ 2011-02-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com   Please click here to watch Episodes "Episode Seven" online.      Seven episodes of Showtime's / BBC Two's Episodes is not nearly enough! Despite a weak and confusing premiere, the following six episodes are gems of comedy genius, delightfully played by a very gifted cast. Matt LeBlanc's Matt LeBlanc is funny, but not over the top. Stephen Mangan's Sean is the exact combination of neurotic and faithful needed. Tamsin Greig's Beverly is the right mix of jealous and uptight. Kathleen Rose Perkins's Carol is pitch perfect. Even John Pankow's Merc is a deliciously sleazy, yet not quite http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/102/episodes--episode-seven-season-finale/ 2011-02-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com      This being Smallville's final season, after ten long years, I am paying a bit more attention to it than I usually do, and than I do to other shows. As the series ramps up to the two-hour May finale, important pieces of the Superman puzzle keep falling into place. At first, I considered not covering this week's episode, "Masquerade", because overall it was just another run-in with one of Darkseid's minions, Desaad (Steve Byers). Sure, a good chapter in the season-long villain arc, but not particularly http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/95/smallville--masquerade-clark-chloe-villains-and-weddings/ 2011-02-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee "Special Education" online.      In season one, it seemed like almost the entire fall run of episodes in FOX's Glee was leading up to Sectionals. It was a big deal, constantly talked and worried about. It was the fall finale, of course, with huge drama. This year has been different. Instead of getting 'SECTIONALS! SECTIONALS! SECTIONALS!', we got 'KURT! KURT! Uh, oh, we forgot! It's time for Sectionals!' Plus, this week's episode, "Special Education", was not the mid-season finale, as there will be a Christmas episode http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/86/glee--special-education/ 2011-02-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee "A Very Glee Christmas" online.     'Tis the season for Christmas specials, and FOX's Glee does not wish to be outdone. Hence this week's yultide-themed offering, "A Very Glee Christmas." Thankfully, it maintained series continuity; sometimes holiday specials will step outside ongoing arcs to stay within a holiday theme. However, there were still plenty of Christmas references, especially to certain famous holiday classics, and all of the music was themed for the holiday. Of course, since at least one of the main characters is http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/87/glee--a-very-glee-christmas/ 2011-02-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Private Practice "Blind Love" online.      ABC's Private Practice is Grey's Anatomy's less consistent younger sibling. Despite a great cast, the series has had its share of ups and downs in the quality department. On shows I like, such as this one, I tend to try to overlook the downs, and only review the ups. Last week's "Blind Love" was an up, not for the story of the week, which was decent, but for the furthering of two major, well written, well acted running arcs.      http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/88/private-practice-goes-for-blind-love/ 2011-02-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee "Comeback" online.      FOX's Glee presented "Comeback" last night, an average episode with average musical numbers. There were some great moments and some fun one-liners, but the overall feeling was that it did not stand out in this season as particularly good or particularly bad. There's nothing wrong with that; every episode cannot be spectacular. This one had enough great moments to keep me happy for another week, and really, that's all anyone can ask for.      Probably the story most people will http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/85/glee-doesnt-need-a-comeback/ 2011-02-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Cleveland Show "A Short Story and a Tall Tale" online.      This week's episode of FOX's The Cleveland Show promised both "A Short Story and a Tall Tale". Really, you could often apply that description to any episode of the series, or any episode of any of FOX's Animation Domination shows. However, this being a Seth MacFarlane production, it's logical to assume that somehow the episode title should be offense, even if it doesn't appear so at first glance. Having watching the half hour, I can tell you http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/77/the-cleveland-show-tells-both-a-short-story-and-a-tall-tale/ 2011-02-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee "Furt" online.      Bizarre. That is the best word I can use to describe last night's Glee, or at least the first half. I certainly can't call this one of the best episodes of the series, although it did contain a few of the best moments. It felt to me like a season one episode, a bit all over the place, except that the plot didn't bend to the songs. In fact, it was a full twenty-two minutes into the episode (counting commercials) before http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/78/glee--furt/ 2011-02-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee "Never Been Kissed" online.      FOX's Glee is finally back, after only one episode in the past three weeks. Last night's foray, "Never Been Kissed", gave us two plots that fit the title, allowing both Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Beiste (Dot Jones) some quality screen time. Two of my favorite characters, it was fantastic to see even more of then than normal.      Of course, that's a relative claim. I've read the review whining about Kurt's emotional journey, saying that it's dragging the show down. I disagree http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/70/glee--never-been-kissed/ 2011-02-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee "The Substitute" online.      Glee, Glee, Glee! I admit, most of my Glee reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. I believe that this is a wonderful show that has been having a stellar season so far. However, this week's entry, "The Substitute", will surely rank among the best of the best when this season is over and done with. An A-list guest star, spectacular musical numbers, moving emotional moments, and an advancement of several large story arcs.      Perhaps the most anticipated part of this week http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/71/glee--the-substitute/ 2011-02-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch American Dad "A Pinata Named Desire" online.      I think that American Dad has figured out that episodes featuring Stan (Seth MacFarlane) and Roger (also MacFarlane) competing with each other, especially when the stakes are mere pride, work very well. As such, that was one of the two major stories going on in last night's episode, "A Piñata Named Desire". Stan claimed he could act, as he said he did it for a living working for the CIA. Roger, an alien with the voice of Paul Lynde http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/74/american-dad-bursts-the-piata/ 2011-02-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee "The Rocky Horror Glee Show" online.      If you're like me, you love FOX's Glee, adore the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and were frequently uncomfortable when the two combined.  My first thought on hearing that Glee was staging such a production was, "You can't do that with high school kids!" This controversy was acknowledged repeatedly by characters, but still Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) pushed on with his plans to bring the risque, campy pop culture icon onto a drama stage.      The people trying to stop him http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/65/glee--the-rocky-horror-glee-show/ 2011-02-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee "Grilled Cheesus" online. Another week, another Glee. But this week's offering was far from ordinary. I dare say it might have been the most emotional, and philosophical, episode of the series to date. Titled "Grilled Cheesus" after the (appropriately) cheesiest plot in the episode, this week was about all thing's faith, whether or not you believe in a higher power. Each Glee kid looked to their own ideas, and although the episode was vague on what those might be, the most important plots were sound. Kurt (Chris http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/62/glee--grilled-cheesus/ 2011-02-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee "Duets" online.      This week's Glee was as close to a typical episode of the series as you can get. Not that Glee has 'typical' episodes, as each is usually very different. What I liked about this week was the nice, easy pace, with each of the main kids getting some interesting plot. The adults pretty much took the week off. The kids not only got to act, but also sing, as, with the exception of Artie (Kevin McHale) and Brittany (Heather Morris), each got to sing as http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/63/glee--duets/ 2011-02-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee "Silly Love Songs" online.      With "Silly Love Songs", FOX's Glee is back on track, after a comparably weak (but still pretty good) post-Super Bowl showing. This episode, in the show's usual time slot, was a Valentine's Day special. The strength came from how it focused on the character relationships, and gave some defining moments to several characters that are more often in the background. Plus, there were some very good musical numbers, always a welcome element on a show that prides itself on http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/64/glee-sings-silly-love-songs/ 2011-02-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee "Auditions" online.      Lest you attack me for my article title, I loved the first season of FOX's Glee. Finally, a show that combined good storytelling with entertaining musical numbers! The problem with the first season, though, was that the storytelling was just good, not great. Sometimes the plot meandered. Other times, it felt like twists happened just to fit the songs that had been slotted for the episode. Glee had many great qualities, but it was also lacking in a few critical areas.      http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/56/glee-returns-much-improved-with-auditions/ 2011-02-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch Glee "Britney/Brittany" online.       FOX's Glee went two for two this season with this week's installment, "Britney/Brittany." The lesson plan was adult contemporary, but the kids has something different in mind: Britney Spears. They had a point, saying that they had grown up with the pop star, and that had influenced their lives. Too often Britney Spears is thought of as a joke, and she has become that. But don't forget the impact she made when she was at her zenith, and the crop of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/57/glee--britneybrittany/ 2011-02-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch The Chicago Code online.      There are far too many cop / legal shows on the air right now. That should be apparent to anyone casually glancing at the network prime time listings. That's why I was extremely pessimistic about FOX's The Chicago Code, and wasn't looking forward to reviewing it at all. This, despite the fact that the show sponsored me on Examiner last week, so I owe them one, which has no baring on my opinion of the show, but still... I http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/58/the-chicago-code-does-it-right/ 2011-02-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode.      After a long hiatus, FOX's Glee returned last night with a post-Super Bowl, stunt laden, extravaganza! It may have been just me, but while I rate this a solidly good episode, it did not make the top few of the season or anything. In truth, certain parts felt like they were warring between being crowd pleasing for a football watching audience and fan pleasing for longtime viewers. As such, the episode as a whole came out a bit uneven.      By uneven, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/52/glee--the-sue-sylvester-bowl-shuffle/ 2011-02-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here for the latest episode.      This week's episode of Bones, "The Bullet in the Brain", was one of the best they've ever made. For longtime viewers, the infamous Gravedigger (Deirdre Lovejoy), a serial killer who once buried Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) alive, made her fourth and final appearance. Her screen time in her final episodes was brief (she was gone before the opening credits), but more than memorable. In fact, she not only had a profound effect on some of the cast, but also kicked off a brand http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/32/bones-handles-two-major-arcs-awesomely/ 2011-02-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here to watch the latest episode.      It was a publicity stunt meant to connect the show with the times. Dr. Bailey, (Chandra Wilson) the character, tweeted during her surgeries, and internet-savy viewers could follow the tweets on a real twitter account. I signed up for a bit, but getting mostly medical jargon delivered to my phone, especially when the episode, "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)", was on (I didn't watch it live, as I don't anything - thank you TiVo!) and the tweets were coming rapidly, got annoying http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/51/greys-anatomy-gets-trendy/ 2011-02-06 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com For the latest episode, please click here.   I wish I had been more up on USA's White Collar return. Two weeks ago, in the mid-season finale, Peter (Tim DeKay) was framed for a crime, and had to get all of his friends to help him clear his good name in an Ocean's Eleven inspired way. The team included returning guest star Hilarie Burton as Sara. Then, last week, Peter probed Neal (Matthew Bomer) for information on new villain Adler (Andrew McCarthy), and as Neal told his story, we were treated to flashbacks of all the main characters http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/45/white-collars-maturation/ 2011-02-04 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Click here for the most recent episode.      I realize that the title of this article is a bold statement. It is also one I am willing to stand by. So far in the fourth season, Chuck (Zachary Levi) has found and rescued his mother, Mary a.k.a. Frost (Linda Hamilton), wooed and proposed (multiple times) to Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski), who last night appeared to say yes, and brought down one of the most notorious criminals of all time, Volkoff (Timothy Dalton) and his organization. As General Beckman (Bonita Friedericy) told Chuck when he asked to borrow a van, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/38/chuck-surpasses-awesomeness/ 2011-02-01 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Please click here for the latest episode.      A fan of FOX's Fringe from the onset, I did get a little bored with the case of the week mentality the first season, and to a lesser extent, the second, brought us often. However, after beefing up Olivia's (Anna Torv) story little by little over time, it soon became apparent that The Olivia Dunham Show, as my wife likes to call it, was something pretty darn interesting. Not only that, but Walter (John Noble) also got better and better arcs. Late last season, and even more so this season, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/34/fringe-keeps-getting-better/ 2011-01-31 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com For the latest episode, please click here.      Fans of the British version of The Office have longed for Ricky Gervais' David Brent to stop by NBC's American remake for years, making it an official spin-off instead of just a remake. The news came that it was finally happening in this week's episode, and I got very excited. Looking back, it was said that Gervais would appear only in the opening, but the result was still a wasted opportunity! The show could easily have built an episode around him, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/31/the-office-ricky-gervais-stunt-disappointing/ 2011-01-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com For the latest episode, please click here.      I will be among the first to stand up and complain that there are too many cop and / or legal shows on the air currently (not to mentioned medical dramas). But amid all of the mediocre shows, a few stand out. I find myself very much enjoying CBS's new Blue Bloods. I think that's because each member of the family works in a different part of the New York City police force or legal system, and there is almost as much http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/27/blue-bloods-is-all-about-family/ 2011-01-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com For the latest episode of Gossip Girl, please click here.      Everyone is frequently switching romantic partners on a show like the CW's Gossip Girl. Serena (Blake Lively) has dated at least half a dozen guys alone. So it should come as no surprise that Dan (Penn Badgley) and Blair (Leighton Meester) are suddenly getting chummy. In fact, their intense animosity for each other since day one would have made them the predictable couple in a romantic comedy. Yet, their hatred was so intense, no flirting undertones were ever in sight, that I was http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/24/gossip-girl-begins-beautiful-friendship/ 2011-01-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com For frequent mini-reviews and occasional TV news, follow Jerome on Twitter.      I have been excitedly anticipating the premiere of David E. Kelley's new series, Harry's Law. Not only was I a huge fan of Kelley's The Practice and its parody-like spin-off, Boston Legal, but I adore the legendary Kathy Bates, who stars as Harriet 'Harry' Corn. Adding to my delight was the casting of Nate Corddry (Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip, United States of Tara), whose credit list is still rather short, but who is a reliable delight, and whose career seems to be gaining steam. Having just finished http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/14/harrys-law-doesnt-do-hugs/ 2011-01-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com For frequent mini-reviews and occasional TV news, follow Jerome on Twitter.      After Shameless and Being Human, I am getting a little tired of typing 'based on the British show of the same name', but here we go again. Except, this one is MTV's Skins. Please keep in mind, I haven't seen the British version. Everything I say this review applies ONLY to the American version of Skins. And what I'd like to say is, the show is terrible.      Where to begin? First of all, the only audience I see for this series is the legions of horned http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/15/cover-up-skins/ 2011-01-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com For the latest episode, please click here.      It seems like not that long ago (last April 13th, actually) when I wrote a fond farewell to what I was sure would be Life Unexpected's series finale. Thrilled that the CW gave the little show a second season this year, though it was renewed well after last spring's finale, so we were left hanging for quite awhile, I find myself with mixed feelings that the show is gone for good. Ok, it's not officially canceled, but it might as well be. Kudos to the network for allowing a second chance, but the ending, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/17/life-unexpected-ends-unexpectedly/ 2011-01-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com For the latest episode of Medium, click here. ***This article contains spoilers. If you have not watched "Me Without You" yet, I strongly recommend you do not read it, as there were some pretty neat twists.***      Last night was the series finale of CBS's Medium. I used to watch the show religiously when it ran on NBC, but after the move to CBS last year, I thought quality went down. NBC wasn't afraid to shake up the series and make major changes. CBS, on the other hand, toned http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/23/medium-ends-series-strangely-continued/ 2011-01-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com For frequent mini-reviews and occasional TV news, follow Jerome on Twitter.      This past Friday, season two of The Ricky Gervais Show premiered on HBO. Like each episode of season one, it was the wandering musings of three mean recorded for a podcast, and then animated. However, this episode had a more centralized conversation than most. The topic? A movie Karl Pilkington thought up.      If you've never seen the show (or heard the podcast), you may not know who Karl Pilkington is. If this is the case, it is a very sad state you're in, that should be corrected immediately. http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/12/the-ricky-gervais-show--clive-warren/ 2011-01-17 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com