http://www.thetvking.com/user/goodbadgeeky goodbadgeeky's all the posts, both news and reviews by goodbadgeeky. Fri, 24 May 2013 18:34:02 UTC Dwight (Rainn Wilson) gets a black belt, Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer) being out of the relationship problem woods and Andy (Ed Helms) chasing his dream of stardom: yet another day in The Office with their latest episode "Livin The Dream". We learn right out of the gate that Jim has taken time from his other job in Philly to spend more time with Pam. And the time is quality.  Pam's addition: A quality morning too. Things are going well for The Office's favorite couple. Dwight meanwhile continues to have a good day. He exclaims proudly in an odd but funny moment http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1688/the-office-tries-livin-the-dream/ 2013-05-03 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It was a night of paper airplanes in The Office episode of the same name: “Paper Airplane” as the Dunder-Mifflin gang do an in-house paper airplane contest (going on company wide to support a new product that as Dwight (Rainn Wilson) states is harmful to the environment as it is made up of 60% plastic). Meanwhile Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer) are doing their homework from couples counseling while Andy (Ed Helms) is excited over his new gig in an industrial workplace film. The Office keeps chugging along to its finale and with two episodes left to go, “Paper Airplane” http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1680/the-office-attempts-to-build-paper-airplanes/ 2013-04-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Will Rick (Andrew Lincoln) give up Michonne(Danai Gurira) to The Governor (David Morrissey)? What about Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Merle Dixon(Michael Rooker)? How do they fit into Rick and The Governor’s plans? We find out in the penultimate episode of the hit AMC series of The Walking Dead titled “This Sorrowful Life” as tensions between Woodbury and the Prison are at an all time high. Also, what is the fate of Andrea(Laurie Holden) who was thrown into a torture chamber made by The Governor ? Will Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Glen(Steven Yeun), Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and the rest save her in time? http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1639/this-sorrowful-life-weighs-on-us-in-the-walking-dead/ 2013-03-25 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Wednesday was the premier of the third episode on USA Network’s hit series Psych titled “Lassie Jerky”, where it finds our heroes Shawn (James Roday) and Gus (Dulé Hill) who become part of a documentary being shot by a pair of college students who are looking for Bigfoot. Add a few bodies, a murder and maybe the mafia and do you have yourself a funny episode of Psych? The answer is yes. In an episode written and directed by star James Roday, it is a parody of films like Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project.  The episode “Lassie Jerky” is a perfect example http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1624/psych-takes-a-bite-out-of-some-lassie-jerky/ 2013-03-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Sunday night on HBO marked the return of Hannah (Lena Dunham), Marnie (Allison Williams), Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet)  and Jessa (Jemima Kirke) as they navigate the slings and arrows of living in New York City in the season two premiere of GIRLS. In the episode “It’s About Time”, Elijah (Andrew Rannells) throws a party with his new roommate Hannah, who meanwhile has all but officially broken up with Adam (Adam Driver). Marnie deals with her own dose of bad news and her mother (Rita Wilson) while Shoshanna deals with Ray (Alex Karpovsky) at the party while Jessa returns from her honeymoon.  So http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1571/girls-season-2-returns-with-its-about-time/ 2013-01-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Time is running out for Fringe fans as this coming Friday is the final episode of the FOX series.  The Penultimate episode of Fringe titled “The Boy Must Live” aired this past Friday, and focused on the Bishop Boys… both Walter (John Noble) and Peter (Joshua Jackson) along with Olivia (Anna Torv) taking the boy also known as Anomaly XB-6783746, to the house of the illustrious Donald.   Donald (Michael Cerveris), as we learned in the previous episode, is none other than ‘The Observer aka September’.  In this episode “The Boy Must Live”, Donald explains that for his crimes in allowing Peter Bishop http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1572/fringe-declares-the-boy-must-live-in-penultimate-episode/ 2013-01-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It’s December on Royal Pains which means it is the middle of the holiday season in the Hamptons! And the wedding bells are a buzz with Evan Lawson (Paulo Costanzo) and Paige Collins (Brooke D'Orsay)’ wedding plans, but an impending blizzard may derail the whole thing. Meanwhile Divya Katdare (Reshma Shetty) has a chance to settle an old score with a past lover, as Dr. Hank Lawson (Mark Feuerstein) must confront his own medical condition as both Hank and Evan confront past demons in the special 2 hour presentation of Royal Painstitled “Off-Season Greetings“ which for the first time in four http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1562/royal-pains-gives-offseason-greetings/ 2013-01-07 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com At first I was very concerned. The past few episodes of the new NBC comedy Go On starring Matthew Perry has been top-notch.  It has never ‘not’ been entertaining, but at some point, there is going to be a weak link.  There usually is in a freshman season.  Yet… -here I am. Typing up this review with nothing but some pure love for this show. Perry’s former single camera comedy Mr. Sunshine suffered not from a lack of heart, but a lack of direction for some of the characters which made the comedy more miss than hit. Any heart the series seemed to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1504/go-on-with-any-given-birthday/ 2012-10-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Tonight in USA Network’ Covert Affairs episode “Man in the Middle”, Annie (Piper Perabo) finds herself against a ticking clock as she tries to track down a location of a meeting between two suspected terrorists who are planning to meet. She must work tirelessly to find the meeting location before the targets get away. And what does Parker (Devin Kelley) want with Auggie (Christopher Gorham) ? In the last few episodes, Annie has been rescued and been seemingly protected by her old friend from the Mossad Eyal Lavine (Oded Fehr).  Finding it difficult to stay at her house where she was brutually http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1505/covert-affairs-looks-at-the-man-in-the-middle/ 2012-10-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It was a night of tension in the first episode back since the break of USA Network’s Covert Affairs with the episode titled “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide”.  Annie Walker (Piper Perabo) is now off the grid and on her own after her mission in Russia to hunt down, track (and kill) Nina goes awry landing her in captivity.  Auggie (Christopher Gorham), Joan (Kari Matchett) and Arthur (Peter Gallagher) work with an old friend  Eyal (Oded Fehr) to help bring Annie home. Can Eyal save Annie? And what does her captivity mean to Simon’s sister? Does she escape? Well, I believe so. * (*)- http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1487/covert-affairs-attempts-a-rock-n-roll-suicide/ 2012-10-16 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com When four brothers shielded from the outside world due to their mutation are allowed to on their birthday go top-side and experience the world for the first time, naturally there are some speed bumps to be expected. That is the basic plot of the pilot episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on nick, titled aptly “Rise of the Turtles”.  After a few episodes after the pilot with a stellar voice cast, how does the new CGI-based toon fare in comparison towards the original 80’s series or the 2003 (or 2k3) series? Somewhere in-between; for a series that could be given the term http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1483/first-thoughts-2012-nickelodeons-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/ 2012-10-15 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com "If we knew each other’s secrets, what comfort we should find." - John Churton Collins That’s the quote that begins Wilfred’s dramatic and philosophically intriguing season two finale titled "Secrets" as during the heart of the wedding between Jenna (Fiona Gubelmann) and Drew (Chris Klein), James (Eugene Byrd )returns to give Ryan (Elijah Wood) depressing news, as Wilfred (Jason Gann) pours on even more trouble and mental exhaustion at Ryan’s feet. We learn that Kevin Jesquire (Rob Riggle) has information that showcases Ryan is the guy behind selling secrets of his company for large sums of money. Ryan though swears he had nothing to do http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1450/we-learn-secrets-in-the-season-two-finale-of-fxs-wilfred/ 2012-09-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com What happens when you cancel the Ava show? That almost seems the real question of the episode titled “Friendships & Partnerships” of the recently retooled NBC series Up All Night. No longer is the Ava show a source of income for recent mommy Reagan (Christina Applegate) which is great because it allows her to spend more time with her husband and stay at home dad Chris (Will Arnett) and her daughter Amy. It is also bad though because gone is the five year plan they had set-up and discussed earlier in the series. And what will Ava (Maya Rudolph) do with http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1451/up-all-night-rebuilds-with-friendships--partnerships/ 2012-09-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The past three weeks had been some fantastic television with FX’s Louie on a three-parter simply titled “Late Show”. Comedian Louis C.K. (who won an Emmy for best-writing playing himself as the titular Louie) is offered the position of The Late Show with David Letterman since Letterman’s contract is up for renewal. And like the tonight show, taking over the Late Show from Letterman is a dream come true. Maybe not as prolific as the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (as it was once said no one can truly obtain his show anymore as it is damaged goods, it is Jay Leno’s http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1452/louie-embraces-the-late-show/ 2012-09-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It was a new night of comedy on CBS with the new “Pilot” from the creators of Will & Grace (David Kohan, Max Mutchnick) called Partners.  The new series features Louis (Michael Urie) and Joe (David Krumholtz) two lifelong friends who are both architects that form a business partnership. Add their respective partners such as Louis’s boyfriend Wyatt (Brandon Routh) and Joe’s girlfriend Ali (Sophia Bush) and you round out the cast with the plucky assistant Danni (Nika Williams). So how does the new CBS series measure up? Is it worth continuing and watching? Personally I was not a fan. And what http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1453/fall-2012-first-thoughts-taking-a-look-at-cbs-partners/ 2012-09-24 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Upon getting shot center mast by Lena Smith (Sarah Clarke) her previous handler and confidant, Annie Walker (Piper Perabo) from her coma thanks to the help from doctors but more importantly Auggie Anderson (Christopher Gorham) and Joan Campbell (Kari Matchett) in the latest episode of Covert Affairs titled "Let's Dance".   And it was a close call too: Lena almost got away with setting up so much evidence against Annie that even Arthur Campbell (Peter Gallagher) was quick to give her a guilty verdict. Annie is now up and about and ready for revenge. How far is Annie willing to go to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1444/lets-dance-exclaims-covert-affairs/ 2012-09-20 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It was an episode of ups and downs in the season finale of Royal Pains titled “Sand Legs”. In the season finale, HankMed is acting as the on-site physicians at the Hamptons Labor Day Invitational, which leads to Hank (Mark Feuerstein) treating an amateur beach volleyball player who he believes, may be suffering from more than just a summer bug. As Hank’s diagnosis becomes much more worse for the volleyball player, how does that effect his relationship with Harper (Kat Foster) who has asked him to meet her family? Meanwhile Divya (Reshma Shetty) confronts her new boyfriend Rafa after she discovers http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1441/royal-pains-finds-its-sand-legs/ 2012-09-19 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Our review of FX’s Wilfred right after we have a few words of wisdom from Malachy McCourt: “Resentment is like taking poison & waiting for the other person to die.” While Wilfred this week wasn’t as trippy as it can be, the episode was very well done, succinct and to the point. With Jenna (Fiona Gubelmann) and Drew (Chris Klein) tying the knot soon, Ryan (Elijah Wood) isn’t exactly excited, and as per Wilfred (Jason Gann), jealous of them. Things become strange when they announce to Ryan that Wilfred is the ring bearer. the series goes to hilarious leaps and bounds to make http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1435/wilfred-tackles-resentment/ 2012-09-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Before we look at the episode “Suffragette City” of Covert Affairs, let us first look at the song the episode’s title is taken from by examining this quote from a Rolling Stone interview in 1974 from David Bowie about the song “Suffragette City”: "The time is five years to go before the end of the earth. It has been announced that the world will end because of lack of natural resources. Ziggy is in a position where all the kids have access to things that they thought they wanted. The older people have lost all touch with reality and the kids are http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1431/covert-affiars-gets-a-whiff-of-lavender-while-visiting-suffragette-city/ 2012-09-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It was the penultimate episode of Royal Pains titled “Something Fishy This Way Comes” as perplexing problems seemed to crop up for the gang at HankMed. Ranging to matters of the heart to matters of flesh eating bacteria and infection or blood tests, the merry crew in the Hamptons had their work cut out for them. As Paige (Brooke D'Orsay) and Evan (Paulo Costanzo) deal with a woman named Lou (Rosanna Arquette) claiming to be Paige’s birth mother shows up, Hank (Mark Feuerstein) meanwhile is thrust from his wonderful relationship with Harper (Kat Foster) to international waters where his friendship (or http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1432/something-fishy-this-way-comes-on-royal-pains/ 2012-09-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com I think it's safe to this on behalf of the entire television audiences the world over (or at least those in the world familiar with Friends): Oh Matthew Perry, how we’ve missed you. That is the general feeling you’ll get upon watching Tuesday night’s new NBC comedy Go On which aired its second episode this week. Go On is about Perry’s Ryan King, a charming yet irreverent radio sportscaster who after the loss of his wife in a car accident, finds solace from members of his mandatory group therapy sessions with a diverse group of individuals ranging from crazy cat lady Sonia (Sarah http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1433/first-thoughts-2012-nbcs-go-on/ 2012-09-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The fall television season continues to chug along and are we a victim or are we the beneficiaries? NBC premiered its new series last night titled Guys with Kids. The “Pilot” established the series as three 30-something dads struggle as parents because they are still children at heart.  The 30-soemthing dads in question are the recently divorced/now single-dad Chris (Jesse Bradford), the father of four Gary  (Anthony Anderson), and the oddly jovial Nick (Zach Cregger).  And sometimes these dads go on adventures. But are the adventures worth going on as television viewers? Bradford, Anderson and Cregger are all fine actors and try to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1434/fall-first-thoughts-2012-nbcs-guys-with-kids/ 2012-09-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Parenthood returns following the adventures of an imperfect but loving family. Has it been four seasons already? The passage of time side, it’s been five or six months in real time since we last saw the Braverman clan and in the season four premiere of Parenthood on NBC which aired tonight titled "Family Portrait" sees the whole crew concerning themselves with the new family portrait. So how does the portrait go? Well as always there are other things going on such as saying goodbye to Haddie Braverman (Sarah Ramos) who is off to college and there is the question of whether or not http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1428/review-parenthood-beings-season-four-with-the-family-portrait/ 2012-09-11 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Someday what if everything just stopped working? Like a giant EMP hit the entire planet Earth? It’s a valid question, one that goes up there with ‘what would you do during a zombie apocalyspe’. I mean, because if you stop and think about it, almost our entire way of life depends on electricity. So what would happen if one day that anything running via electricity just stopped working? Well that is the question the guy who practically made ‘the mystery-box-show’ mainstream (with a side of lens flares) executive producer J.J. Abrams asks with his newly produced NBC’s series Revolution which aired http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1425/fall-first-thoughts-2012-nbcs-revolution/ 2012-09-10 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com While I enjoyed the heck out of the Russell T. Davies years of Doctor Who, I enjoy the Steven Moffat years just a skosh more (although I still prefer Tenant though this series in particular has made Smith the frontrunner here by episode five’s end). The second episode of the seventh season (or series for those being particular) of Doctor Who titled “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship” is about a cool concept of dinosaurs. Not just dinosaurs, but dinosaurs on a spaceship. Now Nick, you’re going, dinosaurs are cool. Yes, you’re right. If dinosaurs are coolness confined to a cup, the fact that http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1423/doctor-who-embraces-coolness-with-dinosaurs-on-a-spaceship/ 2012-09-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It was a night of laughs with the great sci-fi tragic twist at the end in the return of the great British Sci-fi series Doctor Who titled “Asylum of the Daleks”. In the first episode back of the new season/series, it asks “What happens when the good Doctor (Matt Smith) and his former companions Rory (Arthur Darvill) and Amy (Karen Gillan) are kidnapped by the Doctor’s mortal enemy the Daleks?” The answer is to ask for his help, of course. (Yeah, we thought exterminate was too on the nose too.) As The Doctor is asked to visit the Asylum, Rory and http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1418/doctor-who-storms-asylum-of-the-daleks/ 2012-09-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com In the new FOX series pilot  Ben & Kate, Kate (Dakota Johnson) would have her life together if it wasn’t for her idiot brother Ben (Nat Faxon).  Ben is a walking and talking disaster. But then again, Kate isn’t exactly as together as she’d like you to believe either.  Kate had an accident when she was younger, and that accident is now past five years old and named Maddie (Maggie Elizabeth Jones). With Kate getting close to finding her true love, will Ben’s sudden return throw Kate (and Maddie’s) life into turmoil? Ben whizzes in and out in Kate’s life, and she http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1419/first-thoughts-foxs-ben--kate/ 2012-09-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com In the new FOX series “Pilot” of The Mindy Project, a young Ob/Gyn doctor named Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling) who believes that love is like it is in romantic comedies tries to balance her personal and professional life, all whilst surrounded by quirky co-workers in her small doctor’s office. Some of her co-workers are Marc Shulman (Stephen Tobolowsky), Danny Castellano (Chris Messina), Jeremy Reed (Ed Weeks), Betsy Putch (Zoe Jarman) and Shauna Dicanio (Amanda Setton). And there is her best friend with a kid Gwen Grandy (Anna Camp). So how does The Mindy Project fare? Well, The Mindy Project is more miss http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1420/first-thoughts-foxs-the-mindy-project/ 2012-09-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Abnormal is the new normal, at least that is what tonight’s new NBC series The New Normal tries to tell us. In the “Pilot” episode with successful careers and a committed, loving partnership, Bryan (Andrew Rannells) and David (Justin Bartha) are missing only one thing: a baby. Could single mother Goldie Clemmons (Georgia King) from Ohio be just the surrogate mother they're searching for? And is the series from Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy any good? We’ll get to the answer here in a second. So how does a girl from Ohio* get to be the surrogate for the new hopefully happy parents http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1421/first-thoughts-nbcs-the-new-normal/ 2012-09-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It was a night of pop stars and babies in the episode “Dancing With the Devil” on USA Network’s hit series Royal Pains. Evan (Paulo Costanzo who also directed this week’s instalment) goes out of town to scope out colleges with his fiancé Paige (Brooke D'Orsay), Hank Lawson (Mark Feuerstein), Divya Katdare (Reshma Shetty), and Dr. Jeremiah Sacani (Ben Shenkman) deal with Ava (Patti Murin), a pop-star modelled after Lady Gaga. Add Boris’s woman Dr. Marissa Caseras (Paola Turbay) pleading with Hank to help her baby, Hank also hunts down the best pediatrician in the Hamptons. The big surprise being it http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1409/royal-pains-goes-dancing-with-the-devil/ 2012-08-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It was a night of ups and downs in the mid-season summer finale of USA Network’s Necessary Roughness with the episode titled “All The King’s Horses…”. With Terence King (Mehcad Brooks) going off the rails, how will Dr. Dani Santino (Callie Thorne) and the heads of the Hawks football team led by Coach Purnell (Gregory Alan Williams), Matthew Donnally (Marc Blucas) and Nico (Scott Cohen) try to save their all-star receiver? And does it hurt that T.K.’s agent blames Matty for losing his top client? And what does the guy (Michael Imperioli) from the Sopranos have to do with anything? It http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1410/necessary-roughness-takes-all-the-kings-horses/ 2012-08-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It was a nice of touching moments and surprises in this week’s episode of USA Network’s Royal Pains titled “Who’s Your Daddy?”. With Paige’s father The General, aka Paige’s father William Collins(Bob Gunton) on the campaign trail, the idea that he is taking time off to visit Evan and Paige for the sole purpose of meeting Evan’s father, Eddie R. Lawson (Henry Winkler), terrifies Evan (Paulo Costanzo).  Meanwhile Hank (Mark Feuerstein) and Divya (Reshma Shetty) are spreading the talents of HankMed at a Polo tournament. But is Evan’s concern about his father’s past experiences in the slammer and how it may http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1400/royal-pains-is-asked-whos-your-daddy/ 2012-08-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com A lot can happen in sixteen hours and that is exactly what the penultimate episode of USA Network’s Political Animals titled “16 Hours” is about.  Former first lady and now Secretary of State Elaine Barrish (Sigourney Weaver) finds herself torn between handling a rescues mission of the crew of a Chinese submarine or staying by her son T.J. (Sebastian Stan) as he lies in a hospital bed in a coma. Meanwhile Bud Hammond (Ciarán Hinds) learns the truth about T.J.’s suicide attempt last December, and Susan Berg (Carla Gugino) continues to play Douglas Hammond (James Wolk) to get her in front http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1390/political-animals-takes-a-look-over--an-important-16-hours/ 2012-08-13 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It was an odd night of laughter in this week’s Louie on FX with the episode “Ikea/Piano Lesson”. As always Louie is a series that tends to ebb and flow with whatever comedian Louis C.K. wishes to tackle at the moment as continuity is never a strong suit of the series but this week continuity seem to be something the comedian/writer/director/actor wished to pursue. In the first half of the episode, Louie deals with seeing Delores (Maria Dizzia) again who awkwardly had sex with him last season which ended with her balling up and crying her eyes up mid-coitus. Delores this time asks Louie to come to therapy http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1387/louie-examines-ikeapiano-lesson/ 2012-08-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Wilfred continues the story of Ryan Newman (Elijah Wood) a young man who sees a man in a dog suit instead of a dog (with the man in a dog suit is still a dog, Wilfred, played by Jason Gann) with the episode titled “Truth”. Things between Amanda (Allison Mack) and Ryan heat up as not only does Ryan say he loves Amanda, but also that she should move in with him. Wilfred is not too keen on this and keeps warning Ryan of the pending end of the world. Ryan keeps thinking it is something like an earthquake, or something else, like maybe http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1388/wilfred-faces-the-truth/ 2012-08-12 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It was my favorite joke of the entire episode.  I had to lead the review with it in the title of the article but Louis Litt (Rick Hoffman) cracks me up.  When he said that Harvey would be “Litt up” I had to pause, rewind my DVR and watch again.    And again.   Okay, where was I?  Oh yeah, my review of this week’s Suits episode titled “Sucker Punch” which featured a mock trail; with the case being brought upon Harvey Specter and the firm (Gabriel Macht) by Travis Tanner (Eric Close)  Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres) decides to run a test-run to iron out http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1376/harvey-gets-litt-up-in-suits-latest-episode-sucker-punch/ 2012-08-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com I lamented in my review of the first two episodes (which made an hour long premiere) of Comedy Central’s Futurama that both episodes tried too hard to be something that was meant to stir up emotion when it comes to Fry and Leela.  Then again, I think Futurama has always been keen on playing with the audiences emotions from “The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings” to “Overclocked” , the show plays well with this concept from start to finish, other times, like in those first two episodes it is a case of so close but yet so far.    Again this is not http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1378/futurama-has-fun-on-a-bun/ 2012-08-05 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com The episode name was “Fools Russian” but we have also excepted some type of Star Trek reference, such as “Beam Me Up, Scotty”.  It was the Star Trek-nerdy episode of Royal Pains which picked up immediately where the last episode “About Face” ended; the helicopter lands in New York and Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz (Campbell Scott) reveals his real reason for bringing Hank (Mark Feuerstein): a business deal must go down with an old Russian friend but the problem is that Boris fears his friend is very sick.  As Hank fends off feelings for the interpreter Christina, meanwhile back in the Hampton’s, http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1370/fools-russian-so-wise-men-say-on-royal-pains/ 2012-07-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) continues his dangerous free-fall in the latest episode of Suits titled “All In”.  The free fall continues in the form of Harvey and Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) taking a case where the personal history between the client and Harvey forces Harvey and Mike to embrace unorthodox methods which might further jeopardize the firm.  Meanwhile Louis Litt (Rick Hoffman) and Rachel Zane (Meghan Markle) run into each other during a ballet function and team up to save a mutually beloved institution for the ballet from ruin while Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres) runs into difficult problems while trying to http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1371/suits-is-all-in/ 2012-07-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Sometimes a crisis brings people together. That was part of the lesson learned in “The Last Thing You Should Do”, the episode featuring Joan (Kari Matchett) and Lena (Sarah Clarke) putting their differences aside as Annie (Piper Perabo) works desperately to save Auggie (Christopher Gorham) who has run into trouble visiting Parker (Devin Kelley) in Africa while planning to purpose marriage. Granted the crisis only brought people together and created further friction and/or reminded both parties why they don’t work together, but I digress. It was an interesting episode; it was nice to put Auggie again in the fore front in what would normally http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1372/covert-affairs-ponds-the-last-thing-you-should-do/ 2012-07-30 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com A few weeks ago, TNT premiered the new series Perception. The freshman series stars Eric McCormack as Dr. Daniel Pierce, an eccentric neuroscientist and college professor is thrust back into solving complex criminal cases using his unique outlook to help the federal government.  Acting on behalf of the government is Kate Moretti (Rachael Leigh Cook) who used to be a student under Pierce. She used to work with Pierce a few years prior on cases but eventually got a promotion and left, leaving Pierce to focus on his studies and job teaching college students. But Pierce, despite his gifted mind is also http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1367/first-thoughts-tnts-perception/ 2012-07-28 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Zoidberg using Hermes as a meat puppet for his stand-up act? Yeah, that just happened. You can never be too sure of what to be in for when you have an episode based around a character who isn’t as well loved like Bender, Fry, or heck, even Leela. Yet, “The Six Million Dollar Mon” ends up being a pretty good episode of Comedy Central’s Futurama. Now, compared to the last few episodes, I will say that “The Six Million Dollar Mon” was few on the laugh out loud moments, but was still funny.  That is important to note because some people can lose sight http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1365/futurama-tries-to-build-the-six-million-dollar-mon/ 2012-07-26 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Sunday was a night full of twists and surprising turns including a death* of more than one of the 2nd Mass in TNT’s Falling Skies newest episode “Molon Labe”. The episode “Molon Labe” continues exactly where we left off, with Karen (Jessy Schram) introducing Ben (Connor Jessup) to the ‘Fishhead’ or ‘Overlord’ or ‘her master’, meanwhile some new enemy makes their way into the hospital. *Note: abandon hope as ye progress further beyond this point as there be spoilers. You have been warned. While for the life of me, I can’t remember the name of the first to bite it, I believe it http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1361/falling-skies-loses-many-in-molon-labe/ 2012-07-23 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com “Et tu, Donna?” That is what Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) might as well be saying to Donna Paulsen (Sarah Rafferty) his now former secretary. In what was a fantastic hour of television, Suits ended the episode “Break Point” with big shot Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres) not only mincing words with co-partner Daniel Hardman (David Costabile) but by firing Donna herself. And Donna had her chances. That was what make this episode so fantastically great but brutal was that Donna ended up making things worse for herself in the long run despite her attempts to save Harvey some face.  We all get it that http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1355/suits-finds-a-break-point/ 2012-07-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Wow. I feel like I should have waited for this episode to air before making any sound judgements but I was so soundly conflicted with the opening episode of USA Network’s Covert Affairs that I am taken back how awesome the second episode was. Well, there are a few things though I take issue with. In my last review of Covert Affairs I noted how the series felt it was positioning up Annie into a whole new ball game, as well as other characters, something that the show felt it had to try last year with mixed results. In the second episode titled “Sound http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1356/covert-affairs-uses-sound-and-vision/ 2012-07-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com In the latest episode of TNT’s Franklin & Bash titled “Summer Girls” Hanna Linden(Garcelle Beauvais) has suspect yet hidden motives in helping Peter Bash (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) and Jared Franklin (Breckin Meyer) take on a case with two female Navy Sailors who are fighting for their right to be the top of their class and the first on the field in the front lines of battle. Kindar Singh meanwhile (Kumail Nanjiani) opens a box that breaks a switch-blade knife (originally sent to Franklin and Bash themselves) and Damien Karp (Reed Diamond) gets wrapped up in walking a delicate tightrope with a summer http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1357/check-out-the-summer-girls-with-franklin--bash/ 2012-07-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com More than a few faces return and that is exactly what the title “Homecoming” of Sunday night’s episode of Falling Skies references. When Hal Mason (Drew Roy) and Margaret (Sarah Carter) are doing perimeter and find bodies of children without their harnesses, one of the bodies found is none other than Hal’s possible girlfriend Karen (Jessy Schram), and bigger yet, she is still alive. As Tom (Noah Wyle) and Anne (Moon Bloodgood) deal with the sudden health threat overcoming Captain Weaver (Will Patton), Ben (Connor Jessup) begins to question his true royalty to the 2nd Mass. So which way does Ben http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1358/falling-skies-features-a-homecoming/ 2012-07-21 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Things got hectic in the swamps in Florida this past Thursday in Burn Notice as Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) and Jesse (Coby Bell) go to the Everglades to save Sam (Bruce Campbell) who is kidnapped by one of Anson’s stooges Rebecca Lang. Meanwhile Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) makes a new ally inside prison when two prisoners go after her as the hit on her life increases in the episode titled “Under the Gun”. Burn Notice has been having a rough patch in its new season.  While the show has been trying to go for an overall story-arc and moving away from the typical case http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1345/burn-notice-is-no-longer-under-the-gun/ 2012-07-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Okay, so after excusing the fact that coming up with a clever tile for this review, a lot of plates are spinning for HankMed in the most recent episode of Royal Pains titled “You Give Love A Bad Name” guest starring Judy Greer. (If you can come up with one better, by all means, hit the comments below!) Greer guest stars as a woman who since finding out she had cardiomyopathy years ago and having a second heart implanted due to not finding a suitable ‘one’ heart, she has become a matchmaker that Divya (Reshma Shetty) takes issue with. Meanwhile Evan (Paulo http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1346/royal-pains--you-give-love-a-bad-name/ 2012-07-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Covert Affairs reminds you to bring your umbrella in season three premiere To describe the first five minutes or so before the opening credits of Covert Affairs one must first remember the line from Jurassic Park from Sam Jackson and it is, and I quote: “Hold on to your butts.” To say spoilers, warning for those who continue reading would be silly, but if you watched the first episode of the third season of Covert Affairs then, you are aware that Jai Wilcox (Sendhil Ramamurthy) is no more. He has ceased to be. He is pushing up the daisies and singing with the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1347/covert-affairs-tries-to-hang-on-to-yourself/ 2012-07-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com If there is any show on television right now that doesn’t really deserve to be in my good graces, by all accounts it is USA Network’s Necessary Roughness starring Callie Thorne as the tough as nails spunky therapist to the athletes and stars Dr. Dani Santino aka “Dr. D”. The show still has the same problem that eats at me and gnaws at the very core of my being as a viewer but then again… perhaps Necessary Roughness, for me at least, is not a show that should be watched week after week. Perhaps it should instead be consumed in large http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1348/necessary-roughness-contends-with-mr-irrelevant/ 2012-07-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Things are taken down a notch in the second episode of the second season of Showtime’s Sunday night series Episodes. Picking up exactly where episode one left off at with Sean Lincoln (Stephen Mangan) sleeping with his series Pucks leading lady Morning Randolph (Mircea Monroe), returns to work the next day.  And then the ratings come in. Things are not good on the ratings front and further more, pesky Pucks star Matt LeBlanc (played by Matt LeBlanc) is still trying to win over Sean and Beverly after he slept with Beverly (Tamsin Greig) ruining their marriage.  So how much worse could http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1337/episodes-second-episode-tries-to-find-a-new-word/ 2012-07-09 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Wilfred continues to charm viewers with the most recent episode titled “Dignity”. I won’t bore you with specifics on why (short answer: act of God/nature stuff)but as this is just as much a review of the previous week’s episode “Letting Go”, or even the series as a whole. Upon my last review of Wilfred here at The TVKing, I was somewhat taken to task by Wilfred’s hardcore fans on twitter especially for not being deep enough or “I didn’t have an open mind” to grasp what the show was trying to do. And look, I like Wilfred as a show. If you read http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1335/wilfred-gains-back-its-dignity/ 2012-07-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com When Futurama does it right, it really does it right. Just like it did with its latest episode titled  “The Thief of Baghead”. In my previous review of Futurama which was the hour-long premiere made of two episodes, Futurama of any sort is better than no Futurama at all, but for as much as the show was trying to pull on our heart strings, it felt false or coming up a bit short. In a way, the episodes felt like they were trying too hard to being something akin to “Jurassic Bark” or “The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings” and just really http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1336/futurama-has-the-thief-of-baghead/ 2012-07-08 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Well lookie here: the zombies are coming to the Hamptons. But more on that in a second. Thanks to Divya (Reshma Shetty), Eddie R. Lawson (Henry Winkler) returns for realsies this time in the latest Royal Pains episode titled “Dawn of the Med”. Eddie’s goal: to bring Hank (Mark Feuerstein) and Evan (Paulo Costanzo) Lawson back together. As Divya and Paige (Brooke D'Orsay) hope that Eddie’s return to the Hamptons brings prosperity back to HankMed, Divya attempts again to reconnect with her mother. On the surface things seemed to go ‘too easy’ for Hank and Evan, as by episode’s end, HankMed http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1325/its-the-dawn-of-the-med-on-royal-pains/ 2012-06-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Rumors of his death or lack of interest in the firm has been greatly exaggerated. At least that is what Hardman (David Costabile) would probably say. Yes, Hardman is officially back at the firm in the third episode of USA Network’s Suits episode titled “Meet the New Boss”. As Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres) and Harvey Spencer (Gabriel Macht) scatter for a line of defense especially after being at odds due to Harvey’s play in the previous episode. As Mike deals with the blow-out of his relationship with Rachel (Meghan Markle) which he wasn’t ready to give up necessarily, Hardman tightens his http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1326/suits-wants-you-to-meet-the-new-boss/ 2012-06-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com It was an evening of harsh truths from those the people look up to. At least that is what The Newsroom on HBO has you believe. In the series which premiered last Sunday with the episode “We Just Decided To”, we are in the opening throws of the frustrations and machinations of Will McAvoy played by Jeff Daniels. McAvoy in recent years have become ‘soft’ and just indifferent to his news program ‘NewsNight’ which he anchors. During a panel with two other anchors for the television network news program, McAvoy sits, quietly annoyed and aggravated but plays up the role of http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1327/hbos-the-newsroom---we-just-decide-to/ 2012-06-29 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Eddie Lawson aka Henry Winkler returns in Wednesday night’s latest episode of USA Network’s Royal Pains titled “A Guesthouse Divided”.  The heat is on as Evan (Paulo Costanzo) and Hank (Mark Feuerstein) begin actively compete for clients as Jill (Jill Flint) is given a farewell party, and Divya (Reshma Shetty) tries her best to reunite Evan and Hank into HankMed while she begins working for both brothers as signs of a illnesses may be related.   Well, let’s be honest about Winkler’s return: it is quick and doesn’t appear until the very end of the episode.  The bulk of the episode deals with http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1313/royal-pains-has-a-guesthouse-divided/ 2012-06-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com USA Network was looking sharp with Thursday night’s episode of Suits titled “The Choice”. In the previous episode which was the second season opener, Mike (Patrick J. Adams) was able to finally listen to drunk voice mail of Rachel (Meghan Markle) declaring her feelings for him. So “The Choice” picks up the next day with Mike confronting Rachel as Harvey (Gabriel Macht) tries to help Jessica (Gina Torres) with gaining support from board members as Hardman’s return grows closer.   It was another fantastic evening of television all around, as Suits really is taking the format of the USA Network case of the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1314/suits-goes-back-and-forth-on-the-choice/ 2012-06-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Behold humans of earth! Futurama returned Wednesday night on Comedy Central with two episodes of yummy Futurama-goodness. The hour-long season premiere featured Bender fathering a child with the office soda machine and an ancient prophecy predicting the end of the world in the year 3012.    The hour long episode was consisting of two episodes, the first half was “The Bots and the bees” featuring Bender (John Di Maggio) who impregnates Planet Express’ new soda machine which gives Bender a son named Ben. The second episode titled “A Farewell to Arms” features the Planet Express crew as they stop a catastrophe predicted by http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1315/futurama-returns-with-an-hour-long-premiere/ 2012-06-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Wilfred on FX which premiered a sneak peak Thursday night although the normal second season doesn’t ‘officially’ begin until June 28th, begged the question which is real? I’ll break on through to the other side right after I question my sanity.   Wilfred last left us with the question of what was real? What wasn’t real? We already knew that Ryan (Elijah Wood) didn’t really kill himself as the pills he tried to use were all placebos. So what about Wilfred (Jason Gann) himself? Ryan sees a man in a dog suit while everyone else sees a dog. Or at least we think http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1316/wilfred-tries-to-make-progress/ 2012-06-22 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com I’ll get to review the season finale of HBO’s Girls right after I wipe the tears from my eyes after witnessing something real and raw and honest like Adam did at that surprise wedding. Sunday evening on HBO ended the first season of HBO’s Girls created by Lena Dunham (who also stars and executive produces it with Judd Apatow) with the episode titled “She Did”.  Hannah (Dunham) begins to question her relationship with her boyfriend Adam as Marnie lets it all go during a party that Jessa is throwing. Shoshanna meanwhile benefits from her unique personality and characteristics. So how was the http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1307/girls-ends-season-one-with-she-did/ 2012-06-18 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com For audience members there is nothing like a pleasant Wednesday nights in the Hampton’s on USA Network’s Royal Pains. The characters might not necessarily agree with that statement as in the latest episode “Imperfect Storm” with Hank Lawson (Mark Feuerstein) and Evan Lawson (Paulo Costanzo) still at odds with each other, pitting Hank’s new medical practice against a Evan-run HankMed, it is anything but pleasant. As Evan tries to secure a new client, Jill Casey (Jill Flint) needs Hank to treat her newphew while Divya (Reshma Shetty) must make a difficult decision. And how does the new guy, Dr. Jeremiah Sacani http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1301/royal-pains-deals-with-an-imperfect-storm/ 2012-06-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com Dr. Dani (Callie Thorne) has a lot on her plate with USA Network’s Wednesday night episode of Necessary Roughness titled “To Swerve and Protect”.  When a star of the roller derby rink collapses, there is only one person to call: Dr. Santino! As Dani tries to help the roller derby star, her son Ray Jay (Patrick Johnson) has a fight with new girlfriend while T.K. (Mehcad Brooks)is faced with a difficult choice to make. So how does the second episode of the second season of Necessary Roughness fare? For those who read my reviews on examiner, may know that my thoughts on http://www.thetvking.com/reviews/1302/necessary-roughness-tires-to-swerve-and-protect/ 2012-06-14 00:00:00 en-gb Copyright: (C) TheTvKing.com