Archive for the ‘Reviews of TV shows’ Category
The Daily Show (seasons ? – 18)
{5/5} “There is near-universal consensus that the melting is due to global warming, though the Bush administration counters that the ice caps are not melting. Rather, the water has been liberated.” The Daily Show season 18 just ended. I’m not sure why their season ends in September — new episodes are coming next week. I’m […]
Pushing Daisies (season 2)
{4.5/5} “There are complicated issues in this situation that you don’t even know nothin’ about. Except that their complexities are so complex they make this shallow conversation absurd.” Ned and Chuck continue to try to make their relationship work, even though they can’t touch each other. Olive can’t deal with all the secrets she’s learned […]
Whose Line is it Anyway? (seasons 1 – 9)
{5/5} “The show where everything’s made up and the points don’t matter. That’s right, the points don’t matter — it’s like the talent portion of a beauty contest.” Whose Line is it Anyway? season 9 just finished. The first 8 seasons aired from 1998 to 2007. I haven’t seen much of the British version, which […]
Pushing Daisies (season 1)
{4.5/5} “Do you think dying has made me morbid?” Ned can bring people and animals back to life by touching them. But if he touches them a second time they’ll go back to being dead. And if he doesn’t touch them a second time within one minute then someone else will die — to make […]
Elementary (season 1)
{5/5} “Detection is not just a skill, Watson, it’s a point of view. You need to train yourself to be alert to the bizarre, the unusual, that which has no place in any given picture.” Sherlock Holmes is just out of rehab and his father has hired him a sobriety partner, Joan Watson, who used […]
Wonderfalls (season 1)
{4.5/5} “You’re spiteful in a way the definition of ‘spiteful’ doesn’t quite prepare you for.” Jaye works at a gift shop in Niagara Falls — her degree in philosophy didn’t really get her anywhere. One day a clay lion starts talking to her. She’s not sure what its goal is but it seems to want […]
Farscape (season 2)
“May your afterlife be almost as pleasant as mine.” In “The Way We Weren’t” it’s revealed that Aeryn was previously on Moya when she was a Peacekeeper — when the previous pilot was killed and the current Pilot was brought on board. In “Out of Their Minds” the ship is attacked and everyone on board […]
Farscape (season 1)
{3.5/5} “Since I left home I’ve been hunted, beaten, locked up, shanghaied, shot at. I’ve had alien creatures in my face, up my nose, inside my brain, down my pants. This is the first time, the first place, where I’ve felt peace.” John was performing an experiment when his ship went through a wormhole — […]
America’s Got Talent (season 8)
{4.5/5} “America is going to be so surprised at what they see” — Howie Mandel America’s Got Talent season 8, aired in 2013 As with previous seasons I watched the audition shows. Two new judges have joined Howie Mandel and Howard Stern. Mel B, best known for being one of the Spice Girls, has judged […]
Penn & Teller: Fool Us (season 1)
{4.5/5} “We have to figure out how they did the trick seeing it once — and seeing it once from just the angle we have in the audience. We’re not watching monitors, we don’t have sneaky camera shots. We don’t have any information in advance. It’s just us sitting there. You come on and you […]