Burn Notice (season 7)
{5/5} “A deep cover job changes you in ways that are hard to describe. To become another man for months or years, it’s impossible to go through and not be affected at the most basic level.” Things have changed. Jesse is back at work in security, Fiona is back collecting bounties and has a new […]
Burn Notice (season 6)
{4.5/5} “Spies are trained to deal with catastrophic events. They’re taught to separate how they feel from what they need to do. But some circumstances are so extreme that separation is impossible. Then, even a seasoned operative will have the same response as everyone else: horror, disbelief, shock.” Fiona has allowed herself to be arrested […]
The Man Who Wasn’t There
{4.5/5} “I was a ghost. I didn’t see anyone. No one saw me. I was the barber.” Ed is a quiet, serious man who works as a barber in his brother-in-law Frank’s shop. He’s married to Doris, who works for Big Dave at a department store. Ed thinks Doris and Big Dave might be having […]
Paper Man
{4.5/5} “Does this couch make me look fat?” Richard is a writer — he’s temporarily moved out of the city in order to have a change of scenery for writing his next book. His wife Claire is a doctor, and she comes out on the weekends. Richard has made friends with Abby, a teenager with […]
Elementary (season 2)
{5/5} “The problem with rulebooks, Watson, is that they offer the illusion that leading a moral life is a simple undertaking. That the world exists in black and white. Welcome to the greys.” Holmes and Watson go to London to help Holmes’ old colleague Inspector Lestrade, and while there they run into Sherlock’s brother Mycroft […]
Citizen Kane
{4.5/5} “That’s all he ever wanted out of life… was love. That’s the tragedy of Charles Foster Kane. You see, he just didn’t have any to give.” Charles was taken away from his mother and father when he was a young boy — on the other hand, he was rich. When he turned 25 and […]
Other TV shows I’ve watched lately
These are shows I’ve seen a fair number of episodes of but not all. {4.5/5} Blue Bloods “They are the finest police department on the planet but they carry guns and shields not magic wands.” Season 4 has finished — I don’t think I saw any of the first 2 seasons but have occasionally watched […]
Castle (season 6)
{5/5} “Everything I’ve ever done, every choice I’ve ever made, every terrible and wonderful thing that’s ever happened to me, it’s all led me to right here, this moment with you.” Beckett decides to take the job in Washington DC, but she also accepts Castle’s marriage proposal. Can Beckett and Castle make their relationship work […]
The Ten Commandments
{4/5} “A city is built of brick, Pharoah. The strong make many, the starving make few. The dead make none.” In order to escape death, when Moses is a baby he’s sent off in a basket down the river. Bithia, the Pharoah’s sister, has no baby and raises Moses as her own son. Moses grows […]
Burn Notice (season 5)
{4.5/5} “As a spy, you get used to the idea that you sometimes have to ask your enemies for help. It’s not an easy thing to do but unfortunately the best information is often in the hands of the worst people.” Michael is finally back in the employ of the government. After being stuck in […]