Burn Notice (season 6)

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of TV shows

{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

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{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 […]

Bottle Rocket

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{4.5/5} “One morning, over at Elizabeth’s beach house, she asked me if I’d rather go water skiing or lay out. And I realized that not only did I not want to answer that question, but I never wanted to answer another water-sports question, or see any of these people again for the rest of my […]

Blasphemy

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of books

{5/5} “Lockwood had known all along that he would find the answer by asking Kate. He’d been hired not because he was some brilliant ex-CIA agent turned PI, but because he just happened to have dated a certain woman twelve years ago. He should’ve walked out on Lockwood when he had the chance. But he’d […]

Paper Man

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{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)

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{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 […]

The Big Bang Theory (season 7)

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{5/5} “Who knows? You said you’d be home yesterday, but came home three days ago. You say you’re taking me to work, but for all I know I’ll end up in a deserted amusement park, or a cornfield maze or a back alley dog fight. You tell me.” While Leonard is away at sea for […]

Citizen Kane

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{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 […]

Glee (season 5)

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{4/5} “You just need to keep finding the places you belong and the people you belong with. And then you’ll have an army to fight alongside of you until the world is finally brave enough to accept you for who you are.” Sue Sylvester is now the principal, after planting false evidence in Principal Figgins’ […]

Agents of SHIELD (season 1)

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{4.5/5} “We want you to tell us about the day after you died.” Agent Coulson puts together a new team to deal with supernatural people and objects. Ward is a black ops specialist who’s used to working alone. May is also an experienced operative but for some reason doesn’t want to be in the field […]