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 […]
The Prisoner (season 1)
{3.5/5} “I will not make any deals with you. I’ve resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own.” After a man resigns from his job, he’s drugged and whisked off to a town that’s called “the Village” where he finds himself a prisoner. The people in […]
Law & Order: SVU (seasons 1 – 14)
{5/5} “In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.” Olivia and her teammates are police officers in New York City. They work specifically […]
Modern Family (season 4)
{5/5} “If life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Life will be all like ‘Whaaat?’” Haley is off to college, and Lily starts kindergarten. Gloria has her baby, while Cam and Mitch attempt to adopt a second child. Cam gets a new job, and Jay teaches Phil to golf. Phil and Claire’s Valentines’ Day ends with […]