Parks and Rec, like it’s big brother The Office, survives by moving between the work of the Parks Department and the personal lives of its characters. When it does one, it has to do the other to even things out. That’s what happened in “The Possum,” with Leslie’s task force being the main event, with [...]
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March 12, 2010
Community – “Basic Genealogy”
“This isn’t gonna stop until Pictionary bans the word windmill.”
March 10, 2010
Big Love – “End of Days”
Thanks to the Oscars being on Sunday, I didn’t get a chance to watch “End of Days” until last night’s replay, and I’m actually glad I waited. Sunday night I would have written a review of the episode, saying how exciting the episode was and how next season of Big Love will hopefully run with [...]
March 10, 2010
Lost – “Dr. Linus”
Even though he spent most of the episode facing the killing end of an angry Ilana’s rifle, I was never too worried about the safety of my favorite character Ben. Why? Because the guy who narrates the “Next Week on Lost” preview said Ben would die and, if we learned one thing this season, that [...]
March 9, 2010
How I Met Your Mother – “Of Course”
“I said a-bang, bang, bangity bang! I said a-bang, bang, bangity bang!”
March 3, 2010
Parenthood – “Pilot”
When watching last night’s much-hyped pilot episode of NBC’s Parenthood, I got to thinking about some of the best and worst premier episodes of all time. On one end of the spectrum, you have pilots from shows like Lost or Mad Men, that instantly announce themselves as being “big” shows that will be supremely enjoyable [...]
March 3, 2010
Lost – “Sundown”
Immediately after this episode wrapped up, one of my friends turned to me and told me it was his favorite of the season so far. A minute or two later, my brother texted me that it was a massive disappointment. Welcome to the sixth season of Lost.
I am somewhere in the middle. “Sundown” felt almost [...]
March 2, 2010
How I Met Your Mother – “Hooked”
How I Met Your Mother generally does two things very well: coming up with rules/concepts and handling celebrity guests very well. For rules/concepts, we’ve seen things like Slap Bet, The Bro Code, The Window, and, most recently, Rabbit or Duck work well in helping the overall mythology of the show. As for celebrity guests, they [...]
February 24, 2010
Lost – “Lighthouse”
Jack Shepard. Doctor. Leader. Kind of a douche. For the last six years, Jack has ostensibly been the main character of Lost, all while taking every opportunity to petulantly refusing to look around him and realize that, hey, this island is a pretty special place. That’s why I took Jack as the frontrunner in the [...]
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