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Category: TV

· by Tyler Peterson · Oct 8, 2018

The Official Drinking Game of the New Picard Series

In an unprecedented step for the Star Trek franchise, it’s been announced that Sir Patrick Stewart will trek through the stars once again in a new series about the further adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Picard was a natural choice…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Sep 24, 2018

You Can’t Do That on Television (1979-1990)

You Can’t Do That on Television is a Canadian series which initially aired on the CTV station in Ottawa in 1979. Just two years later, it began broadcasting on American TV via the cable network Nickelodeon. Cable TV itself was…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Sep 10, 2018

Xena: Warrior Princess “Callisto”

I’ve noted before that, despite being a spin-off of another show, Xena: Warrior Princess didn’t take long to become the syndicated ratings champion of the 1990s as Star Trek: The Next Generation had been before it. There were many reasons…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Aug 7, 2018

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: The 5-episode wedding arc from hell

As I noted in my previous recap, the third season of Lois & Clark began promisingly by surprising the viewers in the best possible way. In this case, it was Lois responding to Clark’s marriage proposal by revealing that she…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Jul 26, 2018

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman "We Have a Lot to Talk About"

By the end of its second season, Lois & Clark was becoming more of a ratings hit. One reason for this was that the title characters were starting to become more romantic with each other by this point. The only…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Jul 13, 2018

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman “Sex, Lies, and Videotape”

With Harvey Weinstein’s career still in ruins and the #MeToo movement now being targeted by Donald Trump (although I guess that was inevitable), I felt prompted to look at an interesting episode from Lois & Clark‘s fourth and final…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jun 7, 2018

Star Trek: Voyager "Unforgettable"

If you’ve been following my recent Voyager recaps, you may have noticed I’ve been trying to spread the snark around a bit. So far, I’ve recapped a Neelix episode, a Tom Paris episode, a Janeway episode, and a Harry Kim…

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· by Marion Stein · Jun 1, 2018

The Americans: Casablanca and EST

“START”, the almost perfect finale of The Americans, offers its surviving characters a shot at redemption, and an ending to a seasonal arc in which Mischa and Nadezhda finally have a mission worthy of their talents. We pick up…

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· by Marion Stein · May 25, 2018

The Americans: Smoke gets in your eyes

The title of the penultimate episode, “Jennings, Elizabeth” had half the fans convinced it foretold a death. It did. By the episode’s end, Nadezhda and Mischa, those two young idealists now grown into weary middle age, are hitting the road.…

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· by Susan Velazquez · May 24, 2018

Riverdale: It's not over yet

Buckle your seatbelts, everyone! It’s the season finale of Riverdale and hopefully, we’ll gets answers to the real Archie’s Weird Mysteries that I want solved. At the very least, we should find out if Jughead is really dead after that…

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· by Marion Stein · May 19, 2018

The Americans: Burn baby burn

In “The Summit”, the nearly perfect eighth episode of the final season (perfection would have included Oleg), Elizabeth finally puts humanity ahead of mission. The build-up has been going on for a while. The suspense was in wondering whether the…

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· by Susan Velazquez · May 12, 2018

Riverdale: Not-so-quiet riot

Poor Cheryl has had a rough year. Her twin brother was murdered by her father, her family fortune was temporarily lost when her father was outed as a drug dealer, her mother stuck her in a gay conversion program, she…

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· by Marion Stein · May 11, 2018

The Americans: Moving parts

In an effort to save his marriage, if not his country, Philip joins Elizabeth’s mission to rescue an illegal who the FBI has codenamed “Harvest”. Henry confides in his “Uncle” Stan, which rhymes with Sam. And somebody needs to tell…

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· by Marion Stein · May 5, 2018

The Americans: On my way

“Riffifi”, episode 6 of the final slog toward doom that is The Americans, is named for a film in which most of the protagonists die. This week Elizabeth doesn’t kill anyone, but she comes close to braining her husband…

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· by Susan Velazquez · May 3, 2018

Riverdale: Innocent until proven guilty?

Last episode, Betty began to suspect that her father Hal is the Black Hood. It’s a good thing that she’s keeping this information to herself because Archie is out on his vigilante search for the Black Hood. Again. Archie doesn’t…

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· by Marion Stein · May 1, 2018

Homeland: We have met the enemy and he is us

Did they purposely make Carrie unlikable all season—narcissistic, careless with the lives of others (including her kid), recklessly “running around like a crazed vigilante” according to Saul—only to give her a terrible comeuppance so we can feel bad about hating…

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· by Susan Velazquez · Apr 29, 2018

Riverdale: Indecent proposals and truths

Rest in peace, Midge. We hardly knew ye. I really thought Midge was gonna come out of this alive. I mean, the Black Hood once shot her and her boyfriend at point blank range and she survived without a scratch.…

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· by Marion Stein · Apr 27, 2018

The Americans: Philip acts

Elizabeth’s senseless murder spree continues, but she needs Philip’s help for one final mission. In pushing him beyond where his conscience allows, will she seal both their fates? Episode 5, “The Great Patriotic War”, opens with Stan, tailed by members…

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· by Marion Stein · Apr 23, 2018

Homeland: Mission to Moscow: Wigstock Edition

Like every season’s penultimate episode of Homeland, “All In” was action-packed and showed Carrie at her most ingenious and determined. Plausibility, however, was lower than on a Saturday morning cartoon version of the A-Team. Saul, Carrie, her crew, and…

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· by Marion Stein · Apr 21, 2018

The Americans: The coldest war is in the bedroom

In “Mr. and Mrs Teacup”, the fourth of the final 8 episodes of The Americans, the distance between Elizabeth and Philip continues to grow. Also growing? The weekly body count, as our death march to the inevitably tragic conclusion trudges…