Archives for the ‘Reviews and Recaps’ Category

January 22, 2010

Review: Fringe 2.13 – “What Lies Below”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

Boston, MA.  Bike messenger stops at Vitas Petrol and catches an elevator with an older gentleman who starts sweating and bleeding from his nose.  They both get off the elevator and the receptionist tells him he has to sign in, then he passes out and the bike runner tries to give him CPR but he [...]

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Review: Star Wars: Clone Wars 2.9 & 2.10 – “Grievous Intrigue” and “The Deserter”

- by Grace Hebert | Filed under: Clone Wars,Featured,Reviews and Recaps,Star Wars

Episode 2.9 – “Grievous Intrigue” Jedi Master Eeth Koth is captured by General Grievous. In a transmission from General Grievous to the Jedi Council, he uses hand signals to alert the council to his location. Grievous accurately predicts that the Jedi Council will send Obi-Wan and Anakin to rescue the kidnapped Jedi. Throughout the episode, [...]

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January 21, 2010

Review: Dollhouse 2.9 – “Stop Loss”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Dollhouse,Featured,Reviews and Recaps

Mrs. Lonely Hearts is back and desires the services of Roger.  He cuts her short saying there’s someone else, to which she is incredulous, knowing full well there isn’t and that there must be a game being played against her.  Victor’s contract is up and she wanted “one more go ’round.” Topher tells Boyd that [...]

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January 20, 2010

Review: Dollhouse 2.8 – “A Love Supreme”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Dollhouse,Featured,Reviews and Recaps

Guess who’s back?  That’s right, season one baddie Alpha makes a return to wreck havoc upon the Dollhouse. Alpha talks to a man who went broke making repeated engagements with Echo.  Alpha kills him.  Victor has been programmed as a psychologist in charge of asking an isolated and straight-jacketed echo who she is and if [...]

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Review: Dollhouse 2.7 – “Meet Jane Doe”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Dollhouse,Featured,Reviews and Recaps

(Reader’s note: Technically, episodes 7 and 8 aired consecutively, but as they are not one two hour episode, they will be handled individually.) When we left Echo, she was fleeing the Dennis Perrin debacle.  Without her GPS chip, the LA Dollhouse can’t track her.  Paul Ballard has gone AWOL as well and DeWitt and Langton [...]

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January 19, 2010

Review: Fringe 2.12 – “Johari Window”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

Edina, NY.  (Pronounced eh-DINE-uh) A cop driving along a country road finds a boy walking along.  He tells him to get in.  He starts talking about running away when he looks again in the rear-view to see the boy’s face has changed; he’s now severely mutated.  At the police station, two cops talk about actually [...]

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January 14, 2010

Review: FlashForward 1.10 – “A561984″

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,flashforward,Reviews and Recaps

In timely Christmas fashion, A Christmas Carol plays several times in the show.  At one point, a poignant bit by Scrooge asks if this is what will be or what may be. Benford and Noh go to Hong Kong despite Assistant Director Wedeck’s orders to stay in the US.  They are on the trail of [...]

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January 13, 2010

Review: Dollhouse 2.6 – “The Left Hand”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Dollhouse,Featured,Reviews and Recaps

Bennett Halverson turns full psycho as Topher Brink shows her his nerd crush. We find out that Bennett is actually not the DC Dollhouse admin, just the techie.  The actual  house runner is (Howard) Lipman.  (I say this in fun parentheses because Adelle calls him Stuart but IMDB calls him Howard.  When you’re Ray Wise [...]

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January 12, 2010

Review: Dollhouse 2.5 – “The Public Eye”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Dollhouse,Featured,Reviews and Recaps

The irony is how much the viewing public would be watching this show considering the news that preceded this installment. The last outing of Dollhouse was infuriating.  The show was such a hit and miss affair that it didn’t seem possible that it would continue.  It didn’t and around the time episode 4 aired, news came [...]

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Review: Fringe 2.11 – “Unearthed”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

What?  Charlie’s back?  No, silly rabbit.  This episode of Fringe was originally supposed to air in season 1 as episode 21.  Thus I’m not going to give it the complete recap as it falls out of sequence with the rest of the series.  It’s so bad, there’s a dead character in it. For this I [...]

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