Levinson news clips: TV reviews

A sea-change in NCIS 8.2, as Gibbs becomes hospitable to interns!   blog post review:  NCIS 8.2: Interns!   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code     eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                         

A steamy scene between Alicia and Peter reverses usual male-female power-sex roles on this fine return of The Good Wife for its second season...   blog post review:  The Good Wife Returns for Second Season on CBS   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code     eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                         

JJ leaves the BAU in Criminal Minds 6.2 - this podcast probes the complex relationship between our enjoyment of fiction and the complex business and personal reality that brings it to us...   blog post review:  Criminal Minds 6.2: The Meaning of JJ Leaving   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code     eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                           book mentioned in this podcast:  

"Not of terrestrial origin" - sure sounds like aliens to me - and this puts The Event, now up to episode 1.2, in the great company of The Invaders and V, which not only were/are about aliens on Earth, but also have "v" in their titles...   blog post review:  The Event 1.2: Aliens!     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code     eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                          

Now that House and Cuddy are a real couple, the two struggle to make it work on the job in 7.2.   blog post review:  House 7.2: House and Cuddy, Chapter 2 of New Relationship     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code     eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                              

Another vibrant slice of history from HBO ... Boardwalk Empire has color, style, depth, and full-frontal nudity...   blog post review:  Boardwalk Empire on HBO     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code     eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                          

This blend of 24 and FlashForward looks like a keeper!   blog post review: The Event Debuts on NBC   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code     eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                        

Taking a crack at episode 1.5 of cerebral, code-cracking, high-spying new drama Rubicon , where the plots are almost as complex as those in Joyce's Ulysses , which, like Rubicon 1.5, also has a character named Bloom ...   blog post review: Rubicon 1.5: Bloom   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code     eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                          

Trains have always been one of my favorite vehicles of fiction, and Amtrak figures in quite effectively in episode 1.7 of Covert Affairs, the stylish, Bondian, Aliasesque new series on USA Today.   blog post review:  Covert Affairs 1.7: Amtrack Split     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code     eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                           book mentioined in podcast:  

Everything hinges on the sun and Sookie's blood in penultimate Season 3 episode 11 of True Blood...   blog post review:  True Blood 3.11:  Here Comes the Sun     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code     eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                          

Mad Men won the Emmy for best television drama for the third straight year, just as episode 4.6 of Mad Men was airing, in which Don wins a Clio for his Glo-Coat, and that's almost the least of this superb episode.   blog post review:  Mad Men 4.6: Emmys, Clio, Blackout, Flash Back   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                                

Relationships and existences pushed to the limits in True Blood 3.6, including Tara and Mott and Mott's head, how much blood can Bill lose,  much more ...   blog post review:  True Blood 3.6: True Life and Death   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                        

Mad Men returned in fine form for its fourth season with a great line about Chicken Kiev, Don strangling an interview, Peggy instigating a ham stunt and much more...   blog post review: Mad Men 4.1: Chicken Kiev, Lethal Interview, Ham Fight     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                             

The Closer 6.2 features Brenda having a close call, Captain Raydor back, and another surprise bump at the end ....   blog post review: The Closer 6.2: Fun Bumps     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                         

True Blood 3.5  brings us Mott texting at vampiric speed to impress Tara, Eric discovering something crucial to his past in the King's domain, and Sookie flashing her power.   blog post review: True Blood 3.5:  Square, Love, Crown, Power     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                              book mentioned in this review:

Lie to Me 2.15 features the return of saucy Melissa George and a story that bespeaks Shawn Ryan's The Shield ...   blog post review:  Lie to Me 2.15: Melissa George and Shawn Ryan     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                           

The premiere for The Closer's 6th season feautures a new building, a suprise at the end, and the same delightful mix of police work and humor...   blog post review:  The Closer 6.1: The New Building   see also my interview in The Christian Science Monitor article by Gloria Goodale, 'The Closer' opened doors for women – and for basic cable July 12, 2010 ...   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                         

True Blood 3.4 features some cool lines, fine scenes, and powerful plot developments - this podcast contains a frank analysis of the language.   blog post review:  True Blood 3.4:  Running Hot, Winning Names   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                         

Lie to Me 2.14 has a fine story about a vet who thinks someone is out to get him, and an even better coda in which we learn how Lightman really feels about the three women in his life...   blog post review:  Lie to Me 2.14: Paranoids Have Real Enemies     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                           

Lie to Me 2.13 features Pres. Obama's response to the outburst  by Rep. Joe Wilson ("You lie!") and beautiful Melissa George accused of killing her husband more than twice her age.   blog post review:  Lie to Me 2.13: The Whole Truth and Rep Joe Wilson     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                           

Lie to Me 2.12 is one of the best episodes of the series, featuring a conflict between Cal and Gillian that goes back seven years, and may have life-and-death consequences for Cal's daughter Emily.   blog post review:  Lie to Me 2.12: The One Prevarication   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                         

Lots of hot love-making in True Blood 3.3, between surprising partners...   blog post review: True Blood 3.3: Rolling Eyes and Spinning Heads     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Mozy discount code: Levinson   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                            

A King of Vampires in charge of a pack of weak werewolves and new vampire played by James Frain all figure in Episode 3.2 of True Blood .   blog post review:  True Blood 3.2: King and Wolves     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   Zazzle discount code Levinson2010                         

A fine Season One finale for Treme, with happy sad endings and stories for most of our characters, a satisfying flashback Katrina coda, and a superb platter of music indeed!   blog post review:  Treme Season One Finale: Happy Sad Life   album mentioned in the podcast:   Twice Upon a Rhyme     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code                               

The next to last episode of the first season of Treme is chock full of great lines, music, and situations, and some dire times for Creighton.   blog post review:  Treme 1.9: Creighton   also: My Favorite Moment in Treme - with the YouTube video     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   ix Web Hosting promo code                                 

The Season Three premiere of True Blood had all sorts of good evil things, including a line that appealed to me about oxygen vs. the phone.     blog post review:  True Blood 3.1:  Oxygen vs. Phone     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   ix Web Hosting promo code                                 

The return of Lie to Me with episode 2.11 features two fine stories, one about a Ted-Bundy-like serial killer, just starting out, who locks horns with Lightman, and the other about a teacher who sees a UFO, and needs Loker's support.   blog post review:  Lie to Me 2.11: Double Feature   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   ix Web Hosting promo code                                 

Just about everyone is happy and passionate on Madri Gras day in Treme 1.8, except Creighton.   blog post review:  Treme 1.8: Passions and Dreams     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   ix Web Hosting promo code                           

V ended its first season with a fine ratcheting up of the complex chess game and a red cloud.   blog post review:  V Season 1 Finale: Complex Chess and Red Cloud     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   ix Web Hosting promo code                           

The suprise ending of the highly satisfying Season 6 finale of House finds House without shrink or cane, but he was something much better, at long last!   blog post review:  House Season 6 Finale: Finally!     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   ix Web Hosting promo code                           

The fine, sad Bones Season 5 finale is all about letting go and moving on ... lets hope for not more than a year in television time, a summer in our time, calling Samuel Taylor Coleridge...   blog post review:  Bones Season 5 Finale: Eye Contact and Evolution     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code                            book mentioned in this podcast:

A fabulous finale for Fringe Season 2, which reveals a lot about William Bell, the other reality, and some real emotional punches and surprises.   blog post review:  Fringe Season 2 Finale: The Switch     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code                  

FlashForward ended its first and apparently final season with a fine show that tied up lots of loose ends, answered some questions, and left me very much wanting at least another season.   blog post review:  FlashForward Ends on a High Note   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code                    

NCIS continues its tradition of excellent season finales, with a Season 7 ending about Gibbs and retribution.     blog post review:  NCIS Season 7 Finale: Retribution       Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code                      

The 24 series finale was a lesson in how to conclude a brilliant, revolutionary, adrenalin-pumping television show.    blog post review:  24 Forever!     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code                        

Lots of powerfully satisfying emotional moments in the finale of Lost,  but there were also lots of missed opportunities for more rational, scientific endings.   blog post reviews:   The End of  Lost: Preliminary Thoughts: Jack's Story The End of Lost 2:  Further Thoughts: Missed Opportunities   see also: Lost: Keys to What's Really Going On     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                          

The penultimate episode 8.22 of 24 takes us on heart-in-your-mouth rollercoaster ride as Jack Bauer goes further than ever before in one of the best seasons of one of the best series ever on television.   blog post review:  28.8.22: Rollercoaster Brilliantly Off Grid     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                          

The best part of this excellent next-to-last episode of Lost was the powerful split story of Ben in Lost Angeles and Ben on the island, each true to their natures.   blog post review:  Penultimate Lost: Coincidence for Fate     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                        

Lost's explanation for how Jacob and the MIB arose is big on mysticism and short on science.   blog post review:  Lost 6.15: Jacob and Esau/MIB         Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                      

Lots of great music, as always in Treme 1.4, especially Antoine's rendition of St. James Infirmary.   Also love under pressure, and parallels to Robert Altman's Nashville and what's happening in the flooded city of Nashville right now.   blog post review:  Treme 1.4: New Orleans, New York, and Nashville   Robert Altman's Nashville :                                 Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                    

Robert J. Sawyer - author of the novel upon which FlashForward wasa based - wrote this powerful episode, teeming with paradox and fun intellectual puzzles at every turn.   blog post review:  FlashForward 1.19: The Stubborn Universe   see also:  The Chronology Protection Case   and listen to my interview with Robert J. Sawyer   Robert J. Sawyer's novel, upon which FlashForward is based:   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                       

Why Friday Night Lights, which just returned for its 4th season on NBC, is one of the all-time best shows on television!   blog post:  Reasons to Watch Friday Night Lights     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                      

Jack gives Claire a music box in Los Angeles that plays "Catch a Falling Star," but the sky itself seemed to be falling in this heart-rending episode 6.14 of Lost, which took three major and one minor character from us on the island. blog post review:  Lost 6.14: Jack's Tears   And here's a bit of Pat Hamilton's "Catch a Falling Star"      Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                    

A superb episode of 24 - 8.20 - which shows just why I like Jack Bauer and this series.  Real terror attacks in New York City also show why 24 is still relevant to the dangerous world in which we live, especially if, like me, you live in New York City.   blog post review:  24.8.20:  Jack vs. Dana     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                    

The fine episode 1.18 of FlashForward has triple twists and a glistening fork in the road...   blog post review: FlashForward 1.18: Triple Forks     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                          

A first crack at specific predictions about how Lost will end.  My predictions center around the expectation that the "better" LA alternate reality will collapse into the true, original island reality.  This podcast explores why LA is "better," how the collapse will occur, and what consequences.   blog post review:  Preliminary Predictions for Lost Finale     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                          

The almost unimaginable happens in 24.8.19 - Jack vs. Chloe.   This review explores the reasons, the context, and the reality of this situation, so antithetical to the fundamentals of 24.   blog post review:  24.8.19: Jack vs. Chloe     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                         

Great music (as always), complex interpersonal relationships (as always), and police brutality characterize this third fine episode of Treme.   blog post review: Treme 1.3: Fine Sweet and Sour   my YouTube vids mentioned in this podcast   book mention in this podcast:     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                              

Jack's on a collision course not only with President Allison Taylor but Chloe in this terrific episode 24.8.18, in which matters of peace and war come between the staunchest  friends.   blog post review:  24.8.18: Blinding Peace     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                           

Demetri's day has arrived, and FlashForward 1.17 tells it with brilliance, style, and the best action sequence so far in the series.   Plus, Frost has a map on a wall that looks like something out Hari Seldon's psychohistory (see Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy ).   blog post review:  Mark, Demetri, and Hari Seldon   Listen to 40-minute interview with Robert J. Sawyer Listen to podcast about Asimov's Foundation series     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                            

The vice of a mostly irresisible future gets ever tighter in FlashForward 1.16.   blog post review:  FlashForward 1.16:  Mark's Gun and Demetri's Wedding     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                            

Treme's second episode on HBO continues with fine characterizations and great music, with Willy DeVille's "New Orleans," first made famous by Gary U.S. Bonds in 1959, playing over the closing credits.   That 1959 recording is one of my all-time favorites.   blog post review, with vid of Gary US Bonds "New Orleans":  Treme 1.2: "If You Ain't Been to Heaven, The You Ain't Been There"     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                        

In the immortal words of the Mamas and Papas Creeque Alley, the characters in Lost 6.13 were make-up, break-up, everything is shake up, in a powerful episode teeming with surprises and intersections.   blog post review: Lost 6.13: "Make Up, Break Up, Everything is Shake Up"   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                        

Three highly satisfying developments in the powerhouse 24.8.17, and one supremely frustrating...   blog post review: 24.8.17: The Agent's Burden     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                       

Another example of cross-reality communication in this powerful episode 6.12 of Lost - between Libby and Hurley - which also includes a double whammy between Desmond and Locke.   blog post review: Lost 6.12: Libby and Hurly and Cross-Reality Communication   see also: Lost: Keys to What's Really Going On     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                        

FlashForward 1.15 revolves around the search for the FBI mole - with a walloping surprise at the end.   blog post review:  FlashForward 1.15     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                      

David Simon's Treme premiered on HBO last night.  Simon's work was last seen in The Wire, one of the best shows ever on television.  Treme lives up to its maker's reputation, with great acting, music, local flavor as befits a story that unfolds in New Orleans, 3 months after Katrina.   blog post review:  Treme   listen to Louis Prima's Buona Sera , featured in the Treme premiere       Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                      

Bones 100 gives us Bones and Booth kissing twice - once in the past, during their first case, and once right now - and guess what impact that has on their relationship?  A superb episode with all sorts of delightful details.   blog post review:  Bones 100: Two Deep Kisses and One Wild Relationship   book mentioned in this podcast:                               Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                             

A brilliantly satisfying Lost 6.11, in which Desmond in better LA - with Charlie and Daniel's help - finally starts sewing the two torn-apart realities back together...     blog post:  Lost 6.11: The Reunion of Two Realities Begins   see also Lost: Keys to What's Really Going On     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                              

Great two hours, great Manhattan scenes, great Laura-like twist ... all in 24 Season 8 Hours 15-16.   blog post review:  24 in Manhattan, Goes to the Movies, in  8.15-16   movie mentioned in this podcast:                         Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                      

Fringe 2.16 at last gives us the story of how and why Walter took Peter from the alternate universe - and the story is a little masterpiece in an hour.   blog post review:  Fringe 2.16: Peter's Memorable Story    

One of the best - maybe the best - episode (1.14) of FlashForward so far, which shows the flashforwards irresistibly on their way to come true, in Somalia and LA, with one big exception.   And there's D. Gibbons apparently talking across time...   blog post review:  FlashForward 1.14:  Somalia, LA, Fate Resistible and Irresistible   Save FlashForward!   Tell ABC How Much You Love It!     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                          

Bones 5.25 provides a most enjoyable and instructive lesson in the right way to handle authorship and attribution.   blog post review:  Page 187 in Bones 5.15   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                      

Episode 8.14 of 24 hinges on the question: which is more important, America's honor or saving the West Side of Manhattan.   An episode which shows how much 24 will be missed after this final season.   blog post review: Supreme Moral Dilemma and Great Writing in 24.8.14     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                            

The aliens make inroads with Father Jack, Valerie's craving mice, Erica recruits a terrorists and all sorts of other V-goodies in the return of V with episode 1.5.   blog post review:  V's Back with 1.5!   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                      

Alternate better-LA-reality is not so bright for Sun and Jin in Lost 6.10, and they're still not together on the island, which adds up to one powerful episode.   blog post review:  Lost 6.10: Cloudy Sun   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code                          

Zoe breaks out in the world at large in Caprica 1.9, the half-season finale.  Along the way, we're given the first human killed at the hands of a Cylon.   blog post review:  Caprica 1.9: Zoey at Large     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                       

FlashForward 1.13 moves two important elements of the story along ... how Aaron's daughter wound up  back in Afghanistan, and how Mark's gun could have killed Demetri, given that it was in police custody ...   blog post review:  FlashForward 1.13: Aaron's Daughter, Mark's Gun, and Magpies     my Sept 2009 podcast interview with FlashForward author Robert J. Sawyer     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                          

We at last get Richard Alpert's story in Lost 6.9 :  he's been  a pawn in the battle between Jacob and the Nemesis for lo these many years....     blog post review:  Lost 6.9: Richard's Story     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                       

Ladies night on 24.8.13, with decisive moves by Chloe, Renee, and Dana!   blog post review:  24.8.13:  Chloe, Renee, and Dana   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                        

Caprica continues as the most philosophically fascinating science fiction currently on television, with Episode 1.8, which delves into the relationship of intelligence and life in the real vs. virtual world.   blog post review:  Caprica 1.8: The Metaphysics of Flesh   books referred to in this podcast: Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty Mind at Large: Knowing in the Technological Age by Paul Levinson     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                      

The last 20 minutes of FlashForward 1.12 were outstanding, with a revelation of something I predicted about Dominic Monaghan's character Simon in my review of the first FlashForward , a good twist, and an intriguing development between Mark Benford and Lloyd Simcoe.   blog post review:  FlashForward 1.12 Parts 1 and 2   one unified podcast review of Episodes 1-10   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                             

Lost's finale season continues to get better and better.  Episode 6.8 finds Sawyer not quite a con-man in better LA, and lying his head off for a good cause on the island.  He's on his own team.   blog post review:  Lost 6.8:  The Third Team     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                      

Numb3rs posts what may be the last episode of the series, certainly of the season.  A brief appreciation of this off-beat, appealing, and compelling series.   blog post review: Farewell Numb3rs     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                         

NCIS 7.17 presented a good story about a marine and his two wives, but the best part was about the evolution of Ducky's ties, familial and bow.   blog post review: NCIS 7.17:  Ducky's Ties     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                        

In the most delicately constructed parallels of the LA and island realities so far, we find Ben a better man in LA and on the island in Lost 6.7.   A beautiful episode...   blog post review:  Lost 6.7: A Better Ben in Both Realites     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                      

House discovers the cure in a what a blogger patient does not blog about, in this media savvy, too-notch, Popperian episode 6.14.   blog post review:  House Meets Blogger in 6.14   further reading -   about blogging:  New New Media   about Popperian philosophy:   In Pursuit of Truth     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                        

This is the episode, the Season 4 finale, that changes everything, as Bill gets up before the world and makes a pathbreaking announcement.   blog post review:  Big Love Breakout Season 4 Finale   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                    

Shannon's mother turns up with a dead Navy man in her arms in NCIS 7.16, which gives us another strong chapter in Gibbs' personal and professional life story.   blog post review:  Gibbs' Mother-in-Law Dilemma     blog post review:   Lost 6.6:  Sayid the Assassin in Both Realities   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                            

Sayid struggles not be an assassin in both realities in Lost 6.6.   He fails both times, with devastating consequences for the island.   blog post review:   Lost 6.6:  Sayid the Assassin in Both Realities   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                      

Real life NYC Fox newscaster Ernie Anastos plays a crucial in episode 8.10 of 24 - probably the best episode of the season so far.   blog post review:  Ernie Anastos, Dead Man Bait, and New CTU Kid in 24.8.18     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                        

NCIS resumes its 7th season this Tuesday.  Here's a catch-up, over-all review which explains why NCIS and its mix of characters and story lines deserve to be the most popular drama on television.   blog post review:  NCIS     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                        

It's Gunfight at the OK Corral, High Noon, or maybe Jack Bauer on Big Love 4.7, as Jack and his brother duel it out with the Greens in Mexico...   commentary on PL's singing and humor by Tina Vozick   blog post review: Nearly Gunfight at the OK Corral for Big Love 4.7     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                       

Jack vs. CTU in episode 8.9 of 24, where we learn the value of just saying no to your superiors...   blog post review: 24 8.9: Jack vs. CTU, Just Say No to Superiors     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                         

Lost 6.5 gives us another inexplicable intersection of characters - Jack runs into Dogen in a Los Angeles music competition - as well another telling difference between the LA reality (no plane crash) and the original Lost reality:  Jack has a son in new LA.   Not only that, his memory may not be a little shaky.   What does this tell us about the new LA reality?  Meanwhile, back on the island, Jack is taken to a light house which has a device reminiscent of Prester John's speculum...   blog post review:  Lost 6.5: Jack's Family and Prester John's Speculum   more on inexplicable intersections:  Lost: Keys to Understanding What's Really Going On   more about Prester John     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                        

Tables turn on Jack in 24 8.8 as he becomes the tortured ...   blog post review:  24 8.8: Turning Tables     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                        

Big Love 4.6 features Barb furious about Bill's pre-marital sex with Ana and Margene.  And just for a little more excitement, Ben's in the hands of those monstrous Greens in Mexico.   blog post review:  Big Love 4.6:  Barb Ascendant     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                              

In Lost 6.4, we find a much better Los Angeles, with Locke married.  It's also teeming with more provocative inexplicable coincidences - Locke intersects with Hurley, Rose, and Ben.  Meanwhile, back on the island, we learn some of the meaning of the numbers...     blog post review:  Lost 6.4:  Better LA, Wilder Island, Some Partial Answers at Last   for more on inexplicable coincidences, see Lost: Keys to What's Really Going On     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                        

Lost 6.3 brings us important new information about the nature of the two realities:  details, such as baby Aaron's name, persist in both realities; so do inexplicable coincidences, as we see when Ethan shows up as Claire's doctor in the hospital.   If we you want to know about Dr. Arzt, listen to the podcast...     blog post review: Lost 6.3: Kate and Claire, Tenacious Details, and Dr. Arzt's Arse at Airport   also: Keys to What's Really Going On in Lost       Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                           

A beautiful Heroes Season 4 finale that ties up all sorts of loose ends, and cries out for more...     blog post review:  Heroes Forever     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                          

At least five separate stories unfolding in 24 Season 8 Episode 7 ... only 4 are related, so far.     blog post review:  24 8.7:  More Like 24s than 24       Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                      

A superb standalone episode of 6.13 House - all from Cuddy's point of view.     blog post review:  House 6.13: Cuddy's Perspective     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                          

Politics and family issues are heating up on Big Love to the point of all-out explosion.   A polygamist running for office is almost insane.  But will Bill be able to triumph in the difference between insanity and near-insanity?   blog post review: The Potential for Brilliance in the Difference between Near-Insanity & Insanity in Big Love 4.5     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                        

A misspelled 'Manhatan" is the first big clue that episode 2.15 of Fringe is an alternate universe story.  What we don't know until a bit into the episode is that it will be a superb, game-changing alternate universe story, one in which Olivia will finally glimpse the truth about Peter.   blog post review:  Fringe 2.15: I'll Take 'Manhatan'     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                        

Caprica 1.3 continues with a story on a world much more beautiful than Battlestar Galactica, but every bit as engaged in life-and-death, heart-wrenching issues.   blog post review:  Caprica 1.3: Daughters, Missing and Present   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                      

A delightful episode 5.14 about a devil provides a fine tableau for a contest of faith (Booth) vs. science (Bones)  vs. pyschology (Sweets).   blog post review:  Faith vs. Science vs. Psychology on Bones 5.14   further philosophic reading:   Mind at Large:  Knowing in the Technological Age     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                            

Analysis of three questions arising from the Lost Season 6 premiere:  1.  Is there any linkage or leakage between the Los Angeles reality, in which 815 never crashed, and the reality of our survivors back on island - survivors now not only of a plane crash, but an H-Bomb explosion?   2.  Has there been a history of either Jacob or the Nemesis taking over bodies of the dead before, just as the Nemesis took over Locke's?     3.  What happened to everyone else on the island after the H-Bomb went off?       blog post analysis:  Three Questions Arising from Lost Season 6 Premiere   also:  podcast review of Lost Season 6 premiere       Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                      

The superb 2-hour premiere of the finale season of Lost is double in more ways than one ... a complete, detailed review and analysis [with spoilers]     blog post review:  Lost Season 6 Double Premiere   see also:  Lost: Keys to What's Really Going On     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                          

Episode 8.6 of 24 is all about sacrifices - most notably, what Renee must do to keep Vlad on the mission.  Do women under cover make bigger sacrifices in this regard then men?     blog post review:  24 Season 8 Hour 6: Deep Sacrifices   Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039                        

The two main stories in this fine episode 6.12 of House show he's continuing to shed some of his misanthropy - is he on his way to a permanent transformation to mensch?     blog post review:  House 6.12: The Progression to Mensch Continues     Angie's List Special Offer   Avis Rent a Car Coupon Code   Budget Car Rental special code   eBags discount code   eHarmony special code   eMusic Trial Code   LifeLock special code   Nutrisystem Special Discount! Link or Call 866-223-5039