Heroes episode 3.17  Cold Wars Airdate: February 23, 2009 So, what did you think of episode 17? Did “Cold Warsâ€� meet your expectations of the man behind the horn-rimmed-glasses? Monday’s episode focused on unraveling the plans of Nathan Petrelli and making sense of the enigmatic Noah Benn...

Filed under: Heroes, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S03E14) Now that's more like it! Yes, we're only one hour into this fourth volume ("Fugitives") of Heroes, but already we're looking at a vastly improved product. We're no longer fragmented trying to keep track of a million different seemingly unre...

In Bruges was filmed on location; Bruges (pronounced “broozh�), the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the world. But for hit men Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), it could be their final destination; a ...

“I Lied, Too” January 7th, 2009 Damages is one of the few shows that, despite airing during the period when I began this blog, I have never honestly blogged about the show. The reason is simple: I wasn’t really doing episodic reviews back when the show first emerged, and it took me...

Damages came back last night to FX, and so far it's just about as powerful, brooding and complex as the first season, which is to say, top notch television. The essence of Damages is that you never know, completely, who is telling the truth, and that pertains, especially, to Patty Hewes, and her sec...

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S02E01) "Actually, I take that back. You should be scared. You should be terrified." - Ellen Payback's a bitch, ain't it? Not if you're Ellen Parsons - then it's a slow, methodical, patience-testing process where it apparently take...

Emmy nomination morning is kind of like Christmas morning - you’re all excited about it as it approaches, wary of the potential surprises and the like, etc. But, unlike Christmas that ends in the complete elimination of suspense, the Emmy Awards are the start of a whole new game. In this case,...

When I started my Emmys coverage for this year’s ceremony a while ago, I (as always) had a lot of plans: previews of every category (Got through a lot), reviews of every submitted episode (Almost got through those), and all sorts of other grand schemes that never come to fruition. This is the ...