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Franklin & Bash 3×02 ‘Dead and Alive’: Beach House Babes

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Published on June 20, 2013, by in Drama.
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Thanks TNT for just throwing in another hour of the hottest lawyers on TV since Ally McBeal was a regular in most of our lives. While the second episode of the season wasn’t as great as the premiere, it had a solid ending that tricked me, but I’m pretty gullible. Another day, another case – That’s the life of Franklin and Bash. If you’ve watched previous seasons you know the boys have huge hearts and when a friend of Bash’s dad comes in looking for help, they can’t say no. Don, the friend, served in Vietnam with Bash’s dad, and

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Franklin & Bash 3×01 ‘Coffee and Cream’: Everything’s magic

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Published on June 19, 2013, by in Drama.
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If you’re wondering how many actors from the 90’s that made up my childhood can fit into one show, the answer is never enough but Franklin & Bash are giving every other show a run for their money this season by adding Heather Locklear to the gang. She’s playing what else? A bitch named Rachel King. After feuding with Franklin and Bash on Piers Morgan’s show about nudity, she winds up a new partner at the firm. Will she put an end to the boys’ shenanigans? Probably not. The first case of the season is magical, seriously. Adam Goldberg guest

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Warehouse 13 4×17 ‘What Matters Most’: Well…this is depressing

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Published on June 19, 2013, by in Drama.
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All right, let’s start off with the biggest twist in the episode: Myka has ovarian cancer. This pretty much dwarfs everything else in the entire episode, including Claudia’s trust being betrayed (although we’ll get to that soon). Myka having cancer changes everything – this isn’t something that can be neutralized or fixed with a time traveling artifact. We’ll see if the Warehouse crew tries to fix Myka with an artifact but I’m not sure that’s the best way to go. The show is clearly going to lengths to tell us that this is a tremendous difficulty for Myka, and waving

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ReViews: Dawson’s Creek 1×02-1×05 “Hormonal suicide.”

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Published on June 19, 2013, by in Drama, ReViews: WIR's Netflix Column.
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Secrets, secrets, secrets. Everyone in this town has one, and that means they are bound to come out sooner or later. Let’s take inventory. There’s the fact that Dawson’s mom is having an affair, and the fact that Joey knows about it. Pacey is having illegal relations with his english teacher, Ms. Jacobs, and finally, Jen is not quite the good girl that Dawson had hoped. Now we add in a dash of a Joey-Dawson-Jen love triangle and there is sure to be a lot of underlying tension!

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The Fosters 1×03 ‘Hostile Acts’: Choices.

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Published on June 19, 2013, by in Drama.
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This weeks episode was prominently about choices; the good, the bad and the ugly. Mike asked Brandon if he wanted to come and live with him and Brandon said he’d think about it – which I was a little surprised about. However, thinking about it I can see how the craziness of his household could push him to wanting his personal space plus his crazy girlfriend trying to have ‘private’ time with him every single day! Stef was furious when Brandon told his mother about this lashing out making Brandon’s decision that much easier. As usual poor Lena has to

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Over The Air: True Blood 6×01 ‘Who are you, really?’: Shifter storyline not a priority?

 

Pretty Little Liars 4×02 ‘Turn Of The Shoe’: You Can’t Ignore Me!

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Published on June 19, 2013, by in Drama.
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The second episode of this new season aired last night, with the PLL writers giving us yet more bad luck for Emily, Toby tears (which break my heart), a new love interest for Aria, and a talking parrot. First of all, let’s address what all PLL fans were thinking about before this episode. Yes, the parrot. Mrs DiLaurentis palms off Ali’s grandma’s bird onto Hanna, who gives it a home at Spencer’s house (much to Spencer’s annoyance). The idea of having a parrot reveal something to the girls was something that many PLL fans, myself included, were very sceptical about,

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Twisted 1×02 ‘Grief is a Five Letter Word’: Have you seen this necklace?

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Published on June 18, 2013, by in Drama.
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When I first saw the preview for Twisted, I was heavily intrigued. Even the trailer had me captivated and curious. The pilot episode lured me in from the minute it began; I was hooked within the first thirty minutes of the show. Episode two did not disappoint either, in my opinion. Touching back on the first episode, we see glimpses of a necklace. There are photos of a certain woman, I assume Danny’s aunt, wearing the necklace and then Regina is wearing it. It has some sort of major significance in this show, although we don’t know what yet. This

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Switched at Birth 2×12 ‘Distorted House’: Mothers and daughters divided

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Published on June 18, 2013, by in Drama.
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Switched at Birth this week focused on family relationships in continuation of last week’s episode. We first have Bay and Regina. After staying over at Angelo’s apartment, Bay wants to continue to stay with Regina for a little while until Angelo comes back. When Kathryn finally accepts this change, you see Regina and Bay living together for the first time and the resemblance between them as biological mother and daughter is unruly. Their relationship only grows when Angelo comes home after having a disastrous time trying to find his newborn daughter, but when you see them dancing together you saw

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Falling Skies 3×03 ‘Badlands’: Hey, I know you!

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Published on June 17, 2013, by in Drama.
Source: TNT

This will probably be one of my shorter reviews because while something important does happen here, most of the episode seemed rather empty and the vast majority is taken up by two things, only one of which I actually care about. I’ll start with the plot line that I could give two figs about. It may be super important later but Anne and her alien-monster baby are so incredibly uninteresting to me that I end up fast forwarding half the time. The baby is still talking to her and doing things that no baby should be able to do but

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Teen Wolf 3×03 ‘Fireflies’: The hunted becomes the hunter

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Published on June 17, 2013, by in Drama.
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“Do you have any idea what you just set free?” It was one of the last lines we heard from Derek in episode two. Cora and Boyd had been set free from the cage that Deucalion had created for them; two rabid, blood thirsty werewolves with an entire city at their clawed fingertips. Unlike normal wolves, they weren’t seeking out food but the pure pleasure of killing. That alone is enough to send a chill down my spine. We were all warned of the dark wave that threatened to engulf our favorite werewolf show but it was far more suffocating

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Mad Men 6×12 ‘The Quality of Mercy’: Soaring past windows

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Published on June 17, 2013, by in Drama.
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Mad Men is a subtle, quiet show, but only when it wants to be.  It knows how to navigate a person’s emotions, slowly pulling at them, teasing them, until pivotal moments when it just tears them apart.  Last week’s “Favors” was one of those episodes that delivered a gut-punch pivotal moment at the end, when we witnessed a horrified Don chase after his daughter after having been caught having an affair with Sylvia.  This episode offers up another one of those moments, slowly building to it with the attention to character and detail that we see so regularly on Mad

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