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"White Collar" mid-season finale recap: "Free
Fall"

post from I Screen, You Screen on 05 December 2009 08:58:00 AM. © I Screen, You Screen

So, I know I already posted a review of the mid-season finale of USA's charming new caper drama "White Collar," but I wanted to take a few brief moments to talk about the episode itself, now that you've (presumably) seen it.
That said, episode spoilers are below.
OK, I'd primarily like to talk about that last scene. What do you think it means? Do you really think Peter is bad? I sincerely doubt it and, if he is, my esteem of the show will fall immensely. Making Peter evil with no real lead-up to that reveal would just be kind of a cop-out; a way to generate some cheap gasps and thrills.
I think the real reason he's following Kate is probably more complicated. Perhaps he senses Kate is using Neal, and he's trying to keep her away from him. Or maybe she's the one who helped Peter catch Neal in the first place, and he doesn't want Neal to find out about it.
Whatever the reason, I'm really hoping the show deals with it in a satisfying way. I'm a little worried about that as, though the series is great fun, it is a bit slight. I hope this twist isn't just explained away in five minutes, but that it adds a little weight to the show. Even if Peter isn't evil, he is betraying Neal. That betrayal will add a layer of complexity to the relationship between the two leads, and complexity is just what this show needs a little more of.
What did you think?

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Brian Tilsley is alive and well and in panto

post from Coronation Street Blog on 05 December 2009 08:47:00 AM. © Coronation Street Blog

Chris Quentin, who you'll remember played Coronation Street's Brian Tilsley - dad of Nick and[...]

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Dollhouse - A Sinister Scientist

post from Television Without Pity on 05 December 2009 07:51:43 AM. © Television Without Pity

The Left Hand: Summer Glau may not be able to move her left arm, but she's still crazy evil. Emphasis on crazy.

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Dollhouse - Your Services Are No Longer Required

post from Television Without Pity on 05 December 2009 07:44:53 AM. © Television Without Pity

The Public Eye: That's what Rossum seems to be telling Adelle, if the events of this episode are any indication.

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Report on ABDC Auditions in Houston

post from Blogging America's Best Dance Crew on 05 December 2009 07:29:00 AM. © Blogging America's Best Dance Crew

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30 Days of Christmas: National Lampoon's
Christmas Vacation...

post from My Life, Made Possible By Pop Culture... on 05 December 2009 04:14:00 AM. © My Life, Made Possible By Pop Culture...

Remember how in the late eighties/early nineties, every movie seemed to have a cartoon opening credits sequence? They usually served to summarize the events you would see following in the hour and a half of live action. Well, the one in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation did more than that: with Santa getting electrocuted, and reindeer almost crashing into houses, the opening effectively set up the tone for the film that would follow: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is full of sight gags, precocious kids, blunders with trees, lights and toilets, and road rage-- you know, all of the things that make up a typical modern Christmas spent with family.
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Throw in some ritzy but nosy neighbors (including Julia Louis-Dreyfus), quarreling in-laws (like Doris Roberts), white trash extended families (Randy Quaid), and a Scrooge of a boss who stiffs his employees on a Christmas bonus...even after the bonus has already been spent, stir them all together under one roof, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation becomes full of more tension than cheer. But of course all of that tension only leads to comical exchanges and the relieving sensation that at least you aren't related to these people! Sure, we all may fight with Christmas lights, but how many of us can say the SWAT team has been called into our family holiday dinner??
Fans of The Big Bang Theory will also relish seeing Little Leonard (Johnny Galecki) sans spectacles and Star Trek tees!

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Getting back on top of things

post from Insights of a Television Addict on 05 December 2009 03:47:00 AM. © Insights of a Television Addict

When I took on this blogging project, I was very good about it, getting out at least 2 entries a day, which corresponded to the amount of TV I was watching. Though most of those shows are still on the list (and there will posts eventually talking about seasons so far), I have fallen behind on more than one program.
Excuse? I moved. I am still unpacking. These things take up time. Plus, I've been reading a whole bunch - working at a bookstore will do that to you. Just finished The Hunger Games, which is fantastic (will tell you more later), and a friend is bringing me a copy of Storm of Swords today (the third book in George R R Martin's Song of Ice and Fire). That is likely to distract me some...okay, a lot...as well.
But despite my distractions, my moving, my other projects, and the busyness that comes with the Christmas season, I will be better about my blogging. The daily posts will resume, and we will be getting some special ones wrapping up Fall television viewing and preparing for Winter.
So be prepared, and check back as often as you like.

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What to TiVo: Saturday

ABC has Big 12 Football Championship: Nebraska vs. Texas
CBS has repeats of Medium and CSI:NY, and is new with 48 Hours Mystery
FOX is new with Cops and America's Most Wanted
NBC has The Incredibles
AMC has White Christmas
E! has The Sweetest Thing
FX has Deck the Halls
Lifetime is new with 12 Men of Christmas
MTV has repeats of South Park, For the Love of Ray 2, and Gone Too Far
VH1 has Wayne's World and a repeat of Tough Love 2
Late-night highlights include Blake Lively and Rihanna on Saturday Night Live on NBC

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"Dollhouse" returns...for now

So, last night marked the start of the "Dollhouse" death march, as Fox aired back-to-back new episodes of the sci-fi drama -- not long after the network announced that it wouldn't renew the series for a third season.
This was the first of three two-hour extravaganzas that will air this month...before the series' final three episodes are burned off in January. The series finale airs Jan. 22 at 9 p.m.
But, as death marches go, last night's double whammy, "The Public Eye/The Left Hand," was pretty darn good.
Spoilers below.
First off, this week's ep featured an excellent guest cast, including Joss Whedon alumna Summer Glau, who played a brilliant -- albeit highly imbalanced -- programmer at the D.C. Dollhouse. We also saw the fabulous Ray Wise playing her boss, in a performance that renewed my sadness over the cancellation of "Reaper."
Those two guests were most prominently featured in the second half of the double feature, as Adelle and Topher traveled to D.C. to retrieve Echo and learn more about Sen. Daniel Perrin (Alexis Denisoff), who was revealed to be some kind of active/human hybrid used by Rossum to discredit the Dollhouse theory.
It was great to see Fran Kranz's Topher face off with Glau's Bennett, a character who is basically a female version of himself. His inevitable fascination with her (and what I gather was her at least semi-genuine infatuation with him) was fun to watch. Topher is possibly the character who has grown the most over the course of this brief series. This season alone, we've seen him vulnerable, regretful and oddly sympathetic. And here, we got to see him come close to falling in love.
Well, until Bennett tried to have Echo killed. But such is love.
Anyway, here are some bullet points on "The Public Eye/The Left Hand."
* Not only did the episodes have great guest stars, we got see yet another great performance by Enver Gjokaj, arguably the show's most versatile actor. As Victor, he's been everything from the Dollhouse head of security to a serial killer to a bimbotic sorority girl. And here, we got to see him imprinted with the personality of Topher Brink. Oh my God -- so perfect. As always, Gjokaj flawlessly captured the voice, mannerisms and surface characteristic of the person Victor is "playing." The Topher-talks-to-Topher scenes in "The Left Hand" were a definite highlight. The episode's best exchange came when Real Topher described dead-armed Bennett to Victor Topher:
Real T: "Imagine John Cassavetes in 'The Fury' as a hot chick."
Victor T: "Which you know I often have!"
Awesome!
* Wow -- have to admit, I didn't see the Perrin twist coming. For much of the season, Denisof's scenes have felt like filler, but this week he got to shine as he learned a little about his past, and had to decide whether to face what happened to him or wipe it all away and continue to be used as a pawn. He chose the latter. Why, I wonder? Maybe he's not as strong as Echo, who has said repeatedly that she doesn't want to go back to the "sleep" of being an active. Anyway, he made the choice to be Rossum's monkey, and he took poor Madeline down with him. And how creepy/sad was that final scene of "The Left Hand," with Bennett, calmly standing over a terrified Madeline? Yeesh.
* Dude, what did Caroline do to Bennett? More importantly, when did she do it? And why? Was it during the raid on the Rossum lab? And, though we learned that Bennett is probably not a doll, something is definitely wrong with her. But what? How long has she been in D.C.? Where did they find her?
* What did you think?

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Bones 5.9 meets Avatar and Videogamers

There was almost as much Avatar as Bones in episode 5.9, but that was ok, in fact pretty enjoyable, because we got to see a good story with Sweets, Jack, and Colin on the line in front of the Avatar theater, or, to be more precise, a good story with[...]

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