All the Shades of Grey

[ This review covers Season One, Episode One of Life UneXpected, entitled Pilot, which originally aired on Monday, January 18, 2010 ]
There are five areas in which I need a new television show to excel to impress me enough to return for a second episode. The CW’s newest product, Life UneXepected, passed all five with [...]

[ This review covers the pilot episode of The Deep End, which premieres on ABC Thursday, January 21 at 8/7c ]

Damn. The Deep End creator David Hemingson must really hate Shonda Rhimes. Like seriously hate her. Because she totally stole his idea for a new series and got it on the air six years earlier! [...]

[This preliminary review covers Season One, Episodes One and Two of Happy Town, entitled In This Home on Ice and I Came to Haplin for the Water]
Appy On. What is “Appy On”, you ask? Well, it’s what this show would be named without the letters, W, T, and H. That’s right, WTH–as in, “what the [...]

[ This preliminary review covers Season One, Episode One of V, entitled Pilot, which airs Tuesday, November 3, 2009 ]
DISCLAIMER: I have only seen an allegedly “rough” official screener of the 46-minute V pilot. The following review is less of an actual review/recap of the episode and more of a statement of my opinion on [...]

[ This review covers Season One, Episode One of Mercy, entitled Can We Get That Drink Now?, which originally aired on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 ]
Mercy hooked me instantly, which is pretty impressive. Most shows don’t do that. Most shows just interest me and then it takes many episodes before I feel that burn, that [...]

[ This review covers Season One, Episode One of The Good Wife, entitled Pilot, which originally aired on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 ]
It was the initial description of CBS’s new series The Good Wife that got me very interested. A politician’s wife has to deal with the fallout after her husband is caught in illegal [...]

[ This review covers Season One, Episode One of FlashForward, entitled No More Good Days, which originally aired on Thursday, September 24, 2009 ]

Holy cow! The entire world just blacked out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds. Most had a flash forward to April 29, 2010 at 10 PM (US Pacific Time). Why? Herein lies [...]

[ This review covers Season One, Episode One of Cougar Town, entitled Pilot, which originally aired on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 ]

I think ABC may finally be having some luck with their Wednesday night line-ups. After seriously revamping the night two years ago with the Pushing Daisies/Dirty Sexy Money/Private Practice lineup, ABC basically failed miserably [...]

[ This review covers Season One, Episode One of Modern Family, entitled Pilot, which originally aired on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 ]

re·vue – (n) a form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied: ABC’s Modern Family.
Things you need to know about Modern Family:

It plays out much like the mockumentary [...]

Modern Family was one of the shows I most looked forward to premiering this fall, and my excitement for it only continued to grow as more and more glowing reviews began to trickle in on my favorite television sites. My fear then became that my expectations would be so high for Modern Family that I’d [...]

[ This review covers Season One, Episode One of The Beautiful Life: TBL, entitled Pilot, which originally aired on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 ]
Marissa Cooper is back! Sort of. I’ll admit that even though it may be strange, I am a fan of Mischa Barton (have been ever since The OC and realizing she was [...]

I was looking forward to The Vampire Diaries more than any other new series this fall, so I eagerly awaited Thursday’s premiere. Unfortunately, the world didn’t want me to want to see the episode. I had to work Thursday night, so I couldn’t watch it when it physically aired. That was OK though, because it [...]

[ This review covers Season One, Episode One of Melrose Place, entitled Pilot, which originally aired on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 ]
When it was announced that The CW decided it was going to reboot Melrose Place the same way it did 90210, concerns immediately emerged that it would suffer the same fate as 90210 and [...]

Funny thing. I wasn’t really interested in Nurse Jackie at all. But then ads started popping up for it everywhere and everybody in the internet community was saying how great it was and then Showtime placed it right after “Weeds.” Well, I love “Weeds,” so I decided to just stick around and check out the [...]

I knew I had to watch Glee when FOX aired the pilot episode as a “special preview event.” The ads were too entrancing, with the wonderful beats and music and all of the wonderful things that everybody was saying about it.
So I watched it. Ohmygod.
OK, it certainly was not perfect. The pilot for Glee is [...]

I feel like it was forever ago that I first heard of the upcoming show United States of Tara. And I remember thinking that I didn’t like the sound of it. I don’t know why. Really. Something about everything I was reading about it just turned me off. And then I got Juno as a [...]