All the Shades of Grey

If there are three upcoming shows I’ve heard great buzz about this summer, it’s ABC’s Better With You, No Ordinary Family, and FOX’s LoneStar. I’ve seen the pilots to all three but as of this writing can only discuss one of them: LoneStar. There’s a torrential amount of good things floating around about this new series, so [...]

[ This review covers Season One, Episode One of The Gates, entitled Pilot, which premieres on Sunday, June 20, 2010 ] I wasn’t really expecting much from The Gates, which from ABC’s marketing makes it look like some cheap Twilight rip-off to simply capitalize on the vampire craze. In reality, however, The Gates is so much more. [...]

[ This review covers Season One, Episode One of Scoundrels, entitled And Jill Came Tumbling After, which premieres on Sunday, June 20, 2010 ] Summer is usually a wasteland in the television world, when the networks populate their schedules with ridiculous reality series and burn off series that just couldn’t survive during the primetime season. [...]

[ This review covers Season One, Episode One of Parenthood, entitled Pilot, which originally aired on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 ] So let me start this review out with a disclaimer: I abso-freakin-lutely love Lauren Graham. Like, love her. She’s just one of the most fantastic actresses ever. As a result, I wound up having [...]

[ 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 [...]

[ 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 [...]

[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 [...]

[ 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 [...]

[ 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, [...]

[ 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 [...]

[ 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 [...]

[ 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 [...]

[ 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]