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Grimm, Ep 2.03: “Bad Moon Rising”: The truth finally comes out

Grimm, Season 2, Episode 3: “Bad Moon Rising” Written by Richard Hatem Directed by David Solomon Airs Mondays at 10pm ET on NBC (Fridays at 9pm ET starting 9/14) This week, redneck Coyotls try to abduct/induct a new female into their pack, Juliette remembers everything but Nick, and Hank starts to lose it completely.  This …

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Grimm, Ep 2.02, “The Kiss”: More than one way to wake a sleeping beauty

Grimm, Season 2, Episode 2: “The Kiss” Written by David Greenwalt & Jim Kouf Directed by Terrence O’Hara Airs Mondays at 10pm ET on NBC (Fridays at 9pm ET starting 9/14) This week’s Grimm continues the high stakes of the premiere while wrapping last week’s main story threads and pushing the ongoing threads along slowly. …

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Game of Thrones, Ep. 2.09: “Blackwater” mostly lives up to the hype

Game of Thrones, Season 2, Episode 9: “Blackwater” Written by George R. R. Martin Directed by Neil Marshall Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on HBO The Battle of the Blackwater. From book proponents to HBO itself, there’s been a steady stream of hype coming in about the event, and it’s “Blackwater”‘s job to work as …

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Justified, Ep. 3.07: “The Man Behind the Curtain” sets yet more gears in motion

Justified, Season 3, Episode 7: “The Man Behind the Curtain” Written by Ryan Farley Directed by Peter Werner Airs Tuesdays at 10pm ET on FX Justified‘s third season premiere, “The Gunfighter,” promised a different kind of Justified, one with a greater number of characters and interlocking conflicts, while still retaining the show’s patented blend of …

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Justified, Ep. 3.04: “The Devil You Know” thins the herd, thickens the plot

Justified, Season 3, Episode 4: “The Devil You Know” Written by Taylor Elmore Directed by Dean Parisol Airs Tuesdays at 10pm on FX As a brief digression, allow me to spin a little pre-emptive Justified fan-fiction. With the welcome re-appearance this week of Kaitlyn Dever as Loretta, and witnessing the return of her easy repartee …

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Justified, Ep. 3.03: “Harlan Roulette” gets down to business, but doesn’t forget the wit

Justified, Season 3, Episode 3: “Harlan Roulette” Written by Dave Andron Directed by Jon Avnet Airs Tuesdays at 10pm on FX It’s still early to make too many predictions about Justified‘s third season, but it’s noteworthy that there are distinct shades of Breaking Bad in this week’s installment, “Harlan Roulette.” The effects of Oxycontin (aka …

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Misfits, Ep. 3.07: A zombie outbreak makes for an interesting plot

Season 3, Episode 7 Written by Howard Overman Directed by Alex Garcia & Wayne Yip Airs Sundays, 10pm GMT on E4 After last weeks fantastic episode, I looked forward to this one in the hopes that it would be a continuation in terms of quality because the previous episodes had not been up to par …

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Community, Ep. 3.10 “Regional Holiday Music” a perfect end to the show before its benching

Community, Season 3, Episode 10 “Regional Holiday Music” Airs Thursdays, 8pm EST on NBC So Community is now benched and for how long we don’t yet know, but if they absolutely had to go out, this was the way to do it. It combined everything that I love. Christmas, musicals, and hating of Glee, all …

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Sons of Anarchy, S4: Potentially unsatisfying year promises great things to come

Sons of Anarchy, Season 4 Recap Created by Kurt Sutter Airs on FX If getting out was that easy, this would simply be a different show; so while highly predictable, this season‘s ending brought the Shakespearean step-father-son relationship finally to the peak season one had already laid out: Jax stepping up to the gavel. Hopefully …

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Misfits, Ep.3.06: Finally the show gets back on track

Misfits, Season 3, Episode 6 Written by Jon Brown Directed by Jonathan van Tulleken Airs Sundays, 10pm GMT on E4 After a drunken one-night stand with a mysterious girl, Rudy discovers that he has a strange superpower STD. With only 24 hours to undo the curse, Rudy enlists Simon to help him find the girl. …

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Community, Ep. 3.09: “Foosball And Nocturnal Vigilantism” makes the show’s benching even sadder

Community, Season 3, Episode 9: “Foosball And Nocturnal Vigilantism” Airs Thursdays 8pm ET on NBC We are now just one Christmas-themed episode away from Community being benched for an undisclosed period of time and with an episode such as this, it’s all the more heartbreaking. Where else would you get to see a show where …

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Misfits, Ep. 3.05: Once again the writing holds the show back

Misfits, Season 3, Episode 5 Written by Jon Brown Directed by Will Sinclair Airs Sundays, 10pm GMT on E4 While doing community service at the local hospital, Kelly gets trapped in the body of Jen, a coma victim and the gang have to hatch a plan to get her back, but there are complications. With this …

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Misfits, Ep. 3.04: Fantastic cinematography ruined by poor writing

Misfits, Season 3, Episode 4 Airs Sundays, 10pm GMT on E4 I want to begin by saying this episode looked fantastic. The cinematography of the show always continues to impress me. Let’s remember that they don’t have a huge budget because they are a semi-popular show on a cable channel. Yet they consistently pull off scenes …

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Community, Ep. 3.08 “Documentary Filmmaking: Redux” unintentionally alludes to the benching news

Community, Season 3, Episode 8 “Documentary Filmmaking: Redux” Airs Thursdays, 8pm EST on NBC Before I start my review, let me address the elephant in the room. Yes the show was benched from the January lineup this week and it was a real shame to get that news. While it didn’t come as a huge …

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Misfits, Ep. 3.03: Simon moves closer towards his destiny

Misfits, Season 3, Episode 3 Airs Sundays, 10pm GMT on E4 Around the time of season 2 something changed within Misfits. Slowly Simon started becoming much more interesting as a character than Nathan. I can already feel the hate coming my way but let me explain. Nathan was popular because of his looks, charm and comedic …

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Community, Ep. 3.07, “Studies In Modern Movement”: #AnniesMove

Community, Season 3, Episode 7 “Studies In Modern Movement” Airs Thursdays, 8pm EST on NBC What to say about this episode, other than that the scene in which Jeff and the Dean sing “Kiss From A Rose” to each other was one of the funniest moments of the entire series. I don’t think I’ve laughed that …

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Misfits, Ep. 3.02: Curtis struggles with his identity

Misfits, Season 3, Episode 2 Airs Sundays, 10pm GMT on E4 After seeing the powers that each character gained in last weeks episode, it was obvious that Curtis was the unlucky one when it came time to get his. The ability to change gender is hardly up there on the list of greatest superpowers. Luckily this …

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Community, Ep. 3.06: “Advanced Gay” is about maturing as a person

Community, Season 3, Episode 6 “Advanced Gay” Airs Thursdays, 8pm EST on NBC After two very similar but still great episodes, Community returns to a much more conventional plot. Pierce is approached by two gay men who want him to autograph his Hawthorne Wipes. He signs them, not realising that the men are gay until …

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Misfits, Ep. 3.01: “Rudy” doesn’t quite make up for Nathan’s absence

Misfits Review, Season 3, Episode 1 Airs Sundays, 10pm GMT on E4 Misfits is back and the cast all return minus Nathan who in a special short film was shown to have travelled to Las Vegas to use his power of magic to trick the casinos, only to be caught and jailed. This is also …

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Community, Episode 3.05: “Horror Fiction In Seven Spooky Steps″

Community, Season 3, Episode 5: “Horror Fiction In Seven Spooky Steps″ Airs Thursdays, 8pm ET on NBC After the amazing “Remedial Chaos Theory” from a couple of weeks ago I knew that I would go into the latest with a bit of a bias. After all it was one of my favourite episodes from the entire …

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Homeland, Ep. 1.04, “Semper I”: Jumping in Time and Changing the Game

Homeland Season 1, Episode 4: “Semper I” Written by Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa Directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff Airs Sundays at 10pm ET on Showtime Though it may not look this way on the surface, Homeland is quite an ambitious series. What the show does is play within the tropes of the typical conspiracy thriller …

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Homeland, Episode 1.02: “Grace”

Homeland Review, Season 1, Episode 2: “Grace” Written by Alex Gansa and Alexander Cary Directed by Michael Cuesta Airs Sundays at 10pm (ET) on Showtime Episode 2 of Homeland, entitled “Grace”, picks up where the pilot left off, and gives us more of the same. That’s a very good thing. Better still, this second episode …

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Community, Episode 3.04: “Remedial Chaos Theory″

Community, Season 3, Episode 4: “Remedial Chaos Theory″ Airs Thursdays, 8pm ET on NBC Now this is more like the Community I came to know and love. I’m not going to lie, I have been a little disappointed with the first three episodes of season three and thought that it might be heading in a …

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