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It took me two nights to get through all the premieres from Monday night. Good thing there’s nothing worth watching on Tuesday nights.My week of premieres started with a bang. A Chuck bang. I hadn’t realized how much I’d missed this show.I found last season to be a bit hit-and-miss, but if this fourth season can mainta [...]

If we’re to learn a lesson from the television series Chuck, it’s that family is everything.Chuck’s father abandoned his children in order to keep them safe. It’s not a strategy Chuck is comfortable with, though. He had to grow up without his father, after all. Chuck is protective of his extended family.In the two-hour [...]

Lost ended much like how it began. With Jack Shephard on his back, looking up. But while he was opening his eyes in the “Pilot”, he was closing them in “The End”.For a show that relied so much on plot twists, the series finale of Lost had very little to do with plot, and everything to do with character.The confrontatio [...]

It’s too bad that Leonard Nimoy has declared that he’s retiring from acting, because in the Season Two finale of Fringe, he and John Noble were hilarious together.The two veteran actors play old friends, colleagues, and rivals who haven’t seen each other for years. While Nimoy’s William Bell started a tech company that [...]

If I’m Joshua Jackson, I’m thinking about quitting Fringe. Can you blame me? Despite claims that Jackson’s character of Peter Bishop would have more to do in Season 2, the truth is the Vancouver-born actor hasn’t done much more this year than try to stand out more than the scenery. That we’ve noticed him at all is only [...]

Last week’s episode of Supernatural, “Hammer of the Gods”, gave us a glimpse about what Season 6 might be all about.If, as I expect, the Winchester boys resolve their conflict with the angels and Lucifer by the end of Season 5 — which is what series creator Eric Kripke says we can expect — then it’s entirely possib [...]

We’re well into January, and that means that we’re close to having reruns and crappy “investigative” news specials replaced with the kind of distracting scripted television shows we like to shut out the world with.A few — Leverage and Fringe, for example — have already kicked into gear with new episodes. Most other [...]

Two things connected Castle and a special, Monday night episode of Fringe last week. The first: a rose. The second, and more interesting, love triangles with men at the centre.Fillion and Milano, sitting in a tree …For a couple of months, Nathan Fillion has been Tweeting about how much he enjoyed working with guest s [...]

Geeks around the world have reasons to be happy and angry this week. Chuck returns to the airwaves. That’s good. NBC is bargaining to push Conan O’Brien’s The Tonight Show later in the evening. Not so good. Comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall are back with an original mini-series. That’s great, but only if you’re Canadi [...]

It was probably the right decision to cancel Eastwick.I feel bad about saying that, because the acting in the series is downright incredible, but there’s just something lame about the show. I don’t know what it is — the plot? or the lack thereof? — but despite the laugh-out-loud moments, I found myself cringing to [...]