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  • Review: Chuck vs. The Nacho Sampler (Episode 3.6)

    Review: Chuck vs. The Nacho Sampler (Episode 3.6)

       It begins with an image familiar to many Chuck fans: the first meeting between Sarah Walker and Chuck Bartowski. It’s all there. Vicki Vale. The cell phone. The bumbling Nerd Herd nice guy.   It seems like a lifetime ago. After this episode that...

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  • Review: Chuck vs. First Class (Episode 3.5)

    Review: Chuck vs. First Class (Episode 3.5)

    One thing I’ve appreciated this season is Chris Fedak and Josh Schwartz’s willingness to break out of the show’s safety zone. Some fans don’t like that. Honestly, I feel I can never really respect a show unless it does break out. It shows ambition. And...

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  • Review: Chuck vs. Operation Awesome (Episode 3.4)

    Review: Chuck vs. Operation Awesome (Episode 3.4)

    If the last episode showed Devon Woodcomb the ups of spy life, being the hero and rekindling the passion in a by-the-numbers life, Operation Awesome shows the down side. Literally.

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  • Dollhouse: An Epitaph

    Dollhouse: An Epitaph

    Well, it went out with a whimper not a bang, but you can’t say it didn’t exceed many people’s expectations while falling short of its own potential. Of course, a lot of that potential was squashed by Fox mucking around with it. Nevertheless as shows go Dollhouse will not be remembered as Joss Whedon’s most loved creations.

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  • Review: Chuck vs. The Three Words (Episode 3.2)

    Review: Chuck vs. The Three Words (Episode 3.2)

    The last episode got Chuck back in good graces externally. This episode has Chuck and Sarah struggle to find emotional equilibrium. Having the return of an old Edwina Haskell in sexy spy Carina doesn’t help matters. In other words, a pretty requisite episode of Chuck.

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  • Review: Chuck vs. The Pink Slip (Episode 3.1)

    Review: Chuck vs. The Pink Slip (Episode 3.1)

    Considering how anticipated the season three premiere was for Chuck fans, seeing their hero in less than an ideal light had to come as a shock. Certainly recent events would warrant that things would be pretty rosy for our intrepid nerd cum spy. Having an upgrade in downloadable data that includes self-defense, weapons training, and suaveness out of the James Bond playbook would pretty much make you a kick-ass asset like never before, but you have to hand it to Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. Nothing comes easy for Chuck. Not even the stuff that endears Chuck to his fans.

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  • Midseason TV 2010, Pt. II: Preview Edition

    Midseason TV 2010, Pt. II: Preview Edition

    Picking up where I left off, the three shows I am most looking forward to in the next couple months. Counting down to most anticipated.

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  • Midseason TV 2010

    Midseason TV 2010

    Well, it’s that time of year again. Yes. Reruns. We’re at the midway season in television land folks which means that we won’t have anything new on the horizon until after the ball drops–the one in New York not a metaphor for a bad omen...

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  • Review: BSG -”Sometimes a Great Notion” [SPOILERS]

    Review: BSG -”Sometimes a Great Notion” [SPOILERS]

    So I got the final episodes of BSG DVDs awhile back and I finally got through seeing them. And as I watched them, I remembered that I hadn’t written about the first episode from the final ten. (Not to mention I promised I would post my thoughts about it much...

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  • So Long to the Dollhouse

    So Long to the Dollhouse

    The inevitable finally happened and the Whedonverse weeps once more. The Dollhouse has shut its doors. The sad reality, however, is Dollhouse turned out to be a house of cards with too much stacked against it from the onset.

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