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Psych: Chivalry is Not Dead... But Someone Is

Posted by Paul Little | Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 3:54am

It took a few weeks to get going on these recaps, but for 3 weeks now, everyone's favourite fake psychic has been back! Psych began its fifth season on USA on July 14th with a super-sized episode featuring Chinese gangs, forbidden love, Shawn's dad now working at the police station, Juliet not working at the police station, and a whole lot of kung-fu! It was not only one of the most action-packed episodes in the show's history, it also did a good job of setting up the overarching plot threads for the new season, including the tension between Shawn and Henry ramping up (with Henry now in charge of the consultants -- meaning Shawn & Gus -- at the SFPD) and the whole Shawn/Juliet dynamic (if you're looking for some hints at where that will be headed, read my interview with Psych creator Steve Franks from a few months back, which includes some season five scoop).

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100 Questions: Have You Ever Had A One Night Stand?

Posted by Lawrence Lee | Friday, July 2, 2010 @ 8:40pm

Like all the episodes, "Have You Ever Had A One Night Stand" starts with Charlotte at the dating service, sitting opposite of Andrew, asking her a question. The intent of Andrew's character is supposed to be for him to add a flamboyant humour to the show. He succeeds at being flamboyant in every way possible, but comes off as more annoying than anything else. The show is packed with silly one-liners, but due to Andrew being a caricature, he is just plain irritating. He is hard to watch, even though his role is just in asking Charlotte one question, and in this particular episode, it is about Charlotte having a one night stand.

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100 Questions: Have You Ever Dated A Bad Boy?

Posted by Lawrence Lee | Sunday, June 20, 2010 @ 6:21pm

This show is just awful.

The characters are all idiots, and not the type of idiots that are enjoyable to watch. These are the type of idiots that make the viewing experience painful. 100 Questions producer and supporting actor Chris Moynihan, has made it quite clear that he is the source of the problem. Moynihan, plays Mike, the show's idiot king. Book smart, but inept in every way imaginable, he makes this show worse than it already is. The intention is for Mike to come off as the underdog and lovable victim, but the end result is him being annoying, and adding nothing but bad turns to the show.

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100 Questions: Are you Romantic?

Posted by Lawrence Lee | Saturday, June 12, 2010 @ 7:09pm

After three episodes, it has now become safe to say that this show is of poor quality, and it will not likely get renewed by NBC. There is not a lot that the show does right. The characters are not interesting, the writing is bad, and the comedy is lacking. 100 Questions seems to want to focus more on cramming in as many bad jokes as possible, in order to cue the laugh track. Sadly, a lot of these jokes are dumb, out of context, and end up taking more precedence over the characters and the plots.

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100 Questions: Are You Open Minded?

Posted by Lawrence Lee | Friday, June 4, 2010 @ 2:21am

After only two episodes, it has become quite clear that 100 Questions is one of those sitcoms where the characters obliviously attempt to be funny by saying and doing inappropriate things at the worst possible times. The storyline of "Are You Open Minded" consisted of the group being curious of Mike's date's sexual orientation. This led to the passes made to prove this point by Jill and Wayne, the ass-train, the continued disparity in reception from women between Mike and Wayne, and finally, a good old fashioned spying game, where the characters unveiled themselves one by one to the horror of Mike's date. To top it all off, there was even a side storyline of Leslie being obsessed with a pair of boots, leading to tired jokes of a price-tag being confused with a phone number, combining credit cards to make a purchase, and the distress of finding out that Mike's date was the culprit that bought the boots. It almost seems like the scripts to the show have been salvaged from some failed sitcoms of the eighties and nineties, and slightly revised to adapt to modern times.

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100 Questions: What Brought You Here

Posted by Lawrence Lee | Thursday, May 27, 2010 @ 11:54pm

Sophie Winkleman, stars as Charlotte Payne in the new comedy, 100 Questions. The show revolves around Charlotte going to see a dating service counselor, and getting asked one question per episode, which becomes the theme and plot of the show, hence the name, 100 Questions. The show focuses on Charlotte's exploits, as she attempts to further understand the nature of her relationships through her own unfortunate yet self-inflicted experiences. "What Brought You Here" started off with a scene at a ball game, in which Charlotte rejected her boyfriend of three month's proposal on a jumbotron, whilst speaking into a microphone for everybody in attendance to hear. This event led to Charlotte's friends repeatedly reminding her that it was humiliating for her boyfriend, and the rest of the episode deals with the aftermath of this incident, as Charlotte made things worse, but learned through her friends.

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American Idol Season 9: Finale Week!

Posted by Ariana | Thursday, May 27, 2010 @ 2:21am

Welcome to finale week! I am so deeply glad that we are almost done with this dreadful season. Dear sweet Idol producers, please make next year suck less.

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The Big Bang Theory: The Lunar Excitation

Posted by Lawrence Lee | Tuesday, May 25, 2010 @ 1:02am

Both Penny and Leonard are feeling the effects of having broken up with each other. To Leonard's surprise, Penny was with a date, as he knocked on her apartment door. Not surprisingly, her date differed quite a bit from Leonard. As a non-genius, he perceived the laser as a weapon and not as a scientific instrument, leading to the clueless dialogue that took place. But what was not said, but conveyed, was the silent look on Penny's face, as her date had to be convinced that the moon would not be destroyed, as the laser was only on "stun mode".

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Lost: The End

Posted by David Robertson | Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 2:37pm

Consider the ***** rating for both the finale and the series itself. My reaction immediately after the robust 2 1/2 hour series finale was: that was the best series finale I have ever seen and perhaps the best TV episode I've ever seen. There was a parade of memorable scenes but every scene was purposeful and perfectly executed. They were never going to answer all the questions. If you wanted that, you were probably disappointed. What they did was leave some of the answers up to us, as viewers. What they did was make this finale about the characters and their relationships with each other and, in the end, that's what Lost was always about; it was just framed by this incredible, complex story. Some of the amazing scenes from last night:

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The Office: Whistleblower

Posted by Lawrence Lee | Saturday, May 22, 2010 @ 6:24pm

The sixth season of The Office has been the weakest of all the seasons thus far. There have been storylines that have been started that did not continue until many episodes later, and other storylines that should have gone for much longer but did not. A lot of the problems lie in the writing, which led to the characterization gone wrong. This resulted in some episodes lacking humour, and some of the characters not being themselves. Character growth is good when it is done right, but when it's not, a lot of the great moments that defined the show are lost.

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