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Dollhouse: "Vows" Review
September 10, 2009 - Advance Review
I enter Dollhouse: Season 2 with a mixture of curiosity, hopefulness and caution. After all, this is a show that had quite a few considerable issues in its first season, some of them rather intrinsic. Yet ...
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Robot Chicken: "Please Do Not Notify Our Contractors" Review
September 14, 2009
Normally, Robot Chicken sticks with what they know: superheroes, blockbuster movies and videogames. Because everyone is familiar with those references, they can get to the jokes quicker and we can enjoy them without a lot ...
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The Big Bang Theory: "The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation" Review
Advance Review
The decision to have the fellas stranded at the North Pole doing a science experiment was an unusual way to end the second season, but we find out that the three-month stay served as a pressure cooker for the guys who grew tir...
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How I Met Your Mother: ''Definitions'' Review
Advance Review
Back when How I Met Your Mother first started, who would have thought that the the most intriguing and entertaining ongoing storyline would have nothing to do with meeting the titular mother? The Season 5 premiere of How I Met...
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Red Dwarf: Back to Earth
When the Dwarf crew get a chance to return to Earth, it's not quite what they expect...
Set nine years after the previous series (and for the characters after a mythical ninth series that saw Kochanski apparently die), Red Dwarf is back in this 21s...
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Robot Chicken: "Unionizing Our Labor" Review
Dating back to their days writing "Twisted Toyfare Theater" for Toyfare Magazine, Robot Chicken's head writers Tom Root and Douglas Goldstein always made great use out of those lovable blue creatures living in the forest known as the Smurfs...
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Heroes: Season 3 Review Part 2
And if you didn't become annoyed with the constant redirection of character motivation, you could find fault in the lazy storytelling. Besides the fact that things were sped up to a fault, the same repetitive plot devices were used again and...
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Heroes: Season 3 Review Part 1
Villains and Fugitives, frustration and Fuller
by Robert Canning
Season 3 of Heroes was divided into two volumes. Volume Three was entitled "Villains." Volume Four was called "Fugitives." I'd argue that there was also a Volume Four and a Half thrown...
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Better Off Ted: Season 1 Review Part 2
In addition to the human characters, Viridian Dynamics the company plays a huge role in the series because the mandates coming from the nameless, faceless, upper-level corporate suits always drive the plot. We get a glimpse of the two-faced ...
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Better Off Ted: Season 1 Review Part 1
The funniest show you (probably) weren't watching
by Jonah Krakow
No doubt many of us are patiently waiting to hear about the fate of Chuck over at NBC (Now renewed for 13 episodes), but there's also a few of us who are waiting to hear about ABC's B...
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