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Smallville Alum Returning for Finale

After much confusion,
TVLine.com is reporting that Michael Rosenbaum has agreed to return for
Smallville’s series finale. A founding actor since the show’s pilot 10 years
ago, Rosenbaum had previously held the role of infamous Superman villain, Lex
Luther. Recently, rumors were spreading across the Internet that Rosenbaum was
refusing to return to the show, having left after seven seasons to pursue other
acting opportunities. Now, however, Rosenbaum has confirmed that he will be
reprising his role on the long-running television series.

“I’m delighted to
return for the series finale,” the interview with Rosenbaum on TVLine.com
states. “I’m simply doing it for all of the fans out there who made
Smallville the great success it is. I appreciate all of their passion, their
relentlessness, and even their threats. Ha ha.”

4.0
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The Cape – The Lich

Remember that old Wes Craven movie, The Serpent and The Rainbow?  That was cool; I really liked that.  You know who else liked that movie?  Whoever wrote this week’s episode of The Cape.  They liked it so much that they decided to “Borrow” numerous aspects of that film to make this episode.

8.3
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Supernatural – Unforgiven

This week’s episode of Supernatural definitely seems to be one of the
darker ones, but in a different way than normal. Usually it’s the
monsters that are doing horrible acts and the show is dark because of
their nature and violence. However, in this episode the behavior of
humans is hard to watch. As mentioned in the episode, things are a bit
Momento as Sam gets a mysterious text luring him back to a town that he
and Samuel were hunting in a year prior, but since this is Sam with a
soul things are completely new for him. Through numerous flashbacks and
the brothers picking up clues, the mystery slowly starts to unravel.
This episode being so mysterious is another unique property of it.
Usually we as the audience know more than the brothers, but this time
we’re as clueless as they are.

8.5
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Spartacus: Gods of the Arena – Beneath the Mask

Gods of the Arena has been entertaining, though in some ways
it has felt like it has just been setting the table for something bigger this
whole time. Things might be coming to a head after what happened last night,
though. A character died sooner than I expected, and as much as Titus wants to
avoid confrontation with those above his station, I don’t know how much longer
he can hold his son’s ambition in check.

9.5
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The Office – PDA

There’s something both brutal and hilarious about Darryl turning to
the camera with a single tear in his eye, suffering at the hands of his
coworkers, who mistook a sympathetic greeting card for his grandmother’s
death for a birthday card and filled it with cheerful messages while
Andy delightedly pretend-punches him. But that was just the opening, the
real episode is about Valentine’s Day, on one of the only occasions
that a sitcom has made the use of that particular holiday seem like a
good idea.

7.9
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30 Rock – Double Edged Sword

This week Jack and Liz both head out of town on separate
adventures, where they each learn that dating someone who is too much like
yourself is a “Double-edged sword”. 
I’ve observed on several occasions that 30 Rock needs to get away from the backstage hyjinx of TGS,
every once and a while, and take the characters out of their usual setting,
however this week’s episode was not the right way to do so.

7.9
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Community – Early 21st Century Romanticism

Following a strong episode last week, Community follows the trend with a similarly good episode tonight. This
week’s episode didn’t directly parody an obvious genre and felt more like a
standard half hour sitcom. Despite this, the content was strong and the writing
was refreshingly witty. This episode is just more evidence that Community generally knows when to use
sitcom standards and when to subvert them for laughs. This week the team split
up and followed individual story lines. Jeff wants some space from the group and
ends up watching a football (or soccer for my American friends) match with
Professor Duncan and Chang. Troy and Abed fall in love with the same woman and
decide to let her choose who she wants to be with. Pierce continues his
struggle with pain medication and Britta spends some time schooling Annie on
being accepting to ‘friends of Ellen’ (a delightfully funny term Annie uses to
describe lesbians). Oh, and Shirley does literally nothing this entire episode.

As is the case for episodes where the characters have their
own story threads to deal with, the group dynamic is purely used as an excuse
for back-and-forth dialogue. However, even though each of the stories is
separate, certain themes connect up all of the stories. For instance, the
constant mentions of potential sexual relationships between same-sex friends in
Britta and Annie’s story reflect back on Troy and Abed’s story. Troy and Abed
are truly the cutest couple in Community, if not on tv right now. Their (and I
apologize for partaking in this overused pun) bromance is pivotal to the show’s
success, and they have superb on-screen chemistry. Throughout the history of
the show, there have been subtle hints that their relationship could be seen as
more than just friendship, but the writers stepped it up a notch this week,
allowing us to see a moment when Troy and Abed may choose each other over an
extremely attractive librarian hottie.

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