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8.5

Supernatural – Clap Your Hands If You Believe…

Nov 22, 2010 | Justin Moody | TV Reviews

This week’s Supernatural takes a break from heaven’s civil war and monsters rallying for battle to take a comedic viewpoint on alien abductions. This new outing also brings a spiffy X-Files inspired intro. This week’s Supernatural takes a break from heaven’s civil war and monsters rallying for battle to take a comedic viewpoint on alien abductions. This new outing also brings a spiffy X-Files inspired intro. The show has always seemed to take some inspiration from X-Files and this is probably their most direct reference yet. There hasn’t been much comedy this season due to the mysterious and dark nature of it, so this episode was a welcomed change. Going from one of your main characters not having a soul to an episode that’s supposed to be funny isn’t an easy task, but Sam not hiding his now heartless nature does lead to some laughs.

9.2

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Fringe – The Abducted

Nov 21, 2010 | Justin Moody | TV Reviews

The latest episode of Fringe, The Abducted, brings the show back to full force. After last week’s episode, which was this season’s worst one so far, I’m glad to see the show got back into rhythm quickly; the contrasts between the last two episodes shows why Fringe has had more improvement than any other show in the last six or seven years.

7.9

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30 Rock- College

Nov 20, 2010 | Justin Moody | TV Reviews

This week’s 30 Rock returned its focus to the backstage shenanigans at TGS, and spent more time following Liz as she plays den mother to her writers, cast and crew. The theme to this episode is “College”, and most of the cast tries to relive their college days in some way or another. While this theme works for Liz’s storyline, it doesn’t quite hold up for Jack, and the rest of the cast.

8.8

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The Office – WUPHF.com

Nov 19, 2010 | Justin Moody | TV Reviews

The Office has been on a roll with cold opens lately, and last night’s was another good one. It was pretty basic humor, but that’s all these bits needed, and it worked. The power goes out, and after Dwight seems way too eager to assume the world’s coming to an end and they’ll eventually need to resort to cannibalism, it comes back, but the company server is down. They can’t remember the password, but Michael shows the way he remembers people by recalling past IT guys, and they figure out it involves Pam’s body and a Z in the spelling. We laugh, and then the credits play.

8.5

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Modern Family-Manny Get Your Gun

Nov 19, 2010 | Justin Moody | TV Reviews

After a week off Modern Family returned and it is Manny’s birthday. The episode starts with the entire family at dinner and Manny giving a speech. We then flash back to show how our character got the restaurant and once again the show does an amazing job of showing three different storylines and then wrapping them all up together.

8.5

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South Park – Creme Fraiche

Nov 19, 2010 | Justin Moody | TV Reviews

fter three weeks of intense action and diving into the mythology of the show South Park ends their 14^th season doing what they do best, taking something popular and showing how ridiculous it really is.

9.0

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Weeds – Theoretical Love is Not Dead

Nov 16, 2010 | Justin Moody | TV Reviews

I know I’ve often complained about the purpose and direction of this season of Weeds in these recaps, but I have to admit in the end that it turned out to be a good one, definitely the show’s best since it left Agrestic. I still enjoyed the last couple seasons that focused on Mexico even when others were abandoning it, so I think my frustrations were mostly based on the sheer amount of the show that exists to this point. Six seasons is a pretty long time, and my expectations are a lot higher than for other comedies because it’s so story driven and was so great early on. But in the end they really did a pretty good job giving the show a new sense of vigor, and while I still don’t really know what the endgame is going to be, they showed that they’re still capable of surprising me every step of the way.

8.0

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The Walking Dead – Tell It to the Frogs

Nov 15, 2010 | Justin Moody | TV Reviews

Before I get into the review, I’ll give a little context. I read The Walking Dead comic that this show is based on, and I like it. I’m not actually caught up with where it is right now, but I’m certainly well ahead of how far they’re going to get in this brief, six-episode-long season. Of course, the question is how relevant that knowledge I have will actually be, since Frank Darabont and his crew have clearly shown that they’re willing and even eager to make changes the book’s story and go in new directions.

8.3

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Supernatural – All Dogs Go to Heaven

Nov 13, 2010 | Justin Moody | TV Reviews

Even though this week’s episode, All Dogs Go to Heaven, doesn’t advance the plot very far, it is an entertaining episode. This is the first assignment Crowley sends the brothers on. I have been a Dean defender, since he’s acted fairly reasonably to the strange circumstances he has found himself in this season. However, there are a few small parts in this episode where he is being a bit whiney and borderline emo. His “I can’t trust you Sam, you’re not my brother” routine is becoming repetitive and irritating. Of course, it’s natural for him to be worried about his brother and not be completely trusting of a guy with no soul, but he almost says the exact same line of dialogue every time to convey his distrust in him. This is a writing problem, since the two leads are pretty much always on top of their game.

8.0

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Fringe – 6955 kHz

Nov 13, 2010 | Justin Moody | TV Reviews

While this latest episode of Fringe is pretty entertaining, it does end the streak of great episodes that the series has been on. Unlike last week where both the case and what the team was doing was interesting, this week the case is bland, while the drama between our heroes is only passable. The case involves a frequency that erases the memories of certain people who have cracked a code that belongs to a wiped out civilization that predates the dinosaurs… sigh. In a show with multiple universes, pyrokinesis, teleportation, etc I suppose that something as far-fetched as a forgotten civilization shouldn’t bother me. Really, it doesn’t, it’s more about how the characters have no problem with believing it.

Supernatural – Clap Your Hands If You Believe…

Fringe – The Abducted

30 Rock- College

The Office – WUPHF.com

Modern Family-Manny Get Your Gun

South Park – Creme Fraiche

Weeds – Theoretical Love is Not Dead

The Walking Dead – Tell It to the Frogs

Supernatural – All Dogs Go to Heaven

Fringe – 6955 kHz

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