Blogcritics Category: Video: TV Recap

TV Review: Prison Break - "Going Under" Might Have Lost the Plot

Sharmila — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:58:13 EST

This episode was enjoyable, until the last five minutes when Prison Break might have lost its plot!
After all the highly energetic episodes that we were subjected to in the last few weeks of Prison Break, this week’s episode “Going Under” was a less energized one, with far fewer action scenes. However, although we were still provided with some interesting moments, the series might’ve have lost its plot in the last five...

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "O Brother, Where Bart Thou"

Brad Laidman — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:28:04 EST

Chuck! Blair! Tears!
The worst thing you've ever done, the worst thought you've ever had, I will stand by you...I was expecting to go on and on about Chuck Bass’s continued rapid descent into Darth Vader territory, but instead I can’t stop crying about the heartbreaking impossibility that is Chuck and Blair. Who would have ever thought after...

TV Review: House, MD - "Joy to the World"

Barbara Barnett — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:46:24 EST

In this year's Christmas-themed episode, House treats a bullied teenager with a secret, while Cuddy finds joy.
“Merry Christmas, Cuddy.” I couldn't imagine words normally intended to be so joyous could be uttered as poignantly as House did in the penultimate scene of Tuesday night’s House, MD episode “Joy to the World.” (Although Hugh Laurie's brilliance at portraying pathos should never come as a surprise -- and...

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "It's a Wonderful Lie"

Brad Laidman — Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:34:02 EST

Friends, Gossip Girls, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Bart Bass, not to praise him
Friends, Gossip Girls, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Bart Bass, not to praise himYes, apparently bad, old Bart Bass is dead. It wasn’t confirmed on air, but someone was slated to die, he had an accident, and Josh Schwartz killed off the exact same character when he was running The OC.How exactly it is possible to have a life...

TV Review: House, MD - "Let Them Eat Cake"

Barbara Barnett — Wed, 3 Dec 2008 22:24:50 EST

House treats a fitness guru with a weighty secret while 13 enters a clinical trial and Cuddy moves closer into House's personal space.
First -- hot off the NBC press release: Hugh Laurie will be hosting Saturday Night Live December 13! Joining Hugh will be hip-hop artist Kanye West. (Now back to our regularly scheduled episode review.)Marie Antoinette was the most self-deluded of monarchs. As Paris starved around her, as rebellion fomented, her response was cold, yet filled with...

24 Redeems Itself With Redemption Prequel

Mary K. Williams — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:47:46 EST

Jack Bauer has always been the go-to-guy for making things happen in the name of patriotism.
24 did not disappoint. During the waning hours of November sweeps, Fox aired its two-hour 24 prequel movie Redemption. We knew the basic premise for months now, that it was set in the beginnings of a military coup in Sangala, Africa, and we knew that in typical parallel fashion an intertwined storyline was unfolding in Washington, D.C. – a...

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "The Magnificent Archibalds"

Brad Laidman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:29:22 EST

Vanessa -- you skank!
Well, for 58 minutes I was pretty bored by this week’s episode of Gossip Girl.One week of zero Chuck/Blair interaction is a felony. Two straight weeks is a capital offense. If I’m supposed to get my weekly sexual sizzle from Serena and Aaron, this show is in serious trouble. If the next Gossip Girl is to have no Chuck and Blair, tell me...

TV Review: House, MD - "Emancipation"

Barbara Barnett — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:41:29 EST

The team treats an emancipated minor while Foreman tries to emancipate himself from House in the aptly-titled "Emancipation."
Emancipated is not a word I would use to describe any of the central characters in House, MD. Each character is locked away, repressed by fear, anger, and circumstance. The most emancipated character on the series at this point is a tossup between Kutner and Chase. Both of them have been able to reach beyond bad circumstances to some sort of...

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "Bonfire of the Vanity"

Brad Laidman — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:24:59 EST

Jenny is one cold woman!
Wow, am I psychic or what? Just a few weeks ago, I quoted Wallace Shawn in this column, and now here he is dating Blair’s mother. Is that too weird or what? Surprisingly, well not really, Blair isn’t a big fan of the little hugging schnook. Strange, I would have thought Blair to be a big fan of Shawn’s movie Clueless.Who’s...

TV Review: Gossip Girl - "There Might Be Blood"

Brad Laidman — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:11:15 EST

Jenny is a punk rocker!
Perhaps if I've reached the proper level of outrage in the audition below, the Parents Television Council will see fit to let me lead their future assaults on this outlandish television show. Last week on Gossip Girl: Some seriously messed up stuff happened. Gossip Girl is a show about a judgmental boy named Dan. In this episode, he judges...