TV Recap
The Big Bang Theory Season 4-08 ‘The 21-Second Excitation’ Recap
After three straight mildly amusing episodes that failed to measure up to Bang’s typical standard, The 21-Second Excitation marks a return to form. t’s no coincidence that “Excitation” also marks the full-time return ...
Dexter Season 5-08 ‘Take It’ Recap
I find myself saying this regularly now, but Take It is season 5’s new “best episode to date.” Week 8 is well written and dense, with lots of character development, a handful of clever twists and some intense action. In ...
The Walking Dead Season 1-02 ‘Guts’ Recap
After last week's incredibly effective opening pilot, superbly handled by Darabont, this weeks episode had a lot to deliver on in terms of atmosphere and tension. The end of last week left our hero, Rick Grimes fighting for his...
Dexter Season 5-07 ‘Circle Us’ Recap
Circle Us—combined with week 6’s Everything is Illumenated—is like the second half of a 1-2 punch that now has me completely plugged in to season 5. I’m not suggesting I didn’t like episodes 1-5; they were slow, but ...
The Walking Dead Season 1-01 ‘Days Gone Bye’ Recap
Reviving and doing something completely new with the zombie subgenre is not an easy task, in fact it's one of the hardest things you can do in horror. In the past few decade few people have succeeded in doing something new in f...
The Big Bang Theory Season 4-07 ‘The Apology Insufficiency’ Recap
Despite Kaley Cuoco’s return from a horseback riding accident, The Apology Insufficiency marks a new season-4 low. In fact, the opening sequence, wherein our four favorite ‘so-smart-their-dumb’ geek’s discuss capybara...
Dexter Season 5-06 ‘Everything Is Illumenated’ Recap
Everything Is Illumenated marks both season 5’s halfway point and the season’s best episode to date. It’s not a perfect episode—certain plot points come across as badly contrived—but the faults are easily overlooked ...
The Big Bang Theory Season 4-06 ‘The Irish Pub Formulation’ Recap
Leonard’s dry spell with women ends in The Irish Pub Formulation, but the woman he scores with makes for an awkward state of affairs within his geeky, ‘so-smart-their-dumb’ peer group; it also forces Sheldon into the posi...
Dexter Season 5-05 ‘First Blood’ Recap
Season 5’s measured pacing continues in First Blood, an episode that works almost as well as a stand-alone outing as it does as a piece of season 5’s overarching story.
The Big Bang Theory Season 4-05 ‘The Desperation Emanation’ Recap
Even an appearance by Amy Farrah Fowler couldn’t stop The Desperation Emanation from largely falling flat. This wasn’t a terrible episode, but it’s certainly season 4’s least amusing to date. The opening segment, in f...
