Burn Notice – Recap & Review – Down & Out

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Burn Notice
Down & Out

Original Air Date: Nov 29, 2012

Alyssa – Staff Writer
alyssa@thetwocentscorp.com

When you make a choice, you know you have to deal with the consequences. Michael’s well aware of that tenet and he’s fully aware that killing Card means that he’s going to have to suffer hate from the Agency he has given his life to.

On the flip side, as the team do a solid for smuggler Schimdt (played excellently by Patton Oswalt) to get them out of the country, Michael and the rest of us get to see that his choices also have a ripple effect over the rest of Team Westen.

Grey’s Anatomy – Recap & Review – I Was Made for Lovin’ You

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Grey’s Anatomy
I Was Made for Lovin’ You

Original Air Date: Nov 29, 2012

Karen Belgrad – Senior Editor
karenbelgrad@thetwocentscorp.com

This hour was like one big puzzle. It had lots of pieces, but in the end, they all came together to form a unified image. Despite moments guaranteed to bring tears, this was a fairly uplifting episode of our favorite hospital drama. Except for, you know, that closing scene.

The show has had a pretty decent resurgence this season. In fact, it’s built up enough goodwill with me to declare a moratorium on Ghost Sex jokes. This hour, this season, is the Grey’s Anatomy we fell in love with. Emotional patients, doctor relationships, and even young interns that are starting to grow on me.

Glee – Recap & Review – Thanksgiving

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Glee
Thanksgiving

Original Air Date: Nov 29, 2012

Alyssa – Staff Writer
alyssa@thetwocentscorp.com

The old graduates of New Directions decide to come home for Thanksgiving to bestow some of their wisdom on the new recruits because, guess what, its Sectionals. I know right?!

Meantime in New York Hummelberry decide that maybe its time for new traditions to replace the old.

Up All Night – Recap & Review – The Game of Life

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Up All Night
The Game of Life

Original Air Date: Nov 29, 2012

Caitlin – Senior Staff Writer
caitlin@thetwocentscorp.com

This episode of Up All Night was originally supposed to air before the Thanksgiving installment, which offers some explanation for why much of it involves summer camp-like activities. Some explanation, but not much.

Terry and Jean are becoming show regulars. At a party with family Broadway karaoke, Chris and Reagan get invited to spend the weekend with them up at a cabin on the lake. Even they realize that’s a bit horror movie-ish, but a vacation’s a vacation.

Nashville – Recap & Review – Lovesick Blues

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Nashville
Lovesick Blues

Original Air Date: Nov 28, 2012

Kelly – TwoCents Reviewer
kelly@thetwocentscorp.com

The pilot episode of Nashville was all about Rayna and Juliette. It promised a throwdown between the queen of country music past and the princess of country music future. What we’ve seen instead is a fight between two artists who aren’t actually all that different—two women who’ve challenged the status quo in their industry. They both want to make real music and they want to be famous doing it.

The similarities between Rayna and Juliette both deepen and weaken the show. In recent weeks, Nashville has seemed unwilling to accept that it’s not what it once expected to be: a clear-cut battle between the good and the bad in country music. But Connie Britton continued to layer Rayna with a kind of whiny, stubborn complexity that the script may or may not have intended, and the writers are finally rolling with it. She’s Juliette the Elder, and “Lovesick Blues” proved that as only Nashville can—in a duet.

CBS To Air 2013 Emmy Awards Sunday, September 22

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CBS’s broadcast of the 65TH PRIMETIME EMMY® AWARDS, which recognizes outstanding television programming, has been scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013 from NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles.

Nominations for the 65TH PRIMETIME EMMY® AWARDS will be announced Thursday, July 18 from the Academy’s Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood.

For additional key Emmy Award dates, please go to http://www.emmys.com/primetime-emmy-dates.

The X Factor — Recap & Review — Top 8 – No. 1s

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The X Factor
Top 8 – No. 1s

Original Air Date: Nov 28, 2012

Patricia Morris Buckley — Sr. Staff Writer
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen two hosts more wooden and slow as Khloe Kardashian and Mario Lopez. In the first five minutes of the show, you could see them get the direction to move, then see the idea register and then they moved. Awkward!

All the contestants were talking about what they needed to move into the first place. It’s interesting how they’re taking knowing where they are in the standings. They all seem to feel if they’re not in first place, they are facing ruin. Yes, only the person in first place wins, but there’s still a way to go in the competition, so a singer like Tate Stevens who came in second last week after two times in first acts as if it’s all over. Lighten up people!

But… it’s also another week of double elimination. So yeah, the pressure is high. Here’s how they did.

Top Chef – Recap & Review – 50s Food Flashback

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Top Chef
50s Food Flashback

Original Air Date: Nov 28, 2012

Ryan O – Associate Staff Writer
ryano@thetwocentscorp.com

Remember the 1950s? No, of course you don’t. No one does. Everyone who says they do is a liar. All human beings had their memories wiped clean in late November 1961 by aliens. Look it up. ANYWAY. The cheftestants have to cook dishes from a menu of a restaurant that opened in 1950.

There’s more in the interpersonal department. It’s not really why I watch the show, though, so I do try to gloss over it when I can.

Modern Family – Recap & Review – When a Tree Falls

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Modern Family
When a Tree Falls

Original Air Date: Nov 28, 2012

Wyner C – Senior Reviewer
wyner@thetwocentscorp.com

Ragging on family members is natural. In my family, the loudest person does the ragging (that’s me). In our favorite modern family, they take turns – a verbal jab here and then a physical altercation there. Fun times!

Phil/Jay: Phil and Jay chaperone a birthday party for Manny and Luke’s racist friend (Manny isn’t Mexican). Jay is hesitant to hang out with the other fathers but finds a common factor: Phil. He rags on Phil. It comes to a head when he recalls Phil’s imitation of Lloyd Dobler in “Say Anything…” to apologize to Claire. To settle a bet (replace the broken boombox vs a dancing Phil), Phil and Jay head into the kiddie boxing ring where Phil proceeds to pummel Jay. Pent up anger is a dangerous friend.

Last Man Standing and Malibu Country Get Additional Episodes

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ABC has picked up five additional episodes each of comedies “Last Man Standing” and “Malibu Country,” it was announced today. These pick-ups join previously announced orders for new drama “Nashville,” new comedy “The Neighbors,” and returning drama “Scandal.”

“Last Man Standing” and “Malibu Country” air Friday nights at 8:00 and 8:30 p.m. ET, respectively, on the ABC Television Network.