New Girl – Recap & Review – Menzies

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New Girl
Menzies

Original Air Date: Nov 13, 2012

Divina F – Senior Reviewer
divina@thetwocentscorp.com

Jess is still unemployed and dangerously PMsing. Nick isn’t scared of her the way Schmidt and Winston are, mainly because he’s randomly irrationally angry anyway. While she goes to update her resume, Nick goes for a walk in the park and meets a silent Asian man to whom he gradually pours out all of his feelings. Every episode, there has to be a scene where Jake Johnson is a comedic genius. This scene was on par with the one last season where he sat at Fancyman’s desk.

Meanwhile, Schmidt has started a weird relationship with a coworker (she makes him sign a sex contract weird). He tells Robbie and Cece about it, to which Robbie says he needs a “nice girl” who will respect him, someone like Cece. Cece is appalled by Robbie’s opinion of her. It nearly causes her to backslide to Schmidt, but she instantly regrets it, which broke my heart. Schmidt literally told her he loves her. But he let her walk away, because he knows as well as I do that it’s only a matter of time.

Private Practice – Recap & Review – The Next Episode

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Private Practice
The Next Episode

Original Air Date: Nov 13, 2012

Karen Belgrad – Senior Editor
karenbelgrad@thetwocentscorp.com

Did you ever wonder what would happen if Private Practice was the “Sam Bennett” show and all other characters had minimal air time? If yes, then you’re in luck, because this was the episode for you!

I’d heard that Shonda Rhimes was going to be trying something new this (last!) season and tonight was the first airing of her experiment. From what I’ve heard, the next batch of episodes will focus largely on a single character with the others basically existing in their orbit. So how do you think this first outing went?

Sons of Anarchy – Recap & Review – Crucifixed

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Sons of Anarchy
Crucifixed

Original Air Date: Nov 13, 2012

Lyssa G – TwoCents Reviewer
lyssa@thetwocentscorp.com

Welcome to this weeks episode of Sons! Tonight with ninety minutes of action this is destined to be an action packed episode that is going to make for some good television. Sadly this season is dwindling down. After tonight there is only three weeks left until the end of the season. This year has flown by so fast, there is nothing that can express how sad I am to see this season end.

Last week on Sons, we are starting to see how much everyone has changed. It is beyond clear now that Tara has truly taken on her role as an old lady. She will do anything not only to protect herself, but she is also willing to do anything to make sure that Jax and the rest of the Sons are okay. Clay seems to be trying to cover his own butt so that nothing happens with Jax. One of the biggest pieces of last week was Jax finding out that Juice is a rat.

Emily Owens, M.D. – Recap & Review – Emily and…the Predator

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Emily Owens, M.D.
Emily and…the Predator

Original Air Date: Nov 13, 2012

Dennis – Senior Reviewer
dennis@thetwocentscorp.com

Emily’s cases of the week this week include a woman who needs a kidney transplant and is having trouble accepting one from her husband. The other case deals with a woman who’s a surrogate for her sister and is having trouble with one of her babies.

Also, Emily finally tells Will how she feels about his feelings for Cassandra. Read on for tonight’s recap.

Dancing With the Stars – Recap & Review – Week 8 Results

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Dancing With the Stars
Week 8 Results

Original Air Date: Nov 13, 2012

Annette – Staff Writer
annette@thetwocentscorp.com

Tonight’s results show was kicked off with a performance by a pantsless Kylie Minogue. Seriously, who told her that was a dress and a not a shirt? I wasn’t loving her rendition of “Locomotion,” either.

Your usual leader board reminder: Melissa & Tony are at the top, one point off perfection. Kirstie & Maks bring up the rear, 20 points behind. So, who are the victims of the double elimination?

Liza Minnelli to Appear as Herself on NBC’s Smash

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Entertainment superstar Liza Minnelli – winner of an Oscar, two Golden Globes, a Grammy, an Emmy and multiple Tony Awards – will guest-star as herself in NBC’s musical drama “Smash” in the upcoming season, and will sing an original song with series star Christian Borle that was written by the show’s celebrated composer and lyricists Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

The announcement was made today by Robert Greenblatt, Chairman, NBC Entertainment.

Revolution – Recap & Review – Ties That Bind

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Revolution
Ties That Bind

Original Air Date: Nov 12, 2012

Vincent C. – TwoCents Reviewer
Vincent@thetwocentscorp.com

If you had to cross a river, how would you do it? Swim across? Build a raft? Miles and crew eventually swim across, but not before attempting a couple of other methods which were militia traps.

We start in Freeport, Pennsylvania, roughly 290 miles from Philadelphia. Miles and company need to cross a river. The militia destroyed most of the bridges and carefully guard the remainder. Any boat trying to cross the river will be torched on sight. Nora bribes the militia guards to allow them to cross the bridge. As they are crossing, Miles sees soldiers hiding by the side of the bridge and recognizes a trap. They run back as Strausser’s squad opens up with automatic rifles.

Dancing With the Stars – Recap & Review – Week 8

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Dancing With the Stars
Week 8

Original Air Date: Nov 12, 2012

Annette – Staff Writer
annette@thetwocentscorp.com

We get another two rounds of dances tonight. In the first round, the couples will be paying a tribute to Veteran’s Day with dances that reflect different aspects of military service.

Round two is a trio round. Either an eliminated pro or a member of the troupe will be joining each couple to showcase the stars. I didn’t really care for the trio dances last time they did it on DWTS, but surprisingly, I didn’t hate it this time around. In fact, most of them were really good!

90210 – Recap & Review – Hate 2 Love

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90210
Hate 2 Love

Original Air Date: Nov 12, 2012

Dennis – Senior Reviewer
dennis@thetwocentscorp.com

It’s another week of crazy betrayals and hook ups on this week’s episode of 90210. After last week’s episode, Naomi is still out to prove to Max that Alec is destroying their marriage, and she may have finally found the right person to get Max to believe her. Meanwhile, Ade is still having trouble with her relationship with Dixon and wonders if they can get past their problems.

Also, Annie has seemed to have found the right guy in Colin, but is he really just another huge, crazy mistake? Read on for tonight’s recap.

Bones – Recap & Review – The Patriot In Purgatory

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Bones
The Patriot in Purgatory

Original Air Date: Nov 12, 2012

Karen – Sr Staff Writer
Karen@thetwocentscorp.com

As a tribute to our veterans on Veterans Day, I was pleased with this week’s episode of Bones. There were several moments where I actually shed some tears, and believe me …that is a hard thing to do. We are also treated to a first time ever episode where all the Squinterns are in the same episode. It starts out a bit shaky, but the team finds their way of working together.

Bones is trying to learn about the fascination of basketball and pretty much all sports that Booth loves. In this process she applies some of the fundamentals of coaching to her team of interns. She puts them in the basement of unsolved/ unidentified remains and wants them to give faces to the remains given to them. At first, they are heavily competing with each other and Bones takes a quick moment to point out each of their flaws which in turn, stops all the bragging rights they seem to want to claim. To make the team official, Bones gives each of them a surprise slap on the tush.