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Original Air Date: Oct 4, 2012
Alyssa – Associate Staff Writer
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This was the Glee equivalent of an apocalypse, wasn’t it? Destruction and broken hearts scattering the ground while music tries to heals the wounds inflicted on those left behind.
Too bad Mr Schue is still around…
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Original Air Date: Oct 4, 2012
Patricia Morris Buckley — Sr. Staff Writer
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When you feel that an episode just started but it really came to the end, it can mean one of two things – either it’s really good or it’s heavily padded. Thursday night’s X Factor fell in the second category.
We started off with a long commercial for Pepsi, watching the truck pull up, make a special delivery and tout the virtues of the new X Factor flavor (Dragon, if you were curious). After the judges praising the new soda as if it were a platinum record, the contestants tackled Task 2.
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Original Air Date: Oct 4, 2012
Laura Kelley – Associate Staff Writer
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When last we saw Holmes and Watson, she’d just moved into the consulting detective’s incredibly spacious apartment as his sober companion and they’d caught a doctor-slash-killer, dodged parents’ phone calls, and even kept bees. I found the pilot a bit underwhelming and thought this week’s episode was a big improvement on the first.
We got a more interesting but strikingly similar case and a few nice tidbits from Jonny Lee Miller’s Holmes, but was it enough of an improvement on the pilot to call this show one to keep watching? Find out after the jump.
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Original Air Date: Oct 4, 2012
Shannon – Associate Editor
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Jim rolls in to work but this is an Asian man pretending to be Jim. The real Jim is at the dentist this morning and their actor friend is standing in. When Dwight protests that this guy is Asian and can’t be Jim, Asian Jim assures him that he’s been Asian all along. There’s even a family photo on the desk of Pam, Asian Jim, and their two Asian American children on the desk. Dwight is freaked out.
It is mildly amusing and I appreciate the effort put into the prank.
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Original Air Date: Oct 4, 2012
Karen Belgrad – Senior Editor
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Last week we caught up with our doctors, several months after the plane crash. This hour, we deal with the direct aftermath. It’s not as crammed with new faces as last week was, but it’s just as frantic in its pacing, allowing us to feel the pain, anguish, and hectic activity that all of the doctors must have felt.
The stories are broken out in five arcs, but they overlap with one another, just as our surgeons do in their lives. Nobody came out of the plane crash unscathed, but all of them wear the wounds slightly different from one another.
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Original Air Date: Oct 4, 2012
Vincent C. – TwoCents Reviewer
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Just when you thought there couldn’t be more comparisons of Last Resort to The Hunt for Red October, in comes…. Russians?
The Colorado patrols the waters surrounding Sainte Marina and detect the Illinois testing the perimeter. Chaplin orders the prototype stealth device called “Perseus” be activated. When it is, the Colorado disappears from the Illinois’ sonar. The Colorado closes in and fires a torpedo at the Illinois. The torpedo hits, but does not explode because it was disarmed. It was a warning shot. I wonder if the captain of the Illinois will return this favor by not firing on the Colorado at a crucial moment later on. Call me naïve, but I think karma returns favors.
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Original Air Date: Oct 4, 2012
Caitlin – Staff Writer
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Don’t be alarmed the title of this week’s episode. Amy’s parents aren’t about to start confusing her by sleeping with other couples. Still, I don’t mean to imply sex isn’t mentioned in the plot. You have been forewarned.
Reagan and Chris are eating dinner in front of the TV when the screen suddenly goes black. They decide to enjoy a meal at the kitchen table, but can talk about nothing. Because, apparently, there is nothing to talk about in their lives.
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In the fifth season of KITCHEN NIGHTMARES, Gordon Ramsay treks to Brooklyn, Boston, Pittsburgh and the suburbs of Los Angeles and Cleveland, to help struggling restaurants stay afloat. Each week, Chef Ramsay will visit a new establishment with myriad problems. He will delve deep into the inner workings of each eatery and explore everything from unsanitary refrigerators to lazy and inexperienced staff in order to diagnose the real problems. Whether he changes the restaurant’s operations, updates the menu or gives the establishment a complete makeover, Chef Ramsay will do whatever it takes to try and turn these restaurants into popular, successful and, most importantly, money-making businesses. It’s up to the restaurant owners to take his advice and use it – or face closure.
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ABC Family’s #1 series of all time, “Pretty Little Liars” ranked as cable TV’s #1 series of summer 2012 in viewers 12-34 (2.6 million/2.8 rating) and Females 12-34 (2.2 million/5.0 rating), the #1 scripted basic cable TV series in Women 18-34 (1.2 million/3.7 rating) and the #1 series in Female Teens (1.0 million/8.6 rating). In its time period, “Pretty Little Liars” was easily the #1 cable TV show on Tuesdays at 8 o’clock throughout the season across target 18-34, 1849 and 12-34 demos.
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Original Air Date: Oct 3, 2012
Patricia Morris Buckley — Sr. Staff Writer
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So after a montage of contestants getting ready to go to Boot Camp (with plenty of manufactured dialogue with them and their family) we arrived to Miami for the main event. Demi assured us that the singers were put up at a first class hotel so they’d get a taste for the life they aspire to.
I had one real problem with episode — the music was too loud to hear people talk. And the chosen songs seemed to clash with hearing the contestants sing.
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