The Tony Awards – Recap & Review – 65th Annual

the talented Neil Patrick Harris hosts

The 65th Tony Awards

Original Air Date: Jun 12, 2011

Rachel M – Staff Writer
rachelm@thetwocentscorp.com

OMG, I love The Tony Awards! Especially with NPH (Neil Patrick Harris) hosting. He is so incredibly talented and funny and handsome and wonderful. He opens with a freshly written parody song “Not just for gays anymore!” My favorite line is “Attention every breeder you’re invited to the theater.” Brooke Shields totally botches her bit part, and another semi-famous guy swears in the middle of his. NPH is perfect, perfect, perfect. He makes fun of his own homosexuality with a kind of openness that makes sense and isn’t alienating at all. He does a quick change which leaves something behind, but he finds it in time to make a quip about it.

And on with the show! Alec Baldwin presents the award for Best Actress in a Play. All the nominees are first-timers, which is really cool. There are also all middle-aged blonde women except for one younger Latina lass. So who wins it? See after the jump!

Camelot – Recap & Review – Reckoning

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Camelot
Reckoning

Original Air Date: Jun 10, 2011

Melanie – TwoCents Reviewer
melanie@thetwocents.com

The finale of Camelot picks up with Arthur’s stand at Bardon Pass while Morgan, Sybil and a group of loyal men and rag-tag refugees journey to Camelot with Merlin and Igraine as prisoners. All seems to be going according to Morgan’s careful plans, and Arthur is still unaware of her treachery. Can it be that she will succeed, even for just a little while, in taking the crown from Arthur? We can never be sure where the show will take liberties with the standard Arthurian legend, given those they have already taken.

Highlander – Summer DVD Review – The Watchers

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Highlander
The Watchers

Original Air Date: Sept 27, 1993

Lyssa G – Reviewer 
Lyssa@thetwocentscorp.com

He is immortal, born in the highlands of Scotland 400 years ago. He is not alone. There are others like him: some good…some evil. For centuries he has battled the forces of darkness, with holy ground his only refuge. He cannot die unless you take his head and with it his power. In the end, there can be only one. He is Duncan Macleod, The Highlander.

This is the episode that I wanted to start with versus the pilot. As far as great shows go, this is up there for me as a favorite. You have sword fights, immortality, great characters, and a very interesting story line. This episode we find out about the watchers, the secret society of men and women who observe and record, but never interfere in the lives of the immortals. This is where Duncan finds out about this society, and about what happened to Darius.

Love Bites – Recap & Review – How To…

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Love Bites
How to…

Original Air Date: Jun 9, 2011

Karen – Sr Staff Writer
Karen@thetwocentscorp.com

This week our three stories revolve around the fact that men are truly from Mars and women from Venus.

In the first story with Annie and Jodie. The second story deals with a couple accepting that fact that your son is gay and it is not all that different than having a heterosexual son in the sense of relationships. The last story with Judd and Colleen deals with fantasies in the bedroom and how far to take it.

So You Think You Can Dance – Recap & Review – Meet The Top 20

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So You Think You Can Dance
Meet The Top 20

Original Air Date: Jun 9, 2011

Karen Belgrad – Associate Editor
karenbelgrad@
thetwocentscorp.com

The time is finally here to meet this season’s Top 20! Will your favorites make the cut?

The odd thing about the frenetic pace of this year’s Vegas week is that I don’t have a clear cut favorite. The only person that I’ll rally miss thus far is partially-green-haired Arielle Coker. But the Top 20 always seems to have a few surprises and dancers we’ve never seen before so let’s see who they are!

The Unusuals – Summer DVD Review – The Pilot

The Unusuals
The Pilot

Original Air Date: Apr 8, 2009

Rachel M – Staff Writer
rachelm@thetwocentscorp.com

Yay summer!! I really wanted to watch this cop drama (dramedy?) when it started mid-season in 2009, but I just never found the time. And then it was off the air. Only ten episodes, but with a leading cast of Amber Tamblyn and Jeremy Renner I have to believe there was something to this show!

So my understanding of the premise (and no I haven’t studied this, it can be an adventure for both of us) is that rookie detective and oddball Casey (Tamblyn) is added to a NYPD precinct who handles X-Files like stuff. Am I right? Let’s watch!

Arrested Development – Summer DVD Review – Pilot

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Arrested Development
Pilot

Original Air Date: Nov 2, 2003

JD – Sr. Staff Writer
jd@thetwocentscorp.com

Us Arrested Development fans got a little hope last fall when we heard that the people and stars involved in the beloved show were making a new sitcom, Running Wilde. Sadly, the new series tanked and came nowhere near it’s predecessor’s glory. I stuck it out with Will Arnett for longer than most, but even I didn’t bother to hunt down the final episodes when they got burned off in weird time slots. The failure made me long for the original again, though, and when it came time for us to start our summer DVD reviews this year, I pounced on it.

So we’ve got eleven weeks of summer, and season one is twenty-two episode. I really tried to pick and choose the “best” to showcase this summer, but this show was so consistent, it’s hard to eliminate any episode from my coverage lineup. So I’ll just be going straight through the first eleven, and maybe next summer I’ll finish the season out. Hope you guys will watch along with me!

Josh Lucas Cast in The Firm

Josh Lucas (“The Lincoln Lawyer,” “Sweet Home Alabama”) is set to star in NBC’s new legal drama series “The Firm,” based on John Grisham’s best-selling novel and executive-produced by Grisham and Lukas Reiter.

Lucas, whose feature-film credits include Ron Howard’s “A Beautiful Mind,” Jerry Bruckheimer’s “Glory Road,” and Ang Lee’s “Hulk,” will star as attorney Mitchell McDeere (the role originated by Tom Cruise in the film) in the series, which picks up McDeere’s story about a decade after the events of the novel and film.

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. – Summer DVD Review – Pilot

Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Pilot

Original Air Date: August 27, 1993

MjL – TwoCents Reviewer
MjL@thetwocentscorp.com

My choice for this year’s DVD Club selection is the classic Adventures of Brisco County Jr starring Burn Notice actor Bruce Campbell. Created by Lost alum Carlton Cuse and Jeffrey Boam, it was one part homage to 50s sci-fi and one part homage to 50s westerns. Nonetheless, this was classic television that left us too soon. The pilot episode was a full length feature, so pardon the length of the forthcoming recap.

Top Chef Masters – Recap & Review – A Soldier’s Story

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Top Chef Masters
A Soldier’s Story

Original Air Date: Jun 8, 2011

Ryan O – Two Cents Senior Reviewer
ryano@thetwocentscorp.com

We get a fun, strong episode as we approach the finale. First, a Quickfire where the cheftestants don’t know they’re cooking with a family member. Naomi ends up yelling at her dad for 20 minutes. Then, they have to cook for servicemen who have just returned from being deployed. Three chefs move on to the finale. One doesn’t. Who won’t make it?