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Original Air Date: Feb 21, 2011
Farrah Kaye – Sr. Editor
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Kate and Ben are in love. Yep, love at first sight on top of a skyscraper in New York. Sound familiar?
But I’m a Jason Biggs fan so I go where he goes. And Judy Greer? Amazing. I’ll go with the immediate love plot and a woman changing herself (blah) to watch those two. For a while anyway…
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Original Air Date: Feb 21, 2011
Jeff L – Staff Writer
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With Alexei Volkoff (Timothy Dalton) out of the way, it’s not surprising that the seedier members of various crime syndicates would attempt to move into his recently abandoned spot atop the underworld.
Tonight’s Chuck takes a look into that seedy underbelly – not only for possibly successors to Volkoff’s empire, but also at the weird Sting-like romantic life of Morgan and Alex (Mekenna Melvin).
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Original Air Date: Feb 21, 2011
Rachel M – Staff Writer
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When we left out crusader last week, Orwell had been taken by The Lich, ie Chandler, the heir to the entire seaboard of Palm City. He’s creepy, but not super creepy, but apparently he’s the big bad. There’s also a parade in the works during which we think The Lich plans to poison everyone there.
And what’s going to happen with Dana and Travis? And since when does Marty have a heart? Find out after the jump.
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Original Air Date: Feb 21, 2011
Rachel M – Staff Writer
rachelm@thetwocentscorp.com
Tonight, Dane Cook guest stars as Danno’s brother Matt, and I am so excited. Grace is super excited too, since Uncle Matty is the “coolest-ever.” While they catch up and Grace plays with her mountains of gifts, Danny has to go to work. Grace gets to stay with Matt, which seems a little bit ill-advised.
The job is a murder via blown zip-line. A judge’s daughter was killed, right in front of him. McGarrett investigates the explosive while Kono and Danny interview the father. They put a protective detail on him and Chin finds some tire tracks.
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Original Air Date: Feb 21, 2011
Emily – TwoCents Reviewer
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Previously on Gossip Girl: Our favorite Upper-Eastsiders started the year in true Gossip Girl fashion: with style! Blair and Serena spent the summer in Paris, trying to figure out the rest of their lives. Chuck unsuccessfully tried to escape his scandalous past after being shot. Dan and Nate still fought over Serena (really?). And Jenny, well, is still on the show apparently. The first half of Gossip Girl’s fourth season centered mostly on a new mysterious character: Juliet, played by the amazing Katie Cassidy.
Juliet was on the warpath to destroy Serena and her perfectly coiffed hair. You see, Juliet’s brother Ben, a high school teacher, was in prison for a crime he did not commit (Meaning sleeping with a less than legal Serena). It was revealed that Lily lied and was the one to put Ben in jail. Since then, Serena has tried to make amends …by dating him? That’s our Serena, full of logic! Meanwhile, Chuck and Blair were up and down until they finally agreed to stay just friends…for now. But is it the best move for these two? Chuck may have fallen for a new girl who is trying to buy his father’s empire and Blair may start dating soon, dare we say it, Lonely Boy? Finally, Nate was still looking pretty.
This brings us to this week’s episode, aka Eric’s 18th birthday party! Yeah! Serena and Ben are still going strong. Blair is having a meltdown (wearing 2 different shoes, the horror!) and possibly getting closer to Lonely Boy. And Chuck gives Nate a storyline!
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Original Air Date: Feb 21, 2011
Rachel M – Staff Writer
rachelm@thetwocentscorp.com
All right everybody, Mike and Molly need a shake up in my opinion. The relationship is going strong and building, but I need a little more. So let’s see where tonight takes us. Mike and Molly have just enjoyed a dinner at the actual table instead of in front of the TV. Molly wants to go out and is trying to convince Mike to take her out somewhere fun. But when they get distracted by Joyce and Vince going out to a concert, Mike plops down on the couch and is in for the night.
So they stay home, and then Mike falls asleep on her. She lays down the line that she needs to get off the couch and go somewhere.
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Original Air Date: Feb 20, 2011
Arthur Aringdale – Two Cents Reviewer
arthur@thetwocentscorp.com
What an episode. I was starting to get a little pessimistic about the back half of this season of Family Guy: the two episodes that had aired prior to this week after the Christmas hiatus were weak, and it felt like the show was moving away from the creative risks it took earlier in the season and falling back on the lazier patterns that have characterized the show in its later years.
This week’s episode bounced right back to form, however. It was hilarious. And almost unbelievably so, as the episode featured next to nothing of the show’s two comedy fallbacks, Brian and Stewie.
Let’s get to the recap. A new neighbor moves in across the street from the Griffins, a kindly old German toymaker. Chris takes a liking to him immediately and the two begin to bond, much to the dismay of Mr. Herbert, the old pedophile who appears to still be holding out a candle for Chris. Mr. Herbert’s dislike of him appears initially to be rooted in jealousy, but he is harboring a much darker secret.
Before coming to America, he was a notorious SS officer in charge of a concentration camp, the same camp where Mr. Herbert was imprisoned after his plane was shot down over Germany. Chris and Peter dismiss his warnings, to their serious detriment as they soon find themselves locked up in his basement and waiting to die.
Herbert comes through in the nick of time and saves them, after engaging in a protracted but hilarious slow motion fight with his old nemesis.
I was unsure of my feelings on a Peter and Chris episode, as I think they are probably the weakest members of the Griffin family in terms of character, but I was happy to be proven wrong in my suspicion. Both main characters are given a lot of excellent jokes (including probably the funniest “everyone hates Meg” jokes the show has done in years, and even Mr. Herbert, a one-joke character I grew tired of years ago, is given a lot of pathos and humor.
It was a really good episode. Let’s hope the trend follows through the rest of sweeps.
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How I Met Your Mother
Garbage Island
Original Air Date: Feb 21, 2011
Caitlin- Associate Staff Writer
caitlin@thetwocentscorp.com
Hi, everyone! I’ll be taking over the reviews of HIMYM from Faye from now on. Considering this is the first show I’ve covered in a while that is both consistently well-liked by its viewers and probably going to get picked up next season, I hope I do OK.
This is one of those episodes that is neither one where really major things happen, or one that can be labeled as “filler”. Rather, we’re left with a sense that many things are about to happen in terms of love and life. Oh, and The Captain’s back.
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Original Air Date: Feb 21, 2011
Farrah Kaye – Sr. Editor
farrah@thetwocentscorp.com
Finally, after weeks of the “who is Brody” speculation, we get to meet him. How will it go? The Walkers love drama, Nora is lonely, the Walker children want a father to replace the one they once loved (or hated?), and who doesn’t love a new, uh, friend?
Everyone has something to gain from Brody being around. Nora would get a love life, the kids would get a father figure (would Sarah get an actual father?), and us, as viewers, would get something new. And it’s Beau Bridges, come on!
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Big Love
D.I.V.O.R.C.E
Original Air Date: Feb 20, 2011
Thomas Nikl – Staff Writer
thomas@thetwocentscorps.com
Last week the show ended with Bill and Barb deciding to get divorced so that they can legally adopt Caroline. Albie is conniving as usual, Barb wants to be a priest (or something), and the senate is tumultuous.
Let’s see how the final season of Big Love continues to train wreck before our very eyes. Your reviewer is uber busy so this will be a lightening Recap & Review this week!
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