The Cape – Recap & Review – Pilot

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The Cape
Pilot

Original Air Date: Jan 9, 2011

Rachel M – Associate Staff Writer
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I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been anticipating this show all season. The previews have been wonderfully vague and dark, and so I’m excited to finally see it get started. Keep in mind, this has a very Heroes feel to it, but I’m not trying to compare the two, there are definite similarities though. I got even more excited by the credits, the talent in this show! Woo!

A boy asleep in a bed, pan til we see his foot in his father’s face and his mother opening the door. All right, I’ll stop giving you screen shots and focus on the meat.

Desperate Housewives – Recap & Review – Where Do I Belong

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Desperate Housewives
Where Do I Belong

 

Original Air Date: Jan 9, 2011

Annette – Associate Staff Writer
annette@thetwocentscorp.com

First I want to apologize for inaccurately reporting last week that Teri Hatcher was leaving the show next season. I got some wrong information and I promise to do more research next time.

Now back to our regularly scheduled program. Wisteria Lane has apparently completely recovered from the aftermath of the riot. So much so, that you never would have known that it happened. The ladies are trying to move on with their lives…

CSI:NY – Recap & Review – To What End?

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CSI:NY
To What End?

Original Air Date: Jan 07, 2011

Maria – TwoCents Reviewer
maria@thetwocentscorp.com

A clown walks into bakery and shoots a man dead. Not very funny. Although, when the cops try to arrest the killer, the streets are suddenly full with clowns. Turns out, the killer offered to pay a bunch of people to turn up dressed as clowns and distribute flyers. Smart killer.

Maybe not that smart. He did leave behind the gun next to Gino Cressida’s body and he ditched the clown costume where it was easily found by the police. There were traces of cyanide on the victim’s clothes and ash, dust and human bone was found inside the clown shoes. However, CSI stuff shows that the gun left at the scene of the crime was not the gun that was used to kill Cressida.

Medium – Recap & Review – Only Half Lucky

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Medium
Only Half Lucky

Original Air Date: Jan 7, 2011

Rachel M – Associate Staff Writer
rachelm@thetwocentscorp.com

The return of David Arquette as Allison’s brother (Patricia Arquette’s real brother), Michael. Anyway, he’s about to jump off a bridge when an angel (or devil) tries to convince him not to jump.

In the morning Allison calls him, and it’s a very different man than we saw on the bridge. He has a great new job and is headed to Phoenix.

Grey’s Anatomy – Recap & Review – Disarm

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Grey’s Anatomy
Disarm

Original Air Date: Jan 6, 2011

Angelique – Associate Staff Writer
Angelique@thetwocentscorp.com

Sometimes revisiting a trauma is all one needs to get over an initial trauma, or at least to make a leap forward in the healing process. For Cristina, it seems that it is exactly what she needed.

Derek and Cristina are back from their fishing trip and Meredith is pissed off because Derek stole her best friend. He argues that he is not Cristina best friend; they just went fishing. Besides, Cristina had a major breakthrough during the fishing trip and Owen seems pleased. He immediately asks her what she’s planning on doing now. She tells him that she is going to explore the city; she never took the time to do anything besides working. So the next morning while everyone is rushing to work she takes a map out and begins to explore Seattle… until multiple ambulances pass her. She follows them down the street and arrives at a university where a shooting has resulted in mass casualties.

CSI – Recap & Review – Man Up

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CSI
Man Up

Original Air Date: Jan 6, 2011

Anne – Associate Editor
anne@thetwocentscorp.com

Happy New Year and welcome back to Vegas! For our first CSI of 2011, we have murder and intrigue. And some very interesting guest stars! Buckle up…it might be a bumpy ride.

Hookers and Preppies and Spartans, oh my!

HBO Picks Up Comedy Series From Judd Apatow and Tiny Furniture Filmmaker Lena Dunham

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HBO has picked up the new comedy series GIRLS, created by and starring Lena Dunham (“Tiny Furniture”), it was announced today by Sue Naegle, president, HBO Entertainment. To begin shooting this spring in New York, the show is a comic look at the assorted humiliations and rare triumphs of a group of girls in their early 20s. Dunham wrote and directed the pilot of the series, which she executive produces along with Judd Apatow and Jenni Konner. Ilene S. Landress co-executive produces.

“Lena Dunham quickly established herself as an important young talent with her first feature film,” noted Naegle. “We are thrilled to team up with her and fellow executive producers Judd Apatow and Jenni Konner for this exciting project.”

The Big Bang Theory – Recap & Review – The Bus Pants Utilization

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The Big Bang Theory
The Bus Pants Utilization

Original Air Date: Jan 6, 2011

Theresa – Staff Writer
theresa@thetwocentscorp.com

You know how you’re always having to stop what you’re doing to solve differential equations? Yeah, me either, but soon there’ll be an app for that. If Leonard can tolerate Sheldon enough to get it done.

As with anything, Sheldon immediately decides to put himself in charge of the app’s development, even though it was entirely Leonard’s idea. He makes Raj phone support (ahem), Howard his executive assistant, and Leonard pretty much nothing other than the founder. Leonard puts his foot down and takes the floor, and finally Sheldon agrees to be his (rather passive-aggressive) follower.

The Mentalist – Recap & Review – Bloodsport

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The Mentalist
Bloodsport

Original Air Date: Jan 6, 2011.

Liz – Associate Staff Writer
liz@thetwocentscorp.com

Rigsby is attending a mixed martial arts fight with a very… ah, enthusiastic woman. It’s a bloody thing — oh, and by that I mean the murder that is occurring backstage at the fight. Although the sport itself is probably not for the faint of heart.

The murdered is Charlotte Mitchell, a plucky little author who was writing a book about the fight and its contenders, Rowdy Merriman and Manny Flaco, who came out of the fight victorious. Flaco’s manager, Len Artash, is quick to deny involvement, and Merriman is focused on other things. He doesn’t seem too bothered that Charlotte is dead, and inquires if she was raped as well, because “she was kind of hot.” I missed about the next two minutes because I went into a frothing rage, but I regained it in time for the next scene. The gun used to kill Charlotte was also used in a murder in 2001, committed by Joe Reyes, and never recovered. Interesting.

Private Practice – Recap & Review – If You Don’t Know Me By Now

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Private Practice
If You Don’t Know Me By Now

Original Air Date: Jan 6 , 2011

Karen Belgrad- Associate Staff Writer
Karenbelgrad
@thetwocentscorp.com

The unspoken question this week on Private Practice addresses what exactly defines a family. Are you automatically close to someone just because you are their parent, spouse, or child?

When we last left the Oceanside Wellness Group, before the holidays, Bizzie had summoned Addison to a private airstrip where she greeted her with her ill girlfriend, Susan, and asked for help. Charlotte and Cooper were also working through the healing process following her traumatic rape. Now that we’re up to speed, let’s check in with the happenings of the week.