The story of a former Police Detective obsessed with just about everything, but especially haunted by the murder of his beloved wife. Monk was on for 8 seasons and was a great show. It was fun to watch Monk solve mysteries, and it was fun to watch him obsessively touch all kinds of odd items. I just watched the 2009 series finality of Monk, in which the show’s ever arching mystery is solved. It was a kind of feel good show where Adrian finally comes to terms with the death of his wife. I wasn’t all that happy with the…
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Eureka-The Statue is Made of Bronze!
The Syfy Channel has a handful of first run series, the best of which at the moment is Eureka. This is the story of a small town of super geniuses who didn’t want to live in Area 51 and the poor sap who ends up being the town’s Sheriff. The punchline of almost every episode of Eureka is that the idiot Sheriff is the only one to see the obvious solution to whatever earth ending problem the super geniuses have created that week. The new season opens up with a collection of Previously on Eureka clips, the most interesting…
Lie To Me
Tim Roth stars a man who has spent twenty years learning about the human face and how it’s subtle and almost hidden ticks reveal the hidden emotions of the people he interviews. Lie to Me is a pretty good show, but like all who-done-its with a super smart detective, the tricks of the face reader’s trade have to be exaggerated for the screen. Just as the hero of Numbers has to solve all his crimes with math and the Ghost Whisperer has to see dead people, the star of Lie to Me sees liars all around him. One of the…
Travel Channel’s Man vs Food
Do you really want your last words to be I’ll have another pork chop please?-Coach to Luther The Travel Channel has a number of food related travel shows-mostly of the I’m-not-sure-I’d-eat-that type. Andrew Zimmern and Anthony Bourdain go to exotic places and eat odd foods, which they seem to truly enjoy. These are fun shows to watch for the most part, but the odds of my finding my way to some remote part of the world to try some bizarre food is pretty slim. Not that I would really want to eat most of the stuff they eat. Man vs…
MASH Goodbye, Farewell and Amen
Like just about everyone else in America I watched the last episode of M*A*S*H when it aired. It was on again last night, and since I haven’t seen it since it first aired, I decided to give it another look. Odd how old everyone looked. MASH has been in constant re-runs since it went off the air, but I don’t seem to see too many episodes from the last season. But then, the last couple of seasons had wandered so far from the original show that they were nowhere near the same animal. They weren’t exactly funny any more. MASH…
Stargate Atlantis Ends
And Stargate Universe is set to take off. But before the new Stargate Universe gets under way, we have to let the old team save the Earth-yawn-one more time. In the last episode of Stargate Atlantis our heroes meet up with good old Wraith Todd, who tells them of a new threat and also that he has a couple of spare ZPMs laying around. In fact, he was just kicked off a suped up Hive Ship powered by a Zed P M. The End of The World is Close at Hand. There are a few tense moments-and for just a…
The Big Bang Theory
“All I need is a healthy ovum and I can grow my own Leonard Nimoy!” –Sheldon I’ve been a Trekkie for the better part of my life and I have always loved science fiction. My love comic books has waned over the years, but I can really relate to the occasional philosophical discussions on comic books that happen on The Big Bang Theory. In the Christmas episode-The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis-the show opens with a debate on how Superman gets his tights clean and if, in fact, it is possible to get the Kryptonian fabric dirty in the first place.…
My Own Worst Enemy
My Own Worst Enemy has a lot going on. I like the business about Henry and Edward-the first names of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. If there are similar gags for the many other duel personalities in the show, I have not caught them. It seems that everyone who works for Henry’s boring giant company is a duel agent who has a marshmallow side and serial killer side. The serial killers do wet work while the marshmallows are the perfect cover stories. There was a short story in Fantasy and Science Fiction in the 1980s which featured a world filled…
Sanctuary on The Sci Fi Channel
Sanctuary is an odd show, even for the Sci Fi Channel. We have a Harry Potter look alike, who does not have an English accent and Samantha Carter from Stargate, who does have an English accent. Also from Stargate-the Atlantis brand-is a Caveman/Bigfoot/Who Knows What He Is who speaks with the exact same voice he uses when he plays Todd the Wraith. I keep expecting him to make some joke about Gieco. Sanctuary is one of those new style shows where they don’t bother with things like sets-its all shot on a green screen and the massive buildings and mountain…
Pushing Daisies Season 2
Pushing Daises is the over the top story of the Pie Maker and his bizarre gift to reanimate the dead. This Tim Burtonesque show is filled with odd characters and bold colors that are very reminiscence of the great French film Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain. There are a lot of reds and greens in Pushing Daisies-and there is a brilliant voice over filling in the many gaps in the story. The basic plotline of Pushing Daises is that The Pie Maker has teamed up with Emerson Cod, P.I. and together they solve crimes. This is made somewhere easier by…