September 2010

The Event

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  • Title: The Event – I Haven’t Told You Everything
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Okay, let’s get this straight, NBC’s premiere of The Event was far from the mind-boggling, life-changing, epic TV-event that the network promised. Less than halfway through the first episode I’d already made a couple of educated guesses as to what the show is really about. The show definitely amped-up the tension, but for all of its cockteasing it told a very fractured, and only mildly interesting, story. You can check out the big secret ending below or watch from the beginning. I may give it a week or two but I’m very much in doubt that this one will live up to the hype.

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Castle – A Deadly Affair

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Castle – A Deadly Affair
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Crime novelist Rick Castle and Detective Kate Beckett are back from their summer break, and I couldn’t be happier. Nathan Fillion is perfectly cast as the smug mystery novelist, and Stana Katic is just the right mix of smart and sexy. My only complaint with last season was the late swerve that kept them from getting together in the finale. Maybe this year? (I won’t hold my breath.) Anywho, the third season’s opener finds Castle in the doghouse with the NYPD and even arrested for murder. 

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The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Third Season

/ / Home Video
  • Title: The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Third Season
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This season finally puts Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco) toghether in a real relationship as well as giving Jim Parsons plenty of fun crazy to play as Doctor Sheldon Cooper. (Sorry, Sheldon’s not crazy. His mother had him tested.) Parsons even took home the Emmy for Best Actor for this season.

Season Three also includes a trip to the emergency room, two appearances by Sheldon’s arch-nemesis Wil Wheaton, Howard (Simon Helberg) gets a girlfriend (Melissa Rauch) and gets a fantasy visit from Katee Sackhoff, Raj (Kunal Nayyar) faces possible deportation, the one ring to rule them all, Sheldon’s short stint working at the Cheesecake Factory, and we finally get the story of how Leonard and Sheldon met.

In terms of extras the three-disc set is a little light but the third disc does include a set tour and a disciussion of the show’s third season by the show’s creators over dinner. The version I picked up also included a “Bazinga t-shirt” for the same price. (I wish other DVD-sets would do this!)

Fans of the show’s nerdy humor should enjoy this season which includes several memorable moments and some fun scenes of my favorite relationship on the show between Sheldon and Penny (such as this one) as well.

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