Television Reviews

Person of Interest – C.O.D.

  • Title: Person of Interest – C.O.D.
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The latest number delivered by The Machine is that of a former minor league baseball prospect turned New York City cab driver (Michael Irby) who has recently cleaned out his savings account and pawning his most valued possessions. Finch (Michael Emerson) bugs his car with sound, video, and GPS, which allows them to learn the cabbie is attempting to raise enough money to smuggle his wife and son out of Cuba. His real problem, however, has nothing to do with his money troubles and everything to do with a recent fare whose laptop might get him killed.

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Burn Notice – Best Laid Plans

  • Title: Burn Notice – Best Laid Plans
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Agent Riley (Sonja Sohn) arrests Maddie (Sharon Gless) to rattle her into giving up her son and learns Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) hasn’t yet left Miami. Her attempt to get Barry (Paul Tei) to put up a financial smokescreen obscuring where Michael and his team are headed only gets her in more hot water with the CIA. Meanwhile, Fi (Gabrielle Anwar) and Jesse (Coby Bell) help Schmidt (Patton Oswalt) procure an expense piece of technology from his warehouse to help pay the exorbitant fee of getting the foursome new identities and safely out of the country.

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Scandal – Happy Birthday, Mr. President

  • Title: Scandal – Happy Birthday, Mr. President
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“We’re in this together.”

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The attempted assassination of President Fitzgerald (Tony Goldwyn) throws Olivia Pope’s (Kerry Washington) world into a tailspin. As Fitz fights for his life in a hospital emergency room Olivia thinks back to inauguration day and the first few days of his presidency. With the Press Secretary (Keiko Agena) seriously injured in the attack, and the Vice President’s (Kate Burton) grandstanding attempt to seize power, Olivia returns to the White House to help Cyrus (Jeff Perry) take control of the situation.

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The Big Bang Theory – The Fish Guts Displacement

  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Fish Guts Displacement
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Characters step outside their comfort zone as Sheldon (Jim Parsons) attempts to nurse a sick Amy (Mayim Bialik) back to health and Howard (Simon Helberg), during an awkward dinner with Bernadette’s (Melissa Rauch) parents, agrees to go on a fishing trip with Bernadette’s father (Casey Sander), a retired police officer with whom he has nothing in common.

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Arrow – Vendetta

  • Title: Green Arrow – Vendetta
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Despite Diggle’s (David Ramsey) objections, Oliver (Stephen Amell) gets romantically involved with Helena (Jessica De Gouw) and begins training her to be a crossbow-wielding Starling City vigilante known as the Huntress.  Together the pair take down another name on Oliver’s list,  a crack dealer who works for Helena’s father, but  his influence, which isn’t helped by an awkward double-date with Laurel (Katie Cassidy) and Merlyn (Colin Donnell), can’t stop her from starting a gang war by killing the leader of the Triad to weaken her father (Jeffrey Nordling) and make the mob boss pay for the death of her fiance.

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