Television Reviews

Perception – Nemesis

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Kate (Rachael Leigh Cook) goes out of her way to try to impress her new boss (Lisa Banes) on a case involving a federal judge (Mary Page Keller) on the short list for Solicitor General who is being stalked by a disturbed young man (Jonathan Tucker). However, the case hits far too close to home for Professor Pierce (Eric McCormack) when he learns the man in question, who believes the judge is an alien from another planet sent here to save the world, is schizophrenic.

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The Newsroom – The Greater Fool

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“For the rest of us to profit we need a greater fool… The greater fool is someone with the perfect blend of self-delusion and ego to think that he can succeed where others have failed.”

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The First Season finale begins with the hospitalization of Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) brought on by a bleeding ulcer, a hatchet job by Mackenzie’s (Emily Mortimer) ex-boyfriend (Paul Schneider) in The New Yorker, and an overdose of anti-depression medication. By the end of the week, despite his eagerness to throw in the towel and walk away, Will is back at the anchor desk reporting on voter disenfranchisement, the fallacy that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, and calling out the Tea Party as “the American Taliban.” So much for playing nice for ratings.

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Leverage – The D.B. Cooper Job

  • Title: Leverage – The D.B. Cooper Job
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Parker (Beth Riesgraf) is approached by FBI Agent McSweeton (Gerald Downey) who needs help solving his father’s (Ronny Cox) most famous unsolved case before the man dies. Parker, in the guise of Agent Haggan, introduces Nate (Timothy Hutton) as a FBI consultant and profiler to McSweeton, his father and his father’s old partner (Fred Ward) in hopes that Nate can come up with a theory as to what really happened to D.B. Cooper (Matt Nolan).

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XIII – Undertow

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XIII (Stuart Townsend) and Jones (Aisha Tyler) head to Chicago seeking one of the two other surviving soldiers involved in the break-in at Renelco’s Costa Verda plant, hoping that the operative is still alive and in possession of his third of the mysterious code of Renelco’s secret weapon project. Unwilling to unleash XIII without some oversight into his activities President Carrington (Stephen McHattie) reinstates Agent Jones, gives her the necessary resources and security clearance, and authorizes their continued investigation.

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Rookie Blue – The Rules

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As Traci (Enuka Okuma) and Gail (Charlotte Sullivan) return to work the 15th Precinct gets back to basics with all officers hitting the streets. Andy (Missy Peregrym) and Nick (Peter Mooney) respond to a burning car and find themselves in the middle of a war zone when a local priest (Benz Antoine) becomes the target of a neighborhood drug lord (Shamier Anderson).

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