Television Reviews

Franklin & Bash – Last Dance

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Franklin (Breckin Meyer) and Bash (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) get another unusual case when the widow (Anne Ramsay) of a recently deceased microbiologist asks for their help to stop her late husband’s body being used as a sculpture in a human-body exhibit who plan to pose the scientist as a dancer in one of their traveling shows.

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White Collar – Diminishing Returns

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On Neal’s (Matt Bomer) first day back Peter (Tim DeKay) reports to the evidence warehouse for his new assignment. Feeling guilty for Peter being sidelined, Neal looks into a series of high profile unsolved robberies five years apart by the same thief (Michael Weston) who is planning his latest robbery for this week. Despite advice of Hughes (James Rebhorn) to keep his head down under the humorless watch of his new supervisor (Brett Cullen) and ride out the storm, Peter agrees to help Neal with a case that’s been nagging him for a decade.

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Covert Affairs – The Last Thing You Should Do

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While on a trip to Africa to propose Auggie (Christopher Gorham), Parker (Devin Kelley), and two of her Peace Corps co-workers (Brendan Hines, Emily Shaffer) are taken by Somali pirates. If Annie (Piper Perabo) has any chance of seeing her friend again she has to convince Joan (Kari Matchett) and Lena (Sarah Clarke) to work together long enough to negotiate with the American ex-patriot (Julianne Nicholson) in charge of the negotiations.

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The Newsroom – Amen

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On a chaotic week the News Night crew tries to follow and report on not one but two public protests simultaneously. The first involves the forced, and violent, ejection of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the second is a spontaneous protest of teachers angry at Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker‘s “Budget Repair Bill” and plan to break the unions and strip their collective bargaining rights of teachers and other union members.

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Political Animals – Second Time Around

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Following up last week’s Pilot, Elaine (Sigourney Weaver) sends the former President of the United States, and her ex-husband (Ciarán Hinds), to negotiate the hostage crisis in Iran, a move the current President (Adrian Pasdar) isn’t all too thrilled with being bullied into making. Elaine allows Susan Berg (Carla Gugino) to make the trip as a member of the press as part of her exclusive on the First Lady, and although she doesn’t change her opinion of Bud, spending some time with him on the plane does make her continue to soften her stance on Elaine.

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