Television Reviews

Doctor Who – The Girl in the Fireplace

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“The Doctor is worth the monsters. One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.”

 

Doctor Who - The Girl in the Fireplace

In honor of the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who we continue to look back at some old episodes of the series. If I had to choose my favorite episode of the Doctor Who relaunch it would be “Blink,” but a very close second would be “The Girl in the Fireplace.” From the show’s Second Season, the TARDIS lands in the year 5,000 on an abandoned space station populated by clockwork automatons whose soul purpose seems to be using the ship to punch a hole through time and opening windows into 18th Century France along the lifeline of a single woman.

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Once Upon a Time – Ariel

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Once Upon a Time - Ariel

Continuing to prove to himself he’s a good man, Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) chooses to tell Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas) about Peter Pan‘s (Robbie Kay) message that Neal (Michael Raymond-James) is alive and on the island. Despite Regina (Lana Parrilla) objections which cause the witch to abandon the group, Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison) decides to rescue Neal but is unprepared for the games that Pan is prepared to play which leads the group into Echo Cave where the only chance each member has to survive and rescue Neal is to admit their darkest secrets.

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Hawaii Five-0 – Kupouli ‘la

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Hawaii Five-0 - Kupouli 'la

Halloween comes to a Hawaii with a new bizarre mystery as Max (Masi Oka) witnesses, and is infected by, a doctor behaving like a zombie during a outside screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Although Five-0 doesn’t accept that the man is actually a zombie, the more the delve into the unusual case the more creepy it becomes. The team discovers the doctor was overdosed with a mind-controlling and hallucinatory drug which was used by his puppet masters to force the doctor to remove the head of a corpse of a young woman who died in a routine traffic accident from the morgue before going into a homicidal rage.

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Covert Affairs – No. 13 Baby

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Covert Affairs - No. 13 Baby

Having been outsmarted once again by Henry Wilcox (Gregory Itzin), Annie (Piper Perabo) returns to D.C. to meet with Calder (Hill Harper) and discuss their next move which includes Annie discovering the location of one of Henry’s safe houses. It’s a risky move that Calder doesn’t approve of, and he does his best to make sure Annie doesn’t take any more unnecessary risks like reaching out to Auggie (Christopher Gorham). The accidental destruction of said safe house nearly gets Calder and his team killed and forces Henry to redouble his efforts to find and kill Jessica Matthews.

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Scandal – More Cattle, Less Bull

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Scandal - More Cattle, Less Bull

Olivia (Kerry Washington) accepts a job from Presidential candidate Congresswoman Josephine Marcus (Lisa Kudrow) who need Olivia Pope & Associates to make sure the secret baby she gave up for adoption at the age of 16 is never brought up in the campaign. Harrison (Columbus Short), Abby (Darby Stanchfield), Quinn (Katie Lowes), and Huck (Guillermo Díaz) grab the first flight to Red Springs, Montana, to make sure none of the four people alive (other than their client) spill the beans. Meanwhile Huck and Jake (Scott Foley) continue their side-mission of looking into Rowan (Joe Morton) and his connection to President Grant (Tony Goldwyn) and what past atrocity the two are conspiring to cover-up.

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