Television Reviews

Lois & Clark – Honeymoon in Metropolis

  • Title: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman – Honeymoon in Metropolis
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Lois & Clark - Honeymoon in Metropolis

With a new Superman in still in theaters every now and then I’ll continue to take a look back at the hero’s more memorable moments on both the big and small screen. On assignment for the Daily Planet, Lois (Teri Hatcher) and Clark (Dean Cain) go undercover in the honeymoon suite to keep tabs on the Chairman of the House Defense Committee (Charles Frank) and his secret meetings across the street with defense contractor Thaddeus Roarke (Charles Cyphers).

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Pretty Little Liars – Bring Down the Hoe

  • Title: Pretty Little Liars – Bring Down the Hoe
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Pretty Little Liars - Bring Down the Hoe

Before heading to the school’s country-themed dance, Aria (Lucy Hale), Spencer (Troian Bellisario) , and Emily (Shay Mitchell) seize the opportunity to inspect the crawl space under Mrs. DiLaurentis‘ (Andrea Parker) house looking for any clues that could tie back to Cece Drake (Vanessa Ray). Although the threesome don’t find what they are looking for, yet another attack by their mysterious enemy heightens tension and suspicions and forces Spencer to come clean about Toby (Keegan Allen) looking into his mother’s death. Although her confession helps the Liars better understand their friend’s recent erratic behavior, it also strains Spencer’s relationship with Toby to the breaking point.

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Covert Affairs – Space (I Believe In)

  • Title: Covert Affairs – Space (I Believe In)
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Covert Affairs - Space (I Believe In)

Needing to control the FBI’s investigation into the murder of Seth Newman (Tim Griffin), Annie (Piper Perabo) is put on the case to try and hide her involvement in his murder and Joan‘s (Kari Matchett) cover-up of the crime from the distrusting Vincent Rossabi (Noam Jenkins). Annie is also tasked with trying to recover the missing flash drive which could prove Seth was sharing classified documents with Henry Wilcox (Gregory Itzin).

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Longmire – A Good Death is Hard to Find

  • Title: Longmire – A Good Death is Hard to Find
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Longmire - A Good Death is Hard to Find

When a safety deposit box of a recently-deceased ward of the state is delivered to the police station with a severed finger inside, Longmire (Robert Taylor) and Branch (Bailey Chase) investigate the 20 year-old robbery involving the dead man and stolen dinosaur bones solved by Lucien Connally (Peter Weller) who paid the man a visit in prison one week before his death.

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The Newsroom – One Step Too Many

  • Title: The Newsroom – One Step Too Many
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The Newsroom - One Step Too Many

The highlights of “One Step Too Many” are a series of conversations and questionable choices among various members of the cast as the show also delivers the final piece of “Operation Genoa” in the taping of an interview from a retired general (Stephen Root) giving  the news byte Jerry Dantana (Hamish Linklater) needs to push the news story onto the air (although he certainly helps things along by editing the raw footage to get the on-air confirmation he desperately needs in order to stop a story he has chased for seven months from dying in a rundown meeting). Although the interview, Jerry’s impassioned argument for the story, and his choice to edit the tape are the big takeaways for the season’s arc, it’s the smaller conversations between various pairs of characters that carry the episode.

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