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TV Review: SOUTH PARK – Season 16 – “Butterballs”

By CARL CORTEZ 04/12/2012

Mr. Mackey in SOUTH PARK - Season 16 - "Butterballs" | ©2012 Comedy Central

Writer: Trey Parker Director: Trey Parker Network: Comedy Central, airs Wednesday nights Original Telecast: April 11, 2012 Bouncing back from last week’s uneven “Jewpacabra,” SOUTH PARK kicks butt with “Butterballs”, a hilarious take on school bullying and the media’s exploitation of it. Some of this is directly tied to the documentary BULLY which just hit theaters and focuses on actual bullying happening in our public schools. One of the most obvious things creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone bring up with this episode is that by making a film about bullying and then putting the bullied kid as the face […]Read On »

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TV Review: BEING HUMAN – Season 2 – “It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To” – Season Finale

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 04/11/2012

Sam Witwer in BEING HUMAN - Season 2 - "It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To" | ©2012 Syfy/Philippe Bosse

Stars: Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, Sam Huntington, Kristen Hager, Dichen Lachman, Kyle Schmid, Rahnuma Panthaky, Andreas Apergis, Dusan Dukic, Alison Louder Writers: Jeremy Carver & Anna Fricke, adapted for U.S. television by Jeremy Carver & Anna Fricke, created for U.K. television by Toby Whithouse Director: Adam Kane Network: Syfy, Mondays @ 9 PM Airdate: April 9, 2012 It’s not exactly a surprise that our vampire Aidan (Sam Witwer), ghost Sally (Meaghan Rath) and especially vampire Josh (Sam Huntington) make some bad decisions on BEING HUMAN – the Syfy version. They’re not alone – werewolves Nora (Kristen Hager) and Ray (Andreas […]Read On »

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TV Review: GLEE – Season 3 – “Big Brother”

By CARL CORTEZ

Matt Bomer in GLEE - Season 3 - "Big Brother" | ©2012 Fox/Adam Rose

Stars: Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, Mark Salling, Harry Shum Jr., Jenna Ushkowitz Writer: Michael Hitchcock Director: Eric Stoltz Network: Fox, airs Tuesday nights Original Telecast: April 10, 2012 The strange thing about GLEE is that if you eliminated half the episodes in a given season, you would have a pretty great show. Often times it feels like every other episode is on target, and that couldn’t be more true as GLEE returns from a nearly two month hiatus with “Big […]Read On »

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DANCING WITH THE STARS Season 14 Recap: Sherri Shepherd Shocker! She’s kicked off in Week 4

By PAMELA HARLAND 04/10/2012

Val Chmerkovskiy and Sherri Shepherd perform oN DANCING WITH THE STARS - Season 14 -

Stars: Gavin DeGraw, Donald Driver, Roshon Fegan, Melissa Gilbert, Katherine Jenkins, Gladys Knight, William Levy, Maria Menounos, Sherri Shepherd, Jaleel White Network: ABC, airs Mondays, Tuesdays Original Telecast: April 10th, 2012 Every season has one, a shocking elimination. DANCING WITH THE STARS: Season 14’s shocker may be the much-too-soon elimination of Sherri Shepherd and her partner Val Chmerkovskiy. She will be missed; her charisma matched only by Carson Kressley’s two seasons earlier. But that wasn’t the only surprise of the night. Roshon Fegan & Chelsie Hightower, who came in second, were in the bottom two! If that doesn’t scare everyone, […]Read On »

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TV Review: SMASH – Season 1 – “Understudy”

By ANNE LOUISE BANNON

Uma Thurman in SMASH - Season 1 - "Understudy" | ©2012 NBC/Will Hart

Stars: Debra Messing, Christian Borle, Megan Hilty, Katharine McPhee, Jack Davenport, Angelica Houston Writers: Jason Grote Director: Mimi Leder Network: NBC, airs Mondays Original Telecast: April 9, 2012 Sometimes you just wish you could holler at the writers of SMASH “the play’s the thing.” This episode, “Understudy,” gets it, well, almost. We’ve still got lyricist Julia (Debra Messing) still dealing with her husband leaving her, which is sad and all, but we’re not seeing its affect on the show. Dev (Raza Jaffrey) is having a really, really bad day, being passed up for a much-wanted promotion to a scumbucket – but again, just […]Read On »

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TV Recap: DANCING WITH THE STARS – Season 14 – Week 4 – Ballroom and Rock don’t mix

By PAMELA HARLAND

Peta Murgatroyd and Donald Driver on DANCING WITH THE STARS - Season 14 | ©2012 ABC/Bob D'Amico

Stars: Gavin DeGraw, Donald Driver, Roshon Fegan, Melissa Gilbert, Katherine Jenkins, Gladys Knight, William Levy, Maria Menounos, Sherri Shepard, Jaleel White Network: ABC, airs Mondays, Tuesdays Original Telecast: April 9th, 2012 Some things don’t go together…mayonnaise and peanut butter…driving and texting…class and Kanye West. And now we see that ballroom and rock also don’t mix. DANCING WITH THE STARS – Season 14: Rock Week blew a fuse, but not in a good way. It was close to a disaster; nearly everyone under performed, while gallantly trying to keep up with music more suitable for head banging than heel-toe pivots. Even […]Read On »

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TV Review: GRIMM – Season 1 – “The Thing With Feathers”

By CARL CORTEZ 04/09/2012

David Giuntoli in GRIMM - Season 1 - "The Thing With Feathers" | ©2012 NBC/Scott Green

Stars: David Giuntoli, Russell Hornsby, Bitsie Tulloch, Silas Weir Mitchell, Reggie Lee, Sasha Roiz, Bree Turner, Claire Coffee Writer: Richard Hatem Director: Darnell Martin Network: NBC, airs Friday nights Original Telecast: March 31, 2012 In the latest episode of GRIMM, “The Thing With Feathers,” cop Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli) decides to get away with his girlfriend Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) in order to propose only to find Grimm activity a few feet away. While staying at a getaway cabin, Nick discovers there’s a Klaustreich (Josh Randall) abusing another creature lady Robin (Azura Skye) who can essentially lay a golden egg (well, […]Read On »

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TV Review: GAME OF THRONES – Season 2 – “The Night Lands”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF

Liam Cunningham in GAME OF THRONES - Season 2 - "The Night Lands" | ©2012 HBO/Helen Sloan

Stars: Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Fairley, Aiden Gillen, Jack Gleeson, Iain Glen, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Richard Madden, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, John Bradley, Charles Dance, Carice Van Houten, Stephen Dillane, Liam Cunningham, Robert Pugh Writers: David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, based on George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” Director: Alan Taylor Network: HBO, Sundays @ 9 PM Airdate: April 8, 2012 GAME OF THRONES usually has a lot of fighting and sex. There’s plenty of the latter in “The Night Lands” but, curiously for an episode referring to the […]Read On »

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TV Review: BEING HUMAN – Season 2 – “Partial Eclipse of the Heart”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 04/08/2012

Sam Huntington in BEING HUMAN - Season 2 - "Partial Eclipse of the Heart" | ©2012 Syfy/Philippe Bosse

Stars: Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, Sam Huntington, Dichen Lachman, Kyle Schmid, Natalie Brown, Deena Aziz, Susanna Fournier, Pat Kiely, Gianpaolo Venuta, Andreas Apergis, Kyle Gatehouse Writer: Lisa Rudolph, adapted for U.S. television by Jeremy Carver & Anna Fricke, created for U.K. television by Toby Whithouse Director: Adam Kane Network: Syfy, Mondays @ 9 PM Airdate: April 2, 2012 Setting aside that BEING HUMAN has managed to almost totally separate its leads once again (and when the show does that, we might as well be watching an anthology), the episode “Partial Eclipse of the Heart” gets to expected results in two […]Read On »

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TV Review: FRINGE – Season 4 – “Everything In Its Right Place”

By CARL CORTEZ 04/07/2012

Seth Gabel as Lincoln in FRINGE - Season 4 - "Everything In Its Right Place" | ©2012 Fox/Liane Hentscher

Cast: Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Anna Torv, Seth Gabel, Lance Reddick, Jasika Nicole Writer: David Fury & J.R. Orci based on a story by J.R. Orci and Matt Pitts Director: David Moxness Network: Fox, airs Friday nights Original Telecast: April 6, 2012 After last week’s monster-of-the week storytelling detour with the sluggish “Nothing As It Seems,” FRINGE returns to the backbone of its storytelling greatness with the excellent Lincoln (Seth Gabel) episode “Everything In Its Right Place.” After feeling shafted by Olivia (Anna Torv) forgetting any of the advances they made in their relationship, Lincoln feels it’s time he got […]Read On »