Dexter
Well, there was bound to be a letdown after the previous week. This was my least favorite episode of the season. There were a couple points that I just didn’t like. The main one was the revelation that LaGuerta was sleeping with Pascal’s fiancée just to screw with her mind so she will get fired. That is just too soapy for me. The other revelations with Dexter and Rita’s mom and Dexter and his sponsor were fine. Dexter is at its best when he is scrambling to cover his ass. The side story of Doakes killing a fellow soldier felt like they just wanted to give him something to do since he isn’t involved with the Bay Harbor Butcher. There is always time for naked Deb.
7 out of 10
Monday (10/22)
Prison Break
More of the same, there really isn’t much to distinguish between episodes of Prison Break. Michael schemes for a way out, Linc schemes of a way out, T-Bag schemes in general, and all the other characters pop in and out. I did like how even though he is out of his mind; Mahone finds the information that Michael needs to escape. Mahone and Michael working together will be fun if they go in that direction. I have no idea where T-Bag’s arc is heading. The previews for the next episode show Linc manhandling that chick that has been giving him orders which is about time. Plus it means that maybe there is going to be some overall movement on the season’s story.
5 out of 10
Chuck
I really wish I like this show more. It seems like it has everything I would want but I just don’t get excited to watch new episodes. This week we get Chinese food and Chinese spies. There is some nonsense with Morgan being and awful salesman along with Chuck not being there for his sister or his friend. But everything works out in the end and Sarah gets to here how important Mother’s Day is to Chuck and his sister. Monday at 8 o’clock is not delivering the goods.
5 out of 10
Heroes
Oh my god does the show need to cull about half the cast. I am starting to doubt if this show can be great again if there continue to be 5 separate storylines in every single episode. This week we get the mimic of New Orleans, Mohinder and Molly, Matt’s evil Dad, Ando and ancient Hiro, and Veronica Mars as Electro. That means we had no movement on the Bennets or Sylar. There were a few good moments this week. Matt’s dad pulls a Professor X so that was fun to see how far they will push the power of telepathy. It was nice to see Kristen Bell since she is a great actress and I wonder if that was Keith Mars on the phone. Peter is going to Canada now? That is his big journey this season? Micah and his cousin were boring me but with Mohinder showing up we will finally see some movement with that arc. The Hiro stuff is plodding along and losing steam. All of this will be forgotten if next week is all Daddy Bennet rolling with Haitian.
7 out of 10
Weeds
It is nice to hate a character as much as I hate Celia. The writers have to be doing this on purpose and the previews show Nancy putting a knife to her throat so they understand what will pop their audience. After a season of Nancy scrambling, it is fun to see her in control and being comfortable in her drug dealing shoes. Watching her admonish her son as an employee then switch and console him as his mother was fantastic. Celia and Heylia together were awesome and I pray it leads to Heylia kicking her ass at some point. Best episode of the season.
9 out of 10
Californication
What a great recovery for Californication after that craptastic episode a couple of weeks ago. Mia and Dani are still awful to the point that it has to lead to a huge confrontation. Although it looks like Mia may actually regret what she is doing to Hank even thought no matter what she is Hank is screwed over the whole sex with the underage daughter of your wife’s fiancée thing. Becca moving in with Hank was done well and it led to some good scenes with Hank and Karen. I also liked that Charlie wasn’t an idiot and recognized that Mia was selling Hank’s book. The nice comeback has made me look forward to the season finale.
7 out of 10
Tuesday (10/23)
Bones
Hey look its Tasha Yar! You can’t get much better than that. Well, there was a nice interrogation moment where they got to reveal to the killer that she didn’t kill her father’s lover instead she killed her half sister. That was good times. I don’t know about Bones and Booth going to a psychologist but at least it lead to a bunch of good lines. Not much more to say, this was your basic Bones episode.
6 out of 10
House
This is shaping up to be my favorite season so far. I never would have thought that the show would still be great if you removed Chase, Cameron, and Foreman as House’s minions. But here we are and there hasn’t been a bad episode yet. Giving House all of these doctors to abuse has given the writers new opportunities to show House at his manipulative best. Sadly this week had about 5 seconds of Wilson, that is not enough time for he and House to work their magic. In his place we have Foreman getting his comeuppance for ever thinking he was better than House. Watching him get denied for every position he applied for was fun but Cuddy hiring him back makes no sense. It is clear that House is putting together a new team, which is what she wants, but now she hires back Foreman without talking to House first. We’ll see how things work out. It is also great that all of the newbies are starting to gain personality before their eventual firing. As for this week, the patient was in the last season of Buffy so that was cool and who doesn’t like a diagnosis of hallucinations caused by poisoning? Plus they dug up a corpse and the Mormon punched House … great episode.
9 out of 10
The Unit
It was bound to happen so I am not shocked to watch an episode of The Unit where much of it was in fast forward. There were multiple stories back at the base, which means that I can skip Bob trying to be dad and husband and Tiffy needs a job. Though Tiffy stripping could be fun. The unit in action was decent but nothing all that memorable. It was more about Mack than Jonas so that is a step down. Hopefully it can back up to speed next week.
5 out of 10
Reaper
Neon green slime soul was the bad special effects monster of the week. This was decent because the vessel was bad Christmas sweater and the 3 guys had to go dumpster diving to find the missing sweater. There was some nice movement on the overall storylines, with Sam’s dad acting nefarious and Andi growing tired of Sam’s disappearances. The way this show goes, she must truly love him for her to even speak to him after all the times he has no-showed her. On top of all that, we got a nice menacing final scene where the Devil actually acts like the Devil.
7 out of 10
Damages
Ah, I wouldn’t call this a letdown but this was not where I thought things were heading. I should have seen it once they showed that the older lawyer that Ellen trusted was working with some unknown party. The whole compass of the show changes if Patty really ordered a hit on Ellen which is clear she did with Uncle Pete letting the killer in and Patty breaking down at the cottage over it. But then again, The Shield has survived having Vic kill a fellow cop in cold blood in the initial episode while not even turning Vic into the bad guy. I also don’t know if there was a need to introduce Patty’s dead baby unless it was just to compare how her baby died and now she tried to kill daughter-like underling. The flipside was how great the scene between Patty and Frobisher. Close and Danson did some unbelievable work throughout this season. I hope they find a way to keep Frobisher alive if there is a second season. Even though I am not completely behind the plot-twist, Ellen working for Patty again so that she can prove who killed David while trying to bring down Patty could work.
8 out of 10
Wednesday (10/24)
Bionic Woman
Now I am not so sure about this show. I knew Sarah Corvus was not going to be there for much of the first season because Katee Sackhoff has the more important Battlestar Galactica to film. What that means for Bionic Woman is that they have to go in another direction and they chose Jaime gets a secret agent boyfriend. That is definitely a step down. If it wasn’t for great scenes with Antonio and Nathan, this could have been an outright bad episode. And how the hell did Jaime go away to college for what looks like at least a week without her sister wondering what the hell is going on? Worse than that, it looks like next week will be more of the same. Still, there was a great fight scene with Jaime getting jumped by the mind-controlled guy and that is what I ask from this show.
6 out of 10
Life
Yes! Garret Dillahunt is one of my favorite actors coming out of Deadwood. If his Roman character becomes reoccurring, Life has just jumped up a bunch of rungs on the ladder. For his scenes alone this was a fantastic episode. You had the scene where they bring him in while he sits alone eating in his club’s kitchen, all of his interrogation room scenes, and his phone call to Charlie at the end. Charlie tracking down and beating the guy who attacked his lawyer was okay but I prefer Charlie going after the conspiracy as his side story. And it looks like Roman’s phone call will lead to something next week.
7 out of 10
Thursday (10/25)
Smallville
Unless evil Lana turns out to be her clone, this may be the storyline that gets me to stop watching. That’s a shame because outside of that horrendous plot point this was a decent episode. The evils of comic book geeks was a little on the nose, but the Lionel, Lex, and Lois scenes more than made up for it. Lionel is always money and this week he beats his captor to death then has a great scene menacing evillllll Lana. It is still fun to see Clark and Lex interact so Lex the Warrior Angel fan was amusing. Lois got to play dress-up to snoop on Lex and that was awesome. The crazy fan trying to force Clark into being a true superhero was a lot better than him being given a red cloak. The fan was made even better because he wouldn’t give Clark up to Lex.6 out of 10
This is a little disappointing because I would have hoped that that the season finale of Damages would be the best episode of the week. But that is not the case. I'll give Weeds the top slot with House falling into right in the second slot. With Damages ending with Weeds and Californication following soon and the World Series screwing things up, this should be the last week of insanity (14 reviews) until the new year.
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