TV from 10/28 - 11/03

Sunday (10/28)

Dexter

We got lots and lots of revelations in another great Dexter episode. I don’t know if I am in support of Harry maybe being Dexter’s biological father, but the journey taken to get there is well worth it. The confrontation between Dexter and the surviving killer of his mother was another fantastic scene. Numerous great scenes supported this with Dexter and his sponsor on their road trip to this meeting. There was a good story for Deb this week with her flipping out on her boyfriend when she misconstrues the title of his next book. They even calmed some of my annoyance over LaGuerta screwing her way to Lieutenant by having Doakes call her out. Doakes rules. There looks to be some great Bay Harbor Butcher stuff this week.

8 out of 10

Monday (10/29)

Chuck

Let’s get this over with. We get Chuck messing around with his evil counterpart while being annoyed with both his handlers. There was also another Morgan storyline where he needs to grow up which at least had a ridiculous scene with him and Captain Awesome. Best part was using Bond movies as a running joke; that will always get you on my good side. I'm still no caring about Chuck.

5 out of 10

Heroes

Damnit. I thought that having a strong Bennet storyline would create badassness again, but it just can’t overcome my lack of caring for other arcs. Bennet torturing his Russian mentor was as good as I hoped it would be. There were a bunch of great moments with the Haitian just being such a great weapon and it was topped off with the excellent final moments where Bennet acknowledges what he is doing before killing the guy. After Bennet, I’d go with Sylar as the next best arc in the episode. I may not care about the eyes bleeding black siblings, but I will always get behind using the brother’s inability to speak English as an excuse to just tell him that he will be killing his sister soon. Hiro in ancient China is still dragging ass. Mohinder choosing not to poison the New Orleans mimic is not a big reveal at all. Plus that is one magical iPod if it contains any action that she will ever want to learn. And Peter jumps to the future so we can finally learn what needs to be stopped this time around. Maybe this big revelation will lead to stronger and more focused episodes. Where’s Electro Mars?

6 out of 10

Weeds

Now we are freaking cooking with gas. Outside of way too much Conrad ass, I have absolutely zero complaints with this episode. This show is so much better when Nancy at least has the allusion of control. I’ve been waiting years for her to put that knife to Celia’s throat, but the wait was worth it. This was made even better when Nancy had to go back to Celia in order to use her home as a grow-house. Celia’s a punk. It was great how just about every secondary character on the show ran into each other at Celia’s. And once again the formula works, multiple scenes of Heylia and Conrad equal a great episode. I even liked the Andy storyline because it is obviously leading to the next hurdle for Nancy to jump. Fantastic episode.

9 out of 10

Californication

Californication definitely redeemed itself with quality episodes down the homestretch and then delivering a better than expected finale. There were some obvious choices that could have been made, but they avoided having Hank making a scene or Mia sending Hank to jail so I was all in favor of this episode. Hank’s dreams at the beginning were weak because they were obvious but they did get rid of the Hank sweeping Karen away at her wedding scene. Instead Hank was awesome at the wedding, putting the ball in Karen’s court, dealing with Becca’s first period, putting Charlie and his wife back together, and defusing Mia’s breakdown. Mia still sucks and I am still annoyed that she is going to get away with stealing Hank’s book but at least she is not sending Hank to jail. The ending was fun because it easily leads into the second season since Karen did marry Bill even if she runs off with Hank. Bill sucks almost as much as his daughter.

8 out of 10

Tuesday (10/30)

Bones

Bones in a Wonder Woman costume, Angela in whatever her costume was, and Cam dressed as Catwoman automatically make this an improvement over last week. Throw in a Rider Strong appearance and we have the makings of a great episode. Azura Skye bounces from House to Bones this week and acts completely insane as usual. Bones, Hodgins, and Zack sending everyone out of the room to use logic in peace was a great moment which got even better when Zack recognizes Einstein as an acceptable source when they start making assumptions. This was one of the better Bones episodes of this season

7 out of 10

House

I was prepared to be letdown with this week’s episode. The return of Foreman could have ruined the great chemistry that this season had but for now everything is still working smoothly. I actually like the idea that by the end of the story Foreman has accepted the fact that he is House Jr. and this is where he belongs. As long as House can continue to manipulate his new minions this season will continue with its greatness. The magic patient revealing everyone’s inner truth was weak, but it did lead to the best moment of the episode where House and Cuddy use the guy to test who has the power in their relationship. This comes after the great conversation House tells Cuddy that he knows when she swaps his Vicodin but does she know when he switches her birth control. House rules. I am starting to get annoyed with the lack of Wilson in these episodes hopefully this will be rectified before it causes a shitty episode.

8 out of 10

The Unit

Now that was just a weird story. Crazy pop singer secretly performs in Iraq? Is this based on something that really happened? If not, this was not that good especially when Jonas changes her life with the power of his convictions. Bah. The other main storyline did work. Bob and Randy Couture were amusing if only for Couture running around in a suit. That’s just funny. And once again we dilute the episode even more by having a third arc going on with Hector getting a girlfriend. This is acceptable only for the big reveal at the end where he sees Mack’s wife leaving a hotel room with Robert Patric. Hey that storyline began back when I was watching this show during the first season!

5 out of 10

Reaper

This would have been the worst episode of the season if it weren’t for Patton Oswalt at least making it amusing. Or it could be that only I will like it because he was the man who shot President McKinley. I love historical humor! And from that point Patton is just making as many jokes as he can possible fit into an episode. This covers the fact that the other escaped soul wasn’t even developed and the rest of the time Sam was snapping at everyone. It was a boring hour and was probably the worst episode so far.

4 out of 10

Wednesday (10/31)

Life

The Dani storyline bored me to the point of fast forwarding about half of the episode. I think I only stopped to watch Charlie on a stakeout with Lt. Calamity Jane and Adam Arkin reading the book about his crimes. And since those were about 5 minutes of the episode, I can’t say that I liked this episode. Drunk Dani should work as a character arc but I just don’t seem to care.

5 out of 10

Thursday (11/1)

Smallville

How the fudge did Clark get the crystal? And why the hell is he keeping it from Kara? I will never be able to buy Clark as evil. Plus they are going full steam with this shifty Lana stuff and it is killing me. Its also shaping up to be the major story for the season. Kill me now. Hey except for these 2 points, I liked this episode. Lionel shows up for another episode and continues to be the best thing on the show. He has great scenes with Clark, Lex, and gets to kill the wacky federal agent. Helen Slater gets to be another Super-returning star as old school Supergirl gets to be Clark’s mom. As for keeping track of the girls, lots of Kara, normal amount of Lana, minimal Chloe, no Lois. Bah.

6 out of 10

I should cut the amount of shows I review down to 10 because this was 11 and it was much easier. 10 would be a walk in the park. We'll see how I feel about Chuck, The Unit, Reaper, and Life in the next few weeks. Weeds was easily the best show this week and I'll put Californication in second place since it is the final episode of their season.