NCIS: Hawaii “Boom” Mondays at 10PM on CBS GRADE: B- Last week, we were witness to the fairly boring debut of the new CBS NCIS spin-off, “NCIS: Hawaii” starring Vanessa Lachey. This week, the show manages to turn things around a bit with a nice Five-0 like episode entitled “Boom”.Continue Reading
NCIS: Hawaii “Pilot” Mondays at 10PM on CBS GRADE: C- Ah, September, you’re here at last to grace us with some new television. And what better way to start than to give us a brand-new TV show set in Hawaii…because what’s not to like about Hawaii? CBS has had nothingContinue Reading
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 10 “You Might Also Like” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: A- Housewife Jane Warren is stuck in a tree. She’s unable to move because one of her legs is tied to a medicine ball which is also tied to a large chair from herContinue Reading
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 9 “Try, Try” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: B- Let’s just get this out of the way, it’s like watching Groundhog Day…if it were hosted like a CNN interview and limited to one location. “Try, Try” is the penultimate episode of the second seasonContinue Reading
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 8 “A Small Town” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: B After invasions of our planet by octopi and aliens and examinations of trust, the price of fame, and what it means to be a friend, the second season lightens up a bit with “AContinue Reading
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 7 “A Human Face” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: D- Last year, an alien by the name of “A. Traveler”, a YouTube/social media sensation, invaded Earth and sent his buddies down to conquer it all while getting the people of a small Alaskan townContinue Reading
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 6 “8” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: D What if our activities on Earth caused a formerly Beta species to rise up and evolve beyond what humans are capable of? That’s the question the sixth installment of the second season of The Twilight ZoneContinue Reading
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 5 “Among the Untrodden” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: A- Irene, the new girl at St. Mary’s, moves a bunch of candles, a stack of Zener cards, and texts pertaining to various psychic phenomena into the old girl’s bathroom in the basement. Her intentionsContinue Reading
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 4 “Ovation” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: D+ I’ve often thought about what would happen if myself or my wife became famous and everyone suddenly knew our names. It’s not because I have a giant ego. It’s because I’ve seen what happens to peopleContinue Reading
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 3 “The Who of You” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: B “You know what I think? I think that we’re all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and we claw, but only atContinue Reading