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‘The X-Files’ 10×06 “My Struggle II”

The Truth Hurts In the pre-credits voice-over of this final episode, we get Scully’s point of view on the past ten seasons as book end counterpoint to Mulder’s Reader’s Digest recap in the first episode of this uneven season. Interesting, but the pile up of all the zany theories once again gives me pause, and I worry that this might be just as bad an episode as the first one. Sometimes, I like to…

‘Downton Abbey’ The Final Season: 6×07

  Downton Abbey meets The Fast and the Furious in this emotionally charged episode. I can’t say I didn’t see it coming—because I totally did, but the execution still worked. Downstairs It’s 1926, and our dear servants are preparing (or at least trying to prepare) for life after Downton. It’s hard to face the fact that your way of life is no longer the way of society anymore, but it seems most of…

‘The X-Files’ 10×04 “Babylon”

Terror, Twins, Trump, and Trumpets A Muslim terrorist bomber survives a bombing attempt of an art gallery displaying offensive artwork, which throws us into one of the weirdest episodes ever from my point of view. We get Double Dynamic Duos as young handsome/pretty FBI agents working on the case meet their older versions in Scully and Mulder. Agent Einstein is a red-headed pragmatist (al la…

‘How to Get Away with Murder’ 2×10 “What Happened to You, Annalise?”

As usual, Pete Nowalk and his team of How to Get Away with Murder writers left us bald-headed and eyebrow-less last Thursday (and by eyebrow-less I mean the amazing Viola Davis, the only actress who can go an entire episode bold and bare-faced). After a much-anticipated mid-season premiere, we were met with yet another side to the forever-complex Annalise Keating. Vulnerability. It wasn’t enough…

You’re Responsible Cute comedy is okay, but I like my X-Files, dark, mean, creepy, evil, scary. Despite some technical sound difficulties, we get all that in a great opening to this episode. We’re in West Philadelphia where police are hosing down the homeless. Orange flyers announce: “You’re Responsible.” After the cops leave, there is a rumbling. The homeless hide. An ominous garbage truck pulls…

11 Highlights from #GreaseLive

  Greased Lightning Strikes Again Wop ba-ba lu-mop and wop bam boom! In case you’re not one of 12.2 million people who were watching, Grease: Live aired on this past Sunday and everyone’s talking about it (desperately avoids “Grease is the word” pun). Being a sucker for musicals and guys in leather jackets, I was definitely watching live with a group of equally obsessed friends, waiting to see if…

#DowntonAbbey The Final Season: 6x05 #BGNTV

Well. Well. Well. While I must admit that this season so far has been kind of slow—and believe it or not, Downton Abbey is normally not slow—this particular episode has picked up the tension. Downstairs Carson needs to learn how to speak to women, because he is clearly inept. Carson suggested that he and his wife have dinner in their cottage instead of the manor house. Mrs. Hughes (we’ll just…

#TheXFiles 10x03 "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster" #DatX

Yuck it up. In case you haven’t heard, last week the CIA released declassified UFO documents they’ve called the X-Files. And like Mulder, I immediately wondered what is the CIA trying to distract us from? You had to laugh. And it happened to be the perfect prelude to the high jinx comedy of episode three. I’d heard this episode was the best of the three so far, and it did not disappoint. I don’t…