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Excerpt: It’s pretty wholesome with positive messages, despite the edginess. That’s a tough line to walk, and the reason Dance Academy has such broad appeal.

Doctor Who: “The Crimson Horror”

Excerpt: After last week’s mostly good, but also horribly dreadful episode, it was nice to see Doctor Who right itself a bit this week, even if that meant offering up a story which, whilst fun, was not terribly memorable.

Doctor Who: “Nightmare in Silver”

Excerpt: Unfortunately, the episode had to move away from the internal conflict to be about Clara leading the military in their attempts to fend off the encroaching Cybermenace. While it was fun seeing Clara weigh up which of the ridiculous rides might be the best place for defense, and she got to play at being a leader in a way which was interesting and different, that whole half of the episode felt rushed and undercooked.

Excerpt: I confess to some disappointment from Neil Gaiman…

Fraggle Rock: Meet the Fraggles

Excerpt: In the canon of Jim Henson productions, “Fraggle Rock” falls in between the all-audiences appeal of the Muppets and the edutainment of “Sesame Street” you wouldn’t feel right watching without a kid in the room. Featuring smart writing and many original songs, it’s a fun series, although your enjoyment hedges largely on your age.

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Doctor Who: The Crimson Horror

Excerpt: The Crimson Horror does what Doctor Who should most definitely NOT do…make the main character irrelevant.

Excerpt: This episode completely freaked and creeped me out. In the good way.

Star Trek: Balance of Terror

Excerpt: Star Trek’s first recurring alien adversaries make their debut.

Star Trek: Charlie X

Excerpt: The story of a not-so-gifted youngster.

Star Trek: Mudd’s Women

Excerpt: Here’s Mudd in your eye, with a very sexist piece of sixties television.

Star Trek: The Cage

Excerpt: Kicking off an Into Darkness retrospective with the unaired pilot.

Star Trek: The Corbomite Manoeuvre

Excerpt: A review of the first regular (non-pilot) Star Trek episode ever produced. Now with 100% extra Clint Howard!

Star Trek: The Enemy Within

Excerpt: Kirk goes evil and William Shatner goes hammy in Star Trek’s first transporter-duplicate story.

Star Trek: The Man Trap

Excerpt: The very first episode of Star Trek ever broadcast.

Star Trek: The Naked Time

Excerpt: Sulu gets into the spirit of the title of this trippy piece of sixties psychadelia.

Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before

Excerpt: Looking at the second pilot to the first Star Trek show.

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Derek: Series 1

Doctor Who: Hide

Excerpt: Just like Cold War was highly reminiscent of the film Alien, Hide was highly reminiscent of the film Poltergeist. I’m surprised the Doctor didn’t say, “This house is clean.”

Doctor Who: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

Excerpt: The biggest problem the story has involves what is suppose to be the Doctor’s greatest secret: The Name of the Doctor has been played to be this gigantic secret, something that might shatter the fabric of time itself. Now we find that his name is easily available to anyone with a library card.

Doctor Who: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

Excerpt: That may be the most infuriating part of “Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS”, an otherwise fun and inconsequential episode; it not only uses time travel to erase its events entirely, but does so with a painfully real, though admittedly friendly, Big Red Button, which is as close to a literal deus ex machina as you can get without God actually showing up to sort everything out.

Doctor Who: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

Excerpt: Really? A giant reset button? An actual in-fact for-real big-friendly reset button? Really?

Elementary: Snow Angels

Friends: Season 2

Andrew Wyatt @ Gateway Cinephile

Excerpt: The youngest in our family is eleven, and she likes Friends for the same reasons as everyone else: it’s funny and the characters are likable.

Game of Thrones, Season 1, Episode 1, “Winter Is Coming”

Excerpt: As with David Simon’s masterful urban tragedy The Wire, GoT is a sprawling, intricate show that is not in the habit of explaining itself slowly and carefully.

Spartacus: War Of The Damned

Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Three

Excerpt: The new Blu-ray looks as great as one would expect, but it also serves to remind us of just how long it took for STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION to click with viewers… three turbulent years.

The Walking Dead: Season 3

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Bates Motel: What’s Wrong With Norman

Excerpt: Bates Motel is becoming a strong series, with excellent and gripping performances and a storyline that is both true to the original source material and its own creation.

Doctor Who: Cold War

Excerpt: The disappointment I felt over Cold War is massive. Ultimately, one only needs to look at the difference between The Seeds of Death and Cold War to see the difference between a good Ice Warrior story and a ghastly Ice Warrior story.

Excerpt: It’s unlikely to enter the pantheon of truly great Doctor Who episodes like “Blink” (which, incidentally, is the yardstick I compare every episode against), but it was a superior offering, not only in terms of the middling last couple of episodes, but just in general. This was a funny, suspenseful and smartly constructed episode that did everything that a good episode of Doctor Who can do.

Doctor Who: Galaxy 4

Excerpt: Given how wildly Doctor Who has spun out of control, Galaxy 4 is a reminder, even in its incomplete state, of when the series took things seriously and has as its lead a man of intelligence and peace, not a nitwit who gave himself over to a psychopath.

Doctor Who: Hide

Excerpt: While “Hide” might not, strictly speaking, be a ghost story, owing to the fact that there isn’t really a ghost in it, it has all the trappings of one and director Mat King did a very good job of recreating the feel of a classic chiller. The CGI was kept to a minimum, with most of the scares coming from eerie silences, the brief appearances of the time traveler and a general mood of quiet fear.

Excerpt: Reminded me of the Gothic era of Tom Baker’s tenure as the Doctor…

Doctor Who: The Bells of Saint John

Excerpt: The Bells of Saint John is a textbook example of the sort of episodes the show is able to churn out with no particular fuss; quick, efficient, kind of instantly forgettable but enjoyable while it’s on.

Doctor Who: The Rings of Akhaten

Excerpt: The Rings of Akhaten is a very pretty episode, but that’s really about it.

Excerpt: The power of love is, in addition to being a curious thing, a plot device that Doctor Who likes to fall back on in those moments when an interesting premise flames out or the writers seem to have written themselves into a corner.

Sofia the First: Once upon a Princess

Excerpt: Should be a hit with children ages 3-6.

Star Trek: The Next Generation: “The Best of Both Worlds”

Excerpt: The Borg proved to be just the right dystopian shot in the arm that the utopian STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION needed in order to midwife a fledgling revival of the STAR TREK franchise.

Top of the Lake, Episode 6 & 7

Excerpt: In a sense, [Robin Griffin] de-feminized herself, giving up her maternal instincts to join the boys’ club that Detective Sgt. Al Parker represents. Her return to Laketop is the first step she takes in re-acquiring the feminine mystique she gave up.

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Doctor Who blogging: “Cold War”

Excerpt: Alien on the Red October?

Doctor Who blogging: “The Bells of Saint John”

Excerpt: I’m starting to worry that Moffat thinks that because Doctor Who is science fiction, anything goes, at any time, for no reason.

Doctor Who blogging: “The Rings of Akhaten”

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Excerpt: I’m so relieved to discover that I really like this episode.

Toussaint Louverture

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Bates Motel: Nice Town You Picked, Norma

Doctor Who: The Bells of Saint John

Excerpt: Rather than being the ‘epic’ so often promised by showrunner/head writer Steven Moffat, The Bells of Saint John goes to his old bag of tricks, turning the Doctor almost literally into an organ grinder’s monkey.

Elementary: Deja Vu All Over Again

Family Ties: The Sixth Season

Excerpt: You can tell that “Family Ties” has begun its descent by its sixth season, but the show still holds up as an appealing family sitcom with worthwhile stories it still tells sharply.

Excerpt: There are the marvelously complex heroines of cable TV’s comedy/dramas . . . and then there’s Hannah Horvath.

Sherlock: A Study in Pink

Top of the Lake, Episode 5

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The Bible

Excerpt: Younger children and people disturbed by graphic violence won’t be able to watch, but the rest of the family will find The Bible an interesting combination of the expected and unexpected.

Hemingway & Gellhorn

Excerpt: I really have nothing nice to say about Hemingway & Gellhorn. It’s puffed-up and lazy and falsely provocative.

Kristen Schaal: Live at the Fillmore

Excerpt: Shortly after the halfway point, the special becomes less a traditional stand-up act and more akin to performance art. Schaal convincingly pretends to stumble through some feeble jokes, repeatedly mispronouncing “airplane” and becoming increasingly preoccupied with getting a drink of water.

LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out

Excerpt: LEGO Star Wars seems to be aimed primarily at young Cartoon Network viewers who aren’t really crazy about Star Wars itself. Those versed in Lucas’ lore will appreciate the subtler jokes, some of which are kind of amusing.

Top of the Lake – Episode 4

Excerpt: A brief flashback… refocuses TOP OF THE LAKE as the feminist thriller Jane Campion clearly meant it to be…

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Bates Motel: First You Dream, Then You Die

Excerpt: Bates Motel borrows elements from another television series about small-town weirdness and strange goings-on. It draws heavily from Twin Peaks, and the influence the short-lived David Lynch series is clear in our first episode…

Dirk Gently

Excerpt: Dirk Gently is a light and moderately enjoyable entry to the long tradition of British detective series.

Golden Boy: The Price of Revenge

Excerpt: The Price of Revenge is like the pilot, more character-driven than mystery-driven, though this is more a plus than a minus.

Golden Boy: Young Guns

Excerpt: Young Guns did something that Golden Boy has not done in the preceding two episode: put the crime as a major part of the story.

Top of the Lake, Episode 3

Excerpt: …if the answer to the mystery at its heart is slow in coming, at least the investigation into each of TOP OF THE LAKE’s players is proceeding apace.

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Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror

Excerpt: The Reign of Terror is at heart, a good idea for a story, but it has some flaws. One big flaw is its length: at six episodes is it two episodes too long.

Golden Boy: The Pilot

Excerpt: Golden Boy has the unique vantage point of being in the future, so we should already know that Clark has survived whatever machinations Arroyo or anyone else has created…

H2O: Just Add Water – Season 2

Excerpt: Like Season 1, Season 2 of H2O: Just Add Water is a winner.

Life With Lucy: One Good Grandparent Deserves Another

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com

Excerpt: Life With Lucy is a sour note on which to end a brilliant career.

Parade’s End

Excerpt: A sophisticated adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s novel by Tom Stoppard with a stunning performance by Rebecca Hall as a domineering, beautiful woman.

Phil Spector

Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire

Excerpt: Mamet’s film isn’t sure what the hell to make of Spector. But, strangely, that’s part of what makes it so compelling.

Top of the Lake

Excerpt: …of all the shows to ever stake a claim as [TWIN] PEAKS’ spiritual inheritor, this comes closest.

Veep: The Complete First Season

Excerpt: Even if you’re not ordinarily drawn to politics or satire and don’t find the subject matter and storylines the most compelling, “Veep” will still probably win you over with its appealing atmosphere and sharp writing.

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The Walking Dead Post-Game: Arrow On The Doorpost

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Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death

Excerpt: The Ambassadors of Death (while long) had a great deal of action and carried the plot remarkably well to make it another excellent addition to a very impressive debut season for Pertwee’s Doctor.

Elementary: Details

Excerpt: It isn’t a bad story or a bad episode per se, but it does have moments where the mystery is almost pretty obvious and I’d argue even slips into cliches.

Elementary: Possibility Two

Excerpt: Possibility Two is an Elementary story that finds itself a bit lost within itself, but the subplot and the humor save the episode from not being if anything else, entertaining.

MADtv: The Complete Second Season

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Excerpt: This is as much of an exercise in nostalgia as comedy; your ability to tolerate these 16-year-old episodes of “MADtv” hedges largely on how aware and fond of ’90s culture you were.

The Office

Tosh.0: Cardigans Plus Casual Jackets

Excerpt: The show is as likely to make you cringe as laugh.

The Walking Dead Post-Game: Clear

Excerpt: One of the strongest episodes in the series takes you back to where it all began.

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Doctor Who: School Reunion

Excerpt: …after a second viewing, I can’t keep up the enthusiasm for it I had when first I saw it.

Doctor Who: The Girl in the Fireplace

Excerpt: While the similarities between Girl in the Fireplace and The Eleventh Hour may be coincidence, there are a great many of them to casually dismiss.

The Walking Dead Post-Game: I Ain’t A Judas

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Elementary: A Giant Gun, Filled With Drugs

Excerpt: The subplot, however, is the more important story: whether Sherlock Holmes, recovering drug addict, will find that he will fail his sobriety if under enough pressure, especially if it comes from a figure from his past.

Elementary: The Deductionist

Excerpt: The Deductionist has a remarkable balance between humor and horror.

Elementary: The Red Team

Excerpt: The Red Team has a good mixture of mystery, a bit of humor, and character development that makes up for my puzzlement.

Franklin & Bash: Season Two

Brent McKnight @ Pop Matters

Excerpt: The first season had offbeat cases while these two fought the stuffy Establishment with their own zany irreverence. The second season made them dumber, more self-absorbed, and wouldn’t allow them to grow up or mature.

Game of Thrones: The Complete Second Season

Excerpt: HBO’s epic adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s novels returns with more of the sex, violence, and political intrigue that makes the show so damn much fun to watch.

The Hour: Season Two

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Excerpt: Time has run out for “The Hour,” but the 1950s soap opera leaves us with two suspenseful seasons, highlighted by a great cast and impeccable art direction.

The Walking Dead Post-Game: Home

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Franklin & Bash: 6:50 to SLC

Franklin & Bash: Last Dance

Excerpt: I’m not a legal expert, but I didn’t for one moment believe that any judge would have awarded a body to a mistress.

Franklin & Bash: Summer Girls

Excerpt: If not for the subplot involving Damien Karp (Reed Diamond), Summer Girls would have been the worst episode of Franklin & Bash, which given its track record this season it can hardly well-afford.

Franklin & Bash: Waiting on a Friend

Excerpt: Perhaps I’m softening to how Franklin & Bash is no longer the show I remembered: one where the juvenile antics of our titular heroes was balanced by their relationship versus to this season where they are just two stupid men who find that either others or a little bit of luck can bail them out of things.

An Idiot Abroad Series Two

Life’s Too Short Season One

Smash Season One

Young Justice: Invasion (Season Two, Part One)

Excerpt: Young Justice: Invasion – Destiny Calling starts off the show’s second (and last) season with a bang. Lots of new developments and new characters push the story of teenage superheroes coming into their own into overdrive, setting up an overall plot that looks to be very exciting without sacrificing character development or shying away from the tough subjects that cause those developments to matter.

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Above Suspicion: Set 2

Excerpt: Above Suspicion is a typical procedural cop drama. As a British one, it unfolds in just three serialized episodes, which are engaging, though unremarkable, striking me as slightly less realistic and hard-hitting than the interminable drawn-from-the-headlines crime series found on network and basic cable TV in the US.

Misfits: Season 2

Excerpt: Misfits: Season Two is a huge disappointment. A strong first half turns into the utmost silliness.

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Elementary: Dirty Laundry

Excerpt: Dirty Laundry has moments of wit, moments of serious, and moments that build character, and given the actual plot of the Elementary episode, that compensates for the rather offbeat story.

Elementary: M.

Excerpt: M. is a showcase for the actors and for screenwriter/Elementary creator Robert Doherty which gave us a thrilling, tense and fast-paced episode that allowed for a greater exploration of the characters.

Elementary: The Leviathan

Excerpt: It is also nice to see Holmes in a rare moment actually having a hard time solving a case.

Franklin & Bash: L’Affaire Du Couer

Excerpt: After more than a few stumbles, Franklin & Bash is finally getting its groove back, with a story that combines their patented shenanigans with a genuine human interest.

Franklin & Bash: Voir Dire

Excerpt: It is shocking that Franklin & Bash co-creators Kevin Falls and Bill Chais could write a script that had me hating our fun-loving duo within seconds of it starting, but that they did with Voir Dire, an episode that sapped almost all my love for this series.

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Buckwild

Excerpt: MTV leaves the beach and dives head first into poverty porn.

Chris Hardwick: Mandroid

Excerpt: Hardwick is funniest when he doesn’t seem to be trying to impress at all, like when he likens today’s MySpace to the Detroit of RoboCop as part of a bit on social networking. Too often, there’s a touch of awareness, as when he seems to subtly enjoy that his gently mean, not especially funny tweet about John Mayer supposedly struck a nerve.

Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space

Excerpt: Even though Spearhead From Space is only four episodes long there is an epic feel to it.

Doctor Who: The Snowmen

Excerpt: This isn’t a story: it’s a wibbly-wobbly fuzzy-wuzzy ball of Doctor Who goo.

Doctor Zhivago

Excerpt: Sometimes in this movie-reviewing racket, you roll the dice and come up with a low number. You choose something like the 2002 British television version of Doctor Zhivago, nearly four hours of unrelenting mediocrity.

Elementary: You Do It to Yourself

Excerpt: You have an Elementary story that to my mind, comes as close as we’ve seen this series come to being almost straight from The Canon…

Life’s Too Short: The Complete First Season

Excerpt: Even if “Life’s Too Short” may follow Gervais and Merchant’s winning playbook very closely, the variations and personnel changes are enough to welcome and retain interest through a short season of seven episodes, which, it recently was announced, will sadly be its only full season.

TCM Presents AFI’s Master Class: The Art of Collaboration Robert Zemeckis and Don Burgess

Excerpt: Themselves tastefully framed, the two men sit in comfy armchairs in front of a small audience of AFI Fellows studying filmmaking at the AFI Conservatory. They take turns showing clips and commenting on them, spending about five minutes on each film excerpt.

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Elementary: The Long Fuse

Excerpt: The Long Fuse has strong moments of character development, and a strong mystery that holds up until the end.

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Enlightened: The Complete First Season

Excerpt: Enlightened: The Complete First Season is easy to digest thanks to some great writing and some even better acting, but ultimately, the show needs more focus if it’s going to remain watchable for another season. There are some brilliant individual moments, as well as lots of cumulative greatness, all of which will make you more than willing to get through this first collection, but the audience shouldn’t be left so out on a limb at the end of season one that we’re still wondering what the devil is going on.

Franklin & Bash: For Those About to Rock

Excerpt: The big thing in co-creator Bill Chais’ script that bothered me to no end is that the resolution to the…case is so idiotic.

The Goode Family: The Complete Series

Excerpt: This show is never as funny or entertaining as you want it to be and as it should be, based on Judge’s strong track record. While it’s true that its summer broadcasts gave it less than a fair chance to succeed, there is little of note or promise to the thirteen episodes produced.

The Point

Excerpt: A curiosity from 1970s television, The Point has a lot going for it historically: it was the first feature-length animation produced for TV, it’s based on a Harry Nilsson album, and Beatles fans will recognize the voice of Ringo Starr, who plays the narrator. That said, The Point maybe isn’t the best blind buy.

Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden

Excerpt: Subject matter alone is enough to make Seal Team Six riveting. This National Geographic Channel premiere doesn’t have much to live up to, but it is a pleasant surprise that manages to transcend its unpromising cast and crew to consistently hold your interest.

Tosh.0: Deep V’s

Excerpt: All things considered, “Tosh.0″ entertains much more often than it doesn’t. The combination of videos popular enough to go viral and sardonic commentary is generally a winning one.

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Doctor Who: The Snowmen

Excerpt: Again and again I am puzzled why so many NuWhovians appear to be celebrating same-sex bestiality.

Doctor Who: The War Games

Excerpt: The War Games is a massive tale, but it really isn’t until Episode Eight (of Ten) that exhaustion finally sets in…

Franklin & Bash: Jango & Rossi

Excerpt: Minus the fact that one is really short and the other is really attractive, Jango and Rossi don’t come off as low-rent versions of Franklin and Bash. In fact, despite its best efforts, Jango & Rossi are almost irrelevant to Jango & Rossi.

Fringe Post Game: Anomaly XB-6783746

Justified: The Complete Third Season

Excerpt: Justified: The Complete Third Season is great. It maintains the high level of craft and the skillful, stylish entertainment that has set the show apart since its inception, and with three solid years under its belt, Justified’s reputation as one of TV’s best is secure.

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Elementary: One Way to Get Off

Excerpt: One Way to Get Off is perhaps the weakest Elementary episode so far.

Franklin & Bash: Viper

Excerpt: It’s amazing that we’re barely two episodes into the second season of Franklin & Bash and we could have one of the worst episodes so far.

Hanna-Barbera Christmas Classics Collection

Excerpt: Warner made a wise decision to bundle these three obscure Hanna-Barbera specials into one feature-length DVD. Each is fairly forgettable on its own, but the disc feels more festive than the sum of its modest parts.

Rankin/Bass TV Holiday Favorites Collection

Clark Douglas @ DVD Verdict

Excerpt: Four specials from the late 1970s and early 1980s come together to form Rankin/Bass TV Holiday Favorites Collection, a disc you won’t find in brick and mortar stores.

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season Two

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Fringe “The Human Kind”

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Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection

Upstairs Downstairs: Season 2

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Chiller

Excerpt: These might be best described as psychological horror stories, but I suspect that the producers just wanted to cut corners by limiting the special effects budget.

Doctor Who: the Space Pirates

Excerpt: The Space Pirates looks like a slow and dull adventure made slower and duller by its length.

Elementary: Flight Risk

Excerpt: It’s in the emotional and character aspects of Flight Risk that the story soars (pun intended).

Fresh Meat: Series 2

Get A Life – the Complete Series

Mad Men Season 5

Merlin: Series 3

The Sarah Silverman Program: Season Three

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The Walking Dead: Made To Suffer

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The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show: the Complete Animated Series

Patrick Bromley @ DVD Verdict

Excerpt: Though fine entertainment for 1980s Saturday mornings and 1990s syndication, most of these segmented episodes do not have the holding power of the series’ best specials and movies nor the unique, original content to make a distinctive impression apart from the rest.

Columbo: the Complete Series

Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death

Excerpt: As I watched The Seeds of Death, I could not help marvelling at what a well-paced, well-acted, and beautifully-photographed story it was.

Elementary: The Rat Race

Excerpt: Simply put, this is Jonny Lee Miller’s best performance in Elementary so far.

Peep Show: Series 7

The Sarah Silverman Program: Season 3

Brent McKnight @ Beyond Hollywood

Excerpt: The show honors its star’s tastes for wordplay, bathroom humor, and silly original songs, making time for all three of those in virtually every episode.

The Walking Dead-3.07-When the Dead Come Knocking

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Doctor Who: The Krotons

Excerpt: I’ll grant that the actual Krotons themselves were pretty weak, but the story itself is overflowing with innovative ideas that should merit reexamination and reevaluation.

Franklin & Bash: Strange Brew

Excerpt: I know we watch Franklin & Bash to see two adult men behave like kids, but when a show about those with extreme cases of Peter Pan Syndrome allows them to get off scot-free, it doesn’t ring true.

Fringe Post Game: Five-Twenty-Ten

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