tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:36:31 +0000ReviewThe Voice of TVABCSeries.nuE4FoxGleeThe CWFav SceneNBCCBSCommunitySkinsModern FamilySky1The MiddleMelrose PlaceGrey's AnatomyBetter Off TedDaytimeSoapsThe Vampire DiariesFlashForwardFringeGLGuiding LightITV1Life UnexpectedLivingLostOne Tree HillTBLThe Beautiful LifeDesperate HousewivesGossip GirlHeroesITV2Three Rivers90210BBC1CSICastleChannel 4Family GuyGolden GlobesHankHouseNurse JackieParks and RecreationScrubsSouthlandThe Big Bang TheoryThe OfficeUgly Betty10 Things I Hate About You30 RockATWTAlibiAmerica's Next Top ModelAnt and DecAs The World TurnsBroadcast AwardsBrooke ShieldsBryan FullerConan O'BrienCougar TownDavid LettermanDavid TennantDoctor WhoDollhouseEREastwickFXFiveFive USAFiverHIMYMHow I Met Your MotherJay LenoLUXLaw and Order: SVUMercyMust Be The MusicNTANational Television AwardsParty DownPortia De RossiPrivate PracticeRunning WildeShowtimeSmallvilleSons of AnarchyStephen FrySupernaturalTNTTVDThe BillThe Cleveland ShowThe Good WifeThe InbetweenersThe UnusualsThe X FactorTraumaUKUKTVUnited States of TaraVV The SeriesWarehouse 13Will ArnettWorld Cuphttp://sabreontv.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Sabre)Blogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-1267055087882090992Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:47:00 +00002010-11-03T22:47:28.308+00:00Life UnexpectedLUXThe CWIt’s been confirmed Life Unexpected isn’t going to receive a back nine of episodes. Though the show hasn’t officially been cancelled it’s pretty evident that episode 13 will be its series finale. Fans were worried when the show only received an order for additional scripts and The CW gave full season orders to freshmans Nikita and Hellcats as well as its more established line up. The show has http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/11/short-life-expected.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-8867557224302039336Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:12:00 +00002010-11-02T20:12:12.473+00:00I have moved my blog to another service at http://sabreontv.wordpress.com/ I will continue to post the same posts here as I will there up until the rest of this year and then I will only post to the Wordpress site.http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/11/another-journey.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-5111954778332074385Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:40:00 +00002010-10-30T17:56:03.745+01:00CommunityReviewThe Voice of TVThe college Halloween party turns into a nightmare as, one by one, the students of Greendale High become zombies. “Epidemiology” draws inspiration from zombie movies like Dawn of the Dead to bring us one of the most enjoyable Halloween episodes this season. From the beginning, this episode had me laughing. Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) dressing as Lady GaGa while a mix of ABBA songs and his personal http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/10/review-community-season-2-episode-6.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-7061085714775392224Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:09:00 +00002010-10-30T17:56:33.356+01:00ReviewThe MiddleThe Voice of TVIt’s Halloween and the Hecks try to enjoy the night separately. Frankie (Patricia Heaton) is excited they’ve been invited to the neighborhood party but Mike (Neil Flynn) doesn’t want to dress up. Axl (Charlie McDermott) and his friends attempt to go to a haunted house party; Brick (Atticus Shaffer) goes trick-or-treating while Sue (Eden Sher) goes to a Halloween church event instead of her schoolhttp://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/10/review-middle-season-2-episode-6.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-6040501399905390946Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:02:00 +00002010-10-27T23:02:37.798+01:00GleeReviewThe Voice of TVI have my reservations about how this latest themed episode will turn out. There has been varying success with the previous attempts and I am hoping “The Rocky Horror Glee Show” won’t be listed in the bad column. Surprisingly, it has many good points but there are also a few issues which need to be addressed. Spurred by his jealousy of Carl (John Stamos) and Emma’s (Jayma Mays) relationship, http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/10/review-glee-season-2-episode-5-rocky.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-2023850014042150837Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:27:00 +00002010-10-27T22:57:47.865+01:00CSIDesperate HousewivesGossip GirlLaw and Order: SVUOne Tree HillPrivate PracticeSo you've invested a few years of your life watching it, got to know the characters better than some of your family and friends but something doesn't feel right. The characters you've grown to love have become stunted, the stories are repetitive and you're left wondering what direction it can take. The problem you have is that you can't seem to let go quite yet. How and when do you do it? Do http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/10/why-cant-i-quit-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-6363228382967134940Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:46:00 +00002010-10-23T22:46:50.673+01:00CommunityReviewThe Voice of TVShirley (Yvette Nicole Brown), Abed (Danny Pudi) and Pierce (Chevy Chase) are at the center of this week’s episode. I love how each member of the cast is given the opportunity to be in the spotlight. It shows it isn’t all about Jeff (Joel McHale) and it gives the rest of the cast a chance to shine. After hearing how popular online videos are compared to her church attendance figures, Shirley http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/10/review-community-season-2-episode-5.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-4077092811957144994Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:01:00 +00002010-10-22T05:01:13.371+01:00ReviewThe MiddleThe Voice of TVThe Hecks are their usual dysfunctional selves in this hilarious episode. “Foreign Exchange” sees Frankie (Patricia Heaton) sign the family up for the foreign exchange program, thinking they can gain some cultural experiences from the visiting student. When the family goes to pick up Japanese student, Takayuki (Matthew Moy) I thought he would be the wrong student. I’ve seen this kind of http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/10/review-middle-season-2-episode-5.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-2487782106627615246Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:48:00 +00002010-10-16T21:48:00.132+01:00CommunityReviewThe Voice of TVGreendale’s rival, City College, has a space simulator and Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) wants to beat them by being, as he says, “the first community college to pretend to put a man in space.” The launch of the simulator is planned to go ahead with the press in attendance. The mission to ‘boldly go where no man has gone before’ isn’t quite applicable here – in this case it’s just the college parking http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/10/review-community-season-2-episode-4.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-953576740260954416Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:14:00 +00002010-10-16T21:14:27.168+01:00ReviewThe MiddleThe Voice of TVMike (Neil Flynn) catches Axl (Charlie McDermott) skipping school but it turns out he’s on suspension… for skipping school. Mike decides to teach Axl a lesson by making him work at the quarry for the rest of his suspension. At first Axl annoys Mike and you can see that Mike can’t wait for him to be back at school. Mike’s revised plan backfires. The main problem is one of the quarrymen, Chuck (http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/10/review-middle-season-2-episode-4-quarry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-6314244448135197823Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:35:00 +00002010-10-16T20:35:20.576+01:00GleeReviewThe Voice of TVWill Schuester (Matthew Morrison) gives the glee club the assignment of duets with a prize for the best performance. Finn (Cory Monteith) pairs with Rachel (Lea Michele) and Mike (Harry Shum Jr) and Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) pair up. Finn and Rachel plan to throw the competition so new member, Sam (Chord Overstreet) can have a chance at winning. Their meddling causes Sam to partner with Quinn (http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/10/review-glee-season-2-episode-4-duets.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-6447616611157880076Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:10:00 +00002010-10-16T20:42:52.432+01:00Series.nuThe Voice of TVSeries.nu has now changed its name to The Voice of TV. There are even more shows being covered and the team of reviewers has grown. It's amazing to see how far the site has come since the beginning of the year. If you haven't already checked it out then what have you been waiting for. Check it out nowhttp://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/10/seriesnu-becomes-voice-of-tv.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-1539035786388013796Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:30:00 +00002010-10-16T20:37:24.240+01:00CommunityReviewSeries.nuThe Voice of TVAnnie (Alison Brie) and Britta (Gillian Jacobs) are trying to raise money for the oil spill. Annie raises more money than Britta and Britta is jealous. I’m not surprised by this given Britta’s competitive nature. It’s a regular occurrence and recently evident in Anthropology 101 and Pascal’s Triangle Revisited. Britta dresses like Annie to prove a point about the way Annie is raising the money. http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/10/review-community-season-2-episode-3.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-7553721708886837147Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:15:00 +00002010-10-16T20:37:24.250+01:00ReviewSeries.nuThe MiddleThe Voice of TVThere’s a moment in time when you learn some of the things your parents told you is a lie. Brick (Atticus Shaffer) has that moment after he finds out Frankie (Patricia Heaton) lied about chocolate being illegal for children under ten. He starts to test some other things Frankie told him, like his face might stay the same if he makes funny faces. Shaffer is entertaining in these scenes – his http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/10/review-middle-season-2-episode-3-diaper.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-1269467481672842330Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:43:00 +00002010-10-16T20:37:24.260+01:00GleeReviewSeries.nuThe Voice of TVReligion is a subject that causes many debates in both public and private settings. Grilled Cheesus treads carefully when broaching the subject. It would have been easy to take a different direction with this but the writers handled the hot topic well, showing a good contrast between different types of belief systems. Kurt’s (Chris Colfer) father Burt (Mike O’Malley) is fighting for his life http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/10/review-glee-season-2-episode-3-grilled.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-5285739803899165784Sat, 02 Oct 2010 02:15:00 +00002010-10-02T03:15:00.862+01:00CommunityFav SceneSometimes there's one scene in an episode that has you laughing so hard tears start to fall or you continually rewind it. This week there was one scene that had me like this. It was from Community and it was involving chloroform. I mention this scene in my review of the episode for Series.nu. Community TV put the scene up and I couldn't help but highlight it. Troy and Abed are trying to find an http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/10/community-chloroform.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-1120127988889512636Sat, 02 Oct 2010 01:22:00 +00002010-10-16T20:37:24.271+01:00CommunityReviewSeries.nuThe Voice of TVDrew Carey and Rob Corddry guest star as we get a peak into Jeff Winger’s (Joel McHale) old world. Corddry plays Alan Connor, an old colleague from the law firm Jeff was fired from, while Drew Carey plays Ted, Jeff’s old boss. Alan has been attending Narcotics Anonymous at Greendale College. After bumping into him, Jeff starts to hang out with his ex-colleague. Annie (Alison Brie) recognizes http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/10/review-community-season-2-episode-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-5180439279895723079Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:08:00 +00002010-10-16T20:37:24.281+01:00ReviewSeries.nuThe MiddleThe Voice of TVIt’s a proud moment for the Heck parents as Axl (Charlie McDermott) makes the varsity football team. This means Frankie (Patricia Heaton) gets to walk her eldest child out on the field with Mike (Neil Flynn). They are faced with a dilemma when homecoming clashes with Sue’s (Eden Sher) first cross-country meet. We see the parents trying to figure out who goes to which event – even considering http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/10/review-middle-season-2-episode-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-5892619508429177741Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:48:00 +00002010-10-16T20:37:24.291+01:00GleeReviewSeries.nuThe Voice of TVFinally one of TV’s longest mysteries was solved, Brittany’s full name – Brittany Susan Pierce. All jokes aside this week’s episode was Britney Spears themed and Heather Morris got her first solo performance. It was great to see Morris come to the forefront and she was definitely a standout in a disjointed episode. I love Morris’ effortless deliveries of her lines. When Glee first started, Sue’shttp://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/09/review-glee-season-2-episode-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-8680966798298724432Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:47:00 +00002010-10-16T20:37:24.301+01:00CommunityReviewSeries.nuThe Voice of TVA new season and a new subject await the study group at Greendale Community College. Anthropology 101 is the subject and Betty White guest stars as the anthropology professor, June Bauer. I felt like it was the first day of college for me, finally getting to see some of my favorite people after a long summer. With such a build up, I wasn’t disappointed by Anthropology 101 at all. The episodehttp://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/09/review-community-season-2-episode-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-3448040887464701303Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:44:00 +00002010-10-16T20:37:24.311+01:00ReviewSeries.nuThe MiddleThe Voice of TVThe Middle is back for its second season and proves that being on top of things isn’t always necessary for some families. It’s the first day of school for the three kids and as usual, the Hecks are unorganized. Frankie (Patricia Heaton) decides enough is enough and makes a plan to keep on top of things. It’s funny watching her and Mike (Neil Flynn) rush around trying to get the kids ready forhttp://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/09/review-middle-season-2-episode-1-back.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-4346630678119804983Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:00:00 +00002010-10-16T20:37:24.322+01:00GleeReviewSeries.nuThe Voice of TVWe last saw New Directions placing third at Regionals. Now the students of McKinley High are back from their summer off. Some things have changed and some things have stayed the same. Audition – New Directions is one member down due to Matt (Dijon Talton) transferring. The character Matt was never given a chance and I think it’s a shame for the actor. All the school clubs have placed their http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/09/review-glee-season-2-episode-1-audition.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-5420348733110475898Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:42:00 +00002010-10-16T20:37:24.332+01:00FoxReviewRunning WildeSeries.nuThe Voice of TVWill ArnettI had the chance to review the pilot for Will Arnett's new comedy, Running Wilde. It premieres on Tuesday, September 21st on FOX. The show teams Will Arnett and Keri Russell with the people behind Arrested Development and it’s enough to get anyone who’s a fan of them, excited. I’ve been waiting to see Arnett in a regular TV role again as he’s one of those people that make me laugh no matter http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/09/advance-review-running-wilde-season-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-2808112098350527943Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:00:00 +00002010-09-09T23:00:01.699+01:00ABCChannel 4CommunityDesperate HousewivesE4FoxFringeGossip GirlGrey's AnatomyITV2LivingNBCThe CWThe Vampire DiariesAfter waiting all summer, the time has finally come for the shows that ended in May, to return. Thought there are many shows I'm looking forward to returning, there are some that I'm looking forward to more. The Vampire Diaries This show was one of the best new shows last year. It had the ability to keep me on the edge of my seat every episode and its finale was no different. It was a finale http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/09/returning-shows-im-looking-forward-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191221524967104555.post-8194982447797056469Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:35:00 +00002010-09-09T20:40:05.488+01:00Must Be The MusicSky1I have to admit that when I first saw the promos for Must Be The Music, sceptical was one of the words to describe my reaction. I rolled my eyes at the prospect of yet another reality music show. Though I enjoy the initial audition stages of X Factor and Idol, I have grown tired of the latter stages of both these shows. The endless theme nights including songs that are performed every year http://sabreontv.blogspot.com/2010/09/must-be-music-breath-of-fresh-air.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sabre)0