TV Review: SMASH – Season 1 – “The Cost of Art”

By ANNE LOUISE BANNON 02/29/2012
Katharine McPhee as Karen Cartwright in SMASH - Season 1 - "The Cost of Art" | ©2012 NBC/Patrick Harbron

Stars: Debra Messing, Christian Borle, Megan Hilty, Katharine McPhee, Jack Davenport, Angelica Houston Writers: David Marshall Grant Director: Michael Morris Network: NBC, airs Mondays Original Telecast: February 27, 2012 There is no getting around it that SMASH is a fun show to watch. The singing and dancing are wonderful fun. The original songs don’t suffer too much from Andrew Lloyd Webber syndrome (beating you over the head with soulful sappiness and the tendency to become insidious ear worms). In fact, the  featured production number in this episode “The Cost of Art,” I Never Met a Wolf Who Didn’t Love to Howl, […]Read On »


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TV Review: SMASH – Season 1 – “Enter Mr. DiMaggio”

By CARL CORTEZ 02/23/2012
Megan Hilty and Michael Swift in SMASH - Season 1 - "Enter Mr. DiMaggio" | ©2012 NBC/Will Hart

Stars: Debra Messing, Christian Borle, Megan Hilty, Katharine McPhee, Jack Davenport, Angelica Houston Writers: Theresa Rebeck Director: Michael Mayer Network: NBC, airs Mondays Original Telecast: February 20, 2012 The testament of a good show is to be able to turn it on, intending to watch a few minutes, and getting sucked in to watch the whole thing. That’s what happened while watching SMASH, the “Enter Mr. DiMaggio” episode. I was only going to check out how things held up after the first two stellar weeks, and well, I was sucked right back into the series. Of course, with the good, […]Read On »


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TV Review: SMASH – Season 1 – “The Callback”

By CARL CORTEZ 02/14/2012
Megan Hilty in SMASH - Season 1 - "The Callback" | ©2012 NBC/Patrick Harbron

Stars: Debra Messing, Christian Borle, Megan Hilty, Katharine McPhee, Jack Davenport, Angelica Houston Writers: Theresa Rebeck Director: Michael Mayer Network: NBC, airs Mondays Original Telecast: February 6, 2012 After an amazing premiere episode, SMASH settles into its second episode “The Callback” with the same great writing and directing and adds some more drama to the mix. Above all, the series knows who these characters are and the actors fit them like a glove already (and we’re only two episodes in). That’s rare in network television, but that speaks volumes for the work that went into creating SMASH. As the title […]Read On »


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TV Review: SMASH – Season 1 – “Pilot” – Series Premiere

By CARL CORTEZ 02/07/2012
Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty in SMASH - Season 1 | ©2012 NBC/Mark Seliger

Stars: Debra Messing, Christian Borle, Megan Hilty, Katharine McPhee, Jack Davenport, Angelica Houston Writers: Theresa Rebeck Director: Michael Mayer Network: NBC, airs Mondays Original Telecast: February 6, 2012 Of all the new TV series, SMASH seemed to be the least appealing to me. My initial perception, like many, that it was a more adult version of GLEE set in the world of Broadway. It looked like it had limited appeal across the board. Then something magnificent happened. I actually watched the pilot episode and was blown away. Granted, I am reviewing the “Pilot” episode, but since the second episode was […]Read On »


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TV Review: I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER – Season 1 “Pilot” – Series Premiere

By CARL CORTEZ 12/01/2011
Chad L. Coleman, Aisha Dee, Katie Finneran, Jaime Pressly, Kristi Lauren, Eric Sheffer Stevens and Kevin Rahm in I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER - Season 1 - "Pilot" | ©2011 Fox/Gavin Bond

  Cast: Jaime Pressly, Katie Finneran, Kristi Lauren, Aisha Dee, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Kevin Rahm, Chad L. Coleman Writers: Sherry Bilsing Graham, Helen Kreamer Director: Andy Ackerman Network: Fox, airs Wednesday nights Original Telecast: November 30, 2011 I did not have high hopes for I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER. The premise sounded unlikable and atrocious and  Fox hasn’t had much luck with traditional multi-camera sitcoms in decades. That said, the series took me completely by surprise. I’m not the ideal viewer of the show, but I found myself suckered in. The ensemble cast is quite good and there are some […]Read On »


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TV Review: THE SECRET CIRCLE – Season 1 – “Wake”

By SEAN ELLIOTT 10/27/2011
Chris Zylka and Britt Robertson in THE SECRET CIRCLE - Season 1 - "Wake" | ©2011 The CW/Liane Hentscher

Stars: Britt Robertson, Thomas Dekker, Shelley Henning, Phoebe Tonkin, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Louis Hunter, Natasha Henstridge, Gale Harold, Ashley Crow Writer: Andrea Newman, Based on the book by L.J. Smith Director: Guy Bee     Network: The CW, airs Thursday nights Original Telecast: October 20, 2011 After Nick’s (Louis Hunter) untimely demise last week on THE SECRET CIRCLE, I didn’t expect anything too terribly upbeat this week. There are some interesting additions to the interweaving plot that is building towards something big in the new episode “Wake” and of course another wave of new characters is introduced. So let’s start off […]Read On »


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TV Review: THE SECRET CIRCLE – Season 1 – “Slither”

By SEAN ELLIOTT 10/20/2011
Britt Robertson and Ashley Crow in THE SECRET CIRCLE - Season 1 - "Slither" | ©2011 The CW/Sergei Bachlakov

Stars: Britt Robertson, Thomas Dekker, Shelley Henning, Phoebe Tonkin, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Louis Hunter, Natasha Henstridge, Gale Harold, Ashley Crow Writer: Dana Baratta, Based on the book by L.J. Smith Director: Liz Friedlander    Network: The CW, airs Thursday nights Original Telecast: October 14, 2010 Well, after last week’s adult conspiracy light episode, this week on THE SECRET CIRCLE not only tells us what the adults are after, but also sheds a bit more light on what happened in the past, and the fact that there are other witches in town that had yet to step forward (for good reason). […]Read On »


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TV Review: THE SECRET CIRCLE – Season 1 – “Heather”

By SEAN ELLIOTT
THE SECRET CIRCLE - Season 1 | ©2011 The CW/Sergei Bachlakov

Stars: Britt Robertson, Thomas Dekker, Shelley Henning, Phoebe Tonkin, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Louis Hunter, Natasha Henstridge, Gale Harold, Ashley Crow Writer: David Ehrman, Based on the book by L.J. Smith Director: David Barrett  Network: The CW, airs Thursday nights Original Telecast: October 6, 2010 THE SECRET CIRCLE continues to be an entertaining show, even though they are parceling out the story a little bit at a time. I know that this series and THE VAMPIRE DIARIES are two different shows, but they are both based on books by L.J. Smith, and they both deal with the supernatural, and they follow […]Read On »


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TV Review: THE SECRET CIRCLE – Season 1 – “Loner”

By SEAN ELLIOTT 10/01/2011
Britt Robertson and Thomas Dekker in THE SECRET CIRCLE - Season 1 - "Loner" | ©2011 The CW/Sergei Bachlakov

Stars: Britt Robertson, Thomas Dekker, Shelley Henning, Phoebe Tonkin, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Louis Hunter, Natasha Henstridge, Gale Harold, Ashley Crow Writer: Richard Hatem, Based on the book by L.J. Smith Director: Colin Bucksey Network: The CW, airs Thursday nights Original Telecast: September 29, 2010 What do you do when you’ve been found out, which is bound to happen in a tiny town? On THE SECRET CIRCLE after last week’s decidedly magical grandstanding from Faye (Phoebe Tonkin) involving her irritation at their school’s leading goodie two-shoes, it’s not a huge shocker that more people are becoming aware that strange stuff is […]Read On »


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TV Review: THE SECRET CIRCLE – Season 1 – “Bound”

By SEAN ELLIOTT 09/29/2011
Jessica Parker Kennedy in THE SECRET CIRCLE - Season 1 - "Bound" | ©2011 The CW/Sergei Bachlakov

Stars: Britt Robertson, Thomas Dekker, Shelley Henning, Phoebe Tonkin, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Louis Hunter, Natasha Henstridge, Gale Harold, Ashley Crow Writer: Kevin Williamson, Based on the book by L.J. Smith Director: Liz Friedlander Network: The CW, airs Thursday nights Original Telecast: September 22, 2010 Yes, THE SECRET CIRCLE has real promise. The theme song is wonderfully creepy, and it helps to set a tone that hasn’t quite completely manifested on the show yet. The first episode of set the stage for everything to happen, and this second episode “Bound” takes the story in a foretold direction, but a hell of […]Read On »


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