Archive for the 'Life' Category
Life: Fill it Up (Part 2)
Where to start.
If Life was not picked up for a full season that episode would have probably been a fairly decent series finale. So much info was given to us, so many evidence holes were filled, that there was a feeling of closure. Not satisfaction, intellect you, but closure. The data give…
Life: Dig a gap (Part 1)
Ladies and gentleman, what happened at the very end of Monday’s episode of Life is what we sign in the television world a “major plot development.” I’m certain the producers of Lost are envious.
Seriously, for those of you who thought that we would never get to the bottom of the Conspiracy…
Life: Serious Control Issues
(S01E09) “I investigate things.” — Charlie Crews to the IAD investigator.
Let’s get the good news out of the way first. It was reported earlier that week that Life was being picked up for a full season. Huzzah! The show is finally getting the recognition it deserves and it is pretty much tha…
NBC gives full seasons to Life and Chuck
Geeks and fruit lovers rejoice, NBC just announced that it is ordering an additional nine episodes of two of its new series: Chuck and Life. What that means is that both series will have a total first season of 22 episodes each!
About 8 million viewers tune in weekly to watch geek-turned-secret-a…
11 shows not on the AOL Fall TV Scorecard
Not too distant ago, our corporate buddies at AOL Television posted a fall TV scorecard featuring their grades for new and returning shows. While the list featured such shows as House, Reaper, Desperate Housewives, Pushing Daises and Ugly Betty, it missed a number of fan favorites (and non-favor…
Life: A Civil War
Wow.
I mean, wow. When that week’s episode of Life began I thought it was going to be your standard ‘hate crime’ type of show full of public expressing stereotypical opinions about those who are different from them. thereupon, I realized that that was Life and it wasn’t going to be like th…
Life: Powerless
Well, that was an interesting episode of Life. Rather than having the focus on Charlie and many of his day-to-day activities, we were treated to the life of Detective Dani Reese. I was a bit concerned about that when I saw the previews considering that show is really still in its infancy and a shi…
Life: The Fallen Woman
(S01E05) Suspect — Where is Officer New Money?
Charlie Crews — Detective New Money, actually.
Forrest Gump. As soon as they showed that feather drifting down to the ground, accompanied by that soft piano music, I immediately thought of the Tom Hank’s hit of the 1990s. thereupon I thought th…
Life: What They Saw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Life(S01E04) To the producers of NBC’s Life:
Folks, we all think that you are doing a great job with that show. Your stories are compelling, your characters are intriguing, and Charlie Crews is one of the most different police detectives on the air right now.
Now,…
Life: Let Her Go
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Life(S01E03) Reese: You got a pest problem?
Crews: He’s not so bad. (Charlie talking about Ted)
I am starting to feel the groove of that show and it is beginning to grow on me. While it is a fairly quiet program, the pace of the story is fast ample not to leave me…
Life: Tear Asunder
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Life(S01E02) I’m trying to figure out Officer Bobby Starks, former partner to Charlie Crews. We know from the snippets of documentary that are interspersed all through an episode of Life that Starks was one of the society who turned Charlie in for the triple-murde…
