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Dune  recently passed through the HBO rotation and it met the five-year qualifier. So I watched it again with something approximating fr...

Episode 7: No Exit Sensational worlds collide in No Exit, whose villain of the week is the inimitable, just slightly pre- Moonlighting B...

I saw this film a couple of dozen times in the 80s, thanks to HBO. If you were to ask me about it then, I'd have rated it somewhere a...

Original series title: Gator Cop Miami Vice  stands as one of the most enduring sensation shows, existing as much as a time capsule as e...

That arch Moonlighting wit! O ne of the textbook sensations, a midseason six-episode order that so caught the public imagination with i...

  The closing of season one is a triptych that could almost get boiled into a three-hour TV movie, as the wedding of its two principal villa...

Welcome to disc six, wherein the series' already-rapid dispensation of plotlines accelerates further.  With seven episodes left, we'...

It was with this disc that I had to look ahead, and to my disappointment, find that there's 27 episodes in the OC's interminable fir...

  With episode thirteen, the OC embarks on its second half.  At this point, it honestly seems as if they weren't expecting to get renewe...

  Disc three finally establishes the series' status quo, as the Cohen boys begin their year at their posh private school.  It also begin...

If the first four episodes were about delaying Ryan's change of address,  the purpose of the next few episodes is todelay Ryan's cha...

     I n looking for a new Teen Sensation following the departure of the (mildly) beloved 90210, Fox took a fresh slant on white, privilege...

Producing television is a cutthroat business; ridiculously so.  There are simply too many shows on an ever-growing number of networks who ar...

It was interesting to cut from the end of the run right back to the start, without review of the connective tissue -- particularly the fir...

Episode 19: Baltar's Escape Here we learn the disadvantages of keeping all your defeated enemies in one place.  Baltar, the Borellian...

Episode 16: Murder on the Rising Star This is the final fleet-centered single episode.  The premise sets up quickly: Ortega (Frank Ashmor...

Episode 13 & 14: War of the Gods Putting the distasteful memories of Fire in Space far behind us, we find everything back to normal....

Episode 9: The Young Lords The second of Starbuck's solo adventures.  Ambushed on patrol, he crashes on the swampy planet Attila, wh...

Episode 4: The Lost Warrior So far, Galactica has been splurging on high-budget set pieces.  Part of this was due to the initial plan of ...

After Star Wars proved action-oriented SF was bankable, every studio began turning over rocks to see what they could hurry to market. One of...

As a prelude to Battlestar Galactica month, I'm trying something new here: a review of the pilot for the forthcoming spin-off, Caprica ...

Episode 22: The Quetong Missile Mystery The police in Quetong have summoned Dr. Quest to investigate mysterious goings-on in the nearby ...

Episode 15: Turu the Terrible The team's chartered a Disney tramp steamer in upriver South America to search for a vein of pure Trin...

Episode 8: The Robot Spy This is the quintessential Jonny Quest episode. Anyone who half-remembers the series will recall this episode...

JQ is an old favorite, obviously.  It always seemed to hold up better than much of its 60s Hanna-Barbara brethren, and since it's been t...