Hiro's future past

Heroes certainly isn't being shy about its influences these past couple weeks, huh? After last week's seemingly Watchmen-influenced episode comes a show that owes a heavy debt to the legendary X-Men story "Days of Future Past." (And, in fact, Masi Oka acknowledged as much in an interview last month.) It was a jam-packed episode, so much... More »

Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth. It's been that kind of season on 24. After last week's embarrassing soap opera of an episode made nearly every character on the show look and sound like an emotionally crippled simpleton, Monday (April 30) night's 24 went a long way to redeeming several key players... More »

Let me begin by confessing that I really have no clue as to what's been going down on Dancing with the Stars this season. I mean, I really got into Season 2, I kept up with Season 3, but other than the premiere episode this time around I haven't seen any of Season 4. I... More »

Wait just one cotton-pickin' second. Yeah, sure, Monday (April 30) night's How I Met Your Mother was back in top form after the slightly (relatively speaking) disappointing "Bachelor Party" episode, but how could they leave us all hanging on the night's most pressing issue: What was up with Robin and Ted being covered with tomato... More »

After two straight weeks of incredibly tense episodes slightly unraveled by anti-climactic non-elimination legs, one team finally got the boot on Sunday (April 29) night's Amazing Race: All-Stars. Whew. [Of course there are spoilers coming here, but you knew that.] Oswald and Danny were eliminated because they finished last for the week. They were eliminated... More »

When 30 Rock began its inaugural season last fall, about the best thing I could say about the show as a whole was that it was a lot better than its original companion, Twenty Good Years. If ever there were a case of damning with faint praise, that was probably it. Fortunately the people at NBC... More »

Last week's episode of Survivor: Fiji featured more reverses and double-crosses than a David Mamet con-man script. It'll be pretty tough to top, but let's see how Thursday (April 26) night's episode did...Pre-credit sequence. Mookie and Alex are still smarting from Dreamz's double-cross, with Alex going so far as to speculate that Dreamz may have... More »

I'm sure I missed some things in Thursday's jam-packed Office, because I just can't transcribe as fast as the jokes were flying in an episode about an obscene watermark printed on Dunder Mifflin paper. So, so much to laugh at, so we'll go all-bullet points on the highlights: Jim's pre-credits Dwight imitation: "Fact: Bears eat beets.... More »

Twice while watching Grey's Anatomy on Thursday I wrote the following in my notebook, in all caps: GET IT, GEORGE? Look, I know this show uses its medical cases as metaphors for or reflections of what's going on in the lives of the people treating them. It's just that usually the writers display a more deft... More »

Question for you, Lost fans: How much does a holy-crap final scene like the one we had Wednesday night make up for an otherwise fairly uninspired episode, like the one we had Wednesday night? I'm half-inclined to go along with Hurley and be shocked at the final utterance of the Woman Who Fell to Earth (and... More »