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The guttering flame that is Dollhouse — two new episodes being burned off over three weeks including last night — remains capable of throwing off a few sparks. Sparkiest of all was Summer Glau, glau-ering grimly at Echo/Caroline while portraying Bennett Halverson. Bennett is sort of ...
Sci-Fi
Dollhouse
Joss Whedon
Monk closed out its eight-season run last night, making the long-awaited solution to Adrian Monk’s greatest mystery — who killed his wife? — the centerpiece of the finale.
But you could have watched Monk for years without ever thinking much about poor dead Trudy (Melora ...
Comedy
Monk
It was a non-mythology episode of Fringe this week, with a dandy creature to grapple with and a Walter Bishop subplot that turned into the main plot.
The creature first: a multi-tentacled “parasitic worm,” as Walter termed it; the “Snakeheads” of the episode’s title ...
Sci-Fi
Fringe
Peter Berg
The penultimate Ultimate Fighter Heavyweights last night featured a lot of action, leading up to this Saturday’s season finale. But the best brawl was a verbal one between opposing team coaches Rampage Jackson and Rashad Evans.
The two have had increasingly contentious arguments, but last ...
Other
January Jones
Watch out, evil-doers. That lumbering tree-trunk of a man with the scary, hatchet-shaped hairline: He’s got a badge! He’s got a gun! He’s got a soft little voice! It’s Steven Seagal Lawman!
If you missed last night’s premiere of this reality show, you missed one of ...
Comedy
Steven Seagal
This week’s Friday Night Lights , which was entitled “The Son,” had moments of the usual terrific FNL boisterousness, but for the most part was a solemn affair with beautifully crafted details. The episode found Matt dealing with the aftermath of the news of his father’s ...
Drama
Friday Night Lights
Derek Luke
Lots of interesting stuff in FX’s announcement of its 2010 schedule. Yes, I’m looking forward to the new season of Damages (Jan. 25). Yes, I’m hoping that the superb stand-up comic Louis C.K. will finally find a good TV starring vehicle for himself in Louie, especially given ...
Drama
Timothy Olyphant
FX
Damages
Sons of Anarchy finished out its superb second season with… something of a disappointment.
Before I get to my misgivings, let’s grapple with the very good stuff. The extra-long episode began with the season’s two big-bads, Zobelle and Westin, being set free from jail — ...
Comedy
Is this the season that will kill lots of fans’ fond memories of Scrubs? It could be.
Last night’s back-to-back new episodes showed us how the new Scrubs will work. Or not. The hospital has been replaced by a university campus, where J.D., Turk, and Dr. Cox, among others, teach. For ...
Comedy
Scrubs
Tareq and Michaele Salahi — the couple Jon Stewart on last night’s Daily Show dubbed “The Real A–wipes of Washington D.C.” — told Matt Lauer on The Today Show this morning, “Our lives have been destroyed.”
Well, we can only hope that’s just a ...
News/Talk
Controversy
Jon Stewart
The Today Show
House
Back-to-back character studies last night: First, the Wilson-centric episode of House was an excellent showcase for Robert Sean Leonard to expand upon the wry mannerliness of his oncologist with a heart (or, last night, liver) of gold.
After that, on the ever-improving Lie To Me, Tim Roth took ...
Drama
House
Lie To Me
Rainn Wilson
Do fans of Hoarders call themselves “Hoarders”? Or “Hoarderers”? In any case, the series is back for its second-season premiere tonight on A&E, and it’s an unsettling doozy, about a toothless, stubborn woman in Louisiana named Augustine. Her house is a ...
Reality
Hoarders
Intervention
On Monday night, ABC will air How The Grinch Stole Christmas. On Tuesday night, ABC will air A Charlie Brown Christmas.
So even though Thanksgiving is barely past, it’s time to stake a claim:
I think Grinch is a superior cartoon showcase for its characters than Charlie Brown is for its ...
Animation
Charlie Hunnam
Blair Brown
Charlie Brown Christmas
Well, James Franco has completed his first week on General Hospital playing wealthy artist Franco. As I wrote after Franco’s debut appearance, I’m not going to pretend I watch GH regularly. But I am intrigued by how Franco plays Franco, a one-time poor graffiti artist who’s ...
Soaps
James Franco
General Hospital
It’s being reported that a couple being considered for Bravo’s upcoming Real Housewives of D.C. crashed a state dinner at the White House on Tuesday night. Michaele and Tareq Salahi, a Virginia couple, got past multiple security points to hobnob with Vice President Biden and other ...
Drama
House
Crash
Bravo
Controversy
Larry King Live
The Good Wife continues to pay off on its premise. It does not shy away from the anguish and uncomfortableness that Juilanna Margulies’s Alicia suffers in the aftermath of her husband’s sex scandal. It may be one of the most downbeat scripted shows in network prime-time, yet it pulls ...
Drama
The Good Wife
Alicia Keys
At the risk of sounding like a blood-lusting savage, boy, was I looking forward to watching SAMCRO inflict some damage on the League, and last night on Sons of Anarchy, we pretty much got the battle we, or at least I, had been waiting for.
But first: The episode started with the SAMCRO ...
Comedy
Adam Lambert, speaking on CBS’ Early Show this morning, admitted that his American Music Awards performance “got the most of me.”
Lambert said his onstage moves “came from an improvising place… they were not rehearsed.”
“I got carried away,” he ...
Reality
Adam Lambert
The Early Show
American Idol
Controversy
American Music Awards
TV doesn’t get much more manipulative than Find My Family, which premiered last night after Dancing With The Stars. The first episode was a repulsive mixture of aggressive agenda-pushing and teary uplift. The show suggests that every adopted person should want to meet his or her biological ...
Reality
“I feel like it’s been taken from us, from me and the kids.” Kate Gosselin was talking about Jon & Kate Plus Eight, the TV series that ended this week after five seasons due to the disagreements between Jon and Kate. The hour mixed direct-to-camera, separate interviews with ...
