Sun, Feb 24th, 2008
06:30 Moonlight
07:30 Kyle XY
10:30 Supernatural
11:30 The X-Files
Moonlight. Episode 8. An average outing is helped by some great Mick/Beth scenes (this is the episode where she finds out he's been 'stalking' her for years) and another great action-packed finale (the bad guy is a former cult leader who looks scary as frak and makes a formidable opponent, even if his motives make no great sense).
Kyle XY. Season 2, Episode 5. I like Tom Foss but having an episode without him (and the training scenes that go with him) makes the whole show seem fresher than it has been in weeks. For once, the while storyline revolved around Kyle's crush on Amanda (the girl next door) and there's even a case-of-the-week for Kyle to solve. Lori is a great character and she's makes a great partner for Kyle as they go after a burglar who has been striking in the area. The story is told with several wonderful touches, including Kyle sending a note to the guy at the very end. Awesome.
Supernatural. Episode 11. A nice change-of-pace episode finds the boys splitting up as Sam decides to head for California after a phone conversation with his dad. Dean, meanwhile, goes to a creepy small town with is sacrificing visitors to a murderous scarecrow. A genuinely scary scarecrow too! A great episode, even if it was a tad obvious that Sam's hitchhiking buddy was going to turn out to be a supernatural evil of some kind. The twist ending was predictable but great because it means we'll hopefully have some continuity from her on in.
The X-Files. Season 8, Episode 10. It doesn't make a lot of sense but it still makes for a pretty good X-Files episodes. The bad guy is a small indian man who never speaks and who can, um, enter into people's bodies as a means of killing them. It's not really made clear why he would opt to do that, but it does make for an exceptionally cool scene where Scully finds him inside a body during an autopsy. The episode has a cool "what the frak is going on?" vibe. Sadly, the writers don't even attempt to offer up an explanation. Usually the show tends to offer coherent stories with lots of loose ends, but this is just a mess of a story with lots of enjoyable stuff to watch. Aside from the cool stuff with the various deaths (one of which provides quite a jolt) there is some fantastic character work on Scully as - at episode's climax - she talks quite a lot about Mulder and what it's like for her to try working on cases like this without him. Wonderful.
Highlight? Kyle XY
Moonlight, Kyle XY, Supernatural, X-Files
