07.00 NCIS
08.00 Valentine
09.00 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
03.30 Wings
NCIS. Season 4, Episode 24. "Angel of Death" NCIS ends it's fourth season with a superb story, a superb twist and a superb cliffhanger. Triple wow, huh? It's a dark and stormy night and Tony is visiting his girlfriend at the hospital where she works. Some bad guys are on the loose and they need to get a dead body out of the hospital (for the drugs contained within) and Tony (alone and unarmed) finds himself in the line of fire. It's an episode that completely departs from the formula we know and love, and it is all the better for it.
Most of the scenes with Jenny (and her quest for her dead father) were distracting and uninteresting, but it was cool to see Ducky and the gang out for a night on the town. Particularly nice was the scene were Ducky probed Ziva for her true feelings on Tony. Great stuff.
And then there was the final minutes: a superb moment that the show has been building to all season. I never saw it coming. I am gob-smacked and I have no idea what to think now, of the season that has gone before and the relationship between Tony and his girlfriend. Is it completely fake? What the heck is going on? I can't wait to see what comes next...
Valentine. Episode 1. "Valentine" What a delightful hour of TV. Great cast (superb, actually) and a fun premise: Greek Gods here on Earth helping mortals find true love. I'm hooked. When Jaime Murray rose from the pool (in that awesome bikini) my television set blushed! She's sex on legs. This is nothing like the performance she gives on Dexter (which is also good). This is such a different role. Sultry and all-knowing and smug. And very, very sexy. And she's having so much fun. All of them are. Particularly Kristoffer Polaha as the God of Lust. Every member of the cast sparkles in this, and the script sizzles with great lines: "What kind of plumbers are you?" etc. Who cares if the case-of-the-week is a bit corny? This is good clean FUN. I'm hooked.
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Season 3, Episode 3. "Dennis and Dee's Mom is Dead" is one of the funniest episodes of anything that I have ever seen. And certainly rivals the Nazi-memorabilia episode as the best ever episode of Always Sunny. The announcement of the the death was hilarious (how awesome is Danny DeVito? Seriously?) but nothing compares to the reading of the will. That right there is a television classic: Dennis and Dee and their 'dad' fighting over the stuff that has not been left to them. Classic. Painfully funny. And the episode stayed great to the final scene. Very wise decision, bringing Stephen Collins back into the fold again. His goodness and niceness is such a wonderful contrast to the vile regular characters. And the sight of him forcing Dee and her 'dad' to pretend to have sex is also worthy of being called a television classic.
Wings. Season 2, Episode 1. "The Puppetmaster" is a very funny start to the new season which picks up the story of Brian's pursuit of Helen where the show left off at the end of Season One. Helen has a rule about never dating pilots, so Brian (of course) hires an actor to be her perfect man, date her and then reveal that he is... a pilot. Such a good scheme, and perfect Brian. Things do not go according to plan, however and the show goes all-out to create laughs. And it succeeds. Best bit? Joe falls over the chairs after giving Helen a very passionate kiss. Funny. And romantic. I love Helen's spunk.
Highlight? It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (the reading of the will)
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Thu, Oct 16, 08 - NCIS, Valentine, Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Wings
