06.00 Lost
08.00 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
09.30 The Unusuals
10.30 24
Lost. Season 5, Episode 14. "The Variable" Daniel returns to warn everyone.
Nice brain-twisting episode with a great performance from Jeremy Davies (despite wearing a comedy-wig in a couple of flashback scenes).
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Season 4, Episode 1. "Mac and Dennis: Manhunters" Half the gang turn manhunters, and half turn cannibal.
Disappointing opening episode, with a small number of laughs. The best episodes are the ones where the gang come up with some hair-brained (offensive) scheme that will "change their lives", and throw themselves into the scheme with 100% conviction.
This is not one of those.
Mac and Dennis decide to hunt Cricket for reasons that make no sense, even in this oddball world of theirs, and - except for the nipple feeling scene - yield no laughs. Charlie and Dee, meanwhile, are fooled into thinking they have eaten human meat. Funny, yes, but not enough to sustain a full storyline. The scenes got repetitive very fast, and the laughs faded.
The Unusuals. Episode 4. "Crime Slut" Beaumont tracks a stolen watch, and hides a shameful secret, while Delahoy and Banks (television's coolest cops) track a zombie.
Wow. This is superb stuff. Delahoy and Banks are - quite simply - the coolest cops on TV and the storyline of the 'zombie' is both inventive and genuinely touching. This show has found a way to make the cop show genre exciting and fresh for the first time in years.
Beaumont, meanwhile, is deeply in debt. A great story idea. Superbly handled/told.
24. Season 7, Episode 20. "3AM-4AM" Jack questions Hodges, Tony urges his mysterious bosses to stage an attack, Olivia decides to execute the man who murdered her brother and... Chloe returns to active duty.
Wow. Rarely are the "no action" episodes of 24 this bloody good. For a start, this episode contains the best Jack/Chloe scenes ever filmed. They hugged, for frak's sake!! And he talked her like a real person, like a friend. It was a wonderful scene. And things stayed fantasic as Chloe when to work. I especially loved it when she put Janis (Chloe-lite) in her place.
Tony's scenes were fascinating. Kudos to Carlos Bernard, who is amazing in the role. I must admit that there is a part of me, who deeply wishes that Tony is not bad. I would love it if they could find a way to redeem him at the end. What if he was doing all of this to get to the man who ordered Michelle's death? That revelation would redeem him in the fans eyes...
Olivia got several great scenes in this one. I thought the show would write her out. Instead they give her a great new storyline. A storyline that... makes sense. And seems like a logial extension of everything that happened earlier in the season.
Never has 24 delivered a season that holds together as one unit so well.
Wow.
Highlight? 24 (Chloe is back!)
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