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After what seems like months, The Secret Circle returns with a brand new episode that focuses primarily on the girls – Britt Robertson’s Cassie (the good one who might be bad) and Phoebe Tonkin’s Faye (the bad one who’s more of a poser). As the show nears the half-way point of its first season, it’s beginning to settle into a certain formula. Whether this is good or bad depends on how much you like irrelevant danger.
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And we’re back! After a seemingly endless holiday break, my #3 best show of 2011 returns with a doozy of an episode.
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After the success of Homeland (aka the show I named the best show of 2011), Showtime has a lot of goodwill on its hands. So it’s somewhat disappointing that their follow-up, the smarmy management consultant half hour comedy House of Lies, is such a mixed bag.
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Well that’s a wrap folks. The first season of Showtime’s brilliant drama, Homeland, has come to its conclusion and we have a lot to talk about. Major SPOILERS coming up.
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What would the holidays be without at least one loud action blockbuster to distract us from our families, the excessive amount of food we consume and the general madness of the season? Well the good news for us is that Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Ritchie, 2011) has arrived to shake away the doldrums…at least for two hours.
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It’s always difficult to discuss an episode of relatively straightforward television. After an episode which began as a stand-alone dovetailed into an exploration of how ambitious the Bennett family is, 2×04 ‘For Blood or Money’ reverted back to the familiar season one model of a stand-alone case. Thankfully the case provided some background on one of my most interesting characters, and began with a dynamite scene.
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