The curated portfolio of film journalist Joe Lipsett
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Let me tell you a (not-so-secret) secret about myself: I love holiday episodes of TV shows. So how does this week’s The Vampire Diaries fare on its juxtaposition of the dark and the brightly coloured lights?
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The mid-season finale of the incredibly addictive American Horror Story: Aslyum is upon us and that title is a warning sign. Watch your baby-maker, because this show is about to pop!
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You know how scientists suspect that certain athletes’ brains process events so quickly that it is almost as if these athletes are perceiving what is happening around them in slow motion? (Wayne Gretzky comes to mind). It supposedly allows them to better anticipate what’s coming and map out how they’ll react faster than regular humans. Well, audience, you and I are these super athletes when it comes to Modern Family – we’re watching jokes coming from waaaay down the ice, anticipating the punchline and the smirk, cringe or eye roll they will generate. Oof.
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Arrow delivers an appropriately bleak and cliffhanger-y fall finale as the mythology jumps to the next level and a countdown is initiated. Six months, folks: that’s how long Sunspot Sunscreen Starling City has.
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Relationships are hard. Just ask me…actually don’t. Whether it’s the relationship we have with our special someone, or the relationship with our best friend or even that somewhat strained relationship we have with our parents, you’ve got to work hard at maintaining that relationship. This week’s episode plays on all of these, and it gives us by far the best episode of season three so far.
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After last week’s incredibly polarizing episode, would Homeland recover in its second last episode of the season?
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A surprisingly sweet episode this week is capped with a fitting conclusion for a beloved character. Lest it get too subtle and classy, the episode also introduces Reverend Gimp.
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Olivia (Anna Torv) goes magnet shopping in an effort to take her mind off the fact that her husband Peter (Joshua Jackson) is becoming an emotionless robot. Sounds like a regular day in Fringe-land
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I’ve never been a fan of procedurals, but they’re tolerable so long as there’s a nugget of character development hidden among the corpses and paperwork. Sadly Elementary‘s ninth episode contains no such elements.
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This episode is a little bit trickier to write about than others. That isn’t to say that it’s any worse – it’s actually probably one of the best of the season – but rather it indicates how much of the success of this episode is based on it’s light mood.
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