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Happy Endings recap – 02×11: ‘Meet the Parrots’

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Last week’s episode of Happy Endings hinted at a possible romance between Dave (Zachary Knighton) and Penny (Casey Wilson), so how did the twist pan out in this week’s episode? By making Dave and Penny brother and sister! Wait, what??? Where is Erica Kane and when did this become All My Children? Ok let’s rewind here and recap.

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Being Erica recap – 4×10: ‘Purim’

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Being Erica had a pretty strong comeback with its second last episode of the season. Yes viewers, thanks to my trusty PVR descriptors – I scrolled ahead to next week and saw that indeed episode 11, titled “Dr. Erica” is our series finale (sniff). Although I’ve ranted about how uneven season four has been, as I’ve alluded to in previous posts and comments , the series as a whole has really been something special. I’ve gotten hours of entertainment of Erica’s (Erin Karpluk) adventures with Dr. Tom (Michael Riley), it’s offered me the opportunity for much inward reflection and I’m just not at the point of complete disavowal.

The elements which resonate in “Purim” really encapsulate what’s great about the entire series. So without further ado, let’s take a closer look… [Read more…]

Being Erica Recap – 4×09 ‘Erica’s Adventures in Wonderland’

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It’s time to start the countdown folks. With only three more episodes to go in the series, this week’s episode of Being Erica attempts to clean up the sloppy mess the show has created for itself for the better part of this season.

Let’s break it down…

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Fringe recap – 4×06: ‘And Those We Left Behind’

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Peter’s (Joshua Jackson) back and in full force this week as the team investigates time space anomalies popping up all around town.

This week’s episode, although does little to advance the more immediate questions regarding where the heck Peter has been all this time and why none of his buddies even know who he is, is still an entertaining installment of the season.

After last week’s episode was a bit of a let down in terms of the return of Peter, I pretty much expected we’d get a slow burn for most of the season before anything really juicy happens. If you’re able to put the anticipation aside and enjoy this episode as a standalone, it really is a pretty solid one.

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