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Quick Take: BROOKLYN NINE-NINE returns!

September 28, 2014 Amrie

BROOKLYN NINE-NINE returns tonight to FOX with their Season 2 premiere at 8:30/7:30c and it’s definitely been worth the long wait since May! When we left the 99, Jake had decided to go undercover, confessing his feelings for Amy along the way. Meanwhile, Gina and Charles found themselves in bed together after a wild night. When season 2 picks up some time later, Jake is back, Gina and Charles are still reeling, and Terry, Amy, and Diaz are being put through

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Quick Take: HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER on ABC

September 25, 2014 Amrie

Tonight, Shondaland takes over ABC when GREY’S moves to 8/7c, SCANDAL takes up residence at 9/8c, and HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER (written by Peter Nowalk) joins the line up at 10/9c. Viola Davis stars as Annalise Keating, brilliant professor of law, with a specialty in defense, who teaches a class “lovingly” referred to as “How to Get Away with Murder.” What follows throughout the hour is a bunch of law students trying to one up each other while

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Quick Take: THE MIDDLE is basically perfection

September 24, 2014 Amrie

THE MIDDLE is back for their 6th season premiere tonight (8/7c) and I feel like I’ve been counting down the minutes. The show about the every day struggles of a family living in Middle America has been a favorite since day one, and tonight’s episode is no different – Frankie screws up dates, and Sue and Brick are forced to make an awkward first impression at school, while Mike and Axl fight it out repeatedly on the basketball court. Oh

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Quick Take: SLEEPY HOLLOW S2 starts fast, doesn’t slow down

September 22, 2014 Amrie

I sat down to watch SLEEPY HOLLOW’s second season premiere today, thinking I could multil-task, get other stuff done, maybe minimize the window and handle other things. Boy, was I wrong! From start to finish, the episode held my attention and I found myself not able to breathe, relax, and/or sit back in my chair as the action started at minute one and didn’t let up until the credits started rolling at the end. When we left the gang, Abbie

Quick Take: RED BAND SOCIETY on FOX

September 17, 2014 Amrie

I don’t dislike RED BAND SOCIETY. Not fully. I liked Octavia Spencer very much. And Dave Annable is great and beautiful with that salt-and-pepper hair going on. And I really like everything regarding Thomas Ian Nicholas and Wilson Cruz and Griffin Dunne. Are you sensing a theme yet? Because therein lies the problem – I should like at least something related to the kids in the show that make up 60-70% of the cast and story. But I didn’t. Nothing

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Quick Take: HAVEN S5 kicks off tonight

September 11, 2014 Amrie

HAVEN returns to Syfy tonight at 8/7c with an all new episode that picks up minutes after the finale that found Duke bleeding from his face holes, Jennifer possibly not breathing, William vanquished to another realm, Dave shot, Vince worried, and Nathan not exactly sure what comes next. And Audrey? Well, she’s not exactly Audrey these days, now is she? What follows is an exciting premiere that has our gang trying to save Audrey from the Mara inhabiting her body

Quick Take: PRETTY LITTLE LIARS is back!!!

June 10, 2014 CourtneyK

PLL!! IT’SBACK!!IT’SBACK!!IT’SBACK!! *ahem* I’m excited!! Pretty Little Liars is back for the Season 5 premiere tonight!! Season 4 was…well it was kind of all over the place. Aria losing her common sense and going on benders, finding out that Ezra has/had more to do with Alison than any of us originally thought, Hanna and Emily having personal dramas, and don’t get me started on Spencer’s sudden “relapse” into a drug addiction that everyone conveniently decided never to discuss again. I

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Quick Take: MIND GAMES aka A Whole Lot of Yelling Going On

February 25, 2014 Amrie

Christian Slater is trying his hand again at episodic TV with the premiere of MIND GAMES on ABC (tonight, 10/9c, moved up a week after KILLER WOMEN bowed out ungracefully). The show follows two brothers, Ross (Slater) and Clark (Steve Zahn, who does the majority of the yelling), partners at Edwards and Associates, an unusual business “based on the belief that people’s decisions are influenced by their environment in ways they are not aware.” For those following along at home,

Quick Take: Syfy’s HELIX….aka what did I just watch for 2 hours?

January 10, 2014 Amrie

Full disclosure: I may be very alone in saying that I was among the few who watched Syfy’s HELIX, premiering tonight at 10/9c, and felt…confused? Lost? Not completely engaged? Billy Campbell stars as Dr Alan Farragut, the head of the CDC’s outbreak field team who is summoned to the Arctic when his brother contracts an unknown and crazy dark virus. He gets there, he does experiments, he flirts and fights with two pretty ladies, and then all of a sudden

Quick Take: CHICAGO P.D. is worth a quick look!

January 8, 2014 Amrie

When CHICAGO FIRE premiered last year, I watched it without any deep emotional attachment, but somewhere along the way, one of the firemen gets magnesium shavings in his lungs, and I was crying like a baby. Haven’t missed an episode since. I watched the CHICAGO P.D. embedded pilot from last season, and found myself in the same boat – no deep emotional attachment. After watching the first three episodes of the CHICAGO P.D. season, I’m along for the ride, but