Ron Howard returns to acting and teams up with a couple of his most famous former co-stars to prove just how serious he is about seeing change in the White House come Election Day.
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Author: Will Harris (Page 106 of 261)
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I can’t believe I’m saying this, but…tonight’s episode of “Heroes” was really good.
I’m not even going to limit my praise to calling it the best episode of the season (although it was), because it deserves more love than that; it was legitimately enjoyable across the board, with only a few moments which gave me pause.
Hiro and Ando: Clearly, we knew Hiro hadn’t really killed Ando, but doing a flashback which showed Hiro visiting a joke shop was pretty funny. As aware as Papa Petrelli and his secret society of super villains are, it wouldn’t take them long to figure out that Ando isn’t really dead, but since Ando doesn’t have super powers, then the only person who’d really care about it one way or the other is Knox, and his ability isn’t one that lends itself to him finding out the truth. It was a nice touch that, when Daphne left, Ando pointedly released the breath he’d been holding. Why was it so nice? Because it showed that someone behind the scenes at “Heroes” finally realized, “Hey, the fans are actually noticing stuff, so we’d better start covering our asses a little better.” If Ando hadn’t released that breath, someone would’ve said, “Didn’t Daphne notice he was still breathing?”
When Hiro and Ando tried to catch Usutu the precog in Africa, it was a little bit like watching Austin Millbarge and Emmett Fitz-Hume at work, but, c’mon, who didn’t laugh out loud at the caption of “One minute before Hiro got hit”? The sequence was funny, but the writers actually had fun with the notion of Hiro going back in time…and, again, I have to think that was in response to all the moaning about FuturePeter not choosing a better time to go back in time to change the past. If I didn’t love Usutu already, watching him smack Hiro over the head with the shovel would’ve cinched the deal. His otherwise Zen-like manner makes him my favorite new character of the season, so it should be interesting to see how things go when the villains attempt to make him for them.
Yeah, sure, it’s a total lowest-common-denominator thing to post a clip solely because it features girl-on-girl kissing. But sometimes a guy’s gotta do what a guy’s gotta do…
Don’t forget to tune in on Tuesday at 8 PM to see more. Granted, probably not much more…it’s network TV, after all…but still…
Haaaaaaave you seen the new DirecTV ad that features Craig T. Nelson reprising his role as Steve Freeling in “Poltergeist”?
I caught it last night, and…well, is it just me, or did it feel really creepy and exploitative to see the late Heather O’Rourke?
I don’t think it was intended to feel that way (nor, apparently, does O’Rourke’s mother), but at the end of the ad, when Nelson says, “That’s going to come back to haunt me,” all I could think was, “Uh, yeah, and so is Heather…”
If you’re someone who’s prone to have his car radio turned to NPR as often as not, then the Tappet Brothers are likely well known to you. Tom and Ray Magliozzi started their radio show, “Car Talk,” way back in 1977, but they’ve been a part of the National Public Radio family since ’87, making their voices and their often-awful jokes instantly recognizable to NPR listeners. After 20 years on the air, someone at PBS apparently decided that they were ready to make the transition to TV…in animated form, at least. “As the Wrench Turns” takes the guys’ radio show and makes it the center of the series, first giving them a producer named Beth Totenbag, then introducing us to the guys who work at the brothers’ garage: Fidel, Crusty, and Sal. (Actually, Sal’s a woman, but you get the impression that she could take on anyone else on the show and come out victorious.) While it might’ve been fun to see Click and Clack taking on car problems in cartoon form, with the solutions animated on the screen for educational purposes, what we get instead is light political commentary and mainstream sitcom shenanigans. There are moments when you imagine what creators Howard Grossman and Doug Berman were going for, but mostly you’re reminded that the Tappet Brothers are at their best when they’re solved car problems…and while they’re nice guys, their humor has always been more groan-worthy than legitimately funny. Unfortunately, that feeling translates to much of their animated series.
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