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Old Show, New Season: “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”

If you’ve read my review of the first season of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” then you already know that, although I felt the show lost a little momentum after its premiere, it kicked into overdrive with its fifth episode and roared full-throttle from there to the season finale. Granted, there were only a total of nine episodes in the strike-shortened season, but, still, the addition of the character of Derek Reese – John Connor’s uncle – into the mix not only turned the show from “not bad” into “pretty damned awesome” but also forced me to make the admission that, despite being a really terrible rapper, Brian Austin Green is actually quite serviceable as an action hero.

So if you watched the show last season, then there’s probably only one question to which you’re really dying to get the answer: did Cameron (Summer Glau) survive the bombing of her vehicle…?

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Greetings to the New Series: “Sons of Anarchy”

With “The Shield” entering its final season and “Nip/Tuck” heading to a conclusion in 2010, it’s high time that FX found itself a new signature drama or two…and given that “Dirt” has been cancelled, “The Riches” hasn’t gotten a third-season pick-up, and “Damages” is more popular among TV critics than actual viewers, they really to step up their game and hunt up a new series that can be embraced by a larger audience.

Enter “Sons of Anarchy,” a show which is somewhat Shakespearean in spirit but ultimately comes off more like “The Sopranos” if members of the Mafia were replaced with motorcycle-straddling toughs. Not that that’s a bad thing…especially not when Drea de Matteo’s in the cast of this show, too.

I was able to check out the first episode of the series when I was out in L.A. at the TCA Press Tour, but it was late and I was exhausted, so although I walked away from it feeling that it was too dark for its own good, I also felt like I wasn’t giving it my all as a critic, so I vowed to watch it again when it made its formal debut on FX. Now that I’ve done so, I admit that I found myself enjoying it a little more this time around…but it’s still pretty damned dark.

Not that the darkness is all that surprising. After all, “Sons of Anarchy” is the creation of Kurt Sutter, who’s done just about everything there is to do on “The Shield,” having produced, directed, written, and story-edited on that series, not to mention the fact that he played the role of Margos Dezerian. So, basically, the guy knows dark.

Setting aside the darkness, however, the bigger concern is whether or not the saga of a biker gang can be made into a series that the average viewer can latch onto.

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Greetings to the New Show: “90210”

Like every other critic in the free world, I was unable to screen the new “90210” in advance, since the producers of the show decided to keep it under wraps and premiere it for everyone at the same time. Due to a scheduling conflict (one of our cars is in the shop, and I needed to pick my wife up from work), I was unable to start viewing it right at 8 PM EST, but when I logged onto my computer before hitting “play” on the TiVo, I spotted the following status update from one of my friends on MySpace:

Christiethinks the new 90210 blows goats.
Mood: cynical.

Wow. And I thought *I* was bad.

As it happens, I actually rather enjoyed the premiere of “90210,” though it’s probably telling that the adults in the show seem to be about ten times better written than the teenagers.

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Old Show, New Season: “Gossip Girl”

Ah, “Gossip Girl.” Thank God for your first season coming out on DVD just in time for me to become so sufficiently smitten with the series as a guilty pleasure that I was actually a little bit excited about the second-season premiere…and now that my daughter’s off on a field trip with her nana, I can write a bit about the season opener as well as the two episodes that follow it.

So what did everyone’s favorite teen-aged Upper East Siders do over the summer? Well, despite Blair’s concerns, Serena didn’t just spend her summer sitting around, watching ‘The Closer’ and eating take-out…but nor did she dare to have any sort of rebound relationship. Yes, it’s true: Serena still misses Dan. Blair, meanwhile, tried to spend her summer forgetting about Chuck by starting to date a lad named James…or did she do it to make Chuck jealous? Either way, we still ended up with a moment that confirmed once and for all that creator Josh Schwartz is absolutely out to take this show over the top, when James turned out to be an English lord who had taken on a false identity as a commoner so that he could find a woman who wasn’t just after his title.

Awesome.

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How To Rob A Bank

“How To Rob A Bank” seems like it should be way more exciting than it actually is. It should be a gripping drama about a guy named Jinx (Nick Stahl) who starts his day battling with his bank over withdrawal fees and accidentally finds himself caught up in a bank robbery and locked in a vault with a sexy tech expert (Erika Christensen). Instead, we get a film full of almost nothing but people making phone calls to each other, and although it only lasts for 81 minutes, it still somehow manages to feel as though it drags on forever. Terry Crews (“Everybody Hates Chris”) remains mostly stoic throughout the flick, with Gavin Rossdale – yes, that’s right: the dude who used to be in Bush but who’s now better known for being married to Gwen Stefani – offering a more than serviceable job as one of the robbers, even if it’s only because British accents almost always make dialogue sound better than it actually is. So how do you rob a bank? If every would-be bank robber had to watch this movie in order to discover the secret, then the number of thefts within our nation’s financial institutions surely would plummet.

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