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2014
Oct
21
 
 
Now this is a World Series to remember – and it hasn’t even started yet. The San Francisco Giants vs. the Kansas City Royals, with the Giants used to this postseason stage, and the Royals here for the first time in three decades, but yet to drop even a game in its quest to go all the way. Tonight, for Game 1, the Royals have home-field advantage. I’ll be rooting for Kansas City – and so will TVWW contributor Gerald Jordan. See Crossing Jordan.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Oct
21
 
 
Because Barry, a.k.a. the Flash, can run a mile in – whoops, too late, he already ran it – and the villain tonight goes by the name of the Mist, tonight’s battle is an interesting one. In the end, I suspect, it will disprove the popular adage. Which one, you ask? The one that says: A Mist is as good as a mile.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Oct
21
 
 
Last week’s episode dispatched of one imminent threat, but introduced another – and brought to the fore Reed Diamond, who has been a strong and captivating TV actor ever since Homicide: Life on the Street. And in tonight’s episode, his character is manipulating another, and pulling the strings in what’s sure to be another major battle for the former secret agents – or, if you prefer, a maxi-S.H.I.E.L.D.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Oct
21
 
 
Will and Marcus continue to have some sort of a bond – so much so that each of them, in tonight’s episode, tries to find a replacement “friend” for the other before, as scheduled, the former neighbors go their separate ways.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Oct
21
 
 
Tonight’s episode brings to a head one of many killer confrontations roiling to a boil in this final season – and also finds room to use a recording of “Greensleeves” by series star Katey Sagal. It’s also the title of tonight’s episode, so expect the song to play at the end, over a montage of the latest wave of violence and the regret and pain of those left in its wake. One thing seems apparent: On every episode from now until the series finale, there will be
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Oct
20
 
 
So far, so good. How long can Gotham keep up its pace and mood, much less its tension, while staying far away from any of the costumed villains, and heroes, we know from the iconic DC Comics? At this rate, for quite a while. Even Oswald Cobblepot, the future Penguin, is taking his time choosing sides and career paths – and writing his personal enemies’ list. But tonight, he does a bit more of all of that.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Oct
20
 
 
After last week’s well-received premiere, Gina Rodriguez and the rest of this show’s stars have reason to celebrate. And tonight they do – but in character, as Jane (Rodriguez) decides to go ahead with her very, very unplanned pregnancy.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Oct
20
 
 
This series still has two more episodes before Halloween, and it’s making the most of them. Tonight, there’s a new spectre in town: a weeping lady all dressed in black, who has some very unusual ways of working out her grief.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Oct
20
 
 
No, this isn't a highlight. Nor is it a warning, necessarily, because if the title of this 2008 movie is nothing else, at least it’s truth in advertising. Robert Englund, formerly the star of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, has come to this – and so has former porn star Jenna Jameson, who has the lead role here. For her, even a marginally mainstream movie is a step up. For him, it’s more debatable. But how many times, really, will I get the opportunity to write about a movi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Oct
20
 
 
NEW NETWORK: If you watched any of this season’s baseball playoffs on TBS, then you know this animated series is moving from Fox to TBS beginning tonight, and promoting heavily that the move to cable will mean these new episodes will be even more raw and edgy than the ones we’re used to watching on broadcast TV. But since I wasn’t used to watching this show anyway, I mention this more as a matter of record than as a burst of enthusiasm.