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Just a reminder, Fringe season 2 premiers tomorrow (Thursday) September 17th at 9pm on Fox. Check back after the episode for full reviews of Fringe and other shows.

Last Thursday, the CW premiered a very high advertised new show, called the Vampire Diaries.  I don’t even know where to start with this one.  I can’t say that this was the best show of the season (even though this is the first premier), but it was almost interesting enough to capture my attention.  The first episode did very little when it comes to background of the story, gave us no reason as to why the show is there, and the only thing it has going for it is the vampire thing and the hot chick thing.  So why am I going to watch again this week? I have NO idea.

I guess the only insight I can give you on this one is to watch it? maybe you’ll like the good vampire and the bad vampire? There was enough suspense and enough evil to make this a “OK fine, I’ll watch the next episode just to see how I really feel about it” type of show.

Episode 2 will be on Thursday on the CW at 8pm! Watch at your own expense!

Sorry, its been a while since my last post, miss me??

Let me tell you, one of my biggest pet peeves is people who lie, but of course I also believe that “everybody lies” in the words of the forever genius and always lovable Dr. House.  So if everybody lies, then how will we know what they’re lying about?  Well Dr. Cal Lightman has spent his whole life studying people and how they lie, more specifically, what they look like and what they do when they lie.  After working for a while with different government agencies, he decided to start his own company and consult with different government agencies and just about any other company that needs the truth about something.  Sounds technical right? well it is, but the writers as well as Dr. Lightman (Tim Roth) put a great and pretty hilarious spin on things. Apparently this show is based on an actual person who has accomplished many of these things himself and was the inspiration for this show.

A typical episode goes something like this, someone hires Dr. Lightman for an investigation or an event that they need monitored and he and his team figure out who’s lying.  Of course the problem is that everyone around him is usually lying about something, so once again, he and his team have to sort through all the lies to find the one that is affecting that situation.  The cool part that we get to see and learn about is how they deduce who is lying and who isn’t.  Every step of the way, it is explained to us what micro-expression they saw and what it meant, or what shoulder shrug, and so on… Not to mention, the show is extremely entertaining, especially since stupid liars are caught and punished (obviously its not for their lies, its for what they’re lying about, but I would like to believe it’s the latter).

Fox was impressed by the mid-season premier of Lie to Me, so impressed that they offered Lie to Me a renewal before the season finale. I’m also rating this show as a MUST SEE!

The Lie to Me Season 2 Premier will be on Monday September 28th at 9:00pm on Fox (right after House!)

Castle was introduced by ABC late in the television season with a short 10 episode stint.  A lot of people didn’t get a chance to watch it and some have never even heard of it.  ABC is notorious for introducing shows at the very end of the television season and giving them 9 or 10 episodes to prove themselves.  Their strongest example of that would be Grey’s Anatomy.  Grey’s Anatomy’s initial season consisted of 9 episodes at the very end of the television season and is now one of the most watched shows on television. This past season, ABC was hoping to do the same with Castle. So far, they’ve gotten off to a pretty good start.  Season 1 of Castle did pretty well and was renewed for at least 16 episodes in this coming season.  Castle is a show about a fiction novelist and a detective, who team up in order to solve crime. Obviously, its not just that simple, there is a background story, but I wanna give you a chance to check it out for yourself.  Now, I know what everyone is thinking “just what I need, another cop show.” Well, you’re right and you’re wrong, the reason there are so many cop shows and the reason why they succeed is because they’re so easy to make, the story lines are essentially already written for you and people tune in to watch them.  This is not a typical law and order type of cop show though, this show has a very comedic and laid back twist to it.  Nathan Fillion plays Richard Castle, a novelist who is working on his new set of books and is essentially helping the police with their investigations as “research” which is what he called it.  Stana Katic (Weirdo!) plays the head detective whom Castle is following and essentially assisting with murder investigations, obviously driving her insane and creating an extremely entertaining show for us viewers. Behind Fringe, Castle was probably the best new show of the 2008-2009 television season. If you’re a fan of cop shows and have always wished that they would lighten up a little bit on Law and Order, then you’re gonna love this show!

I’m rating Castle as a MUST SEE!

Castle will be one of the shows that I will review on a weekly basis on this blog! Tune in to hear more when the season starts!

Season 2 premiers on Monday September 21st at 10pm on ABC.

For a years, scifi geeks (such as myself) obsessed over the X-Files.  All the unrealistic UFO conspiracies and the alien scary voodoo, who can sleep at night with all that on their minds?  Well, the X-files has been over for a while now, and the recent X-files movie totally sucked, so what is a scifi fanatic suppose to do during the year? Well this past year, Fox had the answer; a new show called Fringe.

Fringe is about a group of people who are trying to run fringe experiments, using the whole world as their petri dish, these occurrences are referred to as “the pattern.” In response, the FBI put together a task force of an FBI agent name Olivia Dunham, a former scientist (Dr. Walter Bishop) who was institutionalized and is usually connected to these weird experiments through his past work at Harvard and his equally brilliant son (Peter Bishop) who has been a delinquent his whole life. Sounds great huh? not really! Sure, on paper its about as boring as it gets, but you have to watch in order to believe.

This show is probably one of the best shows on television right now.  Lots of scary and suspenseful moments that keep you on the edge of your seat. It has an overly complicated storyline that is difficult to follow over a whole season, mixed in with some actual scientific theory, making it the perfect scifi series for those who have half a brain.  Of course, if you’re not into scifi than you’re not gonna like it whether you have a brain or not.  The writers of Fringe have been able to put together an amazing story line that consists of multiple smaller story line that stem from the main story line and somehow relate back to the main story again.  Obviously, everyone has their own life on the show, and that life is shared with us in a minimal fashion without steering too far away from the main story.

Fox has moved Fringe from Tuesday nights to Thursday nights starting this Fall! I’m gonna rate this show as a MUST SEE!!

Season 2 Premiers on September 17th on Fox at 9pm