I know it’s early in the season, but I have to say I’m unimpressed with how things are going so far. We knew from the get-go that neither Ozzy nor Coach were the kind of player we saw last season – no Boston Rob or Russell Hantz. I had hoped the rookie players would be a bit more interesting, but so far most of the moves have been predictable, with most of the rookies putting themselves... 

I thought this was the final episode for season five of The Guild. If it was, it probably would have been the most brilliantly agonizing ending Felicia Day could have created for her show. Thankfully, we get one more episode next week, and it’s going to be a doozy. Hell, this week’s episode is a doozy, but it doesn’t quite bring closure to the season (especially considering its abrupt, cliffhanger... 

We’re only on the third episode of Person of Interest, but the show is rapidly losing its luster for me. As much as I want to like it, particularly with the pedigree of Jonathan Nolan at the helm, the truth is the show is starting to become too formulaic and its characters too shrouded in secrecy. In an effort to keep from revealing all of the show’s cards, the showrunner is holding the cards too... 

Genre television is huge this season (Fall, 2011), especially in the form of horror and fantasy. Not only are favorites returning (Fringe, Supernatural, Vampire Diaries, Dexter and The Walking Dead) but a gaggle of new shows are attacking oversized HD TV screens across the Nation: Once Upon a Time, Grimm, The Secret Circle and Terra Nova, to name a few. Vampires, witches, zombies, serial killers and... 

Jim is scheming from the start of the episode – an especially appropriate point of editing since this episode takes its name from something the marijuana distributor says, as opposed to the last few episodes, which have referenced Brandon. Still, this usually indicates one of two things: Jim will execute a major power play this week or Jim will have the tables turned on him and will be our exiting... 

We’re definitely getting to the end of this season of The Guild, which leaves me with mixed feelings. This has been a really solid season, so I will be sad to see it come to a close. At the same time, I am dying to know what’s going to happen with “The Game” – will its creator sell it or will the see the value of the game to guilds like the Knights of Good and keep it going, despite mindless... 

It’s the first regular episode of the series and we get a look at some form of an opening monologue or introduction, with Finch explaining the basics of the machine and the show. Remember last week when I compared the show to Quantum Leap? This reeks of the opening that show had – an opening that had to be cut down over the various seasons. I expect this intro will be as well. Right from the... 

Well, we’ve had two episodes and seen two people voted out, which means it’s time to start kicking the Redemption Island side of things into high gear. We join Christine and Semhar as they commiserate in their exile, showing neither woman has really learned from their mistakes. Christine makes a bizarre allusion to King Farouk and then announces, “I don’t think my tribe was ready for someone... 

Okay, we’re reading the end of the season and, as the opening confessional of the latest episode tells us, the end of the Con. Time for some action, which means it’s also time to start sealing up storylines and focus back on the main story: the potential end of “The Game.” We also have the resolution to one of the episode’s big mysteries, although the outcome was about as predictable as any... 

As I’ve said in a few previous recaps: when the decision was made to set this season at a convention, Felicia Day was really setting the bar high. After all, we’ve all seen movies and television shows attempt to pull off the “con” setting with mixed results. In order to make it feel like a con you need costumed fans and you need celebrities – appropriate celebrities. We’ve been getting...