Wedding bells are ringing on Dirty Sexy Money this week. It's Karen's date with destiny, er, Simon Elder, and it's slated to happen at The Imperial, a.k.a. the Darling manse. Talking with Nick, Tripp blames himself -- despite the fact that spying on Simon Elder was Karen's idea -- for letting her "wander into that den of iniquity." Oh brother. Ladies and gentlemen, we have entered the latest episode of Sutherland Overacting.

Top Chef: New York takes a bunch of chefs on TV and challenges them to become... chefs on TV. Apparently, it's a lot harder than it looks. Continue reading »

This week's Pushing Daisies had it all -- a deep-fried murder case, a couple of good guest turns, a Debbie Gibson song and a big, fat call-back to another Bryan Fuller show, Wonderfalls. It's almost enough to make me forget that we'll probably only get to see a few more episodes. Sigh.

Tonight on Stylista, I learned that the 80's are back, supermodels are obnoxious, and hard work will get you nowhere. And thus I resolve to wear nothing but Hammer Pants and bedazzled t-shirts, insist upon being served organic melon balls everywhere I go, and do nothing but call other people names and be bossy. I'll be running a fashion magazine in no time!

It's not beginning to look anything like Christmas on Private Practice this week. The characters are all going through some seriously heavy stuff, and dealing with big, pulsing hot button issues. And unlike the last couple of weeks, this episode didn't seem to be acted by puppets, but real live people.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. It’s the job of NCIS to figure out why some of those people die unnaturally. Of course, I think Gibbs and the gang would find it more helpful if those involved would break the first two rules.

Last week, Eli Stone won a case for Jim Cooper, a Mr. Moneybags bigwig control freak who was fighting to get his son medical marijuana to treat his MS. This week, Eli has taken up the case of Cooper's son, J.J., who's tired of being a pawn in his father's control games -- including the clinical trial that the old man got funded and brought to the hospital where Eli's brother Nate is coincidentally a neurologist.

Curses! Once again, we're denied the satisfaction of Vile Vicky's ouster on The Biggest Loser: Families. What's worse, it looks like the editors are trying to humanize her. Too late! Continue reading »

Fringe is all about a world in which science is pushed to the limit. It's sorta like taking the highway to the danger zone, but not in a Tom Cruise way. More like an Albert Einstein/Stephen Hawking way. Up until now, each exhibit in the worldwide experiment known as The Pattern has been isolated. Its Fringe's own version of the Mystery of the Week. But tonight, we saw the culmination of several Pattern pieces finally coming together for the first time. And in doing so, the show revealed that these individual mysteries were in fact all steps towards a much larger goal.

Because Jessi is off getting a fancy pants masters degree while I'm destined to die a couch potato, I'll be your guide to the world of the childish and immature on House tonight. Who knows? We may get around to discussing some medical mysteries, too.

Tonight on The Mentalist, we have a small-town murder. Does anybody remember Murder in Small Town X? I liked that show. Every night when they'd send two contestants off to a creepy locale and only one would return, I would always get pretty freaked out even though I knew nothing would actually happen to either of them. Yes, I'm a wuss. Anyway...

I can't give you a giant Christmas tree. I can't whip up either a rabbit cassoulet or a noodle casserole. I might be able to bedazzle some jeans, but I doubt you'd be very interested. Instead, all I can offer is my humble appreciation for the opportunity to talk Privileged with you. Now, let's have some fun, OK?

Nothing makes me happier (as I think I've said before) than seeing dear old Catherine Piper on Boston Legal and in the offices of Crane, Poole, and Schmidt. Tonight that fantastic, fantastic woman was back, but rather than having killed someone, she was working at the firm once more. Or, that's what she claimed anyway.

It may seem a little incongruous to have a Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles episode start at a New Year's Eve speakeasy party with a bunch of flappers, but that's exactly what we were treated to tonight. It all seemed so great and special, right up until a fire began and everyone started running for the exit. That sort of thing puts a damper on parties, even New Year's Eve ones.

Two weeks ago, we all gave thanks for a very emotional episode of Gossip Girl, with the possible exception of Vanessa, who you know is vegan and doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving because of the oppression of zzzzzzzz I'm sorry, what? Oh, right. Thanksgiving has come and gone and now we have even more to be thankful for: some sort of Christmas cotillion! I hope everyone wears masks again.

Man, that was one long eclipse, was it not? But now that the sun is out again, the Heroes have their powers back and Nathan Petrelli has turned back into the World's Most Suggestible Politician, we can get back to the business of starting to wrap up this arc.

Last time on The Hills... Spencer hadn't forgiven Stephanie for being friends with Lauren and Audrina went completely off the rails and accused Lauren and Justin of hooking up. Can Lauren still trust Audrina?

Last week on Prison Break, the Breakouts realized that Don Self completely screwed them. This week, they get to return the favor -- after some death-defying and Hail-Mary-pass activities, of course. Plus, T-Bag is going to be in SUCH big trouble...

Urgent communique: Fulcrum managed to sneak into Miss Sarah J's secret lair and install a signal-scrambler. While she gets that sorted out -- and she's high-kicked three ninjas already, so it shouldn't be long -- I'll be your Chuck handler for the evening.

Californication has largely shied away from the narrating technique known as the flashback. Not only do we catch-up by overusing it, we get the added benefit of the quintessential Seattle grunge soundtrack adding to the story. This left me largely with a “meh” feeling for the evening, but it does set-up the final two episodes quite nicely.

A high-minded person would probably spend 400 words talking about how The Amazing Race mixed up the real and the fake by hiring an actor from The Hunt for Red October to be in an actual Russian submarine on tonight's episode (November 30). There could be big old 25-cent words thrown around about stuff like that. Essays could be written. Doctorates awarded. I'm not that guy.

This week on Brothers & Sisters, we learn that some things (major demolition work) are best left to people with lots of experience; some things (running a start-up, becoming an advertising exec) are ideal for passionate newbies; and one thing (taking down your arch-nemesis) is just made for family.

It's always tough for the episode that comes after the big, exciting episode. Sure, two weeks ago we had fights, arson, and general mayhem on Desperate Housewives, but tonight's installment was tasked with cleaning up the aftermath, which isn't quite as sexy. That said, it wasn't half bad - it's a rare episode when none of the B-plots annoy me, so huzzah for that.

This week's Pushing Daisies dug into the storybooks and presented the tale of a modern-day Robin Hood with a bit of a loose screw. If only ABC had a hero complex—perhaps PD wouldn't have been canceled.