Lost ·
Season 3 ·
Episode 21 ·
Aired May 16, 2007
As the beach-dwelling survivors continue to plan their ambush of The Others, another plan is in the works to try and get them off the island. It seems that Sayid, who I think I will start calling The Onion as he has so many layers to him, has managed to retrieve a set of blueprints for another Dharma station, this one called The Looking Glass.
It seems that The Looking Glass is an underwater station that is underwater somewhere off the beach, but perhaps more importantly, it broadcasts a signal that keeps the island from being found. That means if they can turn off the signal, the island might be able to be found, and they can be rescued. Now to figure out how to find the station, swim down to it, turn off the signal, get back, initiate the ambush…
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Heroes ·
Season 1 ·
Episode 21 ·
Aired May 7, 2007
Am I the only one who thinks that Heroes is getting really strange? Besides my wife, I mean. The whole idea is interesting and all, but they really have to cut down on the cast of characters or I think I’m going to need to hire an assistant to keep up. Or maybe I’ll just have to not keep up. That might be easier. And cheaper.
In any case, Hiro and Ando are back. Which is to say that they are now in the present, because they were in the future. Since they have no idea what they are doing, they turn to The Comic, which tells them… nothing. So we get to see what everyone else is doing instead.
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The Sopranos ·
Season 6 ·
Episode 18 ·
Aired May 13, 2007
As The Sopranos starts to wind down – and seems like it will never reach the eventual conclusion – at least we’re starting to see some death again. In this case, Christopher is the one who finds a brutal end, but in a bizarre turn of events, it’s only partially due to brutality from another person.
As Chris is driving Tony – and perhaps most importantly, Chris is distracted by just about everything, including the fact that he’s bonkers on whatever is going through his system at the time – he looses control of the truck, sending it off the road and careening into a Talladega-worthy crash. But that’s only the beginning.
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Close to Home ·
Season 2 ·
Episode 22 ·
Aired May 11, 2007
Fall From Grace was the second part of the three-part season (and as it seems, series) finale, so enjoy the last of the Close to Home recaps. Unless they ever issue the Season 1 DVD, this will be the last of them.
Since Conlon has now waved goodbye to his bid for election, he has vowed to go full-bore after the corruption plaguing the police department, and it seems like he just might get it. A new tip comes in that looks like they just might have the evidence that they need to prosecute Detective Veeder for his role in all the goings-on around town. But Annabeth isn’t there to investigate the tip. She’s taking care of the kid, or her new beau or something. So Maureen goes instead. This is both good and bad. Good for Annabeth, but bad for Maureen, because Maureen gets whacked. Sopranos whacked. Seriously.
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Ghost Whisperer ·
Season 2 ·
Episode 22 ·
Aired May 11, 2007
The crescendo is building to the climax of Season 2 – what we found out in The Prophet was that Melinda met Gabriel, someone like herself (meaning only that he could see ghosts). She also found new meaning with the number five – with four catastrophic events happening, each of which created deaths that ended up somehow adding up to the number five. Now that we’re onto the finale, we get to see the fifth – can you guess what it is?
It’s actually the celebration – perhaps mourning is a better word – of the plane crash from last season’s finale. My only complaint about that is that these other events happened around the world, and then the plane crash happened in Grandview, as does this one? That’s just a little too strange for me. I mean it’s not like Melinda is going on vacation or anything, but the last two events, both happening in this sleepy little town? Sure, that could happen. But we’ll go with it.
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My Name is Earl ·
Season 2 ·
Episode 23 ·
Aired May 10, 2007
Way back in Very Bad Things, Joy stole a truck (it also turned out that the guy died, as recounted in Kept a Guy Locked in a Truck, but it started at the beginning of the season). It also turns out that the offense would be Joy’s third, which is why she’s trying to get out of it. Her third strike means that she goes away for a long time, which she doesn’t want to do. It also means she’s running from the law, like The Dukes of Hazzard, which means we get to hear that classic, and the fact that she’s running also means we get a bonus appearance from Dog the Bounty Hunter, and strangely that fact isn’t mentioned. But I digress.
Crab Man is having a tough time – but it’s tough to tell if it’s with the kids, or because the kids appear to be taping Mr. Turtle to various surfaces of the trailer where he doesn’t seem to want to be taped. Randy is also having issues, but then Randy always has issues, and it’s not really a problem. Mostly it is because Earl is now trying to make something of himself, and Randy isn’t sure how he’ll be left to fend for himself. I suspect that he’ll be just fine.
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Lost ·
Season 3 ·
Episode 20 ·
Aired May 9, 2007
The Brig was pretty straightforward. A little wacky, with Locke calling on Sawyer to whack his old man (without getting into the subject of how he actually got to the island). But fairly straightforward, other than that one little detail. Now we’re going off-course. Way off-course. It’s a good trip, because we get to find out where little Ben came from. Sort of.
Alongside a road – some road, apparently off in the wilds, where peace-loving people hang out – a woman is giving birth. Her name is Emily. In the process, she dies. But Ben is born. His father, distraught over this turn of events, takes a break from reality, and on the advice of a friend, heads to an island where he can get away from it all. Really away from it all. He takes his son, Ben, because he doesn’t know what else to do, other than blame Ben – repeatedly – for the death of Emily. Not a good father-figure, which helps explain just why little Ben is so messed up once he gets older. It also makes you wonder why Ben says that he was born on the island, when obviously he wasn’t – he was of an age where he should have remember coming. Anyway. That’s for another time.
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Jericho ·
Season 1 ·
Episode 22 ·
Aired May 9, 2007
This is it. In Coalition of the Willing, it seemed like the battle was coming. Now it is. We also don’t really know if there will be any further Jericho after tonight, but that may not matter, because this might just be the end of it all. Unfortunately we have to sit through a bunch of nonsense about how Eric married April and Jake became the number one bad boy. But who cares? Jericho is just about the best show ever, and it’s going to come to a head.
Even better, we get to meet Grandpa Green. He is so cool he overcomes the wimpiness that is Eric. It just leaves you wondering how Eric came out of the same bloodline. Maybe he didn’t. But that’s for another story, another time (probably never, but hey – it sounds good). What I – and everyone else – wants to know is why all the coolest of the Green clan end up dead. If anyone deserves to live in that family, it was Grandpa Green. That man had more cool in his few minutes of screen time than most of the rest of the residents of Jericho. But I digress. There’s a war happening, people!
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Heroes ·
Season 1 ·
Episode 20 ·
Aired May 8, 2007
We don’t need the present. Or you have to figure that’s the case, because that’s what’s happening tonight on Heroes. It’s now five years later (hence the title) and pretty much everyone is dead. What happened, you ask? Sylar exploded, not Peter, so those of you hanging onto all hope that cute little Peter won’t get hurt, you should be happy. Unfortunately, it seems that good-guy Ando has bought the farm, and perpetual short-sticker Parkman now works for Homeland Security, run by evil Nathan, and he is getting ready to lock up past Hiro (who is present Hiro to us, but he’s past to them). Good enough for now? Good.
Why would Parkman want to lock up Hiro? Because apparently present Hiro (that is, future Hiro to us, present Hiro to them) is considered a terrorist. When past Hiro shows up, they think he is present Hiro, and since they finally think they have him, they are going to grab him. Naturally that means that present Hiro has to bust him out. Meanwhile, HRG is running something of an underground hero railroad from someplace in Texas (probably the diner). Then present Hiro shows up, and he’s looking for Peter. The only problem is that Peter is invisible. And he’s dating Niki. That makes sense – if you were going to date a hero, wouldn’t you want to date Niki? Remember her job before she started killing people? What doesn’t make sense is why Peter has a monstrous scar on his face. I thought he could heal himself, thanks to exposure to Claire-bear. Maybe we’ll find out.
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The Sopranos ·
Season 6 ·
Episode 17 ·
Aired May 7, 2007
In Chasing It, we discovered that T had a gambling problem. Not a gambling problem where he would bet money and let it ride so that he’d just keep going because of the adrenalin rush or anything, but he’d win and since it seemed like his luck was beginning to change, he would keep it going, and then he’d lose it all. It looks like Tony is about to fall and fall hard.
Meanwhile, back on the home front, Christopher makes plans with his new father-in-law to sell some stolen power tools. Quick-like, by a show of hands, tell me who sees that ending badly? I thought so – me too. While Chrissy is trying to stay all clean and sober, it’s not doing any favors for his career path in the family business, and neither Paulie nor Tony seem to care too much. It’s like he’s been ostracized and no one told him about it. Poor kid. So when Little Paulie decides to take a few extra tools from the store, Chris decides that he’ll just take care of it himself – he throws Paulie out of a window. Sweet. That’s what we’ve been waiting for – a little action!
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