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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The Amazing Race ·
Season 11 ·
Episode 13 ·
Aired May 6, 2007
Low to the Ground, That’s My Technique
Dustin and Kandice left Fort Soledad, Guam in first place, and it seemed ilke they were ready to win the whole enchilada. Or pineapple. Or whatever they eat in Guam. But since the next clue said that they had to fly nearly four thousand miles to Honolulu, Hawaii, it meant that there was a chance for the other teams to catch up first, and that’s just what they did.
The beauty queens scored a flight that landed in Honolulu at 7:40am. Eric and Danielle were not able to get the same flight, as it had been fully booked, but they found out that a later flight made the same connection, and Charla and Mirna were able to do the same. In Tokyo, however, Charla and Mirna just disappeared - it seems that she noticed an earlier connection, and it turns out Dustin and Kandice figured it out too, since they managed to make it as well. This put Eric and Danielle some 40 minutes behind the other teams.
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My Name is Earl ·
Season 2 ·
Episode 22 ·
Aired May 3, 2007
Earl has landed himself a job in the shipping department at an appliance store. Randy works there too. But in this sendup to Rudy, the man with the list wants a little bit more for himself.
Quite unlike the role he played in Rudy, Sean Astin plays Rick here - and Rick works up front as a salesman. The salesmen don’t associate with the guys in back. It’s definitely a class distinction, and they make sure that Earl knows where he is supposed to stay. Earl takes over the role of Rudy, and he does everything that he can to make it up from the docks to the first-team. He wants to be a salesman, and he’s determined to prove it to manager Reggie (Charles S. Dutton, who of course was Rudy’s inspirational advisor in the movie).
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Close to Home ·
Season 2 ·
Episode 21 ·
Aired May 4, 2007
The three-part season finale continues, picking up where Drink the Cup left off last week.
Annabeth continues to try and dig up some dirt on Veeder, but she’s not gaining much ground. The investigation focuses on the girls who were staying at the home run by Veeder’s wife and the wives of the other team members, and it looks like some more details are slowly emerging, but there’s now another problem - it looks like Hailey is being threatened. So Annabeth needs to figure out if she should press on, and try and connect Veeder to this mess, or if she needs to back off and keep her family safe. Naturally, she’ll probably take the first option - but she does seem to consider the second one. At least for a few minutes.
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