By Jamie Ruby
Friday night marks the season premiere of USA Network's Fairly Legal, which returns for its second season. The legal drama stars Sarah Shahi as feisty mediator Kate Reed. This season things are changing, including the introduction of a new potential love interest for Kate, with Ben Grogan (Ryan Johnson). Kate's life only gets more complicated while new problems arise with her soon-to-be-ex-husband Justin Patrick (Michael Trucco), as well as with work. The firm is on the verge of collapse and she and her stepmother Lauren Reed (Viginia Williams) must try to stay civil and work together if they want to save it.
On Saturday Shahi talked to the media about the new season of Fairly Legal.
Friday night marks the season premiere of USA Network's Fairly Legal, which returns for its second season. The legal drama stars Sarah Shahi as feisty mediator Kate Reed. This season things are changing, including the introduction of a new potential love interest for Kate, with Ben Grogan (Ryan Johnson). Kate's life only gets more complicated while new problems arise with her soon-to-be-ex-husband Justin Patrick (Michael Trucco), as well as with work. The firm is on the verge of collapse and she and her stepmother Lauren Reed (Viginia Williams) must try to stay civil and work together if they want to save it.On Saturday Shahi talked to the media about the new season of Fairly Legal.
Tonight, NBC will air the third episode of it's new series, Awake. The series follows Detective Michael Britten, played by Jason Isaacs, who was recently in a car crash where someone he loved was killed. The thing is, Britten doesn't know whether his wife, Hannah, played by Laura Allen, or his son, Rex, played by Dylan Minnette, is the one who survived. In one reality, Britten mourns the loss of his son with Hannah. Then, when he goes to sleep, he awakens in a reality where his son is alive and his wife is gone.
This show has never feared what's coming in the future for its characters. A lot of this episode addresses that notion, particularly with regard to Alicia. She's prompted to look at expensive houses because her landlord might evict them from their luxury condo. Her kids are soon to be in college. If she goes through with the divorce from Peter (and that's looking more and more remote), that's a significant loss of income despite her position as a high-powered lawyer.
I had promised myself I’d stop using movie analogies when reviewing “Person of Interest”. I’d give myself a chance to stretch and find new ways to sum up the show. But the producers obviously were onto my plan. Perhaps they actually have a Machine, but one that anticipates the viewers’ every thought. How else to explain “Baby Blue”, which I can only describe as their take on “Three Men and a Baby”, with a decidedly lethal twist?
Tonight Syfy will air the season two finale of the special effects makeup competition, Face Off, and choose a winner. Conor McCullagh, the winner of last year's competition, who appeared on the series earlier in the season, talked to the digital media recently about his time on Face Off and this years competition, as well as some of his other projects, including Vampire Diaires and The Hunger Games.
The producers warned us that the season was going to get more intense, and they certainly weren’t kidding. A number of situations take a decidedly ugly turn in this episode, challenging expectations and reminding us that this is a show that is enjoying a creative high point.
“The River” takes a step back from the psychological horrors of the previous episode and turns to something a bit more familiar to genre fans in this installment. I would call this the “Resident Evil episode”, because that was precisely what was coming to mind from the start. And given my usual lack of enthusiasm for zombie stories (closer to loathing, actually), I was surprised at how well this episode worked for me.
I think it's safe to say that this season hasn't been as impressive, overall, as I'd hoped it would be. There have been some high points, to be sure, but the bulk of the drama unfolding at the farm has been disappointingly bland and underwhelming.
This installment comes across as a bit innocuous, a low-key story compared to the Wham! moments of "Vexed" and just what's needed to keep things moving in a fun little show like "Lost Girl". A good old fashioned Fae holiday, combined with a chance for the show's ensemble darkhorse to spread her wings a little, certainly doesn't disappoint.
Because nothing happens without purpose in a season of “Spartacus”, unless the real world intervenes, all that tension between the rebel factions was going to bubble to the surface before long. With Agron feeling more and more on the outside, especially with Oenomeus back in the fold, it was almost inevitable that he would rescue a large group of his own people over Gauls. And it takes no time at all for them to get out of Agron’s control.