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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 8/2/2013 6:13:18 AM

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Not only that but he dusts them off. Really nice moment.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 9/2/2013 1:56:12 PM

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1. Community 3.17 - Basic Lupine Urology
A new number one, taking the spot of Remedial Chaos Theory. I'm a massive fan of Law and Order and this was a glorious parody of the show, absolutely perfect. Everything worked. Superb characterisations, an amazingly great background joke as well that I'm surprised they managed to use, the plot was L&O 101 complete with twist ending, the use of location title cards and the "chung chung" effect was great and the cameo from Leslie Hendrix was the icing on the cake.

41. Community 3.16 - Virtual Systems Analysis

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 10/2/2013 12:31:01 PM

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Frasier / Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do series 05 ep11 (1998)
An episode that is high in laughs but also emotion . The end of this episode is lovely with Frasier and Martin awkwardly (but quickly not) sitting at a bar together watching a game and drinking a beer.

Utopia / series 01 ep04 (2013)
I can�t tell if I�m enjoying this series or not, I mean I�m still watching it and I�m still a little bit interested in what is going to happen but I�m not massively enthused.

Community / History 101 series 04 ep01 (2013)
Yay it�s back! An average episode for Community but still far better than anything I�ve seen from other American comedies of late.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 12/2/2013 2:46:50 AM

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Enlightened / The Ghost Is Seen Series 2 Episode 5 (2013)

Over the last 6 weeks Enlightened has become one of my favourite programs. It features a plethora of great performances both in front of and behind the camera. It is also has two of the best TV episodes I�ve ever seen. One is Consider Helen, which shifts the perspective from Laura Dern�s lead Amy Jellicoe to her mother to quietly devastating effect, and is the highlight of 2011′s television. The other, Sunday�s The Ghost Is Seen.

This episode focuses on Tyler- Amy�s lonely, shy colleague at Cogentiva played by writer/showrunner Mike White. As uncomfortable as it is to admit, Tyler is one of the character I most relate to in any pop culture over the last couple of years and and Mike White is so good at writing and playing the character, so I wanted came into this episode with high expectations, which were surpassed.

The image of lonely people as ghosts is a recurring one in Enlightened, and one that this opening narration captures quite well with Tyler describing himself as having nothing tying him down and no to love to lose, and spinning these as positives. This is one of the saddest moments I�ve seen in the show. He�s been so lonely for so long, it�s almost comfortable in it�s familiarity.

This is where Eileen (Molly Shannon) comes in. Shannon makes a great addition to the cast. She serves a double purpose in the show. For Tyler she represents his first real relationship in what seems a long time, and their romance is genuinely very sweet. However it is undermined from the start by Tyler allowing Amy and Dougie to hack her computer as they are trying to take down Abaddonn CEO Charles Szidon. This deceit makes the entire relationship bittersweet. Tyler is finally finding a degree of happiness, but it is predicated on deceit.

This overarching feeling is expressed brilliantly in the narration, with Tyler again casting himself as a ghost.

The ghost is sad. All those years invisible haunt him now. Why didn�t he try? Or care? Or be? The ghost is happy. He is found. He is held and he is seen. The Ghost is seen.

His current happiness fills him with regret for the years he has wasted. Although it works both ways- his years of loneliness also allow him to feel this happiness more keenly.

I want him to keep his happiness, but I�m not hopeful that he will.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 14/2/2013 11:43:22 AM

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I've been thinking about checking out Enlightened.

Black Mirror / Be Right Back series 02 ep01
I really enjoyed this and I hope the rest of the series (well 2 episodes) is just as good. Where I quite liked the first Series of Black Mirror I wasn�t as enamoured as the majority, Be Right Back was quite low key by comparison or least appeared so but I�ve been thinking about it a bit the last few days. I thought Haley Atwell was very good and Domhnall Gleeson popped up again which right now is a pretty fantastic occurrence.

The Following / Chapter Two series 01 ep02
The Following / The Poet's Fire series 01 ep03
The Following / Mad Love series 01 ep04
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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 14/2/2013 12:32:06 PM

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I've been thinking about checking out Enlightened.

Black Mirror / Be Right Back series 02 ep01
I really enjoyed this and I hope the rest of the series (well 2 episodes) is just as good. Where I quite liked the first Series of Black Mirror I wasn�t as enamoured as the majority, Be Right Back was quite low key by comparison or least appeared so but I�ve been thinking about it a bit the last few days. I thought Haley Atwell was very good and Domhnall Gleeson popped up again which right now is a pretty fantastic occurrence.

Thoroughly enjoyed it as well and it's a great companion piece to 'the entire history of you' (obviously the standout of the last series, which I noticed Robert Downey Jnr bought the rights to recently). Brooker's fictional writing is improving all the time.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 14/2/2013 2:07:41 PM

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I've been thinking about checking out Enlightened.

Oh you should. It has a bit of a slow start, but one that still feels like it's building to something. And what it builds to is so good. It's been on such a roll from the latter half of last season. I was actually thinking that of the people on the forum, you and rawlinson would probably like it the most.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 14/2/2013 5:21:50 PM

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I've been thinking about checking out Enlightened.

Oh you should. It has a bit of a slow start, but one that still feels like it's building to something. And what it builds to is so good. It's been on such a roll from the latter half of last season. I was actually thinking that of the people on the forum, you and rawlinson would probably like it the most.

I�ll add it to my ever growing list. I was looking at watching it and I like your review so it�s moved up at bit.

The Wire / The Target series 01 ep01 (2002)
Yeah that was good.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 14/2/2013 5:25:42 PM

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The Wire / The Target series 01 ep01 (2002)
Yeah that was good.

Woo-hoo!

And yeah, I'll check out Enlightened at some point.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 14/2/2013 6:09:03 PM

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ORIGINAL: paul_ie86

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ORIGINAL: impqueen

I've been thinking about checking out Enlightened.

Oh you should. It has a bit of a slow start, but one that still feels like it's building to something. And what it builds to is so good. It's been on such a roll from the latter half of last season. I was actually thinking that of the people on the forum, you and rawlinson would probably like it the most.

I�ll add it to my ever growing list. I was looking at watching it and I like your review so it�s moved up at bit.

Thanks. And I hope you like it.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 14/2/2013 6:21:36 PM

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And yeah, I'll check out Enlightened at some point.

Cool.

This happens before the opening credits in the pilot:

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 16/2/2013 12:21:06 PM

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Battlestar Galactica / The Hand of God series 01 ep10 (2004)
I love Mary McDonnell and BSG is still a firm favourite.

Enlightened / Now or Never series 01 ep02 (2011)
Enlightened / Pilot series 01 ep01 (2011)
I�m really enjoying Enlightened. I know it�s only two episodes but it�s been a really interesting hour or so. At times laugh out loud funny yet there�s a pleasant dramatic underlining.

Justified / The Moonshine War series 02 ep01 (2011)
I loved the first Series so why it took me so long to get around to the second I�ve no idea. Justified is a brilliant series with a great lead and some wonderful support.

The Walking Dead / The Suicide King series 03 ep09 (2013)
I don�t love The Walking Dead but I keep watching, so it must be doing something right.

The Wire / The Detail series 01 ep02 (2002)
I always thought The Wire was younger than it is, it has aged but then I suppose it is a distinct product of the time and despite the age (first series is ten years old) it�s an incredibly well formed show, even at this early stage.

Side Note: Adam Arkin has been directing the shit out of many of the episodes of television I�ve watched recently.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 19/2/2013 2:50:02 AM

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Black Mirror / Whitebear Series 2 Episode 2 (2013)

This was not a sandwich of fun on ecstacy bread all wrapped up like disco fudge. Still good though.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 19/2/2013 2:52:26 AM

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Black Mirror / Whitebear Series 2 Episode 2 (2013)

This was not a sandwich of fun on ecstacy bread all wrapped up like disco fudge. Still good though.

I just wish I could help these FUCKIN MOOD SWINGS.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 19/2/2013 2:52:55 AM

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Enlightened / Now or Never series 01 ep02 (2011)
Enlightened / Pilot series 01 ep01 (2011)
I�m really enjoying Enlightened. I know it�s only two episodes but it�s been a really interesting hour or so. At times laugh out loud funny yet there�s a pleasant dramatic underlining.

Glad to see you're enjoying it.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 21/2/2013 7:11:35 PM

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Enlightened / Consider Helen series 01 ep9 (2011)
I�ve one more episode of the first series to go and I have to say it's been ridiculously brilliant. I think it's probably quite a polarizing series but I've absolutely loved every episode. I've not written much about it because of my limit skills however Consider Helen deserves to be highlighted. It's an audacious slice of television that switches focus from our star Laura Dern to her on screen (and off) mother Helen (Diane Ladd) a day in the life sort of thing. So far in the series Helen has been a cold, at times distant and somewhat uninterested presence hovering on the fringes of each episode, here we explore her a little bit more and it�s heart-breaking. Consider Helen is one of the best episodes of any television series I�ve seen in years.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 21/2/2013 9:09:50 PM

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Enlightened / Consider Helen series 01 ep9 (2011)
I�ve one more episode of the first series to go and I have to say it's been ridiculously brilliant. I think it's probably quite a polarizing series but I've absolutely loved every episode. I've not written much about it because of my limit skills however Consider Helen deserves to be highlighted. It's an audacious slice of television that switches focus from our star Laura Dern to her on screen (and off) mother Helen (Diane Ladd) a day in the life sort of thing. So far in the series Helen has been a cold, at times distant and somewhat uninterested presence hovering on the fringes of each episode, here we explore her a little bit more and it�s heart-breaking. Consider Helen is one of the best episodes of any television series I�ve seen in years.

The scene in the supermarket is amazing isn't it?

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 21/2/2013 10:34:23 PM

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It was amazing. I shouted at my screen for the other woman to stop talking.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 22/2/2013 12:52:24 AM

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It was amazing. I shouted at my screen for the other woman to stop talking.

I was just in awe of it. I don't think I've ever seen a scene that was just two elderly women talking given that amount of time. The Helen/Levi scene was brilliant too.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 22/2/2013 8:26:00 AM

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I liked that too, the fact as awesome as Diane Ladd is it was an episode (and scene) in which you have two women in their seventies, being women in their seventies. No gloss, no Hollywood bollocks. It did however make me more and more uncomfortable (for Helen) the longer the conversation went on which was probably the point, it was excellent.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 22/2/2013 3:20:58 PM

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The Booth at the End / Start. See What Happens series 01 ep01 (2010) Citytv / FX
Is Xander Berkeley�s The Man, God or The Devil? Either way he can grant you whatever you desire but the question is how far would you go to get what you want? Loved it.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 28/2/2013 3:51:28 PM

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February

01. Enlightened / Consider Helen series 01 ep9 (2011)
02. Battlestar Galactica / Six Degrees of Separation series 01 ep07 (2004)
03. Battlestar Galactica / Litmus series 01 ep06 (2004)
04. Justified / The Moonshine War series 02 ep01 (2011)
05. Enlightened / Burn It Down series 01 ep10 (2011)
06. Battlestar Galactica / The Hand of God series 01 ep10 (2004)
07. Battlestar Galactica / Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down series 01 ep09 (2004)
08. Enlightened / Comrades Unite! series 01 ep08 (2011)
09. Enlightened / Someone Else's Life series 01 ep03 (2011)
10. Black Mirror / Be Right Back series 02 ep01 (2013)

11. Battlestar Galactica / Bastille Day series 01 ep03 (2004)
12. Battlestar Galactica / You Can't Go Home Again series 01 ep05 (2004)
13. Battlestar Galactica / Act of Contrition series 01 ep04 (2004)
14. Battlestar Galactica / Water series 01 ep02 (2004)
15. Enlightened / Not Good Enough Mothers series 01 ep05 (2011)
16. Enlightened / Sandy series 01 ep07 (2011)
17. Enlightened / Pilot series 01 ep01 (2011)
18. The Booth at the End / Nothing More, Nothing Less series 02 ep05 (2012)
19. The Booth at the End / A New Reality series 02 ep02 (2012)
20. The Booth at the End / There Are Consequences series 02 ep01 (2012)

21. The Booth at the End / Our Deal is Done series 01 ep05 (2010)
22. The Booth at the End / I Have My Reasons series 01 ep04 (2010)
23. The Booth at the End / How You Do It Is Up To You series 01 ep03 (2010)
24. The Booth at the End / What One Begins, One Must Finish series 01 ep02 (2010)
25. The Booth at the End / Start. See What Happens series 01 ep01 (2010)
26. The Booth at the End / The Rules of the Game series 02 ep03 (2012)
27. The Booth at the End / It's Not Supposed to Be Easy series 02 ep04 (2012)
28. Slings and Arrows / Oliver's Dream series 01 ep01 (2003)
29. Community / Conventions of Space and Time series 04 ep03 (2013)
30. Battlestar Galactica / Valley of Darkness series 02 ep02 (2005)

31. Battlestar Galactica / Kobol's Last Gleaming series 01 ep12/13 (2005)
32. The Wire / The Detail series 01 ep02 (2002)
33. The Wire / The Target series 01 ep01 (2002)
34. Frasier / Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do series 05 ep11 (1998)
35. Enlightened / Now or Never series 01 ep02 (2011)
36. Enlightened / Lonely Ghosts series 01 ep07 (2011)
37. Community / History 101 series 04 ep01 (2013)
38. Community / Paranormal Parentage series 04 ep02 (2013)
39. Battlestar Galactica / Scattered series 02 ep02 (2005)
40. Battlestar Galactica / Colonial Day series 01 ep11 (2005)

41. Utopia / Series One ep06 (2013)
42. Black Mirror / White Bear series 02 ep02 (2013)
43. Enlightened / The Weekend series 01 ep04 (2011)
44. Doctor Who / Carnival of Monsters series 10 ep01 (1973)
45. Battlestar Galactica / Flesh and Bone series 01 ep08 (2004)
46. Utopia / Series One ep05 (2013)
47. The Walking Dead / Home series 03 ep10 (2013)
48. The Walking Dead / The Suicide King series 03 ep09 (2013)
49. The Americans / Pilot series 01 ep01 (2013)
50. Black Mirror / The Waldo Moment series 02 ep03 (2013)

51. Utopia / Series One ep04 (2013)
52. The Following / The Fall series 01 ep06
53. The Following / Chapter Two series 01 ep02 (2013)
54. The Following / The Poet's Fire series 01 ep03 (2013)
55. The Following / The Siege series 01 ep05 (2013)
56. The Following / Mad Love series 01 ep04 (2013)
57. Heading Out ep01 (2013)

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 28/2/2013 3:54:21 PM

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Booth at the End is good, no?

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 28/2/2013 4:33:47 PM

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It�s very good. I thoroughly adored the first series and though the second isn't as good, it is still a brilliant series. Xander Berkeley does more sitting down in 120 second chunks than most actors do in ten years, he's absolutely superb. I hope there will be a third series.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 28/2/2013 4:35:46 PM

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Ditto. I never really followed it online but I was really impressed at how well they'd brought it to TV.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 28/2/2013 4:41:34 PM

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I�d not heard of it until midway through February, I was reading up on Webseries and it kept popping up and sounded like one of the more interesting shows. I�m pleased I checked it out.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 4/3/2013 10:15:04 PM

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2. Black-Adder II - Beer (#1.5) - 9/10
7. Black-Adder II - Money (#1.4) - 8/10

Two more hilarious episodes with nice supporting work from Miriam Margoyles as Adder's fussy aunt in Beer. There's something oddly satisfying about seeing so many respected actors wearing plastic breasts and getting drunk.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 16/3/2013 4:21:55 PM

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2. Black Adder the Third - Ink and Incapability (#1.2) - 9/10
3. The Big Bang Theory - The Panty Pinata Situation (#2.7) - 9/10

8. Black Adder the Third - Dish and Dishonesty (#1.1) - 8/10
9. Black-Adder II - Chains (#1.6) - 8/10

Final episode of Black-Adder II is funny enough, if not the best, a few gags misfire but as always as mostly the comic timing of all the actors keeps it afloat. Sad to see Miranda Richardson leaving.

Black Adder the Third, starts off a little ropey with some obvious jokes but by episode 2 its on much firmer ground with the new cast of characters working very well. Hugh Laurie is suitably daft in the role that kind of takes over from Tim McInnery. Whilst Robbie Coltrane is brilliant in episode 2 as the pompous git who writes the dictionary and the dream sequence is genius.

Meanwhile Big Bang Theory works well when focusing on relationship between Sheldon and Penny, and this episode from season 2 is a classic where the two of them are at odds with each other.

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 18/3/2013 6:03:29 PM

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10. Black Adder the Third - Nob and Nobility (#1.3) - 8/10
12. Black Adder the Third - Sense and Senility (#1.4) - 8/10

Tim McInnery makes a welcome return in episode 3, as a pompous french man, very funny stuff and I didn't even realise he plays another character until late on. Episode 4 is a funny little poke at actors with bellowing voices, did they have problems with Brian Blessed in the first season?

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RE: Top 100 T.V. Episodes I've Watched This Year: 2013 - 24/3/2013 11:42:06 AM

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21. Alias - Parity (#1.3)
22. My Name is Earl - Sweet Johnny (#4.5)
23. Alias - So it Begins (#1.2)

6/10
24. My Name is Earl - Stole an RV (#4.4)
25. Smash - The Dramaturg (#2.3)

2/10
26. Big Time Rush - Big Time School of Rocque (#1.2)

Black Adder the Third ends on fine form and maintains the quality of the second series. Stephen Fry has a great time smacking Hugh Laurie around as a brutal army captain. The Blackadder specials meanwhile, are whilst still fun despite being very Blackadder-lite. Looking forward to the final season which I'll start soon.
Started watching Community as its been recommended. It's very American is my initial thoughts, some fun stuff in there, especially Chevy Chase but show hasn't grabbed me yet, only two episodes in though so will give it a chance.
Second series of Smash looks set to be more of the same, which is fine but hopefully there will be some new developments.
Alias is daft fun, lots of silly moments but it's a good show to just switch your brain off for a little while. As is My Name is Earl, David Arquette has a nice cameo as sweet johnny.
Big Time Rush is just nonsense that I watched for the eye candy, and it wasn't even all that!

(in reply to Beetlejuice!)

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