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Review'Once Upon A Time' - Into The Deep

Zombies, the art of power napping and true love's kiss

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Now that Henry (Jared Gilmore) and Aurora (Sarah Bolger) can make contact in the "Flaming Disco of Death," Emma and Mary Margaret decide to ask for help dealing with Cora. Rumplestiltskin provides just the thing. He knows how to immobilize Cora (Barbara Hershey) with some magic squid ink (yes, s ...

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Review'Once Upon A Time' - Child Of The Moon

A full moon causes Ruby some hairy problems

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As the first post-Curse full moon arrives, Ruby (Meghan Ory) fears becoming a ravenous wolf again. Her fears seem founded when an innocent tow-truck driver is found murdered in the morning. David (Josh Dallas) sets out to prove that Ruby didn't kill him, putting him at odds with the mob of frightene ...

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Review'Once Upon A Time' - Tallahassee

Emma goes on the road and up a beanstalk

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The series takes a step back this week from more complicated episodes to focus again on Emma's past. Picking up where we left off, Emma (Jennifer Morrison) and Captain Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) head up the beanstalk to steal the magical compass. Between bouts of witty repartee and open flirting ...

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Review'Once Upon A Time' - The Doctor

Even in Storybrooke, dead is dead. Or is it?

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In a Halloween-tinged episode, the series goes for the zombie effect. Sympathy for Regina is built and the question of Dr. Whale's true identity is finally solved. In the Enchanted Forest's past, Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) tries to teach Regina (Lana Parrilla) to use magic. She's dead-set, ...

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Review'Once Upon A Time' - The Crocodile

A certain captain gets his hook, Belle gets a backbone

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Fed up with Rumplestiltskin's insistence on practicing magic in secret and refusing to open up to her, Belle (Emilie de Ravin) takes off on her own. Her father (Eric Keenleyside) and Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) both look for her, but with competing agendas. Rumplestiltskin enlists Prince Ch ...

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Review'Once Upon A Time' - Lady Of The Lake

Four stories wind around what parents do for their children, for better or worse.

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"Once Upon a Time" treads a difficult line this week as it intersperses multiple storylines in both the fairytale and real worlds. The result is mixed. In the fairytale world, Emma (Jennifer Morrison) and Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) are looking for a portal back to the real world. Snow hopes to use ...

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Review'Once Upon A Time' - We Are Both

Regina tries to find her magic, while the town is still in chaos

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This second episode serves as a nice bridge between the reset that occurred last week and the new storylines for the rest of the season. Happily, several recurring and left-behind characters got a chance to come out and play. The seven dwarves discover the hard way that the curse still keeps the ...

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Review'Once Upon A Time' - Broken

The season starts with new characters, new places, new mysteries

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This review may contain spoilers Season 2 of ABC's "Once Upon a Time" picks up right where it ended its successful first season. Both knowledge and magic are returning to Storybrooke. With the Curse broken and Storybrooke's residents aware of their true identities, many happy reunions ensue. ...

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ReviewPreview: 'Warehouse 13' Heads To Explosive Finish

Get a spoiler-free look at the mid-season finale on Syfy

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This preview contains some spoilers leading up to the mid-season finale of "Warehouse 13," but not the mid-season finale itself. When I talked with "Warehouse 13" showrunner Jack Kenny a while back and asked him what was next after an amazing third season finale, even he seemed flabbergasted. How ...

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Review'Alphas' - Gaslight

Shedding light on the Stanton Parish agenda

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This review may contain spoilers Adam Gorton (Noah Reid) is Spiderman. He crawls up walls and ceilings and can toss two grown men around like toys. His sister, Maggie (Nola Martin), is dead from a drug overdose ... or is she? She seems to be calling to him for help and struggling for freedom whil ...

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Review'Alphas' - When Push Comes To Shove

When Nina met Tommy

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This review may contain spoilers A young tween when she was first coming into her powers, Nina's parents were about to get divorced. Nina (Laura Mennell) forced her father (Rod Wilson) to stay; although, she did not know exactly what she was doing at the time. So confused and addled by her coerci ...

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ReviewPreview: 'Revolution' Interesting, But Familiar

Concept may take us back 200 years, but story form takes us back 20

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The Primetime Emmys are just around the corner, so it's no surprise that just as the fall network season is about to begin, discussions and debates abound over the quality of network television to premium cable. I have to admit -- I'm a fan of both distribution models. But there are times where I ...

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Review'Alphas' - Alpha Dogs

Bill finds his happy place

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This review may contain spoilers. This plot-dense episode plants more seeds for later reaping and (maybe) solves one problem. Jack Duffy, a Building 7 escapee, who can generate electricity from his bare hands, has been killed by someone who spits hydrochloric acid. Turns out he was a participa ...

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Review'Alphas' - The Quick And The Dead

Superspeed is not all fun and games

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This review may contain spoilers. "The Quick And The Dead" is an uneven episode that sets many plates spinning, most of which are pretty wobbly. Eli Aquino (C. Thomas Howell) is a petty thief, Building 7 escapee and a super speedster. We are given some folderol about the part of his brain th ...

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Review'Alphas' - Wake Up Call

Resetting the game pieces

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This review may contain spoilers. Eight months after the events of "Original Sin," the Season 1 finale, Lee (David Strathairn) is incarcerated in a mental institution. Rachel (Azita Ghanizada) is a shut-in in the family rooms over the dry cleaning shop, no longer able to deal with the sensory ove ...

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