The Checklist: Frontier (S1 Ep1) “A Kingdom Unto Itself”
It’s about time that a show looked back into the wild colonial times of North America. I’m a big fan of Turn but even it gets a little ridiculous with the dramatic storytelling of some of...
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The Checklist: Shooter (S1 Ep10) “Primer Contact”
Fans of the USA Network series Shooter rejoiced when it was announced that the show, starring Ryan Phillippe and Omar Epps, had been renewed for a second season. This was really no surprise to me as...
The Checklist: Shooter (S1 Ep1) “Point of Impact”
USA Network has a long history with action television series dating back to the 1980’s when they aired the final season of Airwolf. So when news hit that USA was getting back into the action game...
The Checklist: The Equalizer (S4 Ep5) “The Day of the Covenant”
I classify The Equalizer as one of the unsung heroes of the 1980’s… both the show and the character. As much as I love the pure fun of other shows from the era like The A-Team...
The Checklist: Jean-Claude Van Johnson (S1 Ep1)
What makes a television show great? That is something I was thinking about as I watched Jean-Claude Van Johnson, one of three new half hour comedies that comprise Amazon’s Pilot Season. 1. Does the show have star...
The Checklist: The A-Team (S5 Ep10) “The Crystal Skull”
In this installment of The Checklist, we will put an episode from the fifth and final season of The A-Team to The Checklist test. Two new characters were added in the fifth season, one was a...
The Checklist: Burn Notice (S1 Ep9) “Hard Bargain”
For those of you who are not familiar with the show Burn Notice, here’s a little background about the show… Burn Notice centers around a former spy named Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan). Westen is burned or blacklisted by...
The Checklist: The Equalizer (S4 Ep7) “Making of a Martyr”
The Equalizer, starring Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, enjoyed a prime time run on CBS from the mid to late 1980’s. In this edition of The Checklist, I will put to the test an episode from...
The Checklist: Daredevil (S2 Ep1) “Bang”
Season 2 of Marvel’s Daredevil showed up on Netflix this past Friday and I can only imagine it has been watched by 88% of humanity. If that calculation seems high it’s only because I have such...
The Checklist: Spartacus (S3 Ep1) “Fugitivus”
I had been putting off watching the Spartacus show on Starz for some time. I tried watching it a few years ago but was put off from it by how horrible the writing was and how...
