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Fringe S04E17 – Everything in it’s Right Place

NB. Ben Matern and Dave Owen will be sharing reviewing duties on the fourth season of Fringe. Easter is a time to celebrate restoration. Life where there was death, good where there is evil, love where there is hate. It seems f...
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Fringe S04E16 – Nothing As it Seems

NB. Ben Matern and Dave Owen will be sharing reviewing duties on the fourth season of Fringe. To quote Homer, “Sweet merciful crap”. This week we got some of our science back, some seriously insane scenes and an interesting...
by David Owen
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Checking in with…New Girl

The debut of a series inevitably brings with it expectations; of tone, of plot development and direction, of character arcs. These can affect not only the initial reception but also long-term investment. A pilot that suggests t...
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Parks and Recreation S04E18 – Lucky

Often when a show resorts to a love triangle in order to force drama and character interaction I cry foul. There’s something about it that feels forced and ultimately inconsequential because as fans of a show we know who ...
by David Owen
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Fringe S04E14 – The End of All Things

It’s hard not to see all the answers that came in this week’s great episode as the beginning of the end. The revelation about who the observers are, the rationale behind September’s decision to ‘erase’ Peter from the ...
by David Owen
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Parks and Recreation / Dave Returns (S04E15)

NB. Alexeem Boyle and Dave Owen will be sharing reviewing duties on the fourth season of Parks and Recreation. When it comes to Parks and Recreation I’m hardly what you’d call impartial. My fascination with and love for bot...
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Fringe S04E12 – Welcome to Westfield

NB. Ben Matern and Dave Owen will be sharing reviewing duties on the fourth season of Fringe. It doesn’t matter what timeline or universe you live in one thing is constant… love in a serialised television show is going ...
by David Owen
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Fringe S04E10 – Forced Perspective

NB. Ben Matern and Dave Owen will be sharing reviewing duties on the fourth season of Fringe. We’ve discussed the tenuous relationship that Fringe explores between religion and science, so much so that I’ll try to minimise ...
by David Owen
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Parks and Recreation – Bowling for Votes (S04E13)

I’m a huge fan of politics on both the silver screen and its smaller cousin. The West Wing is the most obvious example and I’ve referenced it previously in my reviews of Parks and Recreation. While the similarities might se...
by David Owen
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News of the Day 24/01/12

Tracy Morgan collapsed at Sundance but has recovered and is heading back to 30 Rock India is mad at a joke Jay Leno told… Lea Michele will appear on the Glee Project 2 American Idol due a ratings boost from Football lead ...
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Fringe S04E09 – Enemy of my Enemy

Fringe has been many things to many people over the course of its three and a half seasons; medical drama, procedural, broken home weepie, ill-fated love story, to name just a few. What made it even more than just the sum of th...
by David Owen
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News of the Day 23/1/12

The Firm is making NBC long for the halcyon days of Prime Suspect and Lone Star Maggie Gyllenhaal, Greta Gerwig and Rhys Ifans all being considered for HBO’s The Corrections Modern Family, Downton Abbey and Boardwalk Empi...
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