Rapid Recaps & TV Web-bits From Last Week
Abe Fried-Tanzer - October 11, 2009
Each week TV Tango takes you around the dial and across the web so you can read recaps of the hottest programs and catch up on the biggest TV-related news stories from the previous week.
Rapid Recaps From Last Week
| Curb Your Enthusiasm – "The Reunion" (10/4/2009) | |||
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Larry realizes that putting together a Seinfeld reunion may help him win Cheryl back. He sets out to convince the cast to come back but jeopardizes the future of the reunion when he curses out an executive from NBC. | ||
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Dexter – "Remains to Be Seen" (10/4/2009) |
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Dexter scrambles to get rid of any incriminating evidence, and his need to cover up his actions causes him to ignore Lundy, who wants to shop around Trinity Killer theories, and Quinn, who is caught by Dexter skimming off the top at a bust. | ||
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Mad Men – "Souvenir" (10/4/2009) |
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Betty gets a taste of a more exciting life when she accompanies Don on a business trip to Rome and yearns to have more experiences that allow her to get away from her everyday life. Pete falls back into old habits when his wife goes away. | ||
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NCIS: Los Angeles – "Predator" (10/6/2009) |
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The team reaches outside their jurisdiction and scrambles to follow the trail of a hacker to find a drone with hellfire missiles before the thieves who killed a marine are able to use it as part of a terrorist plot. | ||
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Sons of Anarchy – "Smite" (10/6/2009) |
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Tensions continue to build between the SAMCRO and the white separatists as well as between Clay and Jax. Gemma spots the woman who handed her over to her rapists in town. Uncer and Hale have a serious conversation about their loyalties. | ||
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Glee – "Vitamin D" (10/7/2009) |
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When Sue fuels Terri's jealousy of Emma's relationship with Will, Terri takes a job as the school nurse. Her free-wheeling policies for over-the-counter drugs enhance the performances by both teams in a glee club Battle of the Sexes that Will devises to motivate the group. | ||
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FlashForward – "137 Sekunden" (10/8/2009) |
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Mark uncovers information about the flash forwards from a Nazi prisoner whose release seems guaranteed based on several corresponding flash forward accounts. Demetri grapples with telling his wife he's going to die while Aaron nearly falls off the wagon. | ||
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The Office – "Niagara, Parts 1 & 2" (10/8/2009) |
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The office travels to Niagara Falls for Jim and Pam’s wedding. Several crises threaten to derail the wedding, including Jim letting slip that Pam is pregnant in front of her conservative grandmother and Michael trying to incorporate himself into the wedding. | ||
TV Web-bits From Last Week
- CBS ordered full seasons of new Tuesday night offerings NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Wife. (Source: The Insider)
- HBO renewed freshman series Bored to Death for a second season, set to being production in 2010. (Source: Variety)
- Showtime announced that it will launch animated webisodes based on its hit series Dexter, starting October 25th on sho.com. (Source: The Futon Critic)
- NBC has decided to cancel Southland before the second season even begins, deeming it inappropriate for a 9pm time slot. (Source: TVGuide.com)
- ABC has faith in three of its Wednesday night comedies – The Middle, Modern Family, and Cougar Town, and has given them all full-season pickups. (Source: NY Times Arts Beat)
- CBS plans to remake Hawaii Five-O and has ordered a pilot. (Source: Hollywood Reporter)
- Lauren Graham will replace Maura Tierney in NBC’s midseason series Parenthood. (Source: EW's Ausiello)
- TNT is remaking Dallas, focusing on the sons of JR and Bobby. (Source: NY Times)
Abe Fried-Tanzer is a student at New York University majoring in cinema studies and journalism. He makes it his priority each year to see every Oscar-nominated film and watch every new television pilot, and writes reviews and awards predictions on his personal movie and TV blogs.
