Wow! Our favorite episode of V ever! Also, our last episode of V ever, sadly. There’s always a chance ABC will, well, take a chance, but given the nature of television and the many squandered opportunities over the history of this series, it doesn’t seem likely we’ll be...

Watching V gets a little more depressing each week. Not because the show is declining, but because it gets slightly (and we mean ever-so) better with each episode but the overwhelming truth of the matter is, it’s too little too late. What a shame that the writers inexplicably figured...

The stench of desperation is seeping through our screen as we watch this show. It seems like every week, they pile on some new plot point or scheme without ever really resolving any of the previous ones, resulting in an enormous pile of information, very little of which makes sense to the...

You know how we know that EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED and Erica and her scrappy band of no-goodniks are going to TAKE THE WAR TO ANNA? Sunglasses, baby. Suddenly, everyone in the 5th Column is sporting a showy pair of shades and we can’t groan hard enough because that’s what passes for...

Okay, then. With this episode, the show has moved definitively closer to our own opinion of where it needed to be: in the middle of an actual war for the survival of humanity, with all that entails. And yet…does anything really feel all that different? Sure, Mr. Erica and Mr. Terrorist...

For once, we have more to commend with an episode of V than to complain about. Unfortunately, a decent episode of V only serves to illustrate how problematic most of the other ones are. It’s a shame it took the writers so long to figure this out, but this story needs to move in order to...

We had a screener of the first 3 episodes of the season and our enthusiasm had waned considerably by the time we got to the end of it. We sat down to watch this unseen-by-us 4th episode both with a sense of dreary obligation and a sense of anticipation. For us, this episode would represent...

Having spent hours trying to figure out a way to write up this episode, we hit upon what we wanted to say just a few seconds ago. It’s this: We’re sticking with this show. This may not seem like a very exciting declaration to you, but considering we spent all day expressing the...

This show. It’s killing us. We can’t remember the last time so many good opportunities were squandered. Here they have a concept that sells itself and a handful of solid television actors to pull it off, and it’s just one mediocre episode after another. We realize...

We have good news and bad news. The good news is V is back, with more energy than it ever displayed last season. The bad news is most of the cast returned. We had a nagging feeling all last season that the show would be improved with a mass killing-off of almost all the peripheral characters...

Now THAT’S what we’re talking about! There were a lot of things to complain about regarding the direction of this show but for us, the #1 complaint was that the 5th Column came off looking awfully stupid every week and never once accomplished anything that could be thought of as a...

You will be pleased (or perhaps puzzled) to know that after offering two, at best, lukewarm reviews of the other two shows on last night’s roster, we’re here to tell you that we kind of loved this one. Oh sure, it’s still a lot of setupsetupsetup with not enough of a payoff,...

Well, the good news is last night’s show was definitely ramped up and things definitely happened. Unfortunately, it ended once again with an only slightly shifted status quo (instead of the major status quo shift we’re increasingly convinced the show needs) and all of the action...

Just before this episode started, we were talking about the show and why it’s just not quite hitting it yet. We decided that what they really need to do is go all in on the idea of a war with a resistance. There’s something a little annoying about all the characters talking about...

Come on, V. We’re still here and still in it for the long haul but you’re giving us precious little to work with. We enjoyed the energy of this episode and the feeling that things are ramping up, but the thing is, things have been ramping up for a while now. It’s time for...

Commencing random thoughts… Well we finally learned the most important thing about John May: he was hot to death. Death is always more tragic when a pretty person dies, don’t you think? With this episode, it feels a bit like they’re clearing the decks of dead-end storylines,...

The show is going in so many directions at once that we’re finding it a little hard to write this post because our heads are still spinning. So we’re pulling a lame old framing device from the bottom of our trick back in order to hit all the points we want to hit: We now know/We...

We are awash in a V glow today, kittens. Why? Well, not only did we get to interview future gay icon Morena Baccarin, who brilliantly portrays future gay icon Anna, but we also got a lovely “Visitors’ Peace Ambassadors Program” kit from the fine folks at Warner Brothers,...

One thought popped into our head while watching last night’s return to of V and it served as a metaphor for the entire show: “Everyone’s wearing more makeup.” Allow us to explain. While not perfect yet, the show we saw last night was a sexed up and streamlined version...

Kittens, we couldn’t wait to see last night’s episode. Not because we were anxious to see what happened next; we already knew what happened next thanks to a screener sent to us by those lovely folks at Warner Brothers. The reason we couldn’t wait is because the screener was...

In a way, it’s a little frustrating designating ourselves cheerleaders for this show. We’re not completely ignorant of the flaws so far, but we like the show in spite of them and because we see a tremendous amount of potential in the concept. There was a hint of a germ of an idea...