Posted Feb 23rd 2010 2:30PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Damages, Reality-Free
(S03E05) "It's not my birthday." - Patty to Alex
Hmmm ... such cryptic messages in this week's episode of
'Damages.' First the wacky dream. Dreaming about a horse in your home probably isn't so crazy, unless you're Patty Hewes and the dream includes bloody hands and feet.
Let's analyze: Patty harking back to a more innocent childhood perhaps? Nah, too straightforward. Maybe the horse signifies Danielle's child, and Ellen's message that "it's a big responsibility" and "are you sure you're ready for it" denotes Patty's willingness to take care of Danielle and her child. Well, just the child now. The "blood on her hands" isn't so hard to figure out, but her feet? It must suck to be Patty with all that running around in her head.
Continue reading 'Damages' - 'It's Not My Birthday' Recap
Posted Feb 16th 2010 1:45PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Damages, Reality-Free
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(S03E04) There was family dysfunction all around in this episode of
'Damages.' We had Patty dealing with her son, Ellen dealing with her sister (and jerk of a dad), Tom dealing with his in-laws (who seem like very sweet people), and the ongoing strife within the Tobin family.
And swirling around it all was Patty Hewes, who always knows more than she lets on -- but maybe not enough, as evidenced by her phone call to ... someone in that least scene.
Continue reading 'Damages' - 'Don't Throw That at the Chicken' Recap
Posted Feb 9th 2010 11:25AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Damages, Reality-Free
![Glenn Close as Patty Hewes on FX's 'Damages.'](https://web.archive.org/web/20100306174249im_/http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2010/02/damages-glen-close-3x03-tvs-425.jpg)
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S03E03)
"Tonight's been educational." - Patty
Educational it was, both for Patty Hewes and viewers alike, as last night's '
Damages' proved that it can tell one helluva narrative without any of those pesky "six months from now" flashes. 'Flight's at 11:08' isn't the first episode to put the back and forth, past/present/future jumps on the back-burner, but it is the earliest it's happened in a season. Normally, those narrative devices don't fade away until the climactic moment later in the season when everything collides. What we got instead was a bit of different angle for 'Damages' as last night's episode was driven by the characters and not the over-arching plot.
Continue reading Review: 'Damages' - 'Flight's at 11:08'
Posted Feb 1st 2010 11:00PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Damages, Reality-Free
![Michael Nouri as Phil Grey on FX's 'Damages.'](https://web.archive.org/web/20100306174249im_/http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2010/01/20091020_setup_bn-101409-0109.jpg)
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S03E02)
"Yeah, sure. That's Tommy. He's a good egg. I helped him, he helped me." - The Homeless Man
The questions kept flying tonight on '
Damages' as details from last week's stunning revelation continued to unfold -- in six months time,
Tom Shayes is a dead man and now we have a better idea as to why. The only problem with that? There are still eleven episodes left, and assuming this season plays out like the first two, we're gonna have to wait until the last possible second for answers. Fortunately for us, there's plenty of other plots playing out as well.
Continue reading Review: 'Damages' - 'The Dog is Happier Without Her'
Posted Jan 26th 2010 12:55AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Damages, Reality-Free
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S03E01)
"Do you think this could have been done to you on purpose?" - Det. Vic Huntley
Patty Hewes for the people? No way. In tonight's season three premiere of
Damages, Patty (Glenn Close) may have been appointed by the government to recover billions of stolen assets from scheming financier Louis Tobin (Len Cariou), but let's be honest here -- this
is Patty Hewes.
When her name is on the line, you better believe that's all that matters. She's set on finding all that money, but it's to make her look good and has nothing to do with the welfare of Tobin's thousands of victims. With a stellar record as of late (Frobisher and UNR), losing this battle would be a huge blow to Patty's public image. So, knowing all that, what do you think about Det. Huntley's question now? Could someone have tried to kill Patty on purpose?
Continue reading Review: Damages - Your Secrets Are Safe (season premiere)
Posted Jan 21st 2010 2:00PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: OpEd, Early Looks, Episode Reviews, Damages, Reality-Free
![Glenn Close stars as Patty Hewes on the season premiere of DAMAGES airing Monday, Jan. 25th at 10 p.m. ET on FX.](https://web.archive.org/web/20100306174249im_/http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2009/12/glen123tvs425.jpg)
When
Damages burst on to the TV scene in the summer of 2007, it turned everything upside down. Creators Glenn and Todd A. Kessler and Daniel Zelman took a tired television genre and re-invented it so well that it became hard to pigeonhole
Damages in the very category that spawned it. It was so much more than a legal thriller and the drama's tense plotting and unique time shifting storytelling technique made the show worthy of scholarly debate -- blink and you'll miss something important.
Now entering its third season,
Damages is prepped to turn the legal world on its head again when FX's superb thriller returns this Monday night, January 25, at 10 p.m. ET. Based on the first two episodes, Glenn Close and the rest of the top-notch cast make the same case that they did the previous two seasons -- this is must see, can't miss television.
Continue reading Damages season three -- An early look
Posted Jan 1st 2010 11:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Battlestar Galactica, Grey's Anatomy, Celebrities, Awards, TV Squad Lists, Damages, Emmys, Reality-Free
More of our best of the decade coverage, which started on Tuesday. You can read the other posts at the link above. Here, we talk about the best dramatic actresses of the decade.
Television has always been good to the ladies. Actresses have flourished in dramatic series, and in the past decade, we've seen some amazing performances. There have been lawyers, cops, a U.S. president, nurses, doctors, judges, mothers, daughters and even a real housewife from New Jersey whose husband was in the waste disposal business.
Many of these women have already been honored with Emmys and Golden Globes... and now they get the recognition of TV Squad.
Here, then, without further vamping, the best dramatic actresses of the past ten years:
Continue reading Best TV of the '00s: Dramatic Actress
Posted Dec 22nd 2009 9:01AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Dexter, Awards, Damages, Breaking Bad, Reality-Free, Mad Men, Glee
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The winners of
2009 Satellite Awards were announced on Sunday in Los Angeles, and when you look at the winners on the television side, you have to like the choices. Most of these shows and actors have been on our year-end "best" lists, and if I were to guess, I think you'll see many of these names on the Prime time Emmy nomination roster.
The first thing that jumped out to me was
Glee. The Fox musical dramedy was a winner in five different categories, including actors Jane Lynch, Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison and
Kristin Chenoweth -- for her guest role -- recognized. And the show was named Best TV Series, Comedy or Musical.
Continue reading Glee and Breaking Bad top the Satellite Awards
Posted Dec 1st 2009 4:01PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Nip/Tuck, Damages, Reality-Free
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Hot on the heels of FOX, its parent company's
midseason schedule announcement, FX today released their upcoming schedule after the ball drops for 2010.
For the most part, the basic cable network's upcoming slate of originals is what everyone expected, save for one fairly big surprise.
Full details and premiere dates after the jump.
Continue reading FX sets midseason schedule: Damages to Mondays, Nip/Tuck finale in March, and more
Posted Nov 26th 2009 5:08PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Sports, Late Night, 24, Lost, Animation, Music and Variety, Adult Swim, Festivus, Damages, Reality-Free
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Another year, another Thanksgiving, and another Fall TV season with plenty of reasons to be thankful. Here's what's winning me over this holiday season...
FX's Sons of Anarchy -- Talk about a complete 180°. This show went from near the bottom of my list last season to one of the most superb dramas on TV right now. Midway through last year's up and down freshman season,
I argued that that show had more to offer at a second glance, but for the most part, Kurt Sutter and his team were still finding their footing. Well, they found their footing and then some this year. Season two has been expertly plotted and executed this season and this past week's
penultimate episode put the pieces in motion for a season finale that no TV fan should plan on missing.
Continue reading What Jonathan is thankful for
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 3:04PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals, Casting, Damages, Reality-Free
Hewes & Associates is getting bigger.
FX announced yesterday that season three of Damages, which returns to FX in January and begins filming today in New York, has added four big names to the cast. Martin Short and Campbell Scott have both signed on as regulars and Lily Tomlin and Keith Carradine are joining as guest stars.
This news has me really excited. Last season, after William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, John Doman, and Darrell Hammond all signed on, I said it was arguably one of the finest casts ever assembled for a TV drama. With these new names added to the roster, this season is shaping up to be just as good, if not better. The only thing missing from this news? Confirmation that Ted Danson will return for at least a few eps to reprise his role as Arthur Frobisher - hopefully, he'll be back as well.
Continue reading Martin Short, Lily Tomlin, and more headed to Damages
Posted Sep 3rd 2008 9:21AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, King of the Hill, Celebrities, Retro Squad, Casting, Damages, Emmys, Reality-Free, Cheers
Ted Danson is one of those actors who just keeps chugging along through the years. He could have easily disappeared after
Cheers, but he's been working steadily in both movies and TV.
Becker sort of flew under the radar, but aired from 1998 to 2004. There was the short-lived
Help Me Help You in 2006. Danson even voiced a part on
King of the Hill (Tom Hammond in "The Accidental Tourist" episode).
But it's his stint as the sinister Arthur Frobisher in
Damages that's brought him into the forefront again. It also helped to
catapult him into his next gig -- a lead role in
HBO's comedy pilot
Bored to Death.
Continue reading Ted Danson in for HBO pilot
Posted Aug 5th 2008 1:20PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Programming, Boston Legal, CSI, Desperate Housewives, ER, House, Law and Order, Rescue Me, The Shield, The Simpsons, Smallville, Grey's Anatomy, Family Guy, Entourage, Prison Break, My Name Is Earl, Bones, Supernatural, Numb3rs, Criminal Minds, How I Met Your Mother, King of the Hill, The Office, Dancing With The Stars, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, Brothers and Sisters, NCIS, Damages, Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Private Practice, Life, Dirty Sexy Money, Samantha Who?, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Lipstick Jungle, Eli Stone, Reality-Free, Gossip Girl
It's coming. The table is set, the players are on the field, the sails are raised, and the pretty maids are all in a row. Of course, I speak of the 2008-09 television schedule. In just a few short weeks viewers will be able to dine on a number of favorite and new dishes that are being served by the networks as well as the increasing number of cable channels who are delving into original programming.
While other fall seasons have come and gone with nary a whimper, this season may be different. Due to the prolonged Writers Strike many shows ended their seasons quite early. Programs like Life, Private Practice, Pushing Daisies, and Heroes haven't aired original episodes since the end of 2007. Heck, there hasn't been a new episode of The Shield since June of last year! So, the beginning of the 2008-09 season will be a second chance for some of these shows, particularly the ones that premiered last season, to show their worth to fans and the networks.
Continue reading TV Squad presents the 2008-09 fall schedule
Posted Aug 4th 2008 3:06PM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: Programming, Damages, Reality-Free
![Glenn Close in Damages](https://web.archive.org/web/20100306174249im_/http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2008/08/damages.jpg)
I've been feeling pretty frustrated lately that there isn't much on TV.
Burn Notice and
Psych are don't-miss shows in my house, and
The Middleman is watchable, but beyond that, I am not too excited about summer shows.
What gets me excited?
Damages does, that's for sure. The first season of
Damages was completely amazing, and I think I bemoan the fact, nearly daily, that no new episodes will air until 2009.
If you missed
Damages the first time, or if you just want to relive the awesomeness that was season one,
FX announced that they will be airing a Damages marathon starting Saturday, August 9 at 7:00 a.m.
Continue reading Damages marathon announced on FX
Posted Jul 16th 2008 2:02AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, The Shield, TCA Press Tour, Damages, Reality-Free
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The FX panels on Tuesday were pretty uneventful,
aside from the news from network president John Landgraf. There was supposed to be a panel for
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but that was mysteriously dropped from the schedule. I'm guessing that the boys figured they'd get too hammered at the FOX party the night before to handle questions from the reporters. Indeed, I witnessed Rob McElhenny and Glenn Howerton try to ride the Tilt-a-Whirl at the Santa Monica pier right after they pounded a couple of beers. Maybe canceling the panel was a smart idea.
Anyway, the three shows that paneled were
Damages, Sons of Anarchy, and
The Shield. More on what transpired after the jump.
Continue reading FX Round-up: Shield finale, Sons of Anarchy, and some words from Ted Danson - TCA Report
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