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There are so many pivotal elements that go into nailing a successful show, and one of those is having likable characters. Luckily, NCIS: Origins has plenty to work with in Mike Franks.   Don’t get me wrong, because I am the unofficial leader of the “Mary Jo Fan Club,” but Mike Franks is something else.   Since

When the cast of Shark Tank isn’t investing their millions (or billions) in up-and-coming companies, they all have families to return home to. All of the sharks are married, with some of their unions spanning more than 20 or 30 years. While some of the investors are very private about their home lives, others fell in

Critic’s Rating: 4.2 / 5.0 4.2 When Calls the Heart has returned to basics this season, focusing on integrating the younger generation into stories and character-rich story arcs. The children’s obsession with comics was central to When Calls the Heart Season 12 Episode 2, as Elizabeth tried to find other lessons to excite her students.

[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for All Creatures Great and Small Season 5 Episode 1, “To All our Boys.”] Veterinarian Siegfried Farnon (Samuel West) gave Skeldale’s housekeeper Mrs. Hall (Anna Madeley) a look that would make you believe he’s in love with her in the All Creatures Great and Small Season 5 premiere on

Critic’s Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 4.5 Eighty minutes?? Landman Season 1 Episode 10 was a feature-length finale, and oh boy, did it deliver. The near future of the show has changed significantly, giving us a better picture of what to expect from the second season. The biggest stunner here is that despite the popularity of

Ever wonder what would’ve happened in the Romeo and Juliet-esque complex universe of First Kill, mainly between Juliette Fairmont (Sarah Catherine Hook) and Calliope “Cal” Burns (Imani Lewis)? We do, too. Canceled after just one season, the audience never got the answers they deserved. So, when Swooon had the opportunity to interview the creator and writer

Did FOX strike gold with its new medical drama, Doc?  If you’ve followed our coverage over the years, you know how much love we’ve had for medical dramas, especially FOX’s late, great The Resident.  Yours truly has covered many of them over the years. But it’s no secret that The Resident was my little precocious

When Sister Wives premiered in 2010, Kody Brown had three wives and was integrating a fourth into the family. However, a lot has changed since then. Between 2021 and 2023, three of Kody’s wives left him, leaving him in a monogamous relationship for the first time since the early 1990s. The aftermath of the splits has

It’s a lot to ask of a teenager to stay in a relationship with a boy who is having a baby with another girl. It’s doubly hard when the girl in question is Sophia. Holly’s ex-BFF has done nothing but cause trouble for Holly and Tate. It’s unsurprising that Days of Our Lives spoilers for

Miss Scarlet is back for Season 5; the Duke is not. Since Stuart Martin has left the Masterpiece series formerly titled Miss Scarlet and the Duke, Kate Phillips’ Eliza Scarlet is now taking on Victorian criminals without her friend at Scotland Yard. In his absence, however, comes Alexander Blake (Tom Durant-Pritchard), a new detective inspector

Critic’s Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 4.5 Do you ever wonder if maybe you’re just ornery when it comes to characters on TV? The Way Home Season 3 Episode 2 just introduced Colton, Del, and Evelyn, among others, from the 1970s, and I’m immediately drawn to and rooting for Evelyn. Evelyn (Evie), of all people! (©2024

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Way Home Season 3 Episode 2 “The Way We Were.”] Are Kat (Chyler Leigh) and Elliot (Evan Williams) finally figuring out their relationship on The Way Home? That certainly seems to be the case in Season 3, and in the second episode, “The Way We Were” — also the

If there has been one blessed change that the first half of Matlock Season 1 saw, it’s that the most uptight character on the series had finally let her hair down. Gotta love that tightly wound Sarah Franklin.  After spending far too many episodes so far up Olympia’s backside that she could check the senior

Katie Maloney is mourning the loss of her father, Richard Maloney. The Vanderpump Rules alum announced on Friday, January 10, that her dad died five days earlier. “I feel like I am a stranger to grief,” she wrote on Instagram. “As much as it has touched my life and so many I love. It’s not something

Critic’s Rating: 4 / 5.0 4 John Carter, is that you? No, The Pitt’s Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch is definitely not John Carter, but Carter is the character that made Noah Wyle famous, and it’s the first to come to mind when you think of the actor. Putting a stethoscope around his neck was guaranteed

[Warning: The following post contains major spoilers about The Traitors Season 3’s first three episodes, “Let the Battle Commence,” “Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Cold,” and “Nail in a Coffin.”] The Traitors is back, and, yes, it is so back. The third season of Peacock’s Emmy-winning reality competition series features, once again, a variety

WWE made its long-awaited transition to Netflix, and it was three hours of soapy wrestling goodness if that’s something you’re into. While it was light on the actual wrestling, it was heavy on the nostalgia and even heavier on the fun. It decided to forgo the typical RAW product and deliver something more on par

Christina Haack is no longer interested in being on bad terms with ex Ant Anstead. The two share a son, Hudson London, together, so they’re bonded for life just like Haack and her first husband, Tarek El Moussa, with whom she shares two children, Taylor and Brayden. Yet, Haack’s bond with El Moussa has famously