May 04, 2012SYFY'S HIT SERIES HAVEN CASTS BREE WILLIAMSON (GOSSIP GIRL, ONE LIFE TO LIVE)
NEW YORK – May 4, 2012 – Syfy's hit series Haven will get a new resident when Bree Williamson (Gossip Girl, One Life to Live) joins the cast for season three as psychiatrist Dr. Claire Callahan.
In her new role, Dr. Callahan becomes a close friend and confidant to Audrey Parker (Emily Rose). She also uses her skills to help "profile" potential perpetrators and, as a psychiatrist, to help the troubled citizens of Haven deal with their afflictions.
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I have to be honest, when I first saw the promo for Common Law, I wasn't sure that it would be something I would watch. Don't get me wrong, it looked good and of course funny, but the promo didn't hook me. Then I watched the pilot and my whole outlook changed. Common Law is not just another detective drama, it offers a fresh new take on the partner dynamic.
With three episodes left in the season, the time has come for “Once Upon A Time” to start resolving some of its mysteries. After “The Stranger”, I only hope they step up their game in the final two. I get the sense the producers expected the events depicted here to be revelatory. Instead, I found them predictable and underwhelming. What makes this a shame is that, just as Robert Carlyle suffered through some sub-par episodes, this one wasted a fine performance from Tony Amendola as Geppetto.
Every once in a long while a movie comes along that is of such quality that you feel the need to applaud when the credits roll; a movie that to share the details of which would feel like a crime, because you would be robbing the potential viewer of the amazement that could be had. Cabin in the Woods is one of those movies. Given the state of this movie, and my wish not to be criminal, what will be discussed hereafter will reveal no story from the movie that has not already been revealed in the trailers. Trust me; it is that sort of movie.
As the final part of a three-episode saga, "Force Quit" has the task of resolving the "Matrix" situation completely and getting everything back to normal. And in addition, it also effectively wraps up the arc that began with the second half of season 4, when Senator Wen first arrived on the scene and the Astraeus project was commissioned. In that respect, the episode, and this 3-part arc, have been relatively successful. I still think that it's a bit of a let-down that the Astraeus's grand voyage ended up amounting to little more than a plot to kidnap Eureka scientists, in the aim of furthering their perpetually ambiguous goals.
This felt like a really odd season finale. I expected this given what occurred in the previous episode, and is so often the case with this show, it delivered pretty much on what was promised. The episode's title of "The Dream Team" has sports connotations to myself personally, and the plot eerily follows suit in that way. It's more of an all-star highlights approach of most of the little subplots that have been building throughout this season.
The most recent contestant to be voted off of American Idol was Elise Testone. The voice instructor from South Carolina earned sixth place and will travel on tour this summer with the rest of the Idols.
On May 11th USA will premiere its new original series Common Law. The series follows two detectives, Travis Marks, played by Michael Ealy, and Wes Mitchell (Warren Kole), whose problems are each other. The two constantly bicker and try to outdo the other, and it ends up causing problems at work. Instead of firing the two, their boss decides it's time to intervene by forcing them into couples' therapy. LAPD's best must learn to get along if they want to keep working cases in the robbery-homicide division.
I've come to the conclusion that Neil Jordan, having looked back on the first season, decided that sticking to historical events wouldn't be nearly so much fun as simply playing in the Borgia sandbox. And I'm wondering if that's why the show feels a bit more interesting this season; there's no telling which events will be rearranged to keep the drama flowing and the audience on its toes.