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And Sheldon is the odd man out. Again.

It’s hard to fault ‘The Big Bang Theory’ for revisiting the “let’s annoy Sheldon” well for the hundredth time this season. Who can resist cracking up at the sight of Jim Parsons being forced to dance the Cha-Cha or burning his taste buds while chewing on icky lamb kabobs (or “little cubes of charred meat that taste like sweat!”).

Sheldon joined Team Anti-Priya on this week’s episode, which featured all of our regular cast members clearly ceding the ground to Parsons. Read the rest @ TV Squad.

With Snooki, Paris and those glitzy ‘Gossip Girls’ skankin’ up the tube, it’s nice to know that ‘My So-Called Life”s sensitive and smart grunge girl, Angela Chase, has returned to TV.

What’s that? You have no idea who Angela Chase is? And you’ve never heard of ‘My So Called Life,’ which began airing on the Sundance Channel last night and will continue every Tuesday at 9PM. Well, stop texting for two seconds you pretty young thing and I’ll tell ya all about it …

‘My So-Called Life’ was a beloved and acclaimed TV drama from a strange and wonderful time called “the ’90s.” You might have heard of the ’90s; it was a time when we had to watch our favorite shows when they were on (because who wanted to program the VCR, really?), people could actually see Nirvana perform live, and people still wanted to see Metallica perform live. It was a joyous time, but being a teen in the ’90s could be rough, what with everyone using their parachute pants to smuggle guns and Walkmans into school every day. Luckily, Angela Chase, played by Claire Danes, was there to share our pain.

Angela was smart, introspective and sensitive, and she helped pave the way for a number of deep and clever young TV ladies that followed. In celebration of Angela’s return to the small screen, here’s a list of five smart young female characters from the past several years of TV history. Read the rest @ TV Squad.

This week’s episode of ‘Stargate Universe’ played like a love letter to the show’s fans. Seeing these characters grow old together felt especially poignant in light of the show’s cancellation and the recent news that the story will not continue with a TV movie or miniseries.

‘Epilogue’ was epic, ambitious and moving — exactly the kind of dramatic and clever sci-fi storytelling that viewers will remember for years to come. And it was funny too! Really, really funny. Read the rest @ TV Squad.

Grab your fezzes and Jammie Dodgers; The Doctor is back for more mind-boggling, timey-wimey fun!

It’s been four months since we last saw Amy, Rory, and our beloved Doctor zipping through time and space and bending our little nerd brains with perplexing plots and paradoxes. And judging by the first half of the Season 6 premiere, ‘Doctor Who’ is making up for lost time by cranking the drama (and the complexity level) up to eleven. Read the rest @ TV Squad.

It’s a bird…It’s a plane…It’s Superdouche!

This week’s fun and extra-goofy episode of ‘Smallville’ brought another C-list comic book superhero to the small screen – the shallow and swaggering Booster Gold. Read the rest @ TV Squad.

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel … tense.

This week’s episode of ‘Fringe’ gave us a lot to ponder as the team hopped out of Olivia’s head and back into the warring universes plot.

With only two episodes left this season, one big question still remains unanswered: Which universe will perish and which will prevail? Or — to add another question to the pile — is it possible for both worlds to somehow coexist without bringing harm to each other? Read the rest @ TV Squad.

OK, ‘Breaking In,’ it’s time to bump Michael Rosenbaum up to full-time status, like now! The former ‘Smallville’ baddie stole the show from Christian Slater and Bret Harrison on this week’s manic and fast-paced third episode.

Last week, I mentioned that my least favorite thing about ‘Breaking In’ was the blooming love triangle between Cameron, Melanie and Dutch, Rosenbaum’s frosted tip-sporting douche knuckle. But I’ll happily eat those words (mmm, words) if this ongoing will-they-or-won’t-they plot will mean more screen time for Dutch.

Rosenbaum, who was credited as a guest star here, looks like he’s having a blast playing the ultimate uberdouche. Read the rest @ TV Squad.

This week’s episode of ‘Stargate Universe’ offered a gripping and mind-bending sci-fi tale that thrilled and depressed me all at once.

I was thrilled to see the show — and the franchise — return to its science-fiction roots with epic space battles, plenty of Gate usage and a plot that hinged on time travel. This episode even offered our heroes a rare peek at a dramatic and perplexing “What if?” scenario.

It was shocking and exciting to learn that alternate versions of Destiny’s crewmembers had traveled back in time some 2,000 years and founded an entire civilization. But I was depressed two seconds after the episode ended when I remembered that ‘SGU,’ despite its recent creative winning streak, would be ending soon. Read the rest @ TV Squad.

‘Smallville’ is back! All hail Ultraman!

This week’s episode, titled ‘Kent,’ was a worthy follow-up to last December’s fun and twisted Earth-2 romp, ‘Luthor.’

It’s always a blast when Clark Luthor comes to town. These episodes give star Tom Welling a chance to cut loose a little and to unleash his inner Nicholas Cage by playing the malevolent and dangerous Ultraman.

Clark Luthor felt a little more restrained here than he did when we last saw him. I guess it’s hard to keep acting like an entitled and self-important superdouche when everyone in the world is trying to kill you. Read the rest @ TV Squad.

Just when you thought ‘Fringe’ couldn’t get any weirder, the show returned with one of its trippiest episodes ever.

This week’s installment – with its wonderfully bizarre cartoon world, brain-melting sci-fi chicanery and drug-induced whimsy – will not soon be forgotten. It’s the kind of episode that, years from now, will inspire us to say things like, “Hey, remember that crazy one they did in the third season? That was so awesome!”

But there’s another reason this episode will remain stuck in our brains (or what’s left of them) for years to come: It marked a major turning point for the show’s heroine and resident whipping girl, Olivia Dunham. Read the rest @ TV Squad.

‘Breaking In’ is definitely a B-level show. It’s funny, fast-paced and even a little charming, but it’s not nearly as sharp or as clever as it might think it is.

The comedy is all on the surface here. There’s little to no depth buzzing beneath the show’s endless stream of hit-and-miss jokes, fledgling catchphrases (“Tapping that grave!”), and ridiculously elaborate heist scenes. But that’s not really a big problem…yet. Read the rest @ TV Squad.

What is it about kids’ shows? They’re the trippiest things on TV. Remember that ghastly Baby Sun from ‘The Teletubbies’? That was weird, but nothing compares to ‘H.R. Pufnstuf,’ the show that made America wonder, “What they hell were they smoking when they made this!? And where in San Francisco can I get some?”

Sid and Marty Krofft’s first live-action, giant puppet series premiered in 1969 and held the nation’s children in its colorful, hallucinogenic grip for three seasons as part of NBC’s Saturday morning lineup. Now you can relive the long, strange trip with ‘H.R. Pufnstuf’ The Complete Series and Collector’s Edition, released today on DVD. Read the rest at TV Squad.

Rodney McKay was out of sight, but this week’s episode of ‘Stargate Universe’ still inspired memories of the sunnier ‘Stargate Atlantis.’ A big, scary monster attacked our heroes during a scout trip and took two people captive, leading the team to embark on a dangerous rescue mission on an alien planet.

I make the ‘Atlantis’ comparison here because the plot of ‘The Hunt,’ at first blush anyway, felt like the same kind of well-worn sci-fi story that ‘Atlantis’ rehashed several times during its five season run: Alien creature attacks, important person is taken, others risk their lives to rescue them. But the comparisons pretty much end there. Despite some monster attack scenes and some so-so creature feature CGI, ‘The Hunt’ was less about reveling in sci-fi/action-adventure tropes and more about exploring Ronald Greer’s troubled soul. Read the rest @ TV Squad.

Our favorite TV nerd herd is quickly becoming one big dysfunctional family.

Raj secretly covets Howard’s squeeze, Penny loathes Leonard’s new love, and Sheldon and Amy have taken to conducting social experiments on their unwitting friends. All of this would be downright disturbing if ‘The Big Bang Theory’ wasn’t so funny and absurd.

After some cute/clever Brian Greene-bashing, this week’s episode started out with a troubling bit of gossip — Bernadette was thinking about dumping Howard — but switched gears to end with one of the sweetest moments of the series. Read the rest @ TV Squad.

Smart, geeky, passionate and verbose — not only could that description suit ‘Stargate Atlantis’’s science wiz Rodney McKay, it also fits the actor who played him, nerd-for-hire David Hewlett.

Two years after viewers waved goodbye to McKay and Hewlett in the ‘Atlantis’ series finale, the fan-friendly genre actor is resurrecting his most famous role tonight with a guest spot on Syfy’s ‘Stargate Universe’ (Mon., April 4, 10PM ET).

We got a chance to chat with Hewlett about bringing McKay back to ‘Stargate,’ a franchise that’s in danger of disappearing from the TV landscape after the recent cancellation of ‘SGU.’

Hewlett, who blogs about his work and life for Syfy’s Blastr site, offered his thoughts about the future of ‘Stargate’ and what it was like playing McKay on ‘SGU,’ a show he said exists in “a different world when compared to the other ‘Stargate’s.” The actor also briefed us on the status of his in-the-works pet TV project, ‘Starcrossed,’ which he described as ‘Galaxy Quest’ meets ‘30 Rock.’ Read the rest @ TV Squad.