Greek | "Love, Actually, Possibly, Maybe... Or Not"

Ah Valentine's Day, the commercial holiday of all holidays (as Rusty and Ashleigh's "hip" professor reminded us). Although it was a little behind schedule, Greek focused on the special occasion in this week's "Love, Actually, Possible, Maybe... Or Not," an episode which finally gave screen time to all its regular cast members and even most of the current recurring players. Fittingly, there was development on all major relationship fronts, with Cupid's arrow even striking up a new romance, and, as always, some great and not-so-great pop culture references. So let's get started -- after the jump.

New pilots for Friday Night Lights alumni

Friday Night Lights is one of my favorite shows, thanks in no small part to the skill of its actors. Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton give two of the best performances on television as Eric and Tami Taylor, even if the major awards shows don't recognize it.

But as good as the two adult leads are, for a show that centers around high school football the younger actors have to be just as good -- and by and large, they are.

Zach Gilford was one of the best as quarterback Matt Saracen. He sold every scene 100%, and this season's "The Son" was one of the best episodes ever thanks to his performance.

Since Gilford [spoiler alert for those waiting to watch season four on NBC] recently completed his send-off arc on FNL, he was available for the upcoming pilot season, and has since been cast in the ABC pilot Matadors, a Romeo-and-Juliet style drama that "revolves around two rival Chicago-based families, one in the DA’s office and another in a high-powered law firm." The cast also includes David Strathairn (Good Night and Good Luck, The Bourne Ultimatum). I'll definitely be watching this one if it goes to series.

Greek renewed!

What great timing! After my quasi-inaugural blog post on Greek's latest episode, The Hollywood Reporter has learned that ABC Family has renewed the series for a fourth season of 10 more episodes, slated to start later this year.

The show is ABC Family's longest-running original series, and it recently premiered to 1.03 million viewers for part two of season three. Some fans were worried about its prospects (see: savegreek.com), but considering the most recent premiere posted some big gains in the key demos, as THR noted, it isn't a big surprise that Greek will be back.

It will be interesting to see how the rest of the current season plays out, though, since it seems to be heading toward graduation for several of the key characters. Maybe the timeline will slow down and season four will be plotted as the final 10 episodes? Or maybe, as I conjectured in one of my episode reviews, the graduates will move on to grad school at CRU, thus keeping intact the fictional universe?   Photo: fanpop.com

Greek | "The Tortoise and the Hair"

"The Tortoise and the Hair" was the fourth episode of the second chapter of the third season  of Greek and... sorry, that's just too many numbers.

Let's just say I know I'm jumping in a little late on the individual episode reviews, especially since the series is reportedly in danger of cancellation, but I've watched the series from the beginning and for reasons explained in my previous post thought now would be as good a time as any to start. So let's get started -- after the jump.

Time to Start

Since there's practically nothing posted here already, I doubt anyone has noticed...well, the lack of posts. If you're wondering, though, I set up this blog about six months ago in the hopes of using it as a place where I could post recaps/reviews of episodes of my favorite TV shows, react to the latest industry news, and just share my thoughts about television trends.