Linda Seide

Love TV, movies, and books--mostly mysteries, with a good love story thrown in every now and then. I have four adopted dogs who I adore. I love trying new recipes, and enjoy eating what I make. English language perfectionist. Reading in bed, Italian food, warm weather, the beach, all types of games = favs!

Most commented posts

  1. A Superb Ending. Review: Shameless Season 3 Finale – “Survival of the Fittest” — 22 comments
  2. The Affair – “107” Review. Confessions Can Be Cathartic. — 10 comments
  3. Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce – “Rule 23: Never Lie to the Kids” Review. Things Are Not What They Seem. — 5 comments
  4. All’s Well that Ends Well Isn’t Necessarily the Case. Review: Season Finale of Episodes – “Episode 209” — 4 comments
  5. Review – Nurse Jackie, Season 3, Episode 8, “The Astonishing” — 4 comments

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Nov 16 2014

The Affair – “106” Review. Truth or Lie?

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  • November 16, 2014

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The Affair – “106” Review. Truth or Lie? 1

Season 1, Episode 6 Airdate: Sunday, November 16, 2014 at 10:00 pm ET/PT on Showtime Rating:   “Do you ever do things and don’t know why?” – Martin Solloway “106” debunks many of the lies Alison (Ruth Wilson) and Noah (Dominic West) have told, leading me to wonder what, if anything, they’ve been honest about …

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Nov 16 2014

Homeland – “Halfway to a Donut” Retrospective. Escape or Die.

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  • November 16, 2014

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Season 4, Episode 8 Air Date: Sunday, November 16, 2014, 9:00 pm ET/PT on Showtime Rating:   “Don’t do it; don’t do it. Nothing they ask; don’t do it. Not anything, not a fucking thing. You tell them to go to fucking hell; tell them to go to fucking hell!” – Saul Berenson “Halfway to …

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Nov 14 2014

Updated Casting News: Bradley Whitford Joins Showtime’s New Comedy Happyish

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  • November 14, 2014

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Updated Casting News: Bradley Whitford Joins Showtime's New Comedy <i>Happyish</i> 4

Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe nominee Bradley Whitford (The West Wing) has joined the cast of the SHOWTIME comedy pilot HAPPYISH, playing “Jonathan Cooke,” Thom Payne’s boss and an advertising industry legend whose success is due in equal parts to his creative genius and moral cravenness.

Nov 13 2014

New Photography for Bravo’s First Scripted Series, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce

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  • November 13, 2014

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New Photography for Bravo's First Scripted Series, <i>Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce</i> 5

Bravo is venturing into the world of scripted series for the first time with Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, starring Lisa Edelstein and Paul Adelstein, and today, released new photography from the show, which premieres Tuesday, December 2 at 10:00 pm ET/PT. Girlfriends’ Guide is the first of the six scripted series Bravo Media announced this past May.

Nov 13 2014

Casting News: Actress Kathryn Hahn to Star in Showtime’s Comedy Pilot, Happyish

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  • November 13, 2014

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Casting News: Actress Kathryn Hahn to Star in Showtime's Comedy Pilot, <i>Happyish</i> 6

Acclaimed actress Kathryn Hahn (Revolutionary Road, We’re The Millers) will star in the female lead role of “Lee Payne” in the SHOWTIME comedy pilot HAPPYISH. The new half-hour pilot will be filmed in New York next month, with Oscar® and Golden Globe® nominee Steve Coogan (Philomena, Alan Partridge) previously announced as the male lead. HAPPYISH is a comedic, soul-searching examination of our pursuit of happiness, a pursuit that might just be the very thing causing our unhappiness in the first place.

Nov 13 2014

The CW Announces its TV Shows, Movies, and Specials for the Upcoming Holiday Season

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  • November 13, 2014

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The CW Announces its TV Shows, Movies, and Specials for the Upcoming Holiday Season 7

I know, I know. We haven’t even celebrated Thanksgiving yet and The CW has already released its holiday lineup. But Christmas is a special time of year and you don’t want to miss a single second of the TV episodes, movies, and specials that will air on The CW this holiday season. For more information about these shows, as well as the various specials, both animated and not, check out The CW’s official press release below.

Nov 10 2014

News: Showtime Renews Both Homeland and The Affair

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  • November 10, 2014

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News: Showtime Renews Both <i>Homeland</i> and <i>The Affair</i> 8

As an avid fan and weekly reviewer of both Homeland and The Affair, today’s news couldn’t have made me happier. Showtime has renewed Homeland for a fifth season, and The Affair for a second season, with 12 and 10 episodes respectively to air in 2015.

Nov 10 2014

Homeland – “Redux” Retrospective. Full Circle.

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  • November 10, 2014

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Homeland – “Redux” Retrospective. Full Circle. 9

Homeland has spent the majority of this season trying to recreate itself following two seasons of not-so-great ratings, specifically by giving us a Carrie Mathison who seems to have her head on straight…Now, in “Redux,” due to a sneaky switch in medications, Carrie becomes paranoid, giving us bipolar Carrie 1.0 once again—something I thought we wouldn’t see since it failed to work in any other season than the first.

Nov 09 2014

The Affair – “105” Review. The Victim is Revealed.

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  • November 9, 2014

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<i>The Affair</i> – “105” Review. The Victim is Revealed. 10

Color me shocked! We’re only halfway through the season and we already know who the “victim” is. That leaves five more episodes to figure out who the killer is, if, in fact, there is a killer. Could creator/writer Sarah Treem be that sneaky that this whole thing will turn out to be an accident? Now that would be a twist for the ages!

Nov 04 2014

News: Donald Trump Returns to the Boardroom with Season 7 of The Celebrity Apprentice

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  • November 4, 2014

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News: Donald Trump Returns to the Boardroom with Season 7 of <i>The Celebrity Apprentice</i> 11

Donald Trump, executive producer and star of NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice,” announced on TODAY this morning the new and exciting lineup of famous faces that will compete in the seventh installment of the series. The new season will premiere on Sunday, Jan. 4 from 9-11p.m. ET/PT before settling in its regular time slot, Monday at 8-10 p.m.

Nov 02 2014

The Affair – “104” Review. The Web We Weave.

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  • November 2, 2014

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<i>The Affair</i> – “104” Review. The Web We Weave. 12

“104” is the most honest episode of The Affair to date. It pulls no punches in furthering Alison and Noah’s story line. “104” takes The Affair from being the tale of a sordid affair to the genesis of a true love story.

Nov 02 2014

Homeland – “From A to B and Back Again” Review. Trust No One but Yourself.

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  • November 2, 2014

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<i>Homeland</i> – “From A to B and Back Again” Review. Trust No One but Yourself. 13

Oh. My. God. Or, as Quinn (Rupert Friend) puts it, “Holy fuck!” What a game changer this week’s installment of Homeland is! I cannot believe what I just watched. Episodic writer Chip Johannessen doesn’t pull any punches with “From A to B and Back Again.”

Oct 27 2014

Showtime’s Programming Overview for 2014-15 TV Season

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  • October 27, 2014

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Showtime's Programming Overview for 2014-15 TV Season 14

I love the winter season of TV shows on Showtime. There’s Shameless, House of Lies, Episodes, and Web Therapy, to name a few of the returning series for 2015. Below are the premiere dates for these highly popular series, as well as Showtime’s upcoming comedy and documentary specials for late fall 2014.

Oct 26 2014

The Affair – “103” Review. A Man in Charge.

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  • October 26, 2014

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The Affair – “103” Review. A Man in Charge. 15

This week’s installment of The Affair doesn’t further Noah (Dominic West) and Alison’s (Ruth Wilson) affair much although it does examine their relationship at this point of Detective Jeffries’ (Victor Williams) questioning. Instead, it delves into the history of a long-standing feud between the Solloway and Hodge families. Oscar Hodge (Darren Goldstein), Alison’s boss at The Lobster Roll, doesn’t particularly care for Alison’s husband Cole (Joshua Jackson), and “103” provides some insight into why.

Oct 26 2014

Homeland – “About a Boy” Review. There’s More Than One Way to Skin a Cat.

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  • October 26, 2014

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Homeland – “About a Boy” Review. There’s More Than One Way to Skin a Cat. 16

“About a Boy” really is about a boy; almost the entire hour is spent with Carrie (Claire Dane) doing her best to get Aayan (Suraj Sharma) to admit his uncle, Haissam Haqqani (Numan Acar), the terrorist leader who was killed by a CIA air strike in Homeland’s season premiere, is actually alive and well. It was a real shocker to see him hugging Aayan last week in “Iron in the Fire.”

Oct 20 2014

Photos and What’s Next on Jane the Virgin

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  • October 20, 2014

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Last week, I discovered The CW’s new comedy series, Jane the Virgin. I couldn’t believe how much I laughed throughout the show. The series is based on the telenovela Juana la Virgen, and revolves around 23-year-old Jane (Gina Rodriguez) who becomes pregnant after mistakenly being artificially inseminated by her distracted gynecologist. Unfortunately, Jane has a boyfriend, Michael (Brett Dier), …

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Oct 20 2014

Guess Who’s Coming Back to The Real Housewives of New York!

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  • October 20, 2014

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Guess Who's Coming Back to <i>The Real Housewives of New York!</i> 19

If you don’t know by now, I’m crazy for my Real Housewives … from Atlanta to Beverly Hills, and from New Jersey to New York. And, as disappointed as I was that Bethenny Frankel’s talk show Bethenny didn’t succeed, that’s as happy as I am about the news that she’s rejoining The Real Housewives of New York for season seven of the hit reality series.

Oct 19 2014

The Affair – “102” Review. Jam, Fish, and Horsies, Oh My!

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  • October 19, 2014

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The Affair – “102” Review. Jam, Fish, and Horsies, Oh My! 20

“102” does an excellent job of furthering The Affair’s main story line, giving us important character development and backstories. The cinematography, in particular, is breathtaking, especially in the opening sequence. The Affair’s writers have stepped up their game, making Noah and Alison more relatable and easy to form a connection with. I was completely engrossed in the entire episode and at the end of the hour, I was left wanting more…much, much more.

Oct 19 2014

Homeland – “Iron in the Fire” Review. The Reason Behind Bachman’s Death.

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  • October 19, 2014

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<i>Homeland</i> – “Iron in the Fire” Review. The Reason Behind Bachman’s Death. 21

Wow, what a game changer “Iron in the Fire” is! And, in more ways than one with two giant reveals in this fourth episode of the season!

Oct 16 2014

Frank Langella to Join the Cast of FX’s The Americans

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  • October 16, 2014

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I was thrilled to read the news this morning that Frank Langella is joining the cast of FX’s hugely successful drama series, The Americans, which returns to our TV screens this coming January.

Oct 12 2014

The Affair Season Premiere – “101” Review. Two Differing Viewpoints.

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  • October 12, 2014

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<i>The Affair</i> Season Premiere – “101” Review. Two Differing Viewpoints. 23

The salacious side of me is responsible for me watching Showtime’s new drama, The Affair. I was expecting a fun, sexy look at an affair between two married people but it is not at all what I expected. The Affair is a somber tale of what happens when two people, who are supposedly in love with their spouses, meet at a diner in Montauk, Long Island and begin a romantic affair. What drives them to it and where it ends hopefully will make The Affair another big hit for Showtime.

Oct 12 2014

Homeland – “Shalwar Kameez” Review. Carrie 2.0.

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  • October 12, 2014

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Homeland – “Shalwar Kameez” Review. Carrie 2.0. 24

“Shalwar Kameez” does a good job of moving this season’s story lines ahead, and cementing Homeland as appointment TV once again.

Oct 02 2014

Satisfaction Renewed for a Second Season

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  • October 2, 2014

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I’ve been having fun watching Satisfaction’s Neil Truman (Matt Passmore) and his wife Grace (Stephanie Szostak) do the marriage dance with the help, so to speak, of Adriana (Katherine LaNasa) and Simon (Blair Redford). So, after watching the shocking cliffhanger that closed out season one, I’ve been anxiously waiting to find out whether Satisfaction would be renewed. I’m happy to say it is.

Oct 02 2014

Homeland – “The Drone Queen” & “Trylon and Perisphere” Season Premiere Review. Carrie is Back, Better than Ever.

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  • October 2, 2014

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Homeland – “The Drone Queen” & “Trylon and Perisphere” Season Premiere Review. Carrie is Back, Better than Ever. 26

Homeland is back and it’s better than ever. Sharp writing, great cinematography, superior acting by all, and terrific direction by Lesli Linka Glatter in episode one and Keith Gordon in episode two. So far, I’d say Homeland is, once again, an exciting, tension-filled series worth watching.

Sep 28 2014

Ray Donovan Season 2 Finale – “The Captain” Review. Full Circle.

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  • September 28, 2014

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<i>Ray Donovan</i> Season 2 Finale – “The Captain” Review. Full Circle. 27

There is no doubt “The Captain” is the most explosive, intense, riveting season finale I’ve ever seen. It is so captivating, I have already watched it twice so as not to miss one single word. Most shows end their seasons with cliffhangers to ensure their viewers return for the new season. Such is not the case with “The Captain.” It stands on its own, and if you’re a true ‘Donofan,’ like I am, you’ll be back next season to find out where our characters go next.

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