THE HUB

NCIS: Origins is officially done keeping present-day Gibbs safely behind the narration. The Season 3 premiere, “Don’t You Forget About Me,” brings Mark Harmon back into the action as Leroy Jethro Gibbs while the story in 1992 picks up immediately after Gibbs and Lala finally crossed that line. Unfortunately, romance does not stay at the center for long. Randy disappears, Russian operatives are involved, military secrets are compromised, and a case from decades ago suddenly ha

Sam Hanna is back, but NCIS: New York wastes very little time making it clear that this is not simply NCIS: Los Angeles with taller buildings and worse parking. The series premiere brings LL COOL J’s longtime agent home to New York for a case that quickly becomes personal. What begins with the death of someone Sam has known practically his entire life eventually introduces him to a new NCIS team, gives him a new partner in Nick Schaeffer, and leaves Sam considering something

DOC Season 3 continues making Amy Larsen’s recovered memories everybody’s problem, but “I Know What I Want” turns the tables a little. This time, Amy isn’t simply remembering what she lost. She is starting to figure out what she wants now, which would be wonderful timing if Jake Heller hadn’t just given her a very painful reason to question whether that future still includes him. While Amy and Jake find themselves treating a woman whose later-in-life sexual awakening forces h

NCIS kicked off Season 24 with quite a bit sitting on its plate. There was the fallout from the gunshot involving Torres and McGee’s son Mateo, the agency was still trying to find its footing following Leon Vance’s death, and Gabriel LaRoche was hanging around like someone nobody invited to the family reunion. Then Tony DiNozzo walked back through the door, and suddenly the entire hour had a different energy. “Wayward Son” brings Michael Weatherly back to NCIS in a way that i

Last season on Reasonable Doubt, Jax won Ozzie’s case, but the victory came with a heartbreaking conclusion. Ozzie died, Monica brought a gun to the opening of Jax’s new firm, and now we finally know who took the bullet. Corey is back, Jax’s old firm is already up to its old tricks, and Season 4 wastes no time reminding us that peace was never really an option for Jax Stewart. Three Weeks Later Season 4 picks up three weeks after the shooting, with Jax in a coma. Lewis sits a

It took 24 seasons, but consequences have finally caught up with Brian and Stewie. Unfortunately for Hell, the consequences work both ways, because Family Guy: Happy Hell-o-ween sends the show’s most chaotic duo straight into the underworld and somehow turns eternal damnation into their latest management opportunity. The Hulu Halloween special begins with Stewie getting tickets to an exclusive masquerade event and bringing Brian along. On the way, they see a man drowning and

Matt Shade and Angie Everett moved across the country, got married, had a baby and supposedly left private investigation behind. “Changing Tides” needs roughly one date night to prove neither of them was fooling anybody. Private Eyes West Coast catches up with Shade and Angie in Victoria, where they are attempting something dangerously close to normal adulthood. Angie still has investigative instincts running through her veins, while Shade has moved into the author phase of h

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent opens its second season on The CW with a murder that initially appears rooted in tensions surrounding a downtown encampment. By the time Graff and Bateman are finished pulling apart everyone’s version of events, “White Squirrel City” has become a story about bullying, manipulation and a mother who spent years constructing her own truth. Mick McCarthy is found stabbed to death in a Toronto park where he has been living among an unhoused com

CIA begins Season 2 with Bill Goodman returning to work while carrying something he absolutely has not processed yet. His father recently died after battling cancer, and while Bill insists he is ready to get back to business, the premiere makes it pretty clear that grief is riding shotgun whether he acknowledges it or not. Colin certainly notices. After Bill ignores his calls and messages, Colin handles concern in the most Colin way possible: by appearing in the back of Bill’

FBI wastes absolutely no time reminding us that OA’s life got very complicated at the end of last season. The Season 9 premiere, “Rendition,” finds him still embedded with Anna Vorpe and her off-the-books strike team, while Maggie is forced to adjust to both his absence and a new partner she did not exactly request. OA getting fired may have looked like the end of his FBI career, but it was really the beginning of a much more dangerous assignment. His dismissal gave him the c

Line of Fire is only three episodes in, and apparently the Hollingsworth family has already decided that federal jurisdiction is more of a suggestion than a rule. “There Are Two Wolves” sends Russ and Clare racing to stop someone from dismantling a federal grand jury one juror at a time, while Mike manages to annoy nearly his entire Secret Service detail in the name of getting everyone “back to basics.” Meanwhile, the mystery surrounding Jack and Logan refuses to go away, esp

WARNING: This recap contains major spoilers for Tracker Season 4, Episode 1, “Safe Harbor.” Colter Shaw is back on the road, and apparently Season 4 had no interest in easing him back into work with a nice, uncomplicated missing-person case. “Safe Harbor” begins with a teenage boy asking Colter for help finding someone he initially claims is his missing brother. Colter quickly realizes there is more to the story: the missing man is actually the boy’s father, Sean Wooledge, an

My name is Lance Ringold , staff writer for the tv cave and in my haste to get this review out and a reaction video my article got messed up and names were misplaced, I should have vetted my article properly and for that I apologize. Please enjoy the revised article. We finally made it to the Lanterns season finale, and after everything John and Hal went through this season, “Dirt and Stars” had a lot to wrap up. There were some really strong moments here, especially when it

WARNING: This recap contains major spoilers for Marshals Season 2, Episode 1, “All Hat No Cattle.” Marshals really looked at all those Season 1 cliffhangers and said, “Fine, we’ll deal with every bit of this mess right now.” Season 2 wastes almost no time throwing Kayce Dutton back into crisis mode as “All Hat No Cattle” picks up after the finale revealed that Tom Weaver was nowhere near the friendly rancher he pretended to be. Tate is in danger, Cal and Belle have been attac

Briar Roberts thought she was being shipped off to a school for troubled teens, but Crescent Veil had a very different orientation planned. By the end of the premiere, she has learned she is a witch, discovered vampires are very much real, and managed to build chemistry with one before she even fully understands what kind of world she has stepped into. That is one rough first day, and the episode knows exactly how much fun there is in dropping Briar into a supernatural mess b

There are certain stories Hollywood refuses to leave alone, and Carrie is definitely one of them. Stephen King’s bullied telekinetic teenager has already made it to the screen multiple times, so another adaptation immediately comes with one very important question: Do we really need another Carrie? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. Mike Flanagan’s Carrie understands that simply recreating the story audiences already know would be pointless. Instead, this version brings Carrie

SPOILER WARNING: This recap contains spoilers from Scrubs Season 2, Episode 1, “My First Time in a While.” Scrubs is officially back for Season 2, and the premiere wastes absolutely no time reminding us why this revival works when it leans into the relationships that made the original series so special. “My First Time in a While” gives us the jokes, the ridiculous J.D. behavior and the Sacred Heart chaos, but underneath all of that is a surprisingly emotional episode about Dr

SPOILER WARNING: This recap contains major spoilers from the series finale of Tyler Perry’s The Oval. After seven seasons of murder, betrayal, poison, hookups, explosions and enough White House crimes to keep several federal agencies employed forever, The Oval has officially come to an end. Well, “come to an end” might be a generous way to describe what happened because this finale sure acted like Season 8 was waiting right around the corner. The Season 7 finale, “The Filthy

Spoiler Warning: This recap contains spoilers for DOC Season 3, Episode 2, “Ready or Not.” Well, DOC wasted absolutely no time making Dr. Ben Grant even more complicated. Season 3 Episode 2, “Ready or Not,” throws Westside into chaos when an entire family is brought in after a horrific car accident. But while the doctors race to keep everyone alive, Amy is dealing with another emergency of her own: memories of Ben are coming back, and the story he tells her about their past d

Warning: This recap contains spoilers for Line of Fire Season 1 Episode 2, “A Bigger Picture.” Line of Fire delivered another good episode with “A Bigger Picture,” but if the premiere was about introducing us to the Hollingsworth family, Episode 2 really starts showing us how complicated it is when nearly everyone in your family works for the federal government. Work and personal lives are already colliding, secrets are piling up, and somehow this family is still functioning…