The latest episode of Fringe does a great job of showing both the highs and lows of the series. On the plus side of things we get a bunch of Walter and a smidgen more of Peter than we usually get each week. On the negative side of things, however, we once again get a mystery of the week episode where the mystery is left hanging, leaving us to wonder why we even spent an hour watching the beginning of a story with no end in view.

Chuck isn't as great this week as it was during last week's phenomenal episode, but the show is still proving that it's reached a creative high with the inclusion of Chuck's old girlfriend who broke his heart. The love triangle drama continues as a "shocking reveal" is more clichéd and expected than revolutionary. Up until those final moments, however, this week's Chuck was still a funny episode.

Now this is more like it. An episode of Sanctuary that actually gives us some back-story, while keeping me interested in the supernatural elements? Can you believe they actually delivered? I'm glad they did because it worked well. Hopefully they'll learn from this.

The steady rise in Life On Mars' quality has been slowly climbing towards something great, but this week it slips and slides back down the mountain it's been climbing. It wasn't overtly terrible like some of the early episodes, but it lacked many of the elements that made the last two episodes good. Hopefully this episode is only a minor setback on the road to something more.

Eleventh Hour has been idling for the last two episodes, as they've merely been okay, with some moments of pure stupidity. The mystery this week is fascinating and involves an interesting philosophical discussion on life and death, but other than that it was still only an average episode. Much like the victims in this episode, I feel like giving the cold shoulder to this show if they don't elevate the series back to the lofty heights set forth in the first two or three episodes.

Hiro has taken the magic paste and is now watching events from the Petrelli past. How Arthur is trying to get Angela to kill their son Nathan because his investigation of Linderman will expose Arthur’s evil-doings. How Linderman heals Angela’s memory and she tries to kill Arthur for his betrayal, and uses the Haitian to prevent Arthur’s backlash. How Nathan sees his father on the floor and calls 911. How Arthur survives and gets the doctor to hide this factoid. How Elle and Noah make Gabriel into Sylar and it turns Elle’s stomach to do it. How Meredith connects to the Company and the fact that her brother is Flint. Finally Hiro wakes up to find that Usutu’s head has been separated from the rest of his body. Ando watches, horrified, as Arthur shows up and grabs Hiro by the head as Hiro screams.

A mediocre follow-up to Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace blusters through a paper thin plot with directionless, over the top action. Any attempt at realism has been abandoned and the Bond we see is more like the campy superman of older Bond films than the dark and gritty character from Casino Royale.

The conclusion of this story about R2D2 being kidnapped ended a lot better than it began and actually surprised me at a few points. Long story short, they find R2D2 before General Grievous can extract the information from his memory banks that could threaten the Republic.

I knew once I saw the name of (former Bond villain) Robert Davi in the opening credits that Kolya would be making an appearance on this week's episode. That is rather bizarre, seeing as how he's dead but on a scifi show, there are ways to get around a stiff corpse. Even though the surprise of seeing Kolya was blown from seeing the actor's name, that didn't detract from a very enjoyable episode that seems (to me) that it might serve as the basis for the new Stargate series starting up in 2009.

Ellison has a Terminator doppelganger that was sent to kill him and take over his life. Cromartie kills the Terminator and tells Ellison that he will lead him to the Connors. Back at the Connors, they find that they have been robbed, which turns out to be Riley’s fault, as she forgot to turn the alarm back on when she crawled out of John’s window. John is left at home to clean up the mess while Derek, Cameron, and Sarah go find and deal with the robbers. Jesse helps Derek get the diamonds back for the Connors from an unscrupulous diamond dealer. Sarah makes a mistake and lets one of the thieves live, and Cromartie finds him, and makes him talk, which can only lead to trouble for the Connor gang.

Fringe has been off for a few weeks thanks to things like the United States election coverage, but it has finally returned and brought with it a decent story and a rather "STFU" moment for fans of the series. While it's a funny little snide moment from the people involved with the show, it's also a little condescending and insulting. Despite that gripe, however, it wasn't a bad return episode.

I have never seen a funnier episode of Chuck, as it was almost too much to take! I don't think I've ever laughed that heartily and often during an hour of television. There actually came a time when I felt it was perhaps too much for a single episode to contain, as I literally felt tired and my face sore after laughing and smiling so much. If Chuck can deliver an episode like this every week, however, I don't think I'll mind the pain to get so much pleasure from a show.

I can't keep saying this every time a new episode airs without my reviews starting to look like one giant Copy/Paste procedural. I love this show and am constantly amazed at that fact. The show wasn't even on my radar when the season started, but as of now it's one of my standout new shows of the season, and it frankly pisses me off that more people aren't watching. The tension continues to a head as Henry/Edward's secret is close to being divulged to the wrong people, while Henry must come to grips with the fact that his therapist isn't who she seems to be either.

Thursday nights have seen a flip-flop in quality, as the once abysmal Life On Mars is slowly coming into its own, while the once excellent Eleventh Hour is going backwards and slipping into the land of mediocrity. The premise of "Containment" had tremendous storytelling potential, but was ultimately plagued by choreographed plot points and random bouts of stupidity that affected it greatly.

Just when I was finally starting to like the Ashley character, she goes off and acts so incredibly stupidly this week that I've been turned off from her for a while. When the Sanctuary received some furry little creatures and one mean predator, all hell breaks loose, and it looks as if the little guys - nicknamed Nubbins - are the cause. They have the ability to become invisible and they multiply like crazed rabbits. Their appetite is also virtually insatiable, and if the Nubbins epidemic isn't resolved soon, the Sanctuary could be the breeding ground for a creature that can do unmentionable harm to the outside world.