The third season would end up being both the longest season and its final one on television. It was the only year that the show enjoyed the opportunity to spread its wings over a complete run of episodes. It aired an entire season from September to May in 1990/1991. That meant we got a lot of good episodes that are available in this release. Father Dowling and Tom Bosley are both gone now. I can safely say they haven't been forgotten.

Catholic priests are used to hearing confessions, but for one particular pastor in Chicago, the usual confessions about using the Lord's name in vain or stealing a couple of paper clips from the office just weren't exciting enough. Father Dowling loved reading mystery books, and it appears to have sharpened his own powers of observation and deduction. As luck would have it, crimes and mysteries would simply fall into his lap. With the help of Sister Stephanie, better known as Sister Steve, he would step away from his pastoral duties to track down clues that were elusive to the Chicago Police Department. You might just say he was the answer to their prayers. All the while he would attempt to keep the financially-strapped Saint Michael's parish on solid footing.

Something strange in your neighborhood? Who ya gonna call? Well, if Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd are busy and you don’t mind being on TV, you call SyFy’s Ghost Hunters. For eight seasons, the team from T.A.P.S. (The Atlantic Paranormal Society) has gone to various spooky locations to investigate claims of paranormal activity. Led by Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, T.A.P.S. takes on a variety of cases in the first part of this season that send the team from a WWII aircraft carrier and a haunted amusement park to Providence’s City Hall.

For those unfamiliar with Ghost Hunters, each episode follows the same pattern. Jason and Grant get info from their client on the eerie goings-on before the team splits up to investigates the location. After the investigation wraps, the team analyzes the audio and video footage they’ve recorded and presents their findings to the customer. While formulaic, I feel it adds an air of legitimacy to the investigations. To see the team use the same equipment and techniques the same way again and again shows that the team has a methodical approach to their work.

Well, would you look at that: the sidekicks from previous popular primetime series after each of their shows have ended, banded together to form their own television series. Though it is not uncommon for the supporting cast of a TV show to try to break out on their own either right before or right after their former show receives the axe, it is rare that said show makes it through its first season, let alone gets renewed for a second season; the exception being Men At Work (not to be confused with the film by the same name starring the Sheen family, with which it shares no relation as far as I can tell).

Leading the show is Danny Masterson (That 70’s Show) as Milo Foster, a guy down in the dumps after the recent breakup with his girlfriend of five years, Lisa (Amy Smart, Shameless). His best friends and coworkers Tyler (Michael Cassidy, THE O.C.), Neal (Adam Busch, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and Gibbs (James Lesure, Las Vegas) take it upon themselves to help him get over the breakup by any means necessary. Ladies’ Men Tyler and Gibbs subscribe to the philosophy that the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else. Neal, who has been shacking up with Amy (Meredith Hagner, Royal Pains), the boss’s daughter, for the last two years, believes that Milo needs to go at his own pace until he’s ready, a belief that is openly mocked by the others including Milo.

I remember the exact moment I learned about this film. I was at the movies; it was the first trailer on the film, and I immediately felt my intrigue build. The trailer didn’t give much away; at the time it felt like a disassembled puzzle joined together by multiple voiceovers, and then the question that tied it altogether was asked: “When was the last time you saw Bin Laden?” After that everything became clear, and I had my first inkling of how important this film was going to be. Once I learned that Kathryn Bigelow would be in the driver seat, I was certain of the film’s importance.

The film starts off with a solid opening, possibly the most fitting opening for the film: black screen and a 911 transmission from a woman trapped inside the World Trade Center on September 11^th shortly after the plane crashed into the building. Cut to 2003; we are introduced to Dan (Jason Clarke, Lawless), a veteran C.I.A. interrogator and Maya (Jessica Chastain, Lawless), a newly assigned rookie agent. At a C.I.A. black site (a C.I.A. controlled holding facility for the detainment of enemy combatants), the two interrogate a low-level Al-Qaeda operative for information that will ultimately help bring them closer to their primary target, Osama Bin Laden.