The Prisoner seemed like the perfect project for AMC. It’s high-brow, a bit pretentious, and lets us down easy now that Mad Men is over with. I’m not exactly sure why the decision was made to cram all six episodes within three days of each other, as I would have been more than happy to turn in for one a night at a time for a month and a half, but here we are, and the entire series has run its course by midweek.

Let me get this out of the way, I have never seen the original Prisoner, I have zero idea what it’s about other than “Big Brother” and for that reason this will be the ONLY review you read online of the show that isn’t constantly comparing it the original. The best quote I’ve read so far, “Sure The Prisoner is smart and stylish, but is it really The Prisoner?” What the ****?

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We’ve brought you some pretty cool celebrity audition tapes in the past.  It’s always fun watching actors trying to nail a role or a part on a show back when they were virtual unknowns.  You can see how far they’ve come, and often, it seems as though they were born for the role for which they’re auditioning.  For me, the most appealing thing about an old audition tape is seeing how vulnerable an established actor was back when his or her career was on the line.

After the jump, enjoy 10 more great celebrity audition tapes.

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I have the give V credit, every time I’m about to tune out, the show seems to sense it, and throws out a few curveballs that smack me right on the head. Last week things were pretty dull, though that would have been true of any episode after the explosive pilot, and this week with “A Bright New Day,” we’re somewhere in between.

The Vs have visas now, which allows them to roam around the country freely, even though they probably could had they just changed out of their uniforms because THEY LOOK COMPLETELY HUMAN. Seriously, how are there not more people who think that the V have been here for years? How the hell are you supposed to know if someone is a V or not? Because they’re slightly socially awkward and really hot? And now with granting them visas, it’s going be impossible to tell who’s who. Are they going to be in uniform all the time? Maybe wear little red Vs on their chest like it’s 1939 Poland?

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I vaguely remember this episode, but I can’t quite place it. If I had about sixty free hours on my hands, I’d write a “Top 50 friends guest stars you totally forgot about” list, but my torrent que is already too long to download every season of Friends for that endeavor. I beseech you, the internet, to do this for me!

There’s a big part of me that didn’t even want to share these pictures.  And I’ll give you two reasons why.  The first one is a question.  Ever see an athlete on TV and you’ve never heard them speak before and then when you do you’re like “I never thought he’d have that voice?”  You’re shocked and in fact disappointed when you see them again (this is the reverse reason).

The second is when you hear a song and have never seen what the band or singer looks like.  Inevitably they’re weird looking and from that point on you have to picture their ugly mugs when you hear their music.  (P.S. the same applies to phone sex).

Well the same goes for cartoons.  Some of the results are less than par.  Although some are OK.

Here are the faces behind some of TV’s best cartoon characters

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I’m a fan of Heroes again.  I acknowledge that the show will never benefit from incredible writing, but the latest string of episodes have been entertaining and, for the most part, original.

When we left off last week, Matt Parkman had tricked a bunch of cops into thinking that he had a gun.  The cops opened fire on Parkman, filling him with bullets and causing him to drop to the ground a dead, bloody mess.  As a result of Matt’s death, Sylar, who had been inhabiting Matt’s mind and manipulating him, faded from existence, presumably dead as well.  We all knew that of course Sylar - or at least his consciousness/identity - couldn’t really be dead, thanks in large part to a spoiler-ific preview of this week’s episode, “Brother’s Keeper.”  Keep reading for the full review.  As always, there will be spoilers.

Read last week’s review HERE.

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During my late middle school/early high school years, I was a huge fan of Saturday Night Live.  I was lucky enough to witness perhaps the greatest cast since the John Belushi/Gilda Radner/Andy Kaufman cast of the late 1970s, and every Saturday night you could count on huge laughs from Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Chris Rock, Phil Hartman, David Spade, and Mike Myers.  But then, aside from a stretch when Will Ferrell was carrying the show, Saturday Night Live just wasn’t funny.  Be it weak cast members or poor writing, the show wasn’t funny anymore.  Despite being a staple of Saturday night television - and airing live - it didn’t generate the buzz that was usually associated with it.  For awhile, it seemed, Saturday Night Live was dead.

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Well, things were bound to slow down after last week’s tsunami of a pilot, which had more plot twists and reveals than an entire season of Lost. And slow down they did, to the point where practically nothing happened this time around. With only two more episodes to go before V’s incredibly poorly timed break until March, I have to wonder what exactly it is they’re building toward.

This week centered on the FBI’s investigation to find out just what happened to Dale. It appears even with aliens hovering outside your window, an agent going missing for more than 12 hours is priority one.

Last time we saw Dale, Erica had just split his head open with a metal bar to reveal his alien lizardness underneath. Now she’s playing along like she doesn’t know what happened, only to get called on her bullshit when her boss plays her a 911 call she made shortly after escaping the warehouse.

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