All spring at Geeks Unleashed, I’ve been covering the first season of NBC’s The Pretender by the episode – a digital journey that culminated with yesterday’s review of the season finale ‘Dragon House’. In case you missed the series or a specific review, here are links to the entire first season: Episode 1 – ‘Pilot’ Episode 2 … Continue reading »
I’m reviewing The Pretender‘s first season over at Geeks Unleashed right now, and have been way too busy to regularly post links to the reviews, and find myself playing catch-up. Continue reading »
It took a long time to get it going again, but The Pretender reviews are back, this time over at Geeks Unleashed. Continue reading »
Every show has its clunkers, and unfortunately, ‘Curious Jarod’ is one of those for The Pretender. By putting The Centre on the sideline for most of the episode, ‘Curious Jarod’ leaves out the most interesting parts of the show – the search for his family, the mysteries of the Centre – in a favor of a … Continue reading »
After a bit of a flat second episode, The Pretender bounces back in a major way with ‘Flyer’, a great showcase piece for the show’s procedural-heavy formula of its earliest episodes. Continue reading »
Underneath the conspiracy and corruption of the Centre an the various case-of-the-week bad guys, The Pretender is a show about family, a topic that runs through every thread of ‘Every Picture Tells A Story’, from Jarod’s weekly pretend – as it normally does – right down to the unveiling of Miss Parker’s own origin story, something … Continue reading »
During the height of the X-Files mania in the mid-1990s, networks were throwing out ambitious dramatic pilots with wildly mysterious conspiracies and flawed protagonists. The Pretender was among these, premiering on NBC in September of 1996, introducing us to the Centre and the mysteries swirling around Jarod. Four seasons and two tele-movies later, the story remains incomplete (although … Continue reading »
