Regina King on "Southland."

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As I've written in the past, I'm not a huge "Soutland" fan, enjoying certain aspects (Cooper and Sherman, the stories that are just about the culture of the LAPD) while finding others (the cases the detectives work) a chore. (Plot is definitely the show's weakness, and the detective half of the show is, by design, more plot-driven than what the uniforms are doing.) But I enjoy it enough that I keep watching the random episodes TNT sends me, including tonight's season 3 finale, and I have a few thoughts on it coming up just as soon as I answer my partner's phone...

Emmy Rossum on "Shameless."

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It's been more than a month since I last reviewed "Shameless," and though I'm a day late this week, I thought the most recent episode was strong enough that I have some thoughts on it - and on the series to date - coming up just as soon as I remember where I parked the follow car...

House (Hugh Laurie) and Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) pay homage to Butch and Sundance in one of last night's dream sequences.

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With "Chuck" and "How I Met Your Mother" taking the week off, and given all the ads I'd seen for the episode, I decided to give last night's "House" a try. Even though I'd given up on the series due to boredom with the formula and a lack of interest in House/Cuddy, I often enjoy this kind of form-breaking, usually late-in-the-run episode that features dream sequences and/or musical numbers, usually inspired in some way by Dennis Potter's "The Singing Detective."

And I did, indeed, get a kick out of several of the dream sequences, particularly House turning up in a Charlie Harper shirt on the absolute perfect day for that, as well as the creepy, hypnotic musical number during the surgery.

Mostly, though, I watched it and realized I no longer had any investment in this show and its characters. I sometimes compare watching a TV show to having a romantic relationship. There are some shows I can break up with and then get back together with later ("ER" and "Grey's Anatomy," to name two other hospital shows), and then there are others where we split for good, and if I come across an episode afterwards, it's like running into an ex for whom I no longer have any feelings whatsoever. I can remember why I liked her once upon a time, but that's as far as it goes.

But given that I watched it, I'm curious how those of you who are still watching found the episode, and its developments in the House/Cuddy relationship, and how you're finding the season in general. What did everybody else think?

Matt Lauria, Jennifer Beals and Jason Clarke on "The Chicago Code."

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A review of last night's "The Chicago Code" coming up just as soon as I inform you that you may have a stalker...

Virginia Madsen and Blair Underwood on "the Event."

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"The Event" returned to the airwaves tonight with back-to-back episodes. I offered my review this morning. Now it's your turn. For those of you who came back after the long wait, what did you think? Same show as before, better, worse, what?

Charlie Sheen has been fired from "Two and a Half Men."

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In this whole bizarre spat with Warner Bros., CBS and "Two and a Half Men" boss Chuck Lorre, Charlie Sheen has boasted that his life is all about "winning." To borrow a line from "The Princess Bride," he keeps using that word, but after news that Warner Bros. has fired him from the show, he may have to realize that it doesn't mean what he thinks it means.

Bob finds that it's hard out here for a pimp on "Bob's Burgers."

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 "Bob's Burgers" debuted during the TV critics' press tour, and between the time crunch and my difficulty in deciding how I felt about it, I put off doing a review. But the show has grown on me, to the point where I often tend to watch it before that night's respective episode of "The Simpsons." That's not a knock on "The Simpsons," which is having one of its stronger latter-day seasons(*), but simply an acknowledgment that even a strong "Simpsons" episode circa 2011 is repeating things the show has done 37 times already, whereas what "Bob's Burgers" is doing at the moment feels a lot fresher.

(*) The eyeball joke last night was a little too gross for me, but I've always had a low gross-out threshhold when it comes to eyeballs.

I have a few thoughts on the show - and then you're welcome to discuss that, "The Simpsons," or any of FOX's Sunday animated comedies - coming up just as soon as I take note of your Adam's apple...

It's Monday, which means it's time for a new Firewall & Iceberg Podcast, in which Dan and I talk about the return of "The Event" and the state of "American Idol," Dan offers a testimonial to "Greek," which is airing its series finale tonight, and we answer a bunch of your questions. The run-down: 

Jason Ritter and Sarah Roemer on "The Event."

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What is The Event?

I know I opened my initial review of "The Event" back in the fall with that sentence, but now my question is different. Back then, I was asking what "The Event" - as in the NBC show, which returns tonight at 8 - was, because it was hard to tell if I was meant to take it seriously, or as a parody of all the most annoying aspects of "Lost" and "24." By now, I unfortunately know it's meant to be taken seriously, so I'm wondering what the actual Event - as in the thing that the show's characters keep warning us is coming, even if they won't tell us anything about it - itself is.

Because this is getting kinda silly.

"Friday Night Lights" did not, alas, make it past the opening round of Hulu's Best in Show contest.

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It's week 2 for Hulu's Best in Show tournament, and while many of my favorites advanced, not all did. "Parks and Recreation" lost a squeaker to "The Office," "Glee" pretty convincingly beat "Friday Night Lights," and "Cougar Town" and "Louie" were both crushed by, respectively, "Modern Family" and "How I Met Your Mother."