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Is Herc In Love The CW’s New CUPID-y Comedy VALENTINE??
Published 10/5/2008 by Hercules at Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
... … giving the show a pass would be a kindness. Badly cast and sadly inept … The New York Times says: … I do not ♥ “Valentine.” … Again we have a matriarch on our hands, and this time she is Aphrodite, living in a big spread right out of “90210,” and played by Jaime Murray, who did a great job as a stalker-arsonist on “Dexter” last season, but here is made paradoxically to deliver too-cute dialogue while looking like Joan Crawford in “Mildred Pierce.” ...

Hercules Is Enriched By The CW’s New Credit-Crunch Hourlong EASY MONEY!!
Published 10/5/2008 by Hercules at Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
... … doesn't seem to know what or where it wants to be, landing in some netherworld between a broadcast comedy and an edgier cable drama. … The New York Times says: … “Easy Money” has as its executive producers Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, alumni of “The Sopranos,” and it aims for a similar mood and tone of chiaroscuro. But it is as if they were using flashlights to produce it. It is as if Tony had gone around and explicitly rationalized his behavior to Anthony Jr. all the time by saying: “You know, kid, what we do here in the mob is no different from some ...