V-icissitudes V “John May” ABC, Tuesdays 8PM Written by Gregg Hurwitz Directed by Jonathan Frakes “Let them have this one victory, because I am about to deliver them a thousand defeats.” —Anna We’re seven episodes into the first season of V, and still nobody’s been eaten. What kind of villains are these? The most we’ve seen up until this episode is a glimpse of lizard skin under a wound or a half-second look of a lizard eye. In fact, the most lizard-like image on the show is Anna’s unblinking stare and stiff body language. So far, these terrible alien invaders haven’t…
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V: “We Can’t Win”
Bait and Switch V “We Can’t Win” ABC, Tuesdays 9PM Written by Christine Roum & Cameron Litvack Directed by David Barrett “Your girl’s got a baby lizard in her terrarium?” — Hobbes Well, if we can’t get anything like realism on this show, maybe we can get humor. Certainly the antics of the alleged “Fifth Column” are fodder for comedy. I love it when key players in a desperate conspiracy take time off from saving the world to shore up their relationships, like when Erica tries once again to form simple sentences with her son, or Ryan goes looking for…