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Episode Review: Moonlight 1.16: Sonata. Sex in the City with Fangs. And oh yeah! There's a murder in here somewhere too!

no@spam.com (Tracy Morris) — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:14:40 EDT

Let's begin with a little bit of trivia: Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is properly known as The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp minor. The author also entitled it Quasi Una Fantasia, or Almost a Fantasy. The music is rumored to be written to Beethoven's pupil, whom he was in love with.

It's entirely appropriate that this episode is entitled Sonata, because up until this point, Beth has been under the belief that her relationship with Mick has been just that: a fantasy. However, a murder that threatens to expose the Vampire community cause the facts of dating a vampire to intrude on Beth's life. And soon, her fantasy world comes to a halt.

Episode Review: Moonlight 1.15: What's Left Behind. Mick and Beth are the new Nick and Nora Charles.

no@spam.com (Tracy Morris) — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:25:49 EDT

Last week's episode, Click, left some very big questions. What would Beth do now that she's quit Buzzwire? Would Mick find out that she and Josef conspired to murder a pesky paparazzi? What about their relationship, since they're now officially dating?

This week gave us an answer to the question of Beth's job search, as well as a look into Mick's pre-Coraline past and gave the couple a few questions to chew on about the meaning of family. All while they thwarted a serial killer/kidnapper.

Episode Review: Moonlight 1.14; Click. Murder on an ocean liner! Hold the Titanic jokes.

no@spam.com (Tracy Morris) — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:08:08 EDT

Let's face it, Last week's episode, Fated to Pretend, was a tough act to follow. It had shirtless!Mick, subtexty scenes with Mick and Josef and advanced the Mickbeth relationship. However, episode 1.14, Click, did not disappoint.

Episode Review: Moonlight 1.13, Fated to pretend: In LA, Beth Turner is the only human.

no@spam.com (Tracy Morris) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:59:24 EDT

After a long hiatus where nobody was sure there would be any more season one episodes, seeing Mick, Beth, Josef and the rest of the crew was exciting. And exciting is also a good word to sum up this episode.

Episode Review: Moonlight 1.12 The Mortal Cure: More plot than you could stuff into a barrel of genetically altered monkeys.

no@spam.com (Tracy Morris) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:32:22 EDT

Let's have a history lesson. Before the writer's strike shut down Hollywood for several months, the creators of the television show Moonlight put the finishing touches on what could have been the season finale of Moonlight. For that matter, since there was talk that the strike could have stalled any future programming, The Mortal Cure could have proven to be the last episode of Moonlight ever. Perish the thought.

So before the strike lines formed up, the creators of Moonlight were determined to send their show into hiatus with a bang. Accordingly, the plot was chock full of action, suspense, twists and turns.

Episode Review: Moonlight 1.11, Love Lasts Forever. Dental work? Not so much.

no@spam.com (Tracy Morris) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:05:42 EDT

Dear Moonlight:

I'd like to have my teeth back, if you can find them. It seems only fair, since you kicked them out with this episode.

Respectfully yours,

Tracy

Episode Review: Moonlight 1.10. Sleeping Beauty: No kittens were harmed in the making of this episode.

no@spam.com (Tracy Morris) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:21:04 EDT

There are a couple of aspects to the TV show Moonlight that I'm coming to expect as regular facets. Beth will run away from any serious relationship with Mick. Josef never tells the whole story. You can't trust the hired help not to be in on any plot against your life. And Mick will get his vampire rear handed to him by mere mortals.

Sleeping Beauty had all that. But despite this, it had plenty of good points to keep me entertained.

Episode Review: Moonlight 1.09, Fleur De Lis: Hang on to your Seats. Or alternately, turn them into appropriately symbolic stakes.

no@spam.com (Tracy Morris) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:17:03 EDT

After episode 1.07, The Ringer, I was hoping that the next episode was going to be more about Coraline and the major head trip she was putting on Mick. Instead, Moonlight had to fix the pesky problem of Beth's post-traumatic stressed induced memory blocks. So instead we next got 1.08, 12:04 AM.

With that pesky problem out of the way, we're free to move back to the Coraline story arc with episode 1.09, Fleur De Lis. And, hang on to your seats folks, it's a heck of an episode.

Review: Moonlight "12:04 AM" trying to be more than just a vampire-of-the-week.

no@spam.com (Tracy Morris) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:31:59 EDT

After watching The Ringer, I was hoping that during episode 1.08, 12:04 AM we would see more about Coraline, Mick's not-quite-as-dead-as-we-thought ex wife who tried to drive Mick crazy in the previous episode.

Alas, instead of Coraline, we get a villain of another sort in the form of Donovan Shepherd, a serial killer whose life echoes that of Charles Manson.

Episode review: Moonlight's The Ringer; Love makes you Crazy.

no@spam.com (Tracy Morris) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:23:20 EDT

The course of true love never did run smooth; -- William Shakespeare

Love makes you do the wacky – William the Bloody

When you love crazy people, it makes you crazy. Just ask Mick St. John. Fifty years ago, he married a woman named Coraline. But she neglected to tell him a slight detail. No, it's not that she was one spring roll short of an all-you-can eat Chinese buffet. She was, but that's a minor detail compared to the big secret: She was a vampire. Mick found that out the hard way, when she turned him into one as well.