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 Bionic
Woman :
Season 1
Title / Air Date: The List / 7th November
2007
Writer:Bridgett Carpenter
Director: David Boyd
Summary:The Berkut Group has to team up
with the CIA to catch a dangerous man who is selling
a list naming the Berkut Group and CIA operatives.
When Jaime and Tom are partnered on the mission
in Paris, they find themselves in the city of
love, competing and flirting with each other,
while still trying to maintain a professional
relationship. Meanwhile, Becca lands herself in
jail when she tries to impress a boy and Jonashas
to bail her out.
  
Guest stars: Jordan Bridges - Tom; Callum
Keith Rennie - ; Kevin Rankin - Nathan; Beth Broderick
- ; Brandon Eaton - ;
  
Re-occurring characters/plot points:CIA
agent Tom is back and they say they haven't seen
each other for 9 days [from 'The Education of
Jaime Sommers' episode]
Best line of dialogue.....
Misc facts: One of the CIA agents has
a IPhone and is holding it upside down!. Callum
Keith Rennie is anther guest star from Battlestar
Galactica.
Reviews:
By SEAN ELLIOTT, Senior Editor IFMagazine
Now, I can say that I am firmly entrenched in
THE BIONIC WOMAN camp of followers. The show has
had an up and down feel for me thus far with a
great pilot, a couple of so-so episodes, and then
a couple of great episodes; but by this point
I really am enjoying the series. Just in time
for it to end due to the current problems in Hollywood,
right?
In any case, ‘The List’ was an excellent
follow-up to the last episode that aired the week
before last, since last week was Halloween. This
time around Jaime Sommers (Michelle Ryan) is sent
to Paris to retrieve a list that has been leaked
of the identities of undercover CIA agents. Accompanying
her on this mission is CIA agent Tom (Jordan Bridges)
who was also in the last episode.
Joining the cast for this episode was also Callum
Keith Rennie as the man who had the CIA list and
was the big baddie. Fans of Eick’s other
show BATTLESTAR GALACTICA will recognize Rennie
as Leoben Conoy, the Cylon agent with a murderous
crush on another BIONIC WOMAN Katee Sackhoff.
A lot of people get bothered by actors being used
repeatedly by producers or directors, but I think
it makes it just a hair more fun to look for these
individuals in new material from a creator you
know and trust.
Once again I have to say that it is not only
Ryan that is drawing me in more and more to this
show with her very likeable leading character,
but also the supporting cast. Kevin Rankin who
plays Nathan, Jaime’s operator (think THE
MATRIX) the guy who sits and monitors all of the
input from Jaime’s bionic implants, was back
as just as fun as before cracking one-liners and
making the mood lighter in pretty much every scene
he was in. He’s a character that makes the
show fun to watch and it looks like he’s
having a good time with it.
Plus I hope they keep Jaime’s CIA boyfriend
around. He’s a fun character, a great foil
to her innocent (yet super strong) secret agent.
More importantly, he’s as pretty to look
at as she is and the tow of them have really believable
chemistry onscreen. I get so tired of seeing pairs
on TV or movies, where the chemistry is as flat
as a pancake.
I admit I am apprehensive to see where this season
is going to leave off due to the writers’
strike, but hopefully Eick and crew had a plan
up their sleeves in case of just such an emergency.
A-
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