In the first Marcel-less episode of the season, some chefs pick up the slack in the bitching department. Others rise to the challenge of cooking for one of the best and oldest Italian restaurants in New York.

Budgets and job offers and retconning, oh my! As we leaf through the final chapters of ‘Friday Night Lights,’ our characters are defined by change.

Boy, did the ‘Idol’ hype machine kick things into high gear this week, complete with lots discussions and rumors and promises all would be explained. But, in the end, it was just … hype.

It’s Valentine’s day on ‘Cougar Town’ (how fortuitous that this is episode 2×14) and everyone is losing their damn mind. Luckily, Tom is around to be extra creepy and bring everyone back together.

Secrets come to the surface as the doctors deal with their unruly pasts … and struggle with what it means to be a hero.

On Monday night, I though ‘Human Target’ had continuity issues. Perhaps they did, but it’s much worse that that. They may not have quite jumped the shark tonight, but they definitely leapt over the sardine … the stinky, stinky sardine.

Anna threatens to set herself up as God to earth’s religious faithful, and ‘V’s’ writers gain more confidence in their storytelling abilities.