惊魂海湾

《傲骨之战》第二季，世界疯了；现在，抵抗者也疯了。　　戴安·洛克哈特试图弄清，难不成不疯魔不可斗恶龙？艾德里安·博斯曼和丽兹·雷迪克-劳伦斯则在这个叙事为王的后事实新时代里挣扎抗争。与此同时，卢卡·奎因努力平衡工作、子女和情爱，玛雅·林德尔则遭遇自己的梅菲斯特——腐败化身罗兰·布卢姆律师。　　「JOIN THE FIGHT」

The Psi Corps and President Clark, whose government has discovered Shadow vessels buried in Earth's solar system, begin to harness the vessels' advanced technology. The Clark administration continues to become increasingly xenophobic and totalitarian, and uses a military incident as an excuse to declare martial law. This triggers a war of independence on Mars, which had long had a strained political relationship with Earth. Babylon 5 also declares independence from Earth, along with several other outlying Earth Alliance colonies. In response, the Earth Alliance attempts to retake Babylon 5 by force, but with the aid of the Minbari, who have allied with the station against the growing Shadow threat, the attack is repelled.
　　Becoming concerned over the Shadows' growing influence amongst his people, Centauri ambassador Londo Mollari attempts to sever ties with them. Mr. Morden, the Shadows' human representative, tricks him into restoring the partnership by engineering the murder of Mollari's mistress while putting the blame on a rival Centauri House. Open warfare breaks out between the Shadows and the alliance led by Babylon 5 and the Minbari. It is learned that genetic manipulation by the Vorlons is the source of human telepathy, as it is later discovered that Shadow ships are vulnerable to telepathic attacks. Displeased at the Vorlons' lack of direct action against the Shadows, Captain John Sheridan browbeats Vorlon ambassador Kosh Naranek into launching an attack against their mutual enemy. Kosh's deeds lead to his subsequent assassination by the Shadows.
　　Former station commander Jeffrey Sinclair returns to Babylon 5 to enlist the aid of Captain Sheridan, Delenn, Ivanova and Marcus in stealing the Babylon 4 space station and sending it 1,000 years back in time to use it as a base of operations against the Shadows in the previous Minbari-Shadow war. Undergoing the same transformation as Delenn at the end of Season 1, Sinclair transforms into a Minbari and is subsequently revealed to be the actual Valen of Minbari legend, rather than a reincarnation. Spurred by the reappearance of his assumed-dead wife (who now works for the Shadows), Sheridan travels to Z'ha'dum, the Shadow homeworld, in an attempt by them to recruit him. However he instead destroys their largest city in a kamikaze nuclear attack, and is last seen jumping into a miles-deep pit to escape the explosion. Garibaldi, during a fight with Shadow vessels, goes missing.

　　Picking up from where the last season left off, security realizes that a gun was fired in Ed's suite, as Danny and Ed's daughter realize they have deeper feelings for each other than either of them wanted to admit. Samantha realizes what trouble she's in when one of her high roller clients rolls into the hotel's beach front resort in Hawaii and rolls up a half a million dollar bill and threatens to leave it in her lap, along with the dead stripper in his room.

故事设定在第二季事件的152年后。

　　RJ·德克尔（斯科特·斯皮德曼 饰）是一名身负重罪、名誉扫地的前报社摄影师，刑满后在南佛罗里达重启人生，成为一名私家侦探 。他接手的案件从离奇古怪到惊悚诡异不等，与他并肩查案的是：记者前女友艾米莉亚·奥乔亚（杰娜·李·奥尔蒂斯 饰）、以及艾米莉亚的妻子、警探梅洛迪·阿布鲁（贝文·布鲁 饰）。一位来自他过去的神秘女子悄然出现，她可能是他最得力的盟友，也可能是将他重新拖回监狱的致命威胁。

　　本剧集是BBC 2台2000年正式推出的以青年人为题材和对象的系列情景喜剧，创意和编剧均由Steven Moffat一人担当。三男三女的主要人物构成很容易使人联想到当时正走红（其实已经在走下坡路）的《Friends》，因此很有不少根本没看过本剧的媒体人士和评论家想当然地将本剧称作英国版的《Friends》，而在那些有幸欣赏过本剧的观众们看来，《Coupling》在情节设定、人物表演、喜剧元素的设计和表现等诸多方面所达到的水平，要比《Friends》高几个档次。相比之下，《Friends》只能说是一部“业余”水平的好作品而已。当然总体来说，英剧的水准本身就高于美剧，这和英剧注意保持创意、编剧一体化是分不开的，美剧的创意一般也就为最初几集编剧，以后主要的编剧工作都是由其它编剧根据最初的角色设定来自由发挥，编剧队伍的构成也是不断变化，老的走新的来，造成美剧情节连贯性差甚至前后矛盾，故事往往缺乏深度，人物性格平面化，缺少发展。这都是题外话了。《Coupling》的主要人物包括优柔寡断、性格不成熟的帅哥Steve，Steve的莫逆之交、举止语言古怪、总也找不到女友的Jeff，头脑简单、外表性感的“donkey” Patrick三位对Porn、特别是lesbian porn非常热中的男士，以及Steve的前女友、神神叨叨、擅用性感作武器的Jane，Steve的继任女友、Jeff的同事、曾经非常“不羁”（包括和Jeff还有Patrick）过的Susan，Susan的莫逆、对衰老和肥胖极度敏感的美容师Sally三位女士。本剧的主线包括Steve和 Susan之间逐渐正式起来的关系，Jeff寻找艳遇过程中的种种意外以及后来和上司发展出来的一段关系，Patrick和Sally之间若有若无到若即若离再到情深难舍的感情发展，还有Jane在事业和异性关系中的各种奇事，等等。本剧在情节设计中所达到的精致和完美程度让人叹为观止，而六位当时并不算大明星的青年演员的所展现精湛演技更是具有顶尖演员的水平，无怪乎播出之后立刻走红大洋两岸，在IMDB、AMAZON和BBC网站可以领略到其受欢迎的程度。

　　由Liz Meriwether负责﹑J.J. Philbin执笔的ABC单镜头喜剧《单亲家长 Single Parents》是根据她们所写的故事改编，讲述一群失衡的单亲家长在彼此的帮忙下抚养孩子及寻找新爱情。
　　Taran Killam饰演单亲父亲Will Cooper，女儿是他的一切，不过他太着紧女儿令他不太像爷们﹑Leighton Meester饰演单亲母亲Angie，有个过份依恋她的儿子，坚强的她多年来一直勤奋工作维持生计﹑Brad Garrett饰演富有﹑退休的乡村俱乐部成员Douglas，他为人家长及对性别定位看法都很老派，而且认为大小问题都能用钱解决。
　　Kimrie Lewis饰演单亲母亲Poppy，有点嬉皮的她教导儿子要经常保持真我﹑Jake Choi饰演20岁的Miggy，他在妻子去了大学后独自养育儿子，这使他被弄得每晚都睡眠不足。
　　Marlow Barkley饰演Sophie﹑Tyler Wladis饰演Graham﹑Devin Trey Campbell饰演Rory﹑Grace Hazelett饰演Emma﹑Sadie Hazelett饰演Amy。

　　由以色列剧《Yellow Pepper》改篇，描述一个现代家庭的小儿子，被诊断患有自闭症。