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A Preview of FX’s Justified
A cable network show about an old-fashioned US Marshall with cowboy hat and Stetson in the modern day may not be something to get excited about at first glance, but when it stars Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood) and is executive produced by esteemed American crime novelist Elmore Leonard, it’s enough to get our attention
Continue reading...True Blood 2.4 + 2.5 – Shake and Fingerpop & Never Let Me Go
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Dallas may be the most vampire-friendly city in America, but for Bill and Sookie, it’s full of danger and mystery, conspiracy and telepathy. Our recap of Ep 4, “Shake and Fingerpop” and Ep 5, “Never Let Me Go” are below—a bit late due to a TiVo malfunction, but no less recapful and ever so [...]
Continue reading...True Blood 2.3 – Scratch My Back
Monday, June 29, 2009
Just when things couldn’t get any stranger in poor Bon Temps, Sookie goes out for a midnight stroll—or a midnight angry storm away from her vampire boyfriend—and gets gored by a gigantic, muscular monster that bears a suspicious resemblance to a mythological bull-like creature. Or Tim Curry in Legend. Spoilers and recap after [...]
Continue reading...True Blood 2.2 – Keep This Party Going
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The initial sequence in “Keep This Party Going”, Episode 2 of True Blood’s second season, is disarming. Literally. One thing is clear: HBO’s hottest vampire drama will pull no punches this season. Things are going to get messy. Spoilers below.
Continue reading...True Blood 2.1 – Nothing But the Blood
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) has the distressing ability to say the word “Sookie” in such a growing, guttural way that it is akin to him having non-consensual sex with your ears. It is nothing short of a full-on predator sexual molestation of the English language, and but one of many reasons why HBO’s True Blood is the most compelling show on television today. Sunday night saw the debut of the second season of the swelteringly sexy and seductive vampire drama, bringing us back to Bon Temps exactly where we left off—a dead body outside Merlotte’s.
Continue reading...Fringe: Ep 11 & 12: “Bound” , “The No-Brainer”
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
After a holiday hiatus, Fringe comes back on the air; just in time to have Lost take everyone’s attentions away for the next four months! But that’s okay. It just gives Fringe the chance to expand and grow further into its myriad of conspiracies and double-crossings and keep getting more and more improbable.
Episode [...]
Fringe: The Story So Far (ep 6-10)
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
So what the heck is going on in Boston these days? I know it’s a party town and all, but an awful lot of unexplained things seem to go on between all the binge drinking and Red Sox games, like people getting stuck halfway through walls, exploding radioactive brains, heart-hugging genetically engineered snakes and [...]
Continue reading...Damages: 2.2: “Burn It, Shred It, I Don’t Care”
Thursday, January 15, 2009
If Season Two of Damages has taught me anything, it’s that everyone has an angle. Everyone lies. In short, you can’t trust a bloody word anyone says to you. You especially can’t trust the unreliable narrative, which shimmies and shakes about forwards and backwards in time like a drunken Gallifreyian. Essentially, [...]
Continue reading...Be Seeing You…
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Patrick McGoohan, veteran actor, Emmy winnter and star of the cult classic “The Prisoner” has died today at the age of 80.
Continue reading...Damages: 2.1: “I Lied, Too”
Thursday, January 8, 2009
“Little lamb…”
And with the throbbing bass line of the goth-rock intro, we’re back into the twisted, deceptive world of class-action lawsuits. Damages returns for its second season on FX, adding to its already impressive tier of actors with some new faces—William Hurt, Timothy Olyphant and Marcia Gay Harden are along for the ride. [...]
BBC names new Doctor Who
Saturday, January 3, 2009
And the new Doctor is… somebody no one’s ever heard of. Via io9:
26 year-old Matt Smith will be the eleventh Doctor, starting in 2010’s fifth season along with new executive producers Steven Moffat and Piers Wenger.
The announcement was made on a special episode of the BBC’s Doctor Who Confidential series, although noted rumormeister Rich [...]
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