We are just days, mere days, away from eight more episodes of season 5 of The Walking Dead, a show dedicated to survival, zombie-killing and philosophical musings on the nature of humanity and whether you can return to the person you were before you did what was necessary to Continue Reading
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Brain-filled pasta anyone? iZombie debuts a freshly undead trailer
SNAPSHOT Rose McIver stars as Olivia “Liv” Moore, a rosy-cheeked, disciplined, over-achieving medical resident who had her life path completely mapped out… until the night she attended a party that unexpectedly turned into a zombie feeding frenzy. As one of the newly undead, Liv has devised a way to Continue Reading
The Many Epiphanies Of Jessica Fletcher: A Murder She Wrote compilation
When I was but a wee lad – OK slightly older than a wee lad but hardly the veteran TV watcher of today – in the mid-1980s, I was absolutely devoted to Murder She Wrote, a show than on CBS from 1984 to 1996 (followed by four movies released Continue Reading
Comic books draw even more of the offbeat crazy fun out of Rick and Morty
One of the most, if not the most, absurdly irreverent, hilarious, offbeat, crazy, imaginative, deliriously-wacky, gloriously politically-incorrect (in a way that even Family Guy, hardly a bastion of traditional family values, might blanch at) discoveries of last year was Rick Harmon and Justin Roiland’s Adult Swim animated series Rick Continue Reading
Drowning in pixels: Yes there is a lot more TV on our screens nowadays
See I told you I wasn’t imagining it! There is a LOT more TV on our screens that there was even five years with the number of original scripted series more than doubling from 80 in 2009 to 180 in 2014. And the growth is even more impressive, points out Continue Reading
You have been chosen to watch The Messengers … oh and save the world!
My, my, my but we have become a dark and despondent lot haven’t we? Besieged by terror acts unspeakable, climate change, economic woes and a general decline in societal civility, humanity seems to have decided as one that the only way to deal with all this pessimism and darkness Continue Reading
Farewell Miranda … parting is such NOT fun (final episodes review)
Saying goodbye to a TV show you love is never easy. These days, of course, you never really say goodbye to a TV show with streaming, good old fashioned DVDs, cable re-runs and yes fan-fic keeping the characters you know and love alive long after the credits have run Continue Reading
The irrepressibly charming Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (trailer)
SNAPSHOT After 15 years of living in a cult, the unbreakable and wide-eyed Kimmy (Ellie Kemper, The Office) is rescued along with three other women, causing a national sensation that culminates with an appearance on the Today show. Before getting back on the bus to Indiana, however, Kimmy decides Continue Reading
Selina swaps VPOTUS for POTUS in HBO’s teaser trailer for Veep season 4
Where we left Veep at the end of season 3 The episode, and season, conclude with no joy and little meaningful resolution, which is exactly how Veep, a show that’s at its best when its characters’ situations are at their most dire, should end. Selina’s struggling in the primaries. Continue Reading
5 things I love about this year’s sleeper hit Jane the Virgin
* Some minor spoilers contained within (though limited as much as possible) * On January 2015, a hitherto little-known actress by the name of Gina Rodriguez stepped onto the stage at the Beverly Hilton to receive her Golden Globes award for Best Performance by an actress in a television Continue Reading