Saying goodbye to a much-loved TV show is never easy. After spending years, episode in, and episode out with a group of characters you have to know, love and deeply appreciate who inhabit a world you would probably very much like to call your own, they are gone, living Continue Reading
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Worlds beyond and within our own: Ascension, Dominion, The Expanse + The Anomaly
We’re going back to the stars people! And where we are staying earthbound, the heavens are coming to us, although if the storyline of Dominion is any guide, we’d probably much rather it hadn’t. The good news is that epic, adventurous sci-fi narratives, which seemed to go out vogue Continue Reading
Summer TV lovin’: Gonna have us a blast!
Summer loving had me a blast ohh yeah Summer loving happened so fast I met a network crazy for me Met a TV show cute as can be (Sandy from Grease circa 2014) You can sense it can’t you? After a long cold winter when the nights were long Continue Reading
The last man alive who’s never watched Game of Thrones
Once a show enters the zeitgeist in a massive, watercooler-dominating way, it is well nigh impossible to either escape conversation about it, spoilers all across the internet (although if you’re not watching the show they hardly matter now do they?) or to fake your way through said conversation about Continue Reading
Farewell to Warehouse 13: “Cangku Shisi” (S5 E5 review)
Adhering to the always laudable ida that you should end things much as you began them, Warehouse 13 spent its penultimate episode regaling us with one of their classic Big Bad episodes where once again the world hung in the balance and only the combined might, intellect and Pete’s Continue Reading
Nothing one able-bodied female can’t handle: Vale Ann B Davis aka Alice from The Brady Bunch
We all know that time passes way too fast. But the sheer rate of knots at which it travels, dragging us along with it in its wake, hits home when someone from your childhood dies and you’re left wondering where all that time actually went. It’s probably why the Continue Reading
Here comes the Fall … TV! Send in the Superheroes
If you’re anything like me, and if you’re drinking you’re meds-laced Snapple and faithfully attending weekly therapy sessions you probably aren’t, the headline to this post likely has you humming “Send in the Clowns”. And if it hadn’t inspired that particularly annoying piece of retro ear candy, it has Continue Reading
The eyes have it: The Strain infecting a TV near you soon
SNAPSHOT The Strain is a high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll), the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an Continue Reading
Farewell to Warehouse 13: “Savage Seduction” (S5 E4 review)
This was a gleeful, hilarious, over the top hoot of an episode of epic proportions. Epic I say! And by so being, “Savage Seduction” was absolutely, perfectly a quintessential Warehouse 13 episode, an inspired choice as the series draws to a much-mourned close. It all took place, naturally enough, Continue Reading
Watch as the apocalyptic future of Falling Skies goes 8 bit retro
START OF SEASON 4 SNAPSHOT (“Ghost in the Machine”) As season four opens, the Mason family and the remaining 2nd Mass suddenly find themselves under brutal attack by a new Espheni war machine – and a new, deadly creation unlike anything previously encountered. Divided like chattel and spread to Continue Reading