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
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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
Fade to black: Goodbye to Community, Suburgatory, The Crazy Ones + Revolution
Saying goodbye to anyone and anything you love is never easy. Even if you accept the inevitability of their impending absence, a part of you still screams that it’s not fair (the inner five year old lives!) and you want to beg and plead with anyone who will listen Continue Reading
Farewell to Warehouse 13: “A Faire to Remember” (S5 E3 review)
The rather pun happy title of the fourth last episode (yes I am counting them down, tissues in hand) in the final season of Warehouse 13, “A Faire to Remember”, would suggest that this was a tale of jocularity, fun and extreme silliness. The sort of stuff that Warehouse Continue Reading
We’re still here: Thrilling new trailer for HBO’s upcoming drama The Leftovers
SNAPSHOT What if your life was upended in an instant? What if your spouse or your child disappeared right in front of your eyes? Was it the Rapture or something even more difficult to explain? How would you rebuild your life in the wake of such a devastating event? Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: Community flaunts its pop culture soul to get #sixseasonsandamovie
If it’s May, then we must be in that unenviable period where the fate of Community, the Little Sitcom That Could (and Wants to do More) hangs in the balance, the guillotine of cancellation held aloft by NBC’s executioner, who may spare it and give it the almost-fabled #sixseasonsandamovie, Continue Reading