It’s been quite the week for summer programming renewals, with AMC renewing the low-rated Halt and Catch Fire, Showtime announcing the renewal of its Sunday night block of programming. Not to be outdone, FX has announced it will be renewing its freshman series The Strain for a second season. The Strain has been a mixed […]
About halfway through “Love is to Die” I had to double check and makes sure it was the penultimate episode of True Blood‘s seventh season rather than the actual series finale, as so many of the show’s storylines appeared to be wrapping up in nice little bows. But, as it turns out, this was actually […]
While the two most successful episodes of The Leftovers have been, “Two Boats and a Helicopter” and “Guest,” which limit their narrative to the experience of one specific character, “Cairo” shows that the series can deliver an equally daring and ambitious hour with the more traditional storytelling template. The focus isn’t entirely on one person; […]
The Strain continues to impede the few positive aspects of the show in favor for dull storytelling, expected developments and uninspired action sequences, if you could call them that. “Occultation” opens with an adequate cold open. As the camera floats in outer space over the earth, we hear several news reports discussing the upcoming eclipse […]
Oh man. Legend of Korra returned this week with “The Ultimatum”. I have to admit, I was kind of dreading this episode. This season seems to have a knack for good setups and poor payoffs. Man was I wrong. Let’s get to it! Plot, You Guys As Ba Sing Se falls into chaos, Mako and […]
There is only one more episode left in Rectify‘s second season, and with that in mind, it’s easy to see how “Until Your Blue” took more steps to advance the plot than your average episode of the series. That being said, the episode proved the show doesn’t need to simply be about existential questioning. It […]
The Freakshow will be arriving Wednesday October 8. The FX anthology drama, American Horror Story, returns with a new setting, new characters, new scares, same fantastic cast, as expected. This time, the story will focus on one of the last remaining freak shows in 1950’s America: “Emmy® Award-winning actress Jessica Lange returns as Elsa Mars, […]
