The Strain premiered with a cliché-ridden, contrived convoluted mess o’ horror tropes, and this week’s episode is not much better. “The Box” follows the first episode’s design with a couple of chilling images and scenes padded with a lot of horrible sounding dialogue, clunky exposition, and uneven performances. Despite the shorter running time, the episode […]
Well, we all know how campy True Blood can be (and this episodes certainly had its moments of camp), but “Lost Cause” was more about upping the meta factor- or at least taking the time to highlight some of the more ridiculous and unfair things that seem to happen with recurring frequency within good old […]
The Leftovers continues its streak of engrossing television hours with its latest episode. After last week’s supremely intense hour, the series goes back to the more conventional narrative structure. Kevin, once again, becomes the focus of the episode that explores the history and current dynamics of the Garvey family. I’ve said before that Justin Theroux’s […]
Korra returned to TV this week with two more episodes, “Old Wounds” and “Original Airbenders”. Are we finally seeing an upswing in quality or is it more of the same? Lets find out. Plots In “Old Wounds”, Lin goes to seek help from an acupuncturist for her stress related pains. In doing so she unlocks […]
Since I was away on vacation last week, I’d like to touch on both last week’s episode of Rectify along with this week’s installment. Both episodes actually fit very well together, with each taking steps to flesh out some of the supporting cast of characters while continuing to give us insight into who Daniel once […]
The first season of Penny Dreadful was a wonderful surprise and we cannot wait to see what is in store for the series’ future and Showtime president, David Nevins, is eager to share exciting details of the upcoming season. During the TCA press conference for the network Nevins teased that “it’s a really big cosmology […]
Spoilers for Homeland’s last season. At the end of Homeland’s third season the series’ writers did well by finally killing the Carrie/Brody romance storyline (and the Brody storyline altogether) and establishing new story threads to follow in the upcoming season: Carrie finds herself still pregnant with a Brody-spawn, promoted to an overseas position, and Saul […]
