The first name of “The Name Game” proves to be as forced and predictable as the season as a whole. But enough gems pop up in the second half to give us all hope for drastic improvement in coming episodes.
Starz will be spinning off into an independent public network. In addition, Disney will be ending its contract with Starz.
Of all media illegally downloaded in 2012, HBO’s “Game of Thrones” comes in at number 1. Torrent websites gear up for the Season 3 premiere in March.
Don’t let Honey Boo Boo and Real Housewives of Reno (or whatever else city) fool you… 2012 was a great year for television. We’re here to look back and give our retrospective of the year, and luckily, we have two staff members with fairly different taste giving their opinion.
After the “special” episode last week with its fairy, ghost and cartoon all induced by LSD, we were back to a more ordinary plane with Anomaly XB-6783746, in spite of its title. The regular storytelling structure didn’t mean business as usual, far from it, as this was clearly the beginning of the end for Fringe. A long time regular character bid her farewell with an emotional swan song, and the final season’s story started to circle back to the beginnings of the show, or at least to reveal some of its mysteries with more or less success.
AMC has renewed The Walking Dead for a fourth season, but without the showrunner Glen Mazzara. The fan-favorite series wrapped its record-breaking fall run with a midseason finale on December 2 that drew an impressive 10.5 million total viewers, much better than last year’s fall finale.
Black Blotter was Fringe at its best. The episode used Walter and Olivia to pull us into a story that tied loose ends. The episode also gathered several elements across timelines in a coherent narrative while restoring the team’s faith in the plan to defeat the Observers.
