DC Nation Goes on Sudden Hiatus until January 2013
I hope fans enjoyed those two new episodes, because Green Lantern: the Animated Series and Young Justice:Invasion are going right back on hiatus again. Courtesy of Cartoon Network.
I hope fans enjoyed those two new episodes, because Green Lantern: the Animated Series and Young Justice:Invasion are going right back on hiatus again. Courtesy of Cartoon Network.
Emily Owens, M.D., the new medical drama from the CW, premieres on October 16, but you can watch the pilot online right now and right here (if you live in the U.S., or more precisely, if your computer’s address is in the U.S. address space). Mamie Gummer stars as the title character, a newly minted doctor who discovers that, sadly and comically, life at the hospital where she is about to start her professional life is no different than high school.
With “If Memory Serves”, Alphas turned lemons into lemonade with some moderate success. The episode paired six of its protagonists and had us follow them in three different storylines that were unrelated, but shared a design flaw. All three had a member of the pair seemingly introduced for contrast, but in at least two cases, they ended up substantially ruining the storyline. That is why a story about the priceless nature of our memories wasn’t as effective as it could have been, and another about consequences of our actions seemed out of place in the series.
Nielsen Research unveils its new cross-platform rating system, HBO renews Boardwalk Empire, NBC issues back-9 orders for Revolution and Go On, and the CW wants its share of the post-apocalyptic dramas cake.
If this is what Aqualad is capable of as a double agent. he would be terrifying as a fully fledged villain. What are we supposed to call him now anyway? Surely not Black Manta Jr.
With a 13-episode final season, Fringe doesn’t have much time to waste, and I am starting to believe it might be a very good thing for the overarching story. “In Absentia,” the second episode of the fifth and final season, was all about showing us how the Observers-run world has shaped Peter and Olivia’s daughter Etta “in the absence” of her parents. The flawlessly-written episode mercilessly brought out sides of the young woman still unknown to us, within a larger story that laid out a new quest for our heroes.
“Love After Death” wasn’t a stellar episode of Alphas, but it was much better than I anticipated. I was expecting the episode following the death of Rosen’s daughter to be mired in a general sense of loss, which it was, but it was also smart enough to use the themes of parenthood, hope and even love to segue from grief in an effective way.
