The Walking Dead – Seed Review
The Walking Dead is finally back for season 3. Was the season premiere worth the wait? Find out right here!
The Walking Dead is finally back for season 3. Was the season premiere worth the wait? Find out right here!
“The Recordist” featured a road trip to retrieve something important, a pursuit by the Observers, a strange skin condition, some gripping Bishop family drama, and life within a secluded community bent on recording human history. However, instead of being about any of those things or simply about the man singled-out in its title, the episode was ultimately about courage with an emphasis on its loneliest form, the form of sacrifice.
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.
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.
It is the end of the era, it was the last Doctor Who episode feature Amy Pond and Rory Williams, the two best companions The Doctor has ever had (in my opinion). It was the episode that Steven Moffat promised, giving the pair emotional farewell their deserved.
It’s back, and so is the original Speedy. Two Roy Harpers in the cast? This episode finds a way to make it work. Presenting the Rise of Arsenal. Unlike the comic, it doesn’t suck.
Even by Fringe standards, “Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11” is as intriguing as an episode title gets. The story picks up the day after the events in the previous season episode “Letters of Transit.” The day after Etta, Olivia and Peter’s daughter, helped free her father, her grandfather and Astrid from Amber in an Observer-run world. “Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11” is about the quest for Olivia and to a lesser degree, about setting the stakes for “the battle to save mankind.”
The second episode of NBC’s Revolution, “Chained Heat,” was not at all like the pilot, and that was a good thing. By the time Nora – the lady who is very good at blowing things up – appeared, I had to check the episode’s writing credit, and I was surprised to find out the show’s creator Eric Kripke (who also penned the pilot) was credited. In “Chained Heat,” instead of trying to cram too many things in an hour with dubious approaches, he was more straightforward (and even candid at times) with his story and his characters. All things that made me wish the show had used this episode as the second leg of an extended premiere.
