I wasn’t born yet when the original Roots miniseries aired on ABC in January of 1977. Lest you think I’m some young whippersnapper, I was born in 1985, eight and a half years later. But it has been almost 40 years since Roots captured the attention of American audiences, becoming one of the most watched […]
I’m honestly not sure what to make of “Schism,” the end to Arrow‘s incredibly uneven fourth season. It was an episode with almost no oomph, despite some lovely hand-to-hand combat sequences (which, at this point, is one of the few things the series has going for it- consistently great fight scenes). “Schism” lacked any semblance […]
HOLD THE DOOR! Poor Hodor. Loyal to the end. But that was a hell of a way to go, no? Throughout the last few weeks, I’ve read several theories positing that Bran was going to be somehow responsible for Hodor’s hodor-ness, which I agreed with, but I certainly didn’t think the writers would let us […]
A lot of what happened in “Lost in the Flood” didn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. Team Arrow, thanks once again to the great work by Felicity and the Calculator (with a solid assist from Curtis), foiled Darhk’s immediate plans for destroying the world. Thea managed to get drugged and then overcome […]
Marvel Agent’s of S.H.I.E.L.D. might have had a rocky third season overall, but it sure knows how to pull of a finale. It was an intense two hours from start to finish as the team tried to find “Absolution” and everyone waited to find out which agent would reach “Ascension.” The first half began with […]
After three weeks of slogging through exposition (which, on a show as sprawling as Game of Thrones, is only to be expected), “Book of the Stranger” finally kicked a number of storylines into high gear. And not a moment too soon, as there are only six episodes remaining in the season and something of substance […]
“Monument Point” was a perfectly fine episode of Arrow. It hit all the necessary beats- seemingly insurmountable problem, large scale fight sequences, a really great one-on-one hand-to-hand fight sequence, a moment of major emotional impact, really annoying flashback sequences- but it seemed far too “paint by numbers” to really have any impact beyond continuing to […]
As the third season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has started coming to a close, the stakes have only gotten higher. And Hive continued to have the upper hand, despite a valiant effort from S.H.I.E.L.D., in “Emancipation.” Try as they might, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents just couldn’t seem to free themselves from the threat of Hive. […]
Now that’s more like it. With “Oathbreaker,” season six of Game of Thrones finally moved beyond the exposition stage and started moving stories forward. For fans of the novels, there were a few key questions that were answered, and for those who only follow the show, it was a fully enjoyable hour packed full of […]
“Genesis” could have been a spectacular Arrow episode. After all, it had some really awesome fight sequences, we got to see Lyla in full badass mode, and the episode set up an intriguing subplot involving Thea being trapped in Darhk’s magic “Safe Zone” bubble. But the bulk of the episode absolutely failed to deliver for […]
