Orphan Black’s effort towards humanizing Helena continues with “To Hound Nature In Her Wanderings”. It is an engaging episode in which the writers explore the character in compelling and unfamiliar ways. It is a risky move incorporating a character so distinct and seemingly one note into the greater fold of the show, but it is […]
One of the most amazing elements of Hannibal is also one that gets a great deal of press. Critics (myself included) are constantly discussing how the series makes the most horrific and goriest elements of the tale of Jack, Hannibal, and Will into beautiful works of art. From the murder tableaus, that amaze as much […]
“It’s about family.” If the first half of Mad Men’s final season had ended with “The Strategy”(hell, if the final season itself had ended with last night’s episode), it would have been a deeply satisfying and appropriate conclusion. Seeing Don, Peggy, and Pete break bread as this sweetly dysfunctional family while their own personal/family lives are […]
While not a whole lot happens during “Mockingbird,” the small plot movements are crucial for setting-up the final elements of Game of Thrones fourth season. After a week with no Starks, we spend time with three of the four remaining Stark children, and check in on a few other storylines throughout Westeros and Mereen, as […]
After last week’s fantastic episode Orphan Black follows up with a bit of a dud. While “Ipsa Scientia Potestas” does have many great moments throughout the hour, it doesn’t all come together to form an exceptionally successful episode of the show. Tangential storylines and secondary narratives give it a disjointed quality and bring down the […]
Well, that happened. As I have written in previous weeks, I haven’t been all that sure where Bryan Fuller was heading with the Verger storyline. These are two characters who don’t actually appear in the Thomas Harris series of novels until “Hannibal,” the third of the group, meaning that a lot has taken place with […]
First, apologies for being late with this one- I was out of town this weekend, and didn’t get a chance to sit down and watch the episode until today. And, a bit of good news, as NBC announced on Friday that it would be bringing Hannibal back for a third season, so there is reason […]
As with “The Lion and the Rose” earlier on in this season (also known as the episode where Joffrey gets killed), “The Laws of Gods and Men” spends a great deal of time focusing its action in King’s Landing after offering us brief but powerful moments in other storylines. With a cast as large as […]
“The Runaways” is without a doubt one of the weirder episodes of Mad Men, certainly the most offbeat in the season so far. Yep, this is an odd one, it is straight up bonkers at times. From Ginsberg’s outrageous and eventually disturbing descent into madness to the randomness of a pregnant Stephanie invading Don’s life, […]
“Governed As It Were By Chance” is undoubtedly the best episode in Orphan Black’s second season run, with an entertaining mix of suspense, action, plot development and compelling character moments, it is near perfection. The hour is packed with an abundance of incredibly fantastic moments: Helena escaping the compound and eventually coming to Sarah’s rescue, […]
