Category: Reviews
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TrueBlood – Vampires that don’t suck
The season premier of the new HBO series True Blood quite pleasantly surprised me. After last season’s less than spectacular experience with Moonlight, I was really wary of another vampire series. Even if it was from the same guy who gave us Six Feet Under and starred Anna Paquin. Was it going to be a…
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90210 Redux
Along with what I would suspect was millions of people much younger than I am, I tuned in to catch the series premier of 90210 on The CW. I have to say, it was a lot better than I expected. Granted, I’ve got this huge nostalgia bank saved up from the first few years of…
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Just finished Spider-Man 3…
…and, wow am I glad I didn’t see that in the theater! Seriously. They could have had two good movies and, instead, they crammed it all into one kinda crappy one. Pretty, though. In fact, as long as you don’t care about semi-sensible plot, proper character development or actual working story arcs, it’s the perfect…
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Swingtown Starts With Fireworks
After being horribly disappointed by the Thursday night show I actually watched in real time, I was slightly hesitant to queue up Swingtown on the DVR. Very quickly, that hesitation turned to elation. This show could be really good. Yes, sex and swinging was a sizable part of this introductory episode. But it was done…
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Nothing to Fear in Fear Itself
I won’t say I had high hopes for NBC’s Fear Itself, but I did have moderate ones. And still, I’m disappointed. After a promising beginning, the first installment of the new anthology series, The Sacrifice, quickly degraded into a melange of same-old, same-old flat characters and sad excuses for plot twists. We won’t even talk…
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What’s Gone
The annual up fronts were presented in New York City a couple weeks ago. For those not in the know, that means that all of the networks have released their currently planned schedules for the Fall. Without a doubt, some things (like the days and times of shows) will change before September rolls around. Other…
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Mystery of the Crystal Skulls
Right now there’s a documentary on the Sci Fi Channel called Mystery of the Crystal Skulls. Obviously, it’s timed to coincide with the release of the new Indiana Jones movie that focuses on the mysterious and controversial crystal skulls. That movie has been mentioned a few times. Mostly, though, this has been a prime example…
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New on Fox: New Amsterdam
I’ve put off talking about New Amsterdam for a couple of episodes. Mainly because I wanted to see if it could keep up the wonderful attitude it had in the first episode. The show really did surprise me. Right from the first few minutes, it set a good tone. We quickly got into the head…
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New Season: NBC’s Lipstick Jungle
Believe it or not, I was huge fan of Sex and the City. I loved the show not just because the main character was a writer or because of all the actual sex that went on in it, but because the characters were strong and realistic women. Well, at least as realistic as NYC socialites…
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Into the Future: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
A couple of weeks ago, The Sarah Connor Chronicles hit the airwaves at Fox, a show that has garnered a lot of buzz in the geek world due to the fact that it’s a Terminator continuation and that it stars one of the favorites of Joss Whedon’s vocal fan-base: Summer Glau. If you haven’t seen…
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Mid-season Checkup
December always brings with it the traditional television season break. Over the past decade, it’s served more as the mile-marker where half the shows pull off the road and a whole new set get ready to come on. This year, with the writer’s strike going on, there’s more chance than usual that everything on up…
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Quarterlife
I’m apparently a little behind the times. There’s a new show that should be hitting the NBC airwaves next year and I just found out about it. Normally, that’s not too disconcerting of a thing. After all, I live in the DC area and not LA or NY. What’s disturbing here is that the show…