This week, Marvel premiered something very special. No, not the Ant-Man trailer. That was fun and all but the studio really struck gold with the two hour premiere of Agent Carter. I have to admit, I didn’t have high hopes for it. Marvel’s other TV show, Agents of SHIELD didn’t exactly set the world on fire. I know, I...
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Look, I’m bored, it’s a slow news week, and I don’t feel like writing about the Sony hack or about how the cancellation of The Interview is a blow to free speech and the terrorists have won and yada yada yada. There are far smarter people than me to tackle that issue and write...
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It’s been a good year for TV. Breaking Bad is gone but there were more than a few shows willing to fill the gap. And now it’s time to talk about them. I worked long and hard and crunched a lot of numbers to come up with my top ten list even though my number...
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Sometimes I wish I had been alive when The Twilight Zone was first airing on TV. Sure, many people my age spent more than a few holiday weekends marathoning episodes of Rod Serling’s groundbreaking program but can you imagine what it actually would have been like to have that show as a weekly event? To not...
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Yesterday it was announced that Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell are finally resurrecting the horror genre’s most bumbling and idiotic hero. Fans of The Evil Dead franchise have been clamoring for Ash’s return for years and Raimi and Campbell kept promising we hadn’t seen the last of him. How would they bring him back was...
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To all of you who binge watch episodes of Parks and Recreation or Brooklyn Nine-Nine like I do, it may be time for our comedy to get a swift kick in the gut. Both are excellent shows and I would never bash something that people find funny, but Adult Swim is producing comedy on...
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Perhaps it’s just the fact that so many American shows (cough…cough…Gotham) are utter shit-garbage but it seems to me that most British shows are a lot more interesting than much of what we have to offer. Granted, this could easily be because we only hear of the great British TV programs. They probably have...
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Like everybody else in the world, I watch The Walking Dead but my relationship with the show has often been troubled. It’s like a friend who did something unforgiveable only to apologize and make up for it a few years later. I may accept him as my friend again, but I’ll always watch him...
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It’s a question I ask myself every time I sit down to watch an episode of this utterly insane show. I keep waiting for Sleepy Hollow to falter, for it to go just one step too far down the road to Crazy Town, but it never does. Or at least hasn’t yet. After the...
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TV shows are defined by their characters and while we give awards for writing, directing, and acting, we don’t give awards for character creation. Well, I’m here to remedy that! A great character can elevate a show, make episodes that are otherwise frustrating become interesting solely because we feel a connection with a specific...
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