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Prodigal Son Pilot Recap: “I Thought You Said You Were Done with This Murder Business”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 17:00:19 +0000

Wouldn’t it be more fun to call it Masters of Serial Killing? Michael Sheen stars in Fox’s new murder procedural drama Prodigal Son, and his presence is basically the only thing to recommend about the show. Sheen plays Dr. Martin Whitly, a prominent surgeon among New York’s upper class elite, and also a notorious serial...

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Gotham Series Finale Recap: “Our Story Is Over, Old Friend”

Josh Zyber — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:00:18 +0000

After five seasons, Fox’s Gotham ended its run last Thursday with a finale episode that tries very hard not just to wrap up its own storylines, but to tie the entire Batman mythology together. Gotham has often been a very frustrating series. Five seasons is kind of short for a comic book show these days,...

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The Passage Pilot Recap: “I Didn’t Used to Believe in Monsters”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:00:37 +0000

Save for The X Files and Fringe, Fox doesn’t have a great track record for keeping sci-fi dramas on the air longer than a season. Nevertheless, the network keeps trying. Will The Passage find a path to long-term success, or it is doomed to lose its way like so many shows before it? Based on...

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Gotham 5.01 Recap: “Are You Sorry You Stayed?”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 13:00:42 +0000

After teasing it for so long, will Batman finally, actually begin on Fox’s Gotham? It looks like that could be the case as the series enters its fifth and final season. Gotham is in chaos… again. As the last season ended, the most recent Joker, Jeremiah Valeska, blew up all the bridges out of town,...

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‘The X Files’ 11.09 Recap: “It’s Your Day to Be Beautiful”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:00:08 +0000

For as frustratingly uneven as this season of ‘The X Files’ has been, I’ll give the show credit that several episodes, including this week’s, have felt like they could have come right out of the original series. Even if they’re not quite top-tier original series, that’s still an improvement over the last revival season. Episode...

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‘The X Files’ 11.08 Recap: “I Was Thinking More Like a Hellhound”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:00:46 +0000

It should be no surprise that last week’s playfully inventive episode of ‘The X Files’ was an anomaly this season. The show returns to classic monster-of-the-week form this week, to some mixed results. Episode ‘Familiar’ opens with a little boy at a playground, carrying a super-creepy doll called “Mr. Chuckleteeth” that has an evil smiling...

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‘The X Files’ 11.07 Recap: “We Learn from You”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 13:00:02 +0000

I went into this week’s episode of ‘The X Files’ with very low expectations. My hopes for the season have been tempered in general (outside of the Darin Morgan episode), and the plot description sounded kind of inane. Amazingly, it turns out to be fantastic, a surprise highlight of the season. The episode features only...

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‘The X Files’ 11.06 Recap: “I Think Cats Are Creepy”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 18:00:35 +0000

‘The Sixth Sense’ star Haley Joel Osment does a guest spot on ‘The X Files’ this week. All grown up now, he’s traded seeing ghosts for seeing monsters. I’m sure that Osment is probably sick of people always talking about him in relation to ‘The Sixth Sense’. As an adult, he’s actually had a pretty...

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‘The X Files’ 11.05 Recap: “Hope Is Not a Fact”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 13:00:03 +0000

It’s pretty unlikely that anything ‘The X Files’ delivers for the rest of this season will equal, much less top, last week’s highlight. This week’s episode certainly doesn’t. Almost like a bait-and-switch, ‘Ghouli’ initially presents itself as a Monster of the Week episode, but then reveals itself to actually be a mythology story. Considering how...

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‘The X Files’ 11.04 Recap: “A Conspiracy Nut Is Right Twice a Day”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:00:29 +0000

I may sound like a fanboy in this regard, but the promise of a new Darin Morgan episode is the main reason I continue to support ‘The X Files’ still churning out new seasons so long into the show’s decline. However badly the rest of the season may go, Morgan’s work always stands apart. In...

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‘The X Files’ 11.03 Recap: “Talk About Flinging Dookie!”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:00:40 +0000

Originally, the season’s Darin Morgan-penned comedic episode of ‘The X Files’ was scheduled for this week, but either the producers or the network decided to juggle the order of things and move one scripted by Chris Carter ahead of it. At least tonally, that may make a better transition from the prior two episodes. Despite...

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‘The X Files’ 11.02 Recap: “Who Needs Google When You’ve Got Scully?”

Josh Zyber — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:00:48 +0000

Free from Chris Carter’s awful writing or directing, the second episode of ‘The X Files’ this season is a small improvement over the dreadful premiere. Just a small one, unfortunately. Episode ‘This’ (a lame title that’s not really explained or justified) was both written and directed by ‘X Files’ veteran Glen Morgan. Over the years,...

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