About Shannon Nutt
Shannon is the former Editorial Director for DVD Empire, a former staff reviewer for DVD Talk, and has spent over a decade reviewing and writing about DVD and Blu-ray online. A life-long movie buff, Shannon also holds a B.A. in History. When he isn't discussing movies, he loves debating politics and world events.
If last week’s season premiere reminded fans of everything great about ’24’, this week’s entry reminds them of everything that often goes wrong with this series. Although the episode count this season has b...
One of the great things about ‘Orphan Black’ is that the show never spends too much time on a single plot thread. If a character gets into trouble at the end of one episode, he or she will usually find a way out of it ...
Although Season 2 of ‘Bates Motel’ has been a step down from the impressive first season overall, the last few episodes have reminded us how good the show was last season. I’m happy to report that the finale does...
The most exciting entertainment event of 2014 isn’t happening at your local cinema. No, it’s happening right on your TV screen, as Jack Bauer makes his triumphant return in ’24: Live Another Day’, a brand-n...
After a couple episodes where I actually had to take notes and do a bit of research to figure out all the twists and turns, the third episode of ‘Orphan Black’ Season 2 is a little more of a fun romp. Most of the expos...
Over the past couple weeks, I suspected that ‘Bates Motel’ was ratcheting things up for the Season 2 finale. This week, in the penultimate episode of the season, viewers are treated to not only the best episode this ye...
‘Orphan Black’ splits into four separate storylines this week: Sarah continues her search for her daughter, Cosima decides whether to take Dr. Leekie up on his offer, Alison (once again) suspects that her husband Donni...
With only two more episodes (after this one) to go this season and Norman’s girlfriend Cody out of the picture, ‘Bates Motel’ begins to put a laser-like focus on setting things up for the season ender. This week ...
When we last saw clone Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany) at the end of the first season of ‘Orphan Black’, she had just returned home to discover that both her daughter Kira and her foster mother Siobhan Sadler (whom Sar...
As ‘Bates Motel’ heads into the home stretch of its sophomore season, Episode 7 (‘Presumed Innocent’) does a nifty bit of storytelling as it uses the events of last week’s episode to bring the storyli...
The second half of ‘Bates Motel’ Season 2 is shaping up to be much better than the first half. Episode 6 (‘Plunge’) gives us more information about Norman’s frequent blackouts and concludes with the k...
At first glance, there’s not a ton of stuff going on plot-wise in Season 2’s fifth episode (the midpoint of the season) of ‘Bates Motel’. However, despite not moving the story forward very much, this week...