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.
After last week’s episode, I felt that ‘The Newsroom’ was getting back to the quality we saw in the first season. However, Episode 4 (entitled ‘Unintended Consequences’) is so predictable and poorly w...
We begin this week’s recap with some good news for ‘Under the Dome’ fans. CBS has officially renewed the show for a second season, which will once again be a limited-episode (probably 13) summer series. Even bett...
Finally! After a so-so season premiere and a disappointing second episode, ‘The Newsroom’ finally gets back to what makes it a great TV show in Episode 3, ‘Willie Pete’. In short, we get less of the tiresom...
There are a couple moments of unbelievable stupidity and just plain bad TV writing in Episode 5 of ‘Under the Dome’ (titled ‘Blue on Blue’), but thanks to some solid direction by Jack Bender (also one of th...
Two episodes into the new season of ‘The Newsroom’, it has become obvious that Sorkin and company are taking a somewhat different approach to telling stories. Gone – for the time being at least – is the weekly focus on...
After a couple weeks of little significant forward progress, Episode 4 of ‘Under the Dome’ (entitled ‘Outbreak’) decides to move things along quite a bit. Before the opening titles even roll, Julia Shumway ...
I make no apologies for my love of Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Newsroom’, although I have come to learn that there are just as many people out there who abhor this program as there are those who think it’s the best...
At the end of Episode 2 of ‘Under the Dome’, police officer Paul Randolph accidently shot and killed another officer when a bullet he fired at the dome ricocheted back. In Episode 3, appropriately titled ‘Manhunt...
If episode 2 of ‘Under the Dome’ establishes anything, it’s that the television series won’t follow the Stephen King novel very closely… if at all. It’s been a while since I read the book, but I don...
Based on the (heavy) bestseller by Stephen King, CBS’s summer series ‘Under the Dome’ is being presented as a “special event” series of 13 episodes. However, the network has also made it clear that if...
Last week brought us the eighth and final episode of the first season of ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’. It has been a somewhat uneven season, but the show finished its freshman year strong. However, the producers couldn...
Seven years after being canceled by Fox, ‘Arrested Development’ returns with 15 brand-new episodes (currently) available only on Netflix. Like it has done with its other exclusive series, Netflix has made the entire se...