‘iZombie’ 1.13 Recap: “Live to the Max”
I haven’t written about The CW’s ‘iZombie’ in a while, even though it was one of the past season’s more promising new series. Now that the show has aired its first season finale, let’s do a quic...
I haven’t written about The CW’s ‘iZombie’ in a while, even though it was one of the past season’s more promising new series. Now that the show has aired its first season finale, let’s do a quic...
For all the faults this season of ‘Penny Dreadful’ may have (and they are many), the show still excels at creating a creepy spookhouse atmosphere. Even as the main narrative makes no sense at all, individual scenes can...
I guess ‘Game of Thrones’ didn’t blow its entire production budget for the season on that big action scene last week. In the penultimate episode of the season, the show builds to an (in my opinion, which surely n...
You might say that NBC’s ‘Hannibal’ is a criminally underrated TV series. Although considered one of the best scripted dramas currently on television by critics and by its avid fan base, the show’s ratings ...
A few years ago, CBS tried to develop a TV series based on the Jake Gyllenhaal sci-fi thriller ‘Source Code‘. When those plans were eventually scrapped, the ABC Family network stepped in to create a thinly-disguised Yo...
The question of whether a child’s imaginary friend might actually be real, and evil, is a trope common to many horror movies from ‘The Shining’ to ‘Hide and Seek’ to ‘Drop Dead Fred’ (the ...
This season of ‘Penny Dreadful’ has been confusing and frustrating. Although generally an improvement over last week’s disappointing episode, the latest entry spends a lot of time setting up for a climax it then ...
As if in response to complaints about how slowly this season has moved, ‘Game of Thrones’ delivered one of its hugest action set-pieces ever this week. The show usually reserves these things for the second-to-last epis...
As I understand it, the ratings for this season of Showtime’s ‘Penny Dreadful’ have been so poor that the show’s prospects for a third season are in some doubt. Although I enjoyed the first few episodes thi...
I know that I shouldn’t try to judge this whole season until it’s done, because something amazing could still happen in the next three episodes, but ‘Game of Thrones’ feels like it’s in a holding patt...
Late in the season finale of ‘The Flash’, Barry warns another character that, “This won’t make any sense.” That’s certainly an understatement! Somehow, despite its erratic and frequently nonsens...
About halfway through its first season, ‘Penny Dreadful’ took a break from all of its ongoing storylines for an extended flashback to the Vanessa character’s youth. It was an odd decision for a show with such a s...