What an odd viewing experience. I had completely forgotten how season 4 of the show ended. In fact, I’d pretty much forgotten everything about the show. That’s a strange position to begin watching the premiere episode of a show’s fifth season. Mad Menhas been off the air for a long time. It might be fair [...]
Awake is one of those high concept shows that will have people hanging around the water cooler and discussing over lunch. But it’s not complicated. It’s a simple idea that very quickly creates a world of mystery without making the viewer feel lost. Certainly the most confident opening from any freshman show in the 2011/2012 [...]
The basic premise of Touch is a simple one. There’s a kid that can see ordered patterns in the random chaos of the universe, in numbers and events that we ignore as chance and coincidence. I’m sure I’ve seen this before, in the Nicholas Cage movie Knowing. Or even the awful Jim Carrey vehicle The [...]
Hank’s back! Some actors, certainly genre actors, tend to get stuck in association with their most well-known character. Patrick Stewart may have played Charles Xavier but he will always be Captain Jean-Luc Picard to millions of people. There’s nothing wrong with this. Growing up, The X-Files was without a doubt the most important thing on [...]
It’s been over 24 hours since I watched How I Met Your Mother and I’m still reeling from what was a solid punch to the gut. Now in its seventh season, the show has never been afraid to pile on the drama (Lily leaving, Marshal’s dad dying), but I’m not sure anything before will have [...]
American Horror Story is both an evocative and dull genre title; it plays on the mind before you have seen a single frame of the show. You think you have a grasp on what is going on already from such a basic title but while it may seem cliched at first, the show itself revels [...]
Of all the new shows airing this year, Person of Interest certainly has some of the best talent involved, created by Jonathan Nolan, produced by JJ Abrams and starring Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson. With a slick modern concept it was generating some buzz. Then I watched the pilot. I was distinctively unimpressed in almost [...]
After many long months, our favourite serial killer returns to our screens. Now I think everyone can agree that is a bizarre sentence. Serial killers are bad. Unless they happened to be called Dexter Morgan. Season 5 ended on a grim note, with Dexter having managed to get over the death of his wife and [...]
***Spoilers!*** Simply put, season 6 of Supernatural was an absolute train wreck. Fans of the show know all too well that Eric Kripke intended for it for finish after season 5 with the greatest battle of the Winchester boys’ lives; they came up against Lucifer himself and won. Sort of. This five year arc was [...]
I knew this was a bad idea. From the very moment it was announced that a fourth season of Torchwood would be co-funded by a US network and that the majority of the action would be set in the US, I knew this was a recipe for disaster. Torchwood, much like its parent show Doctor [...]
Daniel Burden reviews True Blood season 4 premiere The worst aspect of the opening two episodes is that the writers seem to have totally betrayed the characters; they have all changed too much and the things we once liked about them are gone. 4×1 “She’s Not There” 4×2 “You Smell Like Dinner” Is it possible [...]
So. Ten years. Two hundred and seventeen episodes. On Friday the 13th of May 2011, Smallville came to a timely end. As a fan since the very beginning, this truly epic finale was always going to be bittersweet. But it also came as something of a relief, ten years is a hell of a long [...]