Since the beginning of season two, Gotham (FOX, Mondays, 8/7C) has been embracing its comic book origins in a way that has allowed its writers to go to weird places. Rise of the Villains: By Fire continues that trend. It’s approaching Frank Miller intensity (minus the rampant misogyny) in its gothic/noir sensibilities.
Category: TV Reviews
Gotham Season 2: Ep 204, Strike Force Recap! New Police Chief, Nygma & Kringle, and Bruce Leaves the House!
It’s been a weird, but mostly solid season of Gotham so far. After last week’s episode, it’s time for the show to start a new chapter. How do they follow up last week’s shocking ending?
Gotham: Rise of the Villains: Strike Force – Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole!
Gotham (FOX, Mondays, 9/8C) continues to steam along at a breakneck pace, building momentum tearing through plot and taking characters into unexpected places. Rise of the Villains: Strike Force introduces GCPD’s gung ho new commander, Captain Nathaniel Barnes, puts Penguin squarely behind the eight ball, and gets Nygma a date!
Review! Gotham S1 Now Out!
Even though I bought Gotham S1 on iTunes last month when it was on sale for $19, it’s still nice to get a glorious Blu-ray since it’s becoming more and more rare to get TV on Blu-ray. Luckily Warner Home Video still believes in my precious format. Gotham Season 1 hits the streets today.
Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! Is Full On Cray!
Everyone who can guess all the ridiculous cameos in Sharknado 3 gets a shiny penny. Is it ok for me to hate this because I was cut out of the crowd scene for my movie debut? Gah! Damn you Director Anthony C. Ferrante! I’m glad I didn’t have that Sharknado 3 party, or I’d feel […]
Mr. Robot: Hello, Friend!
USA Network’s Mr. Robot (Wednesdays, 10/9C) is, to quote the network’s blurb, ‘a techno thriller that follows Elliot, a young programmer, who works as a cyber-security engineer by day and as a vigilante hacker by night. Elliot finds himself at a crossroad when the mysterious leader of an underground hacker group recruits him to destroy […]
Orphan Black: Ruthless In Purpose, and Insidious In Method Is an Understatement!
Orphan Black (BBC America, Saturdays, 9/8C) is pulling strands together in unexpected ways in season three’s eighth episode, Ruthless In Purpose, and Insidious In Method. Essentially, everyone plays everyone else this week, but though there’s nothing new about that the results are illuminating. The story is picking up speed with three episodes to go until […]
Wayward Pines – Good Weird Fun!
While on assignment to find two fellow Secret Service agents who have gone missing, Special Agent Ethan Burke wakes up in a forest of pine trees. He stumbles into the lovely town of Wayward Pines shortly thereafter. Then things go terribly awry. From the Lost-ian opening shot to the Twin Peaks-like mountain town to echoes […]
Gotham Season 1 Finale Falls off a Fire Escape
Gotham’s freshman season comes to a close in the only way it could – a meandering, mess of an episode that felt like it was all over the place. The show runners have no idea what they want Gotham to be. Is it a crime procedural that just happens to be set in pre-Batman […]
Orphan Black: Family Is Family Is Family!
The third season of Orphan Black is taking shape in some unique ways – not the least of which is the way it’s circling back to the Proletheans. As teased with her brief appearance in last week’s episode, Gracie Johansson is back – and her honeymoon with Mark turns out to be something else as […]
Daredevil Takes It To The Next Level!
Netflix’s Daredevil series is something of a groundbreaker. Marvel’s blind superhero has long been a critical favorite and, it seems, the darker the comic got, the more popular it became. The series, created by Drew Goddard – who wrote the first two episodes and is credited as an executive producer, captures the feel of the […]