Into The Badlands (AMC, Sundays, 10/9C) brings martial arts mayhem back to television in a way that works beyond all expectations. To quote from AMC’s website, ‘Five hundred years after the end of the world, seven Barons control the Badlands. To protect what is theirs, each Baron has recruited an army of Clippers, deadly fighters […]
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Gotham: Rise of the Villains: Tonight’s The Night! It Is – It Really Is!
Gotham (FOX, Mondays, 8/7C) has been showcasing individual characters (mostly villains) almost every episode – even as it developed Theo Galavan’s plan to destroy the city and rebuild in his own image. We’ve seen, among others, Jerome Valeska, Edward Nygma, Oswald ‘Penguin’ Cobblepot and , of course, Galavan given episodes that explored their backgrounds or […]
Bones/Sleepy Hollow Crossover Is Supernatural Fun!
The Bones/Supernatural crossover may be the weirdest crossover ever – yet never oversteps the boundaries of either show. It begins with the Bones (FOX, Thursdays, 8/7C) episode The Resurrection in the Remains and concludes with the Sleepy Hollow (FOX, Thursdays, 9/8C) episode Dead Men Tell No Tales. Although the integration of each show’s characters into […]
Supergirl: This Is a Job For…!
As a guy who grew up with comics and remembers picking up Supergirl’s first ever comics appearance off of one of those ‘Hey, Kids! Comics!’ racks that used to be in grocery stores across the continent, I have to say that the pilot for Supergirl (Monday, 8:30/7:30C then weekly at 8/9C)) was something I was […]
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 […]
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 […]
Salem Season 2 Premiere/Recap – Crow Penises, Plagues and More, Oh My!
Anytime a show kicks off it’s new season with a graphic scene of someone getting their penis chopped and being replaced with a crow – no, really, it’s exactly what you think it would be, you know you have just left all sense of reality and logic behind. WGN’s Salem returns this week with a […]
Babylon Is a Killer Workplace Satire!
SundanceTV continues its acquisition of quality scripted dramas with Babylon (Thursdays, 10/9C) – a workplace drama set in London’s Scotland Yard. Created by Danny Boyle and starring Brit Marlin and James Nesbitt, it deals with the pressures of police work at all levels – culminating in the top job – and the struggle to maintain […]
TV Recap: Gotham: Rogues Gallery Spoilers!! #Gotham
After a pretty busy and sometimes shaky start, is Gotham ready to come back strong for the 2nd half of their freshman year? The first episode of the new year has a promising title “Rogues Gallery.” Are we finally going to get some forward momentum going?