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Having exhausted all the dramatic possibilities of vampires, werewolves, witches and Kardashians, the powers that be are anxious to find the next big thing in entertainment. With two Snow White films in the works, a Grimm-inspired police procedural on NBC and ABC’s Once Upon a Time, you better polish those glass slippers and grab a dwarf or two, because we’re…
New York – October 25, 2011 - AMC announced today the renewal of “The Walking Dead” for a third season. Season two continues to deliver the strongest telecasts for any drama in basic cable history against Adults 18-49 shattering a basic cable record set nearly 10 years ago for a single drama telecast (“The Dead Zone”). “The Walking Dead” is based on…
Welcome back, Supernatural fans! (Supernaturites? Supernaturalists?) It’s another week and another reminder that Dean knifed Sam’s old flame Amy in the gut. By now, I think we can safely assume that little action is going to be a season-long issue. Is there anything Dean can do to make up for killing this extremely important girl we’ve never heard of…
This week’s episode of Terra Nova, “The Runaway,” gets underway pretty quickly, without much build-up, when Newt from Aliens shows up outside Terra Nova in the middle of the night. She’s run away from the Sixers, and she’s looking for the portal back to 2149. If she had only watched the pilot, she would have known that the portal is a one-way…
After several excruciating months of wondering what exactly Dr. Jenner whispered into Rick’s ear in the final episode of the first season, The Walking Dead returns! However, we’re no closer to finding out Dr. Jenner’s last words, though. Most people I know are assuming it’s news of a pregnancy involving Lori, but I’m not convinced that’s…
This week’s episode of Supernatural begins with a very pointed recap of last week’s episode. Think maybe the whole Amy thing might be a little more than a self-contained story? Proving that fact, “Defending Your Life” begins with Sam thanking Dean again for sparing Amy’s life. Oopsie. Yeah, that’s going to come back to haunt him. Probably…
In this week’s episode of Terra Nova, “What Remains,” a genetically engineered pathogen that induces amnesia has somehow been set loose in a remote research bunker. Since they’ve lost touch with the absent-minded professors, the folks at Terra Nova decide to come to the rescue. Jim senses this is more of a season two storyline, but he fails to stop…
In last week’s episode of Supernatural, Leviathans took over Sioux Falls general hospital, and Sam found that he could get a grip on reality by poking his wounds. All in all, good things to know. In “The Girl Next Door,” the boys find themselves incapacitated at Leviathan central, and it’s Bobby to the rescue, looking kind of sexy in a suit. Well,…
Where would the horror genre be without stupid white people moving into haunted/possessed/demonized houses? Sometimes they do it on a bet. Sometimes it’s part of a psych experiment. Sometimes they don’t know they’re moving into a haunted house until after they arrive. I try to give those stupid white people the benefit of the doubt, but then they…
Dear Diary- What do you do when you like a boy and he’s totally dreamy, but also kind of evil, and he’s always there for you, except when he’s off killing people, and he’s your missing boyfriend’s brother? Ugh. High school sucks! The title of this week’s episode of The Vampire Diaries is “Disturbing Behavior,” and there’s…
Pop quiz! Which of the following scenes would you find the most exciting to watch: #1 Commander Taylor and Hunky Jim capture a male and female pterosaur #2 Scientists synthesize pterosaur pheromones Unless you’re a pheromone-synthesizing scientist, I’m guessing you chose option #1. Guess which one Terra Nova chose to include and which one happened off-camera?…
When last we left Supernatural, Cas put the souls back in Purgatory, but couldn’t quite shake the Leviathans dwelling inside him. In “Hello, Cruel World,” the Cas vessel has just about had it, so the Leviathans decide to split up and try to find their own individual, low-paid extras to infect with Leviathan-y goodness. Meanwhile, Sam and Lucifer and still…
Dear Diary- So much to tell you! Just give me a second to pull on my Fosse gear, ‘cause we’re going to Chicago! Yes! It’s a flashback episode all about 1920s Chicago and seems to be largely based on the musical of the same name. Not that I mind. I don’t. I love The Vampire Diaries flashbacks. I love that all the guys get to keep their ultra-modern…
In the future, everything is gross. Is the future ever awesome? No, never. It’s craptacular. Even when the future manages to be utopian instead of dystopian, it’s a safe bet there are a bunch of jerks living underground who eat the utopian people. In the premiere of Fox’s Terra Nova, it’s 2149 and the Earth is overpopulated, overpolluted and on…
Can you believe Supernatural is back for a seventh season? I’m not complaining, necessarily, even though season six gave us the most blatant shark-jumping episode ever, when the Winchester boys found themselves in a dimension where Supernatural is a TV show starring Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles. Ugh. The season managed to recover by the end, though, and Castiel’s…
Yay! Fringe is back! The best sci-fi show on television returns, and everything is all messed up. At the end of last season, Peter strapped himself into the machine and turned it up to 11, creating a shared space between the universes and erasing himself from everyone’s memories. So now Olivia and Fauxlivia must work together and not be jealous of each other’s…
