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The beautiful, but troubled teens of Mystic Falls are back, and not a moment too soon. I’m embarrassed to admit that I had fallen behind on the last few episodes before the break. I had to do a mini-marathon to catch up, and somehow managed to watch the backlog of episodes on my DVR out of order. I finally got things sorted out, and can now do a relatively coherent…
It’s said that the Doctor has a fondness for humans, but I’ve come to believe the fondness is more for putting humans in mortal danger than for the people themselves. And truth be told, the Doctor is kind of a dick. Take, for instance, his misguided plans to help grieving widow Madge Arwell (Claire Skinner) on Christmas Eve. She’s just lost her husband…
It was an epic battle of the badasses on the season finale of Terra Nova. First of all, let me just say that I’m glad I stuck with this show. About three or four episodes in, it was starting to feel a little too precious. I kept watching, though, because something about the show felt comforting and familiar. For the most part, family programming has been replaced…
If you’ve been in as many fights as I have while wearing nothing but a towel, you know that by the time your opponent throws you across the room into a bookshelf, the towel is probably going to slip. Not so for Dylan McDermott in this week’s episode of American Horror Story, who made it through a three-round skirmish with the rubber-clad ghost boyfriend of…
“Pretty Much Dead Already,” this week’s episode of The Walking Dead definitely makes up for the last few. I feared the title might be a bad omen for the show. Were they giving up? No, the show has already been picked up for a third season. But “pretty much dead already” was how I was feeling about the show, and then I saw this episode. It’s…
You know, I don’t really know how I feel about The Walking Dead at the moment. I go back and forth between feeling like it’s the greatest show ever and feeling more like Shane and Andrea do. I just kind of want to…well, leave. I think the show might have shot itself in the foot recently. It’s apparent in the new episode, and in all the episodes…
I’ll be honest. I was really excited for this week’s episode of The Walking Dead when I found out it was titled “Chupacabra.” I’m Latino. My grandmother, Mama Lupe, lives in a cement house near a volcano in Mexico. She and my aunt swear they’ve seen a chupacabra, the famed Mexican monster that sucks the blood out of goats. I’m sort of…
This week’s episode of Supernatural, “Season 7, Time for a Wedding!” dares to ask the question, “Would you sell your soul to marry Sam Winchester?” They treat this like it’s a question you’d actually have to think about, which is insane. I’d sell my soul to do Sam Winchester’s laundry. Marry him? Duh. The fact that…
After “Who do you think you are?” the second most popular question I get here at Fanboys of the Universe is “How old are you…exactly?” I understand the confusion. I write very openly and honestly about giving Shakespeare the idea to write in rhyming couplets, fighting in World War II (sometimes even on the side of the Allies), and handing…
Only a select few in this world can really wear overalls and make it work. Mario and Luigi. Season three Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Farm boys in Bruce Weber photographs. For some, it just works. They were made to be strapped into a dated, horrid, denim one-piece. Missing from this list, and rightly so, is Shane, but he wears them anyway, in this week’s…
True story. I played with a Ouija board once at a party. It wasn’t really doing anything until this girl walked into the room, then it went nuts, moving erratically all over the board. We all freaked out, accused the girl of witchcraft and demonic possession and never touched the thing again. As freaky as that was, at least no one got stabbed in the neck with the…
If someone’s being sent out in the middle of the night to get killed by dinosaurs, then you know it must be a new episode of Terra Nova. Why do they keep doing that? You’d think after a while, people would either stop volunteering or simply refuse to be some dino’s late-night snack. Sure enough, a seemingly innocent soldier boy opens the door of a remote…
There’s an effective narration towards the beginning of “Save the Last One,” the latest episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead. It’s a story about young Shane, as told by Rick. The voiceover plays out over images of present-day Shane running from zombies in the school he’s gone to for medical supplies, and the careful pairing of the story and the action…
Before we start this week’s episode of Supernatural, we’re reminded again that Dean killed Sam’s childhood demon gal pal, Amy. Will this be the episode Sam learns the truth? I’m not telling…yet. This episode is called “Slash Fiction,” which is promising a lot. As soon as I saw the title, I started plotting it all out in my head,…
Episode two of AMC’s The Walking Dead, “Bloodletting,” opens as Lori confides in a friend that she and Rick have had a hurtful fight. She says it was mostly her doing the hurting. We soon realize this is a flashback to the same day that Rick was shot, hearkening back to the very first episode where Rick and Shane had a similar conversation. It’s a nice way…
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…
