Television
‘Mad Men’ returns in July
I am so buying a a suit to prepare for season four’s premier. AMC sets ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Rubicon’ premiere dates — The Live Feed | THR. »
The new who
I just finished watching the new Doctor Who on my dvr. I must say Matt Smith’s and Steve Moffet’s new incarnation of our favorite time travelling alien passed the only true litmus test for any re-generation of the Doctor I could care about. Was he witty? Was the crisis averted imaginative? Did I have... »
What I’ve been up to
The weeks have flown by without a lot of comic reading. I am probably heading to the shop this week or next to pick up my usual titles and see what new stuff I missed. In the in between time I busied myself by reading one novel, starting another, watching Lost, beginning The Wire, and... »
Comics on TV
Okay, well, comics on television really aren’t comics now are they, but they seem to be all the rage on big screens and small. I’m not saying this is a bad thing, but it is always dangerous when television and film studios sink their teeth into a concept or idea and ride it for... »
Walking Dead announcement, yeah!
In what has the potential to be wickedly awesome, The Hollywood Reporter just released a story in which AMC announced they have won the rights to a Walking Dead television series. With enough of a budget (though probably not too big) I can see my favorite comic book series at the moment being translated... »
Doctor Who
Doctor Who Planet of the Dead was another entertaining installment into the series, if not quite spectacular. It was a variation on a David Tennant’s Doctor trope of having the Doctor fall into a situation with an intimate group of normal folk with a dangerous alien threat emerging in their midst. The episode in... »
Torchwood Day 5 finale
The end of Torchwood: Children of Earth culminated in an emotional, gripping, and uncompromising hour of science fiction television. Day Five was a pitch perfect crescendo to the past four days blazing bitter-sweetly across the screen with a plot line that gave no quarter and threw more surprises into the mix within the first... »
Torchwood CoE Day Four
In Torchwood Children of Earth Day Four the other shoe drops in a very heavy fashion. We learn more clearly the real significance of the name of the mini-series. And the brilliance of humor and character in Day Three is brought low by episodes end. »
