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House of Cards will always have a special place in the annals of TV history as the first original series trotted out by streaming giant Netflix. Premiering six and a half years ago to much fanfare, based on a successful British series, and starring two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey chewing scenery, Cards was a pulpy […]
I’m not a big horror fan. Well, I guess that’s not quite true. I’m not a big fan of what constitutes horror most of the time today. I don’t like “torture porn” and I want my entertainment to have interesting complex characters and an equally as compelling story. Something like Saw doesn’t really interest me, […]
Ever since the second season of The Simpsons there has been a tradition to broadcast a “Treehouse of Horror” episode around Halloween. Some of them are the best episodes the show has ever produced. These episodes tell three stories that allow the writers and animators to be as inventive as they want. They have been used to parody movies and TV shows, […]
While Netflix continues to bombard subscribers with insurmountable mountains of content (seriously, I spend my time writing about TV and even I can’t keep up with the amount of content Netflix is churning out), the streaming service still manages to provide far more misses than hits. Which is why it’s a bit surprising to me […]
On paper, it doesn’t sound like it should work: A streaming cartoon series that follows a washed-up sitcom star as he falls deeper into depression and substance abuse, alienating those around him and struggling with his past demons and present problems. Oh, and the lead is an anthropomorphized horse . . . and the other […]
Following the introductory Pilot episode, Krypton carries on more in the same vein with “House of El” picks up where the Pilot left off. After Seg (Cameron Cuffe) finding his grandfather’s Fortress of Solitude, Adam Strange (Shaun Sipos) tells the young Kryptonian that Brainiac – the collector of worlds – is coming to the planet. Seg doubts the Earthing’s […]
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is one of my favourite series of novels, a complex trilogy of fantasy novels that appeal to people of all ages. It was a series that won the Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Book of the Year awards and was voted as one of the best novels by the British public back in 2003. In 2015 […]
Krypton is a prequel series to Superman which was made for the Syfy network in the United States and broadcasted on E4 in the UK. Set 200 years before Kal-El is sent to Earth his family loses their titles and rank after Val-El (Ian McElhinney) is executed for treason. His grandson, Sel-El (Cameron Cuffe) is forced to grow up in […]
It’s that time of year again: the leaves are changing color, the slate of Fall network television shows are mere days from premiering, and the Emmy Awards are this Sunday on NBC. While I say this every year, awards don’t mean a show is necessarily good. But, when we look back on yesteryear, the list […]
The initial set-up of YOU, Lifetime’s new crazy-addicting soapy drama is pretty skeevy. Joe (a perfectly creepy Penn Badgley), a humble bookstore clerk, falls head-over-heels for a customer, Guinevere “Becks” Beck (Elizabeth Lail) after she flirts a bit with him while buying a book. He gets her full name from her credit card (which, he […]