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[Review] - Agents Of SHIELD, Season 2 Episode 19, "The Dirty Half Dozen"
Courtesy of Marvel Television StudiosPerhaps a bit of clarity in the ongoing question of why Agents of SHIELD isn't a better show bubbled to the surface this week, and provided a bit of retroactive...
View ArticleMagic Returns To The World, And It's About Time
It seems like a long time ago when the BBC announced that it would be adapting Susanna Clarke's historical soft fantasy Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, telling the tale of practical magic returning...
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[List] - 7 Marvel Properties That Netflix Should Consider
Courtesy of Marvel Television StudiosThe announcement a couple years back that Marvel and Netflix would be producing a series of shows based on their more minor characters was pretty surprising. The...
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[Graphic] - The Whedonian Archetypes
Click to embiggin. Boy howdy, does it embiggen.Three years ago, (in fact, two years and fifty weeks ago), this site was a pittance. My only site views were from Russian spam sites, and my content...
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[Review] - Avengers: Age Of Ultron
Courtesy of Marvel StudiosOr, as it should have been subtitled, Joss Whedon's Impossible Task. Because that really is what this film was. I mentioned a couple weeks back, when the Star Wars trailer...
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[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 5 Episode 4, "Sons of the Harpy"
Courtesy of HBOI'm conflicted about this episode. On the one hand, it was mostly original stories, and that is good. On the other hand, it was an awful lot of exposition and even more soliloquizing,...
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[Review] - Penny Dreadful, Season 2 Episode 1, "Fresh Hell"
Courtesy of Neal Street ProductionsAh, the comforting feeling of unspecified horror. How I've missed this show. And this episode gives no indication that John Logan has lost the line he was working on...
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[Review] - Agents of SHIELD, Season 2 Episode 20, "Scars"
Courtesy of Marvel Television StudiosLet us talk for a moment about the incongruity of the existence of Agents of SHIELD and the Marvel movies, because this episode starts with a big ol' smack upside...
View ArticleAlmost Absolutely Anything
I've been looking forward to this one for a while, and it's nearly here: Terry Jones' first feature length film in a considerable amount of time, Absolutely Anything. It's not a new idea: human is...
View ArticleSo What, I'm Not Allowed to Phone It In Once And A While?
I'll be honest with you, I was planning a good long essay on the purpose and use of death in fiction. It was going to be a corker of a way to end the week. And then, I didn't write it. Sometimes that...
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[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 5 Episode 5, "Kill The Boy"
Courtesy of HBONow this is exactly the sort of episode of Game of Thrones that I enjoy. A focused episode. An episode that zeroes in on a particular set of characters, advances the plot in meaningful...
View ArticleUntil Death Do Them Part
We're only a couple weeks away from the premiere of Hannibal's third season, and the additional of Gillian Anderson to the cast is easily the most exciting thing about it. We know so little about...
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[Review] - Penny Dreadful, Season 2 Episode 2, "Verbis Diablo"
Courtesy of Neal Street ProductionsOK Penny Dreadful, we get it. You are a horror show. You are shocking and terrifying and occasionally very creepy. But that is no excuse - no excuse - to just be...
View ArticleWhere Do They Even Go To the Bathroom
cAnd just like that, all my dreams become a reality. This must be Christmas, wishes must be horses and if and buts must be candy and nuts: The Muppets are returning to TV! And not just in principle,...
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Amazon To Continue Ripping The Street
We are in a period of renaissance for television, and not a small part of that is due to the digital revolution. Companies like Netflix are forcing companies like HBO to enter an arms race of high...
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[Review] - Agents of SHIELD, Season 2 Finale, Episodes 21 And 22, "SOS"
Courtesy of Marvel Television StudiosSo, earlier in the week we learned that both Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter have received renewal orders form ABC, for a third and second season respectively....
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[Review] - Pitch Perfect 2
Pitch Perfect is one of those films that I completely ignored upon release, like the first Pirates of the Caribbean or the first Taken, because it didn't seem to interest me at all. I abhor singing and...
View ArticleArrows And Flashes And Legends, Oh My
Confession time: I've been a bad internet writer-person.Because of the inconsistent posting schedule?No...Because of the inconsistent way you respond to the trickle of comments left on your...
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[Review] - Mad Max: Fury Road
Courtesy of Warner Bros. PicturesI saw two sequels this week, and every ounce of my adoration goes towards Mad Max, not just for being the superior of the two, but also breaking a long standing streak....
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[Review] - Game Of Thrones, Season 5 Episodes 6 And 7, "Unbowed, Unbent,...
Courtesy of HBOTaking a week off always throws me through a bit of a loop, but I was especially stunned when watching these two episodes when I realized that we are only three weeks away form the...
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