Earth_199999//Recap 0202//september_30_2014 Last week, Coulson and company reemerged from the shadows to retrieve a mysterious object referred to by HYDRA as the Obelisk, and had their first encounter with Carl Creel, the Absorbing Man. This week’s chapter “Heavy is the…
TV Review: The Strain 1×12, “Last Rites”
Character growth! Emotion! Backstory! “Penultimat-ion!” The Strain finally presents to us an episode that is worthwhile for reasons other than anticipation for effects sequences. Tragic and captivating are the words for our flashbacks to Abraham’s young adult life in “Last…
TV Review: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2×1 – “Shadows”
I’m going to be upfront about this: I was torn on season one of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I stuck with it for the first six episodes, and kind of gave up. It takes a lot for me to tune into…
TV Review: The Strain 1×11, “The Third Rail”
I’m not sure what’s going on anymore. I understand that Guillermo Del Toro is a special effects master. So what the hell, if I may so crudely ask, happened with The Master? There are a couple of classic stories in…
TV Review: The Strain 1×10, “Loved Ones”
Evan has a problem with The Strain’s wasted potential! *Gasp!* What? Again?! This week on The Strain we have episode 10, “Loved Ones”, providing, in some capacity, what I pretty much wanted in the first place. We have our gathering…
Movie Review: The Drop
The Drop has all the pieces needed to assemble into a great feature for Fox Searchlight. And yet, somewhere between the talented cast, including the late James Gandolfini, and the script, by well- respected Boston based writer Dennis Lehane, the…
TV Review: The Strain 1×9, “The Disappeared”
This summer’s Amazing Spider-Man 2 is one of the worst offenders I’ve ever seen of plot convenience (as has been detailed over the internet since its Blu-ray release), but in terms of a plot-point-to-runtime ratio, this week’s episode of The…
