You don’t have to be an Emmy voter to feel like you’ve been undulated by For Your Consideration ads the past few weeks. There are many, many great TV shows vying for the attention of Emmy voters, but they often…
A Cut by Cut Breakdown of the House of Cards Trailer
Wow. I mean, just wow. We’ve already been as hooked on this show as a test lab mouse is on Pepsi sugar. As if they just can’t toy with us enough, they show the final season of the award winning…
TV Review: The Strain 1×13, The Muppet – I mean, “The Master”
My opinion of your show doesn’t bode well if its season finale feels more like a pilot episode than the actual pilot episode. Maybe I’m so spoiled with high quality zombie/vampire lore in media that The Strain had no chance…
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: 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 1×6 “Occultation”
They should have gotten Alfonso Cuarón to direct the opening shot of the eclipse over earth for this episode, but then they would have blown their whole season budget. Remember how with the last two weeks of The Strain I had…
TV Review: The Strain 1×5 “Runaways”
This week’s fifth episode of The Strain suffers from the exact thing I detailed in last week’s recap of “It’s Not For Everyone,” specifically about its attempts to balance so many characters that the episode feels like it is wandering.…