For a series based upon the unusual, the paranormal, and the supernatural, the earlier “X-Files” episodes seem unusually afraid of depicting monsters, if the fifth episode of the First season, “The Jersey Devil” is any indicator. It begins in 1947, with a family driving down a dark country road. They get a blowout , and […]
“Shadows” is the sixth episode of the First season of “The X-Flies,” and it’s a keeper. It revolves around a woman, Lauren Kyte (Lisa Waltz) who’s boss has just died, supposedly by suicide. He was like a father to her, so she’s pretty distraught. Mulder and Scully originally come on to this case as advisors […]
You ever start something that seemed like a good idea at the time, till you realized how daunting a task it actually is? That’s what I am feeling about my ‘X-File A Day’ column at the moment. It’s a show worth revisiting, till you realize that it ran nine seasons. Then again, my mom didn’t […]
I should mention that the episode order is going to be a little off for a bit because the idea came to me when I was already into re-watching the series, which I started doing because my memories of it are pretty favorable. “Ice” is the eighth episode of the First season. It revolves a of group […]
I finished watching, in perhaps my greatest bit of binge-viewing yet, the first season of Jenji Kohan’s “Orange Is The New Black” (think that the title refers to the orange jumpsuits that the women wear as well as a commentary on the prison culture that exists in the United States) a week or so ago. […]
The trailer for the CW reboot of “The Tomorrow People” has been live for a few days now, and while admittedly it isn’t enough to judge the final product by, the look doesn’t remind me of the original show at all. It looks a bit glossy, which happens when you actually have a budget to […]
I haven’t watched Seth MacFarlane’s “Family Guy” for quite awhile now, though I do recall is that it eventually evolved into its own thing, as opposed to a ‘Simpsons’ clone. Which was a good thing. The series had always flirted with bad taste, though the latest advert for the series has proven that it has […]
“Hemlock Grove” is an oddly captivating series, less for its content – it lacks the blatant sexuality of “American Horror Story” as well as its hit-or-miss shock value – than the fact that Netflix is releasing it the same fashion as they did in the case of “House of Cards,” which is the entire series […]
That title was harder to come up with than it looks. Let me begin by saying that I don’t care for soap operas, which isn’t to say that I have never watched any. In the day I used to watch “Flamingo Road,” and “Days Of Our Lives” but that was more of – in hindsight […]
“Space Precinct,” arguably one of Gerry Anderson’s more controversial series, mainly due to the $1.5 million per episode cost, which made it the most expensive show in Britain at the time. Yet, despite all the money spent, the ratings were only average, which I suspect had more than a little to do with the terrible […]
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