Category: TV Review

Syndi Shumer Sees THE WALKING DEAD Season Finale

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What Lurks in the Foreshadows?
by Syndi Shumer

The Walking Dead season finale may not have been the most exciting episode, but here’s why it was a brilliant one: (Spoilers, obviously…)

In case you haven’t figured out what Terminus is, well, how to put this delicately… it’s the place where the most deviant (or most resourceful, depending on how you look at it) of humans have set up shop to engage in their own special way of surviving the zombie apocalypse. Yes, they’re cannibals.

But what’s so brilliant about the episode is how it never actually spells that out for you (wasn’t even mentioned on Talking Dead either), while at the same time it had been blasting you with foreshadowing throughout the entire episode: read article

HOUSE OF CARDS & The Madness of Frank Underwood

Cuz nowhere nearly enough has been written about this awesome show:

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Spoilers through Season 1 of House of Cards; some mostly spoiler-free discussions of Episode 1 of Season 2.

Season 2 of Netflix’s House of Cards ends with a reminder of a crucial fact: Frank Underwood is crazy. At this point in the episode, we’re already well aware of that fact, based on the horrible things he has done (and which I won’t spoil here). But throughout the episode, the audience has not been treated to Underwood’s signature move, a snarky aside or quip spoken directly to the audience, unseen by the people around him. Only at the very end, as Frank contemplates his actions in the mirror, does he turn to face us: “Did you think I’d forgotten about you. Perhaps you hoped I had.” And then we’re reminded, oh yeah, this guy talks to people who aren’t really there.
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From Dusk Till Dawn — The Series: TV Review

The good news is that Robert Rodriguez’s cult hit movie, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, is being made into a TV series.

The bad news is that TVWriter™ hasn’t had a shot at seeing the pilot yet.

But don’t despair, brothers and sisters, The Hollywood Reporter has: read article

The SAILOR MOON-BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Connection

Some things are just too sensational for words. Well, not for this word:

Squee!

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Quick Guide to Amazon Studios’ Latest Streaming Video Pilots

Um, we were going to write about this. Honest! We swear! But Gizmodo beat us to it. So we bow to the amazingly perceptive Big Dogs:

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by Adam Clark Estes

This year’s batch of brand new pilots from Amazon Studios just went live, and there are surprising number of stars in the mix. From a drug-laced drama about classical music with Gael Garcia-Bernal to a dysfunctional family comedy with Jeffrey Tambor (wait that sounds familiar), there’s something for everybody. read article