So, Homeland has actively begun to anger me. Yes, this week’s episode was a nice follow up to last week’s episode for the percentage of the audience that enjoys Bruckheimer films, American cheese, and the smell of a locker room. There’s something to be said for each of those things, I suppose, who am I…
I wrote about chaos in this week’s Walking Dead review, specifically about how cramming too much information into a 45 minute TV episode can mimic the chaotic situations that are developing on screen. There is of course the danger of stuffing so much into an episode that it becomes impossible to follow, and this week’s…
Chaos can be at once beautiful and completely destructive. Chaos captured on film (when done well) is equal parts confusion and intrigue. The mid-season finale of season 4 of The Walking Dead was all of the above, while still eliciting a tinge of the infuriating frustration that it had previously achieved in past seasons. I’m…
Homeland, nearing the homestretch of the thus far abominable season 3, is trying so hard to get the creative wheels turning. Brody and Carrie reunited, Dana with an actual scene to act in, a goddamn training montage! In past seasons, this ninth episode of season 3 would have been a perfectly acceptable transition episode, leading…
It’s a topic I’ve often pondered: how would a serial killer fare during the zombie apocalypse? Is he a mass murderer capitalizing on the lack of law enforcement, or is he just super practical? This week’s episode missed the mark for me. I appreciate the direction the show is moving, and am generally satisfied with…
It really isn’t that hard to inject intriguing plot developments into a TV show, especially one that has shown close to limitless promise in the past. But with the third season of Homeland, it’s been as difficult as dragging an unwilling and unmedicated Carrie Matheson through the door of another institution. Holy shit, this week,…
As some faithful readers may recall, my review of last week’s installment of TWD had it positioned among the best the series has produced thus far. Everything that holds the show back (dialogue that would never be spoken by actual humans, retreading the same plot beats ad nauseum, forgetting that zombies are what makes a…
Hot damn, what a fantastic episode! This was one of my favorite episodes of the series so far. The show is at its best when it focuses on telling the story of a few people trying to survive the zombie apocalypse, and combines that with classic elements of horror. The show loses the audience when…
As an unapologetic supporter of the Walking Dead comic series, I constantly find myself desperately WANTING to like this show. Even during the fallow period of Season 2, which is pretty much 100% undefendably horrible, I still had an intense desire for the show to be great in order to prove to people that it…
My daughter is sixteen months old. We watch Sofia the First. We watch Jake and the Neverland Pirates. We binge watch Yo Gabba Gabba. She doesn’t quite know what’s going on all the time, but she knows what she likes, and she isn’t shy about demanding more of it. Coincidentally (or not coincidentally?) the same…