FX |
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
'American Horror Story:Coven' 3.04 "Fearful Pranks Ensue" Review
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
'The Originals' 1.05 "Sinners and Saints" Review
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
'American Horror Story:Coven' 3.03: "The Replacements" Review
FX |
When Cordelia Foxx performed her snaketastic fertility ceremony with her husband Hank in last week’s episode, people probably assumed it would work. Magic, we've been taught throughout the pop culture landscape, is the ultimate problem solver and just as Delia’s doctor said when he informed her that she could never be pregnant, ‘if I could wave a magic wand, I would’. We've already seen Cordelia try this along with every other method that’s more medically legitimate and still nothing. Tonight’s episode proved the point in several storylines that magic is far from a problem-solver and its consequences are dire in a world where the realms of science and even God preclude what nature can sustain. Or put simply, everyone dies, some people can’t give birth, and never ever fuck your son. These may seem like common facts of life but in the world of American Horror Story there are few, if any limits.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
'The Originals' 1.04 "Girl in New Orleans" Review
Sunday, October 20, 2013
'Once Upon A Time' 3.04 "Nasty Habits" Review
ABC |
Sometimes a game-changing episode is touted as such in the promos leading up to the episode's air date. Other times, it occurs under the radar and genuinely provides a bit of a shock to the audience. If Once Upon A Time is suggesting what I think they were in tonight’s episode, ‘Nasty Habits’, then this situation definitely falls toward the latter. You'll never look at this version of Peter Pan the same way again.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' 1.04 "Eye Spy" Review
ABC |
‘People are surveying themselves.’
This is Agent Coulson's line during a mission briefing after a bold daylight heist in Stockholm puts the team on the trail of a former agent who at first it seems might actually have a power, but the truth is far more nefarious. While he’s referring to the fact that the nature of this particular diamond transport was flashy enough to gain the interest of several tourists and natives as great Instagram fodder, it’s also a great bit of wordplay and foreshadowing when we learn the true nature of former agent Amador’s immense capabilities. As it stands, it was moments like this one which made ‘Eye Spy’ possibly the finest hour of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. yet.
'The Originals' 1.03 "Tangled Up in Blue" Review
Sunday, October 13, 2013
'Revenge' 3.03 "Confession" Review
Thursday, October 10, 2013
'American Horror Story:Coven' 301 "Bitchcraft" Review
FX |
Even though things on American Horror Story:Coven kick off in the past all the way back in 1834 with the introduction of perhaps the most malicious baddie in all three seasons of AHS, the slave-torturing sadist Madame Delphine Lalaurie, it isn’t until the middle of the episode where the true themes of this season emerge and explode on screen. Newly awakened teen witch Zoe Benson (S1 returnee Taissa Farmiga) attends a local frat party with her classmate, witch bitch Madison Montgomery (Emma Roberts), and together they experience a real life horror story as Madison is drugged and the frat boys take turns forcing themselves on her. Kyle (Evan Peters), the only pure boy in the fraternity, was downstairs flirting with Zoe unaware of her deadly secret and when he discovered what his brothers were doing, promptly lost his shit and caused them all to head for the hills so they wouldn’t get busted for their crime. As Kyle gets into a fight with the lead frat boy over the assault of Madison, she wanders out of the party in a daze to stand next to Zoe as they watch the bus drive away. Until that is, Madison lifts her hand and uses her telekinetic abilities to flip the bus over in the blink of an eye--killing several and injuring two of its male passengers inside. This is basically what would have happened at Duke if their victim was a witch and it’s the idea of women struggling against oppression that is the impetus of Coven more so than any other series of American Horror Story.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
'The Originals' 1.02 "House of the Rising Son" Review
CW |
Tonight marked the second episode of The Originals, on its regular night and time and what I hope will prove to be the true format that will run through the season. Where the first episode felt like recap/retcon hell, this episode provided quite a few origin stories when it came to the relationships the original family had with each other and Marcel in New Orleans, and it was freaking amazing.
'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' 103 "The Asset' Review
ABC |
When someone mentions Marvel Comics, the instinctual first thought that comes to mind most likely involves superheroes in tights using their powers to fight off supervillains that have a similar fashion sense. It’s the image of the more popular adaptations from Marvel and likely what some expected to get on the small screen from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. But the reality is that in many books Marvel has produced over the years what is more commonly seen usually has to do with the concept of global conglomerates pushing the ethical limitations of what nature and science should be allowed to do. These leaders of industry are then aided by genius scientists and the like that either embrace the megalomaniacal ambitions that come from such power, or come to realize that the discovery is too much and mustn't be allowed to continue. Dr. Franklin Hall, a former mentor of Agents Fitz and Simmons, is firmly in the latter group when the discovery of a powerful rare element leads Dr. Hall to make his own ‘hard call’.
Monday, October 7, 2013
'Sleepy Hollow' 104 "The Lesser Key of Solomon" Review
Fox |
'Revenge' 3.02 "Sin" Review
Thursday, October 3, 2013
'The Originals' 1.01 "Always and Forever" Review
'The Vampire Diaries' 501 "I Know What You Did Last Summer" Review
The CW |
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' 102 "084" Review
ABC |
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