Having so many new shows this year also means that there are so many more characters for me to love or hate (which is good, since I don’t like to repeat names on this list from year to year). Characters I Love Surprisingly, new TV shows haven’t added many new faves to my list. The…
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Summer TV 2011 – Part 2
The summer is so packed with new TV that I had to split my post into two long pieces! The summer is so packed that there are actually two shows about teenagers who find out that they are part of a secret world of animal beings. Teen Wolf is a relatively serious take on the…
2009 Tops and Bottoms: TV Shows
2009 has been a really fun year for TV. Lots of good shows returned or debuted. There’s so much exciting stuff to write about, that I’m going to split my year-end post into 3 parts: TV shows, TV characters, and Movies. (I’m saving Movies to the end because there are a whole slew of intriguing movies…
Torchwood: Children of Earth – TV (P)review
Anyone who’s seen the “They’re here…” moment from Poltergeist, or seen images of the Village of the Damned kids with their glowing eyes, knows that children have long been used for both sentimental and chilling effect in sci-fi and horror. In the new Torchwood mini-series, Children of Earth (technically season/series 3 of the BBC show),…
Midseason TV 2008 – part 2
As the WGA strike drags on, and new scripted shows continue to trickle in, it’s finally time for the long-awaited return of Lost. Given the mostly-clear TV landscape, there’s room for new shows such as quirky lawyer series Eli Stone to get a fighting chance (at least until it runs out of new episodes as…
2007: The Year on Screen
Pardon the grandiose title of this post, but as the year comes to a close, I like to take a look back at high points (and maybe a few lows) at the movies and on TV. The Silver Screen This year was a pretty average year for me at the movies. I watched about 30…
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