The Walking Dead serves up a strong season premiere, and, on the side, features the return of a long-unseen character. Still, we’ve had four seasons now of zombies, explosions, depravity, and survivor politics. Can its premise survive diminishing returns?
Warning: this review contains untagged spoilers. Read at your own risk.
Arrow returns for a third season, with a new attitude on the part of Starling City, the first of several DC super-guests, and a surprising twist.
The flashbacks resume but, Ollie, thankfully, has left the island, and now recalls his time in Hong Kong.
American Horror Story returns, with a murder in a small town in 1952, a freak show, and a pair of sisters brought from “the shadows that had sheltered” them. We get more creepy eye-candy (this season brings the best and most disturbing credit sequence to date), more gosh-aren’t-we-shocking scripting, and a psycho killer clown. But do we have a reason to keep watching?
I like that it focuses on the central character, and the actor’s good. The soap opera elements in Arrow get annoying. These are shows about demigods. Give us demigods.
–my wife, watching The Flash.
Barry Allen awakes from his coma and hits the ground running.
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Balloon-Man knows! Heheheh…
While this week’s Gotham isn’t the awaited breakthrough episode, its best moments represent improvement.
Last week saw the first successful birth of a human child from a transplanted uterus, and the release of a study showing a fairly accurate account of the early-twentieth-century origins of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
This week will see a Tuesday spacewalk and a total lunar eclipse Wednesday, and both will be up for view.
Meanwhile, lab-grown replacement penises may be just around the corner.
A retrospective on TV superheroes and some Con video, below:
Things far scarier stalk the earth…. The Four Horsemen, in the form of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, creeping famine in south Sudan, ebola, and other matters too frightening to mention at an entertainment site. Still, we must have our practice horrors, our kiddies in costumes and movies with frights, our zombie walks and cornmaze shocks…
And so the Bureau presents its annual reviews of video horrors. The schedule appears below. Today we have no review, but merely a place to pour some autumn cider or blood (as your tastes dictate) and discuss films currently in the theatres. Would anyone like to offer their thoughts on:
Annabelle: The latest take on the Creepy Plaything subgenre.
The Box Trolls: A faerie tale for families, with Gothic sensibilities.
Gone Girl David Fincher’s take on the pop thriller novel.
That was also the night the dreams began (86).
Caitlin R. Kiernan, paleontologist and author, has penned prose fiction and graphic novels that have garnered her awards and recognition in fields of literary, horror, and SF/fantasy. Her fans include Peter Straub, Kathe Koja, and Neil Gaiman. Of her nine novels (thus far), none have matched the wave generated by her beguiling, genre-defying 2012 masterpiece, the story of a schizophrenic woman investigating her own haunting.
Gotham did little to make me a fan this week, though some of the characters have potential. I wish an episode entitled “Selina Kyle” had featured more of, you know, Selina Kyle.