“He has his socks on.”
Orphan Black‘s current season concludes with cliffhangers for everyone—and one year left to go.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Twelve Monkeys Review: “Hyena”
“I asked you to be careful with the grenades. We got the discount for a reason.”
–Jennifer Goines
Preacher Discussion: “The Possibilities”
Preacher slowed a little this week, but it provided us with some essential backstory and a key moment in our protagonist’s journey. Reviews will return next week, but we have a place for discussion….
Weekend Review: The Conjuring
With The Conjuring 2 out this weekend, we thought we’d finally catch up to the original movie. It proved hugely successful with the horror-movie crowd, and convinced a few people that haunted homes are real, and may be lurking in your neighborhood.
If you missed it the first time around, should you see it now? Or next October?
Orphan Black Review: “The Mitigation of Competition”
Ari: You really don’t like her.
Rachel: She put a pencil in my brain.
In this season’s penultimate episode, some long-unseen characters reappear, the clones bear down on their enemies, and the island mystery deepens.
Helena goes full Ollie Queen.
12 Monkeys Mini-Review: “Lullaby”
Full reviews will return next week. This week, 12 Monkeys catches Cassie and Cole in a chaotic time-loop as they attempt to murder Katarina– at her request. The episode was an engaging puzzle with a plot-changing payoff. Jennifer Goines continues to emerge as a credible, if crazy, leader.
It was undercut only slightly by…
Preacher Review: “See”
The Preacher returns, with a glimpse of the past and forebodings of the future. Jesse is, however, getting on well with his new vampire pal.
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A Japanese baseball game between the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters and the Yakult Swallows played Ringu‘s Sadako and The Grudge‘s Kayako in a publicity stunt. Apparently a crossover movie is in the works. This is definitely a more horror-filled swing than that time Karloff took to home plate in full Frankenstein Monster make-up at a 1940 Hollywood Stars game.
Below: a meteor blazes over Phoenix, corporations look to the stars (or at least the moon and the asteroid belt), and cosplayers cosplay.
Orphan Black Review: “The Redesign of Natural Objects”
You know this phenomenon, right? While not as common as the old-time “you decide to watch a second episode of a show you’ve only seen once and it’s the same episode you saw before” (noted in Gaiman’s American Gods), it still exists. You watch a show. You tell your friends how great that show is. Then, when they finally see it, it’s a subpar or highly unusual episode, and fails to convince your friends of the show’s merit.
Despite the ludicrousness of watching Orphan Black from any starting point but the first episode, I suspect someone out there had this happen with the current episode of Orphan Black.
Not that “The Redesign of Natural Objects” is bad, per se. Much happens, and we see more of the show’s latest direction. And not everyone survives, which always makes for an interesting watch. But, after last week’s brilliant, character-driven outing…
12 Monkeys Review: “Meltdown”
Katarina Jones: I don’t love you.
Dr. David Eckland: You did once, and that can’t be erased.
This week begins one of the most conventional, though impressive episodes, with far-reaching implications for the series.