If you watched the premiere of TNT’s newest drama, Legends, online, you may have noticed something odd about the commercial breaks. That is, they weren’t really “commercials” at all–rather, Hyundai bought up all of the advertising airtime for Legends to run a 9-minute original science fiction film called Read More …
FX’s latest original series, The Strain, is about halfway through its freshman season, so now is as good a time as any to look at its ups and downs. On the one hand, when it works, it’s among the best, most evocative series on television Read More …
Two assholes start dating. This is the entire premise of FX’s new single-camera sitcom You’re the Worst, and if judged by that summary alone, its title might have been bait for many a caustic review headline. But any comments about this show being “the Worst” would Read More …
Pro wrestling is a weird bastard art, and if you’re unfamiliar with its intricacies, the hordes of people in your social media circles obsessively pontificating about it every Monday night must be a truly confounding experience. Let our very own Dominic Griffin, lifelong wrestling enthusiast, Read More …
Female Autobots? I thought they were extinct! – Shockwave, “The Search for Alpha Trion” (aired 1985) The problem began very early. Hasbro had enlisted Bob Budiansky, a prolific writer and editor at Marvel Comics, to provide profiles and backstory to a series of toys they Read More …
The events of 9/11 scarred the world and left behind a glut of stomach-churning images and sounds, all too familiar even over a decade later. However, as sacrosanct as those images are, they are not untouchable. At its most vital, fiction (or, in some cases, Read More …
Almost all genre shows today stand to some extent in the shadow of LOST. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse took what might have been a simple story of plane crash survivors and turned it into one of the most watched, most talked about television series Read More …
Pro wrestling is a weird bastard art, and if you’re unfamiliar with its intricacies, the hordes of people in your social media circles obsessively pontificating about it every Monday night must be a truly confounding experience. Let our very own Dominic Griffin, lifelong wrestling enthusiast, Read More …
Look, let’s get this straight: Girl Meets World is not for you. Yes, you, the all-knowing twentysomething who grew up on the hit 90s ABC sitcom Boy Meets World, to which this new series is a loose sequel. I know how much you loved that show–how Read More …
Call up the interweb machine, tell em’ it’s time to hate us again #thechampishere pic.twitter.com/6LYdv2wCN3 — John Cena (@JohnCena) June 30, 2014 Pro wrestling is a weird bastard art, and if you’re unfamiliar with its intricacies, the hordes of people in your social media Read More …