MEAN and MASSIVE

The season’s finale of Being Human continues exactly where the last episode stopped: Mitchell is wounded with Herrick’s army of vampires after him, George is trying to find the way to be with Nina, and Annie, who gave up the door for saving Mitchell, still has Owen’s problem on her mind, although the urgency of [...]

It took Mitchell very little to be convinced he does not want to take part in the vampire’s renaissance. Herrick got him at a time of weakness (“I’ve seen what humanity is really like, and this is where I belong. I’m home now”), but now he discovers things he didn’t know about Herrick’s plan, and [...]

After two episodes which focused on George (and Tully) and Annie (and Gilbert), it’s Mitchell’s turn. His guilt for the killings, and his attempt (especially in the last episode) to become human like his neighbours, brought him many problems. But this time he chose to deal with those problems like a vampire, ending up in [...]

Colin Firth (A Single Man) and Helena Bonham Carter (Alice In Wonderland) are two excellent actors, so this is one movie I don’t intend to miss. I also love the focus of the story: the king with the stammer. The trailer doesn’t reveal too much, but I guess this story is more of a character-based, [...]

Walter and Jesse haven’t worked together since Jesse got high on H, and it seems like they missed it just as much as we did. Even though Walter doesn’t admit it, he wants to cook again with Jesse, and this episode is probably the last one they operate alone. This ‘splitsville’ is about to end. [...]

This family is everything for me. Without it I have nothing to lose. -Walter White In the third episode (IFT, which meaning is revealed in the very last seconds of the episode, when Skyler admits to Walter she f**d Ted) – everyone is breaking bad. In the pre-title sequence we see a flash back of [...]

I never know with you if it’s a jewish guilt or a werewolf guilt. -Mitchell Love gets complicated in the third episode of Being Human. Mitchell and Lauren, George and Nina, Annie and Owen. Love is anyway complicated, but with that extra bit of weirdness, as a ghost, or awerewolf, it’s very hard to maintain [...]

It’s so cruel, it’s perfect. -Mitchell This isn’t a gift, it’s god stamping on us with his boot! -George Continuing my Being Human marathon, here is my review of the second episode. Just to remind you that this is a marathon of the original British series, and I am not yet sure if it contains [...]

The world of Breaking Bad became a sad place, hard and violent. There is no hope for Skyler, not with Walter, and she doesn’t want to forgive him. There is no hope for Flynn, who is now again Walter Jr., and cannot understand when and why his mother became so alienated. Hank’s only hope is [...]

TNT has just released a promo for Falling Skies, their new aliens series, exec. produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat (Saving Private Ryan). The show will premiere on TNT this June, and will star Noah Wyle (ER) as the leader of a ragtag group of soldiers and civilians struggling against an extraterrestrial [...]

What a brilliant combination, suspense and ballet. Natalie Portman has a very strong year at the cinema, with both sure hits Black Swan and Your Highness reminding uswhat a great actress she is. Rumors say that she might take the Golden Globe home.

I recently ran into some very good covers for the Mad Men intro song. The original opening credits sequence uses the song “A Beautiful Mine” by RJD2, whos songs feature in other series, such as CSI:NY, the movie Paradox, and various advertisements. Adam Ben Ezra plays the Bass and turns it into 10 different instruments, [...]

After two excellent seasons, Breaking Bad returns to a third season, and it feels like this will be a very different season in feel and tone. I wrote here many times about the show’s pre-title sequences, and the second season was a perfect example for how those can turn into a real suspense poem. The [...]

Showtime hasn’t released the premiere date of The Borgias yet, but the previews are here. I’m very excited about the show. After Mad Men‘s 1960′s and Boardwalk Empire‘s 1920′s, I’m ready for The Borgias‘ 15th century Italy. Orgies in church? Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) is directing? Jeremy Irons will star? Sounds like a very [...]

FX brings back the world’s greatest secret agent, Archer. The show’s second season premieres on January 27th, and the network has already released a few promos and previews. Watch them here: About Archer: Archer is an animated, half-hour comedy that revolves around the spy agency known as the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) and the [...]

The new boxing series from FX, Lights Out, will premiere on January 11th, and the preview is looking good. This is a drama about a former heavyweight boxing champion who tries to support his family after retiring from the ring. Financial problems leave him at a perilous crossroads – battling the urge to return to [...]

I don’t give here my review of the pilot episode, since it is very different from the rest of the series, including different cast. It is more enigmatic, somehow, and feels raw. The actual series is funnier, and the tone is clearer. The plot is faster, with better use of twists and turns, as far [...]

NBC uploaded many preview clips for their new comedy Perfect Couples, and you can also watch a preview episode on their website (www.nbc.com/perfect-couples/). The show is about three couples, very different from each other, but in a way they all share the same problems. The slogan is: “Not all couples are perfect, but some are [...]

I’m still on my Parks and Rec marathon, but NBC has already released their first promo for the third season. And as Rob Lowe confuses the girls at the Parks Department, NBC releases yet another promo, this timea combined promo for their best commedy day, Thursday, starting January 2011. Looks promising indeed, Community, Park and [...]

That’s the promo ABC has released for the new Matthew Perry TV series, Mr. Sunshine. I think it is too long, and way confusing. Anyway I intend to watch this show when it premiers, on Feb 9th 2011. That’s the ‘about Mr. Sunshine‘ paragraph ABC has published: Matthew Perry stars as Ben Donovan, the self-involved [...]