Season 9 picks up right after, as Sam and Dean chat in the Impala about what just happened. The brotherly tension is clear right away. Last season came to a head after Sam felt betrayed by Dean buddying up with the vampire Benny over him. But there’s something off in this scene. The coloring is all wrong, a wash of greenish and blue hues. It’s sickly. The camera is unsteady, looks hand-held, which slowly disintegrates into dutch angles....
The structure of this episode was definitely unique. It paralleled Sam and Dean’s discovery of a house with a Soul Eater terrorizing it to an early case in the same house with Bobby and Rufus investigating the same monster. The flashback is tied neatly together with Sam and Dean referencing Bobby’s exaggerated account in his journal, but also by their shared experiences. When the Winchesters meet the nosy neighborhood watch lady and the nurse in the hospital discussing the previous events, the scene switches between them and Bobby and Rufus....
6.19 Mommy Dearest Does it feel boring if I say another great episode? The second half of season six has really kicked the season into overdrive, confirming Supernatural as a fantastic series. This episode ties the whole of the season together whilst at the same time completely changing the game plan and setting the show up for a season finale that no-one expected. And that’s what this episode does as well....
If I get a cold, that’s me gone. Seriously – the minute someone coughs, my dinner money’s earmarked for Benelyn. One sneeze from a colleague and I’m bedridden. Survivors: Episode Three is busily plotted. There are a good four strands here, keeping things ticking over. You’ve got the father, his baby son and teenage daughter, Kate (an impressive turn from young Sacha Parkinson), who disobeys him to go out for a bit, to encounter Tom and Greg....
1.5 Twilight’s Last Gleaming We’re not even half way through the season yet, and the body count is ticking up at an alarming pace. Wells and Charlotte were pretty significant deaths down on the ground but, even without including any of the main cast members in Section 17, the departures in Twilight’s Last Gleaming felt heavier by far. Upon hearing about the fate of the Ark and the plan to discard people to give the rest a chance, parents, husbands and wives all came forward to volunteer for the floating....
3.5 Hakeldama One of the most contested things about the otherwise stellar second season of The 100 was the treatment of Finn’s character. On the one hand, Finn was a fairly boring relic of the show’s early teen-Lost beginnings, and the series did a brave, unexpected thing of turning him morally grey and eventually killing him off. On the other hand, there’s an argument to be made that, in order to achieve this, the writers simply moulded Finn into an entirely different character....
“What are you two doing together?” Alison Bailey does not appear in this episode of The Affair, but her presence is very much felt through this instalment. In fact, everyone’s actions revolve around Alison and it’s fascinating to see what different emotions she brings out of all of these people. The disappearance of Alison has been repeatedly teased throughout this season as the year’s ‘big mystery’, but this is the episode that really gets into it....
And while you never saw Noorul ever likely to win the show, you can’t help but feel he took the fall so that The Apprentice has a better shot at the ratings in the weeks ahead. Maybe last week’s episode was, as we suspected, the peak of the series. There was a quick team jiggle at the start. Sralan Sugar moved Kate to Ignite, and Noorul went over to Empire, and appointed Philip to lead the former, and Ben The Great Leader to control the latter....
Some spin-offs haven’t been so lucky, and have been seemingly stuck, somewhat permanently, in development hell – yet these are some of the most appealing ideas, and have fan bases standing-by. Let’s take a look at some of the best spin-offs rumoured, but never made: Following the release of his early films, rumours cropped up regarding the future work of Quentin Tarantino. What now seems to be a stock question for every press junket, Tarantino is asked whether he will ever follow through with his plan to unite two of his most famous characters, twin brothers Vic Vega from Reservoir Dogs (Michael Madsen) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) from Pulp Fiction....
While most games based on Die Hard are relatively obscure despite their pedigree, the most obscure of them all was a rumored adaptation of the game that developer Bits Studios were supposedly making for the N64. Well the rumors have turned out to be true, as the first known footage from Die Hard 64 has been made publically available by Assembler Games. The game is said to have had 24 levels over the span of three prototypes that were developed before the project was canned....
The DVD release of some of these less well known Ealing films cement this impression. The four films that make up Volume One of the Rarities Collection stretch from the 1930s to the 1950s, and while they’re not masterpieces, they are great evocations of those times. But once Captain Denant escapes from prison and sets off across Dartmoor, it’s easier to get swept up in the action, and he meets a number of strong characters....
If the first film suffered slightly from spending its duration building up McCall as the Equalizer we all know and love (if you’re old enough to remember the original TV series that is), only to end before we’d had much of chance to see him at work, then the sequel immediately addresses the issue and throws us head first into the action. While we might not see which type of pain was chosen, we do get to see the result of McCall’s efforts when a mother is re-united with her young daughter afterwards and it’s the moments of ‘equalizing’ where the film really shines....
The Expanse Season 1 Episode 6 But does that mean the OPA has as its only guiding force the freedom of the oppressed? As an important man in the organization, Fred Johnson, played masterfully by Chad L. Coleman, is quickly becoming one of the most interesting characters in the show. On the one hand, Johnson is willing to use Holden’s testimony about the destruction of the Canterbury and the Donnager as a way to get the OPA a seat at Earth’s U....
1.1 Dark Descent Jamie Dornan plays Paul Spector, loving father, husband, and grief counsellor by day; murderous knicker-sniffing bastard by night. The Fall is proud as punch of the irony therein. Here’s Spector kissing his sweet daughter good night, now here he is strangling a woman to death. Do you see? He’s both of those things. A loving dad/psycho killer/fond hubby/pervert predator. How’s that for complex characterisation? It’s the same logic that must think The Fall’s misogyny slate (sexy, naked, female corpses abound in episode one) has been wiped clean by sticking Gillian Anderson in a suit and having her boss everyone about....
1.16 Rogue Time That’s the problem The Flash faced with this week’s follow-up to an episode that had fans, general audience and even curious bystanders were falling over themselves to praise. The Flash introduced time-travel in its first season, a random non-finale episode in its first season no less, and it was always going to be harder for the following episode to sweep up the mess than it was to create it....
3.21 Cause And Effect For me, this episode proved that The Flash is far more skilled at lighter, standalone episodes than it is with the heavier, serialised plot stuff that it tried to engage at the beginning of the ep. Tell me: Did you have more fun watching Team Flash try to explain how Savitar is a version of Barry? Or did you have more fun watching an amnesiac Bart try to explain how he knows when a fire is burning hot to a waiting judge?...
Emma still has trepidations about being in the house, calling Lily and her “family” crazy. Emma, a pixie-sized killer who offed her mom like it was nothing and fell in love with Joe while he was in prison, calling them crazy? Even in the deranged world of The Following, Lily and her cult are as strange as it gets. Emma and Joe finally discuss what happened when Joe went into hiding....
3.8 Flesh And Blood Perhaps more impressive than the special effects is the actual content of the episode, which is unnerving at multiple points. It’s a credit to The Following that it can make its weekly crawl through New York State’s never-ending collection of dank basements, secret cellars, and parking garages intense even after three seasons of it. I think part of is is that the show has a legitimate single antagonist, rather than a bunch of people it can throw at Kevin Bacon so Ryan Hardy can shoot them....
This review contains spoilers. By the end of Faithful however, Ofsteven showed that despite all Gilead had taken from her—wife, child, job, identity, freedom, clitoris—they didn’t get everything. She had enough fight left in her for a final rebellion, one for which she’d almost certainly be killed. She chose to pay the cost and buy her escape in a murderous act of martyrdom. This year of all years, I didn’t expect to cheer on a (fictional) terrorist using a car as a deadly weapon in a marketplace, but that’s this show for you....
It would seem that the local breed of bell ringer has never heard the quaint lyric of Frere Jaques, where the bells go: “Din Dan Don”. Here they go anything but! Dan don din is the closest they come. And that barely lasts a half dozen repetitions before it collapses into chaos. Campanologists are thin on the ground in this quaint little town. In fact all it does seem to have is Burton buried up on the West Hill and yours truly, the local ‘legend’....
